Significant improvement
comes from long term action.
But there are lots of
things you can actively do today that will
instantly improve
the quality of your life.
Welcome to LAX.
First stop, fix your sleep.
We're going to start off with probably the lowest
hanging fruit and that is your sleep.
Early in our journey,
we used to subscribe
to the idea that you should wake up
as early as possible and make
the most of any given day.
And while that's still true to an extent,
one thing that becomes more important over
the years is the quality of sleep.
It doesn't matter if you wake up
regularly at 5 a.m., if you wake up
tired as hell with a migraine,
an absolutely no good
mood to get anything done.
The 5 a.m.
club is largely a myth for the vast
majority of people waking up super early does
absolutely nothing besides,
well, robbing you of
good quality sleep.
On top of that, there are so many ways
to accurately measure
how good your sleep is, which also means
you can work to improve it.
Think about it like this.
You spend one third
of your life sleeping.
Statistically,
that means about 26 years of your life.
Would you invest the minimal effort
that will instantly improve
26 years of your life?
That's a pretty easy
decision, right?
And this is how you do it.
Go to bed and wake up
within the same hour every day.
Make your bedroom quiet,
dark and comfortable.
That's pretty much it.
For the most part,
this is something that pretty
much anyone can do.
Stay off grid for as long
as possible
and buy off grid.
We mean not grabbing
your phone first thing in the morning,
opening up YouTube, checking Instagram,
looking at your emails and all that stuff.
Look,
here's the reality, okay?
Today, the Internet has one primary function
to keep you there for as long as possible
so it can show you
as many ads as possible.
So you'll buy as many things as possible.
It's not about connecting people.
That's the reason every platform
has an endless scroll.
It must trap you there.
And that's why Europe is trying to change that.
But that's a different topic for another day.
The point is, the minute you go online,
your mind is flooded
with useless information.
And we're not built for that.
We did not evolve
to handle all this crap.
It's fairly recent
in our history.
As a matter of fact, today logs
were all old enough
to remember the days when we were young
and there was no such thing as the internet.
And time seemed to pass away
more slowly.
The only way we found to deal with this is to just
stay off of it for as long as possible
in the morning because we get it.
Okay, We're not going to sell
everything and move to a cabin
in the woods and fish all day long.
You still need to be able
to exist and function
in the modern world.
But that doesn't mean
you need to be online
all the time.
Nothing really happens
besides endless distraction anyway.
Try not to touch technology
for at least the first
couple of hours in a day.
Do things more slowly.
Now, continuing on
with the idea of technology,
this was supposed to make us faster
and more efficient
and we all know how that turned out.
You used to physically have to go to meetings,
so realistically, you could have
one every once in a while.
But now, since everything is one click away,
you'd think you'd be done quickly.
But according to statistics from 2019,
around $300
billion worth of time
is wasted in pointless meetings.
In the US alone.
And that was before the pandemic.
But this isn't just about meetings.
Everything is done faster,
which usually translates
to having to do more stuff rather than having
more time.
Think about it.
You watch videos on one and a half times
the speed not to be done
more quickly, but to watch even more.
And this ultra fast
paced way of doing things
toward infinite growth is not sustainable.
That's why everyone is burned out
or unmotivated.
So whenever you can try
to take things slowly
and take your time.
Imagine if starting
today, every email
needs to be written manually
by pen and paper.
Your spam inbox
will probably go to zero real quick
when you actually take
the proper time to do something.
You get to experience it
for what it truly is.
Take care of your health.
The oldest
marathon runner started running
when he was 89
and he continued to run
until he hit 108.
He is now 109
and finally hung up his sneakers.
It's a very inspiring story.
It's just it's not you, though.
It's let's be real.
Statistically speaking, the longer you delay
taking care of your health,
the harder it will be to get it back.
And just because there are some outliers here
and there, that doesn't mean it's the norm.
They're the exception.
Don't fool yourself
into thinking you still have time
until you do irreversible
damage to yourself.
It really shouldn't be a shocker
that better health equals
a better quality of life.
Everyone knows that.
