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  • - When we think about our life,

  • we usually think about it in a form of a story.

  • (slow music)

  • First we were born and then we did some things

  • and made some memories and now we're here

  • and we work at our job or whatever.

  • But in the future we plan on doing more things,

  • seeing the world maybe and saving up enough money

  • for a enjoyable retirement.

  • We all tend to view our lives

  • in a sort of narrative structure like this,

  • with the beginning, a middle and an eventual end.

  • Which kinda makes sense because by reflecting on the past,

  • it helps us make sense of where we are now

  • and by having hopes and dreams for the future,

  • it gives us something to look forward to,

  • something to plan towards

  • and if we currently don't like our present situation,

  • we can place our pains and frustrations on the hope

  • of a better tomorrow.

  • But if you think about what it feels like

  • to actually live life, like what it feels like

  • on a day to day basis, it feels completely different.

  • We kinda just wake up, we feel kinda groggy,

  • we stumble downstairs, get the coffee,

  • hop in the shower, you get dressed before getting

  • in the car to get that bread.

  • And after you get that bread,

  • you get more bread at McDonald's

  • because you have an addiction

  • and then you come home, usually pretty tired

  • and you veg out and watch Netflix or whatever you do

  • until you go to bed.

  • This is what living life usually feels like

  • to most people most of the time.

  • Life in general is usually pretty normal.

  • You do the things that you do everyday,

  • you kinda have a routine or a pattern you stick to

  • and life usually isn't super inspiring or mind-blowing,

  • it's just sort of the day to day experience.

  • But is there anything wrong with that?

  • I mean, social media has us thinking

  • that everyone's hanging out on yachts all the time,

  • going on crazy adventures,

  • trying out the 2,000 different bananas in southeast Asia

  • and everyone's getting married

  • to the person of their dreams,

  • popping out the most beautiful babies.

  • But that's not life, that's a highlight reel.

  • And these highlights that we constantly absorb

  • by the people we follow on Instagram or the movies we watch

  • on Netflix, these highlights start

  • to really influence the story we tell ourselves

  • about our own lives.

  • We start viewing our lives, at least our lives

  • lived to it's fullest potential

  • as a life with as many of these highlights

  • in it as possible, so the days when these awesome,

  • crazy things aren't happening,

  • we view that as somehow suboptimal.

  • Our amazing days become the expectation

  • and our normal days become boring, like we're wasting

  • our potential, we're wasting our lives away.

  • But this story we tell ourselves, this adventure life,

  • no one's life is like this,

  • not Dwayne Johnson, not Elon Musk.

  • Sure, these guys are doing some really cool,

  • important things more often than we are

  • but still the majority of their lives,

  • they just sort of wake up, they do a bunch of things

  • they don't wanna do, they're grinding it out,

  • they're working hard, they're often really frustrated

  • or stressed out.

  • They still poop, they still have to eat.

  • Most of their lives exist

  • in this sort of day to day monotony.

  • They're experiencing life

  • in the exact same way that you are,

  • except when Elon Musk is fantasizing

  • about escaping the day to day grind and taking a vacation,

  • instead of the Bahamas, he's thinking Mars.

  • Assuming you get eight hours of sleep every night,

  • which I'm sure you do, you only have about 16 hours to live

  • because you only experience life one day at a time.

  • That little section of time between lifting your head

  • off the pillow and putting it back down again

  • and all that stuff in between that seems kind of normal

  • and kinda inconsequential, that's all life is,

  • it's just that thing over and over and over again.

  • And this can sound super depressing or super inspiring,

  • depending on how you look at it.

  • It can be depressing, obviously if you don't like

  • those 16 hours, usually, a lot of us are slaves

  • to our bad habits.

  • We do things we don't want to do.

  • We work jobs we don't really like

  • and we're put in certain financial or social situations

  • that we really don't like being in.

  • So every single day, day after day

  • is something we generally don't like doing.

  • Which is why we fantasize about the future so much.

  • We're still waiting to live our real lives

  • and if this is all there is,

  • then that's obviously super depressing.

  • But there's a silver lining

  • because changing your entire life

  • isn't as big of a feat as you might think it is.

  • Since life is lived in these little 16 hour

  • little mini episodes, that's a very manageable amount

  • of time to perfect.

  • We can start to build habits that we actually enjoy doing

  • and that are good for us

  • and we can train ourselves to make choices

  • that are actually aligned with our values

  • and will help us be the person

  • we want to be every single day.

  • Because a good life is just a serious of good days,

  • not necessarily days where everything went our way

  • and nothing was difficult or stressful

  • but days where our system was running.

  • We gave life a good shot, we made choices that are aligned

  • with our values and we did the little things

  • that make us happy.

  • Maybe that's having a good conversation with a friend

  • or putting a little extra effort into cooking,

  • so you eat something kinda memorable

  • and that you're proud of,

  • maybe that's developing one positive habit at a time

  • so that the things that keep you grounded and happy

  • and your mood elevated,

  • start to become things that you do automatically.

  • Viewing life on a micro scale like this

  • also adds clarity to the little choices

  • we make throughout the day.

  • If you've always wanted to be a more social person,

  • then that means saying yes to beers with the boys today,

  • when you get the invitation.

  • And if you're constantly fantasizing

  • about being a more fit person,

  • that means going to the gym today.

  • Because your life is today, that's all it is.

  • It's just today repeated.

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  • One problem you might encounter

  • when trying to start a new habit

  • is that when you try to go from something

  • like watching YouTube videos obsessively every single day

  • to trying to replace that habit with reading a book,

  • you're going from something that's super stimulating

  • to something that's a lot slower paced and harder to do.

  • So the transition can be pretty jarring

  • and you might quit right away, unfortunately.

  • A great way to counteract this problem

  • is to take smaller steps,

  • so go from something super stimulating, like watching videos

  • to watching just better videos.

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  • I know this is kinda ironic

  • because I just said, oh we're influenced by Instagram

  • and all these people on yachts and stuff,

  • but I can assure you, I'm almost,

  • actually I've never been on a yacht

  • and I live a really normally life.

  • So delete all those travel pages,

  • unfollow them, follow me instead

  • because I'll probably make you feel

  • really good about your life.

  • Yeah, other than that, thank you for watching

  • and we'll catch you in the next video.

- When we think about our life,

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