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What up beautiful people?
It is your homegirl Shameless, all up in your building!
It is 2015 and I just want to know,
where are the spaceships and hovercrafts are?
Because that's what I thought when I was a kid
that would be around by now.
2015 how to look betta, OK.
Now this video is a tag,
and it started with Ms. Shannon T. Boodram.
Check her out, check out her channel,
I really like this video,
I like this idea, this play on words of looking better.
And it's not this per se,
but it's the way you view the world,
and how can we look at the world better for 2015?
OK, so I'm going to share with you 5 tips,
and the first one is
what are you looking at in terms of books,
in terms of inspiration and ideas?
I love to keep inspired by reminding myself,
as much as possible,
and that can be as simple as quotes on my fridge,
I like to read the Bible every morning,
I like to read "Fortune" magazine.
I like to stay on top of things that are popping
in the world of business and wealth.
And because I am in student mode
I am reading a lot of books on technique,
studying my craft, because I want to get better.
I do miss my adventure books, my fiction books.
If you guys have any suggestions for books
that I should be reading, or for any of us,
please comment below and I would love to know.
And tip number two, what are you eating?
What are you feeding your mind, body, and soul?
Although I don't eat beef or pork,
I haven't for a long time,
I most recently am weaning chicken out of my diet.
I'm not saying that eating meat is bad,
but how much meat do you really need to eat?
When I started to look at how much chicken I was eating,
because I was eating a lot,
it worked out to about a 168 chickens a year, on average,
and that's just myself,
multiply that by however many years I've been alive eating chicken,
and multiply that by the millions of people
that are also eating chicken, and beef, and pork,
and all of that, that's a lot of animals,
do you really need to eat all those animals?
And do you really need to put all that pressure on the globe
and on your community?
When I started to look at videos on how
the food and the fashion industry really affect the globe I was kind appalled.
And some ideas and suggestions
are to supporting local and small businesses,
eat more fruits and vegetables,
and there's so many creative ways to prepare that,
you can find so many videos here on YouTube.
Holistic Habits has some awesome recipes,
LifeByJazz has amazing recipes.
And there's this amazing site called FoodGawker.com for ideas.
If you would like to eat more cauliflower, or spinach,
type those in and you will find awesome amazing recipes,
and everything is sorted by visuals,
so you have things that are pretty to look at.
Look at who you invest your time with,
in terms of your friends and family,
and how you invest that time.
Are you - I'm recording my voice on this -
Are you always on your phone?
And if you are can you just turn it off, face it down,
and engage in the person that is sitting in front of you,
look at their eyes,
tell them how much you love them and miss them.
Technology can be distracting,
but it can also be helpful, very helpful.
My roomy, my cousin Jay is all the way in New York,
I'm here in California,
so I love to FaceTime Jay every morning,
and be his wakeup call, "Wakeup son!
Get yo ass out, this is your wakeup call."
My fourth tip, activities,
what are you doing to stay physically active?
I think it's so important to keep moving,
and that could be as simple as going on a hike,
a hike is free, and you can do that with your friend.
Maybe walking your dog, I love to walk Jackie by the beach.
I started taking Filipino martial arts. Hooowah!
That's so ignorant Maya. [laughs]
And meditation, yoga, mmm.
Those are all awesome things that you can do
to keep your body moving and alive.
And look at what you are putting into your hair,
face, and your fashion.
I love fashion, and I love beauty, do not get me wrong,
I love a mean face B,
and I like looking fly, but I do not like what I am seeing,
you companies, my goodness.
Wool, fur, leather.
If I'm buying a brush that has animal fur,
and I'm buying the latest collection every however month,
multiply that by me and this girl and that girl,
and that girl, this girl, that guy,
that's like millions and billions of fur brushes,
where is this fur coming from?
So I've been seeing these videos
where they're skinning these animals alive,
beating animals alive,
ugh, [gags].
These companies, if you guys are these corporate companies
watching this video pay your staff fair wages,
treat them like human beings,
give more, give them more time,
give them more money,
and to the companies that do care,
that do look out for their people,
and are making efforts to be more sustainable and give back,
and be generous, and just be better citizens of the globe,
honestly we need more people like you,
we need businesses like you, and we all need to care.
We can do that by just looking and being more transparent.
Everlane is a transparent retail company
that creates beautifully designed products
in the same factories as luxury clothing brands,
and then goes directly to the consumer
without any of the middlemen.
And then for us, us the end users,
we need to learn how to consume less,
we don't need to keep up every season,
although I do love switching it up,
we can repurpose and reuse,
we can go thrifting, we can make sure we donate our used clothes,
or do clothing swaps, those are great ways to help,
incremental changes over the course of time,
and united we can make a difference,
a huge difference, and an impact on the world.
Finally, my final tip
look at what you're afraid of
and look at what you're ashamed of,
ask yourself why?
And ask yourself how can you overcome this?
That has been instrumental in my life,
questioning what I'm afraid of.
Why am I afraid of failure? Why am I afraid of success?
Or maybe I don't know what the reasons are,
but these are the steps that I can do to face them.
I'm afraid of public speaking,
let me go take an improv class
and learn how to get up in front of people,
and get into the habit of that.
For the fun part, I tag Holistic Habits,
Me-Friend-Hage [phonetic],
BritPopPrincess,
BronzeGoddess,
SunKissAlba,
chescaleigh,
LifeByJazz,
YogaWithAdrian,
and SmoothieFreak.
And everyone else, tag you're it!
Anyways, those are my tips on how to look betta 2015, boo.
Please comment below and share your tips,
I would love to know. Sharing is caring.
Check out my description box, there are awesome links.
I'm going to start promoting playlists of people
that I think are dope and awesome,
especially that tie into this video.
Remember to do you, be you, and stay true boo.
Be Shameless.
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