- We all wanna have a good time this summer.
I personally look forward
to the summertime every single year
because I live in British Columbia
and 90% of the year it's overcast, rainy, gloomy, cloudy.
It's not a fun time.
When the weather starts to get good,
I really start to think every single year,
"How am I gonna make this summer count?"
How am I gonna feel good,
take advantage of the nice weather?
What things can I do to sort of make some memories?"
If you're anything like me<
you don't want to have a summertime
where you're just inside all the time,
rotting away, feeling depressed
because everybody that you know on Instagram or people
that you don't know on Instagram are traveling to Greece,
they're in The Bahamas having a great time
and you just feel like (censored) about yourself.
How do we avoid that situation?
How do you have an adventurous, fulfilling, exciting summer?
Well, as a summer enthusiast myself, over the past 27 years
of my existence, I've been asking myself that same question
and I've developed some answers.
So I wanna share those answers with you guys.
Here are five things that I randomly just thought of.
- I made it the (censored).
- But have taken me 27 years
to realize that will hopefully help you have the best summer
that you've had in years, potentially the best summer
that you've ever had in your entire life.
Tip number one, and this is very simple,
but it's extremely important.
Wake up earlier.
Unless you're working a shift job
where you have to wake up super early anyways,
the summertime is the best time
to wake up about an hour earlier than you usually do.
That involves also going to bed an hour earlier as well.
Go figure.
When you lay in bed and you don't do anything
with your life and you rot away inside, it feels extra bad
'cause you just have this idea
that the whole world is going on without you.
And that's why I think it's so important to wake up early
during the summertime.
Don't let the sun catch you sleeping.
I personally find
that the summertime mornings have a magical aura about them.
There's something very special about, you know,
the bugs flying around
and the birds chirping and the the sunrise coming up.
You know, the world is waking up
and if you wake up with that,
there's something so ancient and special about that.
You're part of the rhythm of the universe
as woo-woo as that sounds.
But give it a try.
Wake up earlier this summer.
You can't go wrong.
And right along the same lines,
tip number two is to go outside as much as humanly possible.
Unless you have a very good reason to be inside, go outside.
It's summer. What are you doing?
- It's summer.
- If you're just doom scrolling on your phone inside,
just go to a coffee shop,
sip a nice ice coffee and people watch instead
while doom scrolling on your phone.
I guarantee you, being a person
in the world doing nothing will feel infinitely better
than being a recluse doing nothing
because just being around people, being outside
of your house, subjecting yourself to social judgment,
it'll make you second guess your choices in life.
Isolation is degenerative in large quantities.
I had this thought recently.
So many people are so addicted
to their phones and their computers, their laptops,
Netflix, just basically screens,
and they hide away inside regardless of the weather,
which means that if you are of the awoken variety
and you understand the healing nature of the sun,
and you decide to go against the tyrannical screen culture,
the likelihood that you meet people
on the exact same wavelength as you is so much higher
because the people who are doom scrolling
are doom scrolling inside, which means, yeah,
there's just such high-quality, optimistic people
when you leave your house nowadays.
You'd be shocked as to how many like random,
beautiful people you come across when you're just on a walk
and you choose to make eye contact and you say,
"Hey, what's up?"
Personal challenge: go try to chat up a stranger.
You'd be shocked as to how receptive people are
and how friendly people are.
Okay, tip number three is to optimize your environment.
Are you going to design your environment
in a way that keeps you stuck inside and not want to leave?
Or are you going to design your environment, you know,
your home, your bedroom, your kitchen, wherever you reside
in a way that refreshes you and recharges you to go back out
into the world and continue the momentum,
continue the adventure of your life.
Recently, I've been very cognizant of this.
You know, I don't want to make my house too comfortable.
I don't want to rig out my gaming PC.
I don't want to get a comfier
and comfier couch with a bigger and bigger screen.
I wanna make sure that my clothes are clean,
my laundry is done,
quality of life things that help you feel good
so that you can go back out there.
It's like the ultimate pit stop in NASCAR.
I don't watch NASCAR.
Like, is it called pit stop? I don't know.
Who watches NASCAR?
(sad music)
There's cars that go fast, and I know they like pull away
and there's like the guys that have the drills
or something and they put the wheels on really fast,
the tires on really fast.
I don't know, make your house like that or something.
I don't give a (censored).
Tip number four is don't try to recreate the golden years.