The question is
when will be the day where you start
to actually do something about it?
Will it be too late?
Will you still have the
strength and the willpower
to see it through?
You see, you are forever young
until suddenly you're not
reach out.
If you take a
broader look, everyone sits in their room
waiting for someone else
to send a message
and nobody does anything
if it's slightly inconvenient.
That's not the way to do it, though.
You can be the one
that brings people together.
You can organize, plan, make phone calls,
send messages, make dinner reservations,
and you don't do it because
nobody else would.
You do it because you invest
in relationships that are important to you.
There's absolutely no gain
or a superior morale to have for
being unreachable
or distant.
We are tribal
by nature, as many of you like to think of yourself
as a lone wolf.
You need people around you
to share experiences
and make memories with,
and it's so much easier
to do that when you don't always
wait for others to
send the first message.
Spend some alone time.
On the flipside,
you also need to spend some time alone.
You need introspection and solitude
to really know and understand yourself.
People have gotten so used
to scrolling through feeds and being entertained
by every two second interval
that they've forgotten what it's like to just be
alone with themselves
and their thoughts.
They find it
unnatural and awkward by this point.
They have this urge to always do something
or always click on something,
and that robs you
of your own personality.
There are incredible benefits
for spending some time with yourself.
It can be something as simple
as a morning walk in the park
with just you, the wind and the birds.
It's a time where you dig a bit deeper
into what really motivates you
and what really matters to you.
It keeps you grounded
and more calm in a world that forces you
to feel high and anxious all the time.
Spend some time in nature.
And speaking of a walk in the park, another thing
we found to have an immense impact
on the quality of our life is how much time
you spend surrounded by pure nature.
Because, look, nature has this unique way
of offering perspective.
It reminds you just
how big the world actually is and how little
your problems are in comparison.
It also reduces stress hormones,
making you feel more
at peace and relaxed.
Think of spending time
in nature as a strategic
investment of your time
toward reaching balance
fix easily fixable things.
Just think of all
the little annoyances
you encounter daily.
A squeaky door hinge, a leaky
faucet, a drawer
that sticks, or a light bulb
that needs replacing.
Each of these things
taken alone
are minor and of no real importance,
and you kind of learn to live with them
because you never find
the time to fix them, because somehow you always
have something better or more important to do.
But you see, all of these things together
represent friction
in your daily life.
They make it slightly more annoying
and they make you get used to things
being slightly more annoying
every time.
So make a list of all the little things
that bother you and start eliminating them.
You also get rid of small sources
of frustration
and on top of that
you create a really important habit.
When you take care of the little things,
you're reinforcing the habit
of not ignoring problems.
No matter how insignia vacant
they might seem on the surface.
Achieve and
help others to do the same.
From our own personal experience,
your life satisfaction greatly improves
when you do one of these two things.
The first one is
when you make something from start to finish,
which you're really proud of.
The sense of achievement
and satisfaction is just unmatched.
When you create,
accomplish, or build
something you're proud of,
it instills a sense
of self-efficacy
and confidence.
It's a profound feeling.
It makes you feel
powerful and tall,
and it gives you the motivation
to do more
and equally, if not more rewarding, is the act
of helping others to do
the very same.
It gives you a sense of purpose and fulfillment
that is hard to replicate.
It's about sharing the joy and pride
of someone else's accomplishment,
knowing that you played
a part in their journey.
And lastly, commit.
Whatever you do,
don't have asset.
Instead, do it
like it's your job.
You're not always going to be at your best,
but you can always commit
to a job that's not half assed.
If you take a walk in the park,
go enjoy it fully.
If you reach out
and hang out with people,
leave your phone on silent.
If you start a new project,
give it your best.
If you commit,
you'll find that one things you thought
are hard or actually kind of easy.
And two, you'll find a new appreciation
of the input you can have
when you always give it your best.
Hey, you realize
that your best keeps on improving,
you keep evolving and that is something
that will always improve your life.
We hope you learn something
valuable here today.
Boxer We'll see you back here next time.
Until then, my friend.
Take care.