Two Things to Track for One Week

So let's talk about the two things I want you to track this week.

I'm Ivette Garcia. I'm a public health professional and a board certified health and wellness coach. If you watched the last video, you know where we landed. Nothing about you failed. The assumptions did. So the next step is not a new plan. It's information.

Here is the rule I want you to hold onto. Information first. Decisions later. Most of us do it backwards. We change five things at once, and then we have no idea which one mattered.

So for one week, seven days, not thirty, I want you to track exactly two things. One from your body. One from your money. That's it. No app, no spreadsheet unless you love spreadsheets. A note on your phone is enough.

Here's what goes on the page. Your bedtime and your wake time. How you felt at three in the afternoon, on a scale of one to ten. Every automatic payment that left your account. And one number at the end of the week: what came in.

Let's take the body side first. I'm not asking you to count hours of sleep, because most of us guess, and most of us guess generously. I'm asking for two timestamps and one feeling. Lights out, eyes open, and how you felt at three o'clock, because three in the afternoon is where sleep debt tells the truth.

And on the money side, the thing I want you looking at is not what you chose to spend. It's what left without a decision. The subscriptions. The renewals. The fees you agreed to once, years ago, and never looked at again.

This is where people expect me to tell them to cut everything. I'm not going to do that. Some of those payments are worth every dollar. The point of writing them down isn't guilt. It's that you cannot decide about something you cannot see. Most women are genuinely surprised by that list, not because they were careless, but because it accumulated quietly over fifteen years.

Two ground rules before you start. This is not medical advice, and it is not financial advice. What you are building is a record to bring to your own clinician, and to a licensed professional you trust. I am not diagnosing anything, and I am not telling you where to put your money.

Seven days. Two timestamps, one number out of ten, one list of automatic payments, and one figure for what came in. At the end of the week you will not have a plan. You will have something a plan needs first: an honest picture, in your own handwriting.

In the next video we take the first of those two things apart. Why your sleep changed, and what is actually happening when you wake at three in the morning. I will see you there.