Be present instead.
What I mean by this
is that if you're a summer enthusiast like me,
you probably have memories of days gone by,
that perfect summer that you had,
that perfect moment when you were camping with your friends
when you were 17 years old.
You were lying on the beach and everything just felt right.
Those were the good times.
Those were the days.
- Man, I wish I could go back in time.
I'd take state.
- You know what?
Maybe you're really inspired to make this summer
like the good old days, right?
You know, you try to reflect
on what made those days so good
and you try to just like do that again.
(legs shuffling)
- Do it again.
- Trying to recreate the golden years doesn't work.
(hand slapping)
You can't compare the present moment
with this like propagandized version of your past.
Memories are a completely different ball game.
What am I doing with my life?
The present life will just never feel like your memories.
But one thing that you can do to ensure
that you create new, good, favorable memories
is to just focus on being present.
Do the exact opposite
of reminiscing about the good old days.
Try to be present with your own reality.
Don't distract yourself with dopaminergic rabbit holes.
You know, that's the opposite of being present.
Instead, think about the people
in your life who you wanna spend time with,
the things that you want to do
and set up a schedule to spend time with these people.
You know, phone them up.
What do you personally want to accomplish with your summer?
And then focus on that, be present with that.
When you fully engage in your activities,
when you're really intentional
about how you spend your time,
you'll find that memories are created automatically.
(lively music)
One of my favorite summer memories
of all time is when myself
and my siblings were back in our hometown
and we made an effort to jump in the lake every single day,
no matter what, no matter how we're feeling,
no matter whether it's raining,
whether it's like blistering heat,
whether it's midnight or midday, let's just jump
in the lake every single day this summer.
It's almost like baptizing yourself
in the waters of summertime.
It's a very optimistic thing to do.
Make adventure a mechanism, take emotion out of it.
Do things that are good for you automatically
without considering how you feel.
(host chuckling)
- I shot a cow with a bazooka.
I'm not proud of that last one, but I did it, man.
- So often we'll talk ourselves out of going
to the gym when we don't feel like it, but sometimes,
you know, we don't feel like gonna the gym,
but we go to the gym anyways
and then afterwards, we feel so good
and so empowered that we went anyways despite the fact
that we didn't feel like it.
So clearly, how we feel
after having done the thing is a better indicator
of the value that thing has in our lives
than before having done the thing.
(water bubbling)
Man, I'm bad at grammar today.
Did that make any sense?
- Eh.
No.
- Bottom line is you already know what's good for you.
Usually these things are moderately
to majorly uncomfortable,
but you have to do these things anyways
as a mechanism, like clockwork.
And also, if you live near a body of water,
I highly recommend that specific challenge.
I guarantee you, I'm letting you in on a little secret here,
the mental benefits of that specific challenge are insane.
By the way, I think we only did it like 36 days in a row,
like we didn't last the whole summer.
But those 36 days are so immortalized
in our summer archives,
our summer memories that my brother gifted me
this "go jump in the lake" plaque
as a reminder just to do things like this automatically
whether or not you feel like it because they'll turn
into some of the best memories of your life.
Okay, my final tip is to be OK.
Don't succumb to FOMO.
Nobody's having nearly as good of a time
as you think they are.
Mental health is at a critical moment right now.
Don't add to that by looking on Instagram and thinking
that everybody has it all figured out and you don't.
No one has it figured out.
99% of people don't have it figured out.
Realize that, get off Instagram,
just don't be on it in general,
especially during the summertime.
Don't be doom scrolling.
Take a deep breath
(Ace Ventura inhaling)
and realize that you're okay.
You don't have to do any like crazy Outer Banks (beep)
in order to have a good summer.
In the morning when you're waking up nice and early,
do what's good for you.
Do what advances your life and your goals.
Work hard in the morning
so that you can have nice patio conversations
during the evening
but ultimately, just be present with all these things.
Don't distract yourself with the (beep) of screens
and Netflix or Apple TV.
"Silo's" not that good.
First three episodes were quite good
and it's starting to drag.
(upbeat music)
Good luck, guys.
- You're gonna need it.
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I was feeling super good today.
I did a lot of work outside
on a Starbucks patio sipping a chai tea latte.
I don't know why I chose a hot chai tea latte
and it was just killer heat today, not a wise decision.
Thank you so much and we'll catch you in the next video.
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