hey guys it's Tim back again and in today's video I'm gonna be basically
talking about why I quit video games and how quitting video games really changed
my life and really you know made me achieve the life in my dreams that I
really wanted to be living and so first of all let me just talk about you know
what games I were addicted I was really addicted to when I was playing video
games it was ever since age of about 17 I got hooked to RuneScape and I would play
this game insanely a lot every day you know exceeding if I was in at school I
would basically on weekends I would be playing it like 14 hours 16 hours just
like as soon as I wake up and then I'll go to bed really late because I'll
be so hooked to it and you know on school days I would basically play a
little bit before school and I'll come back and I would just play it like
there's no tomorrow you know going to sleep at 2:00 a.m. 3:00 a.m. and just
really just repeating that and I repeated that for a couple years and I
just really was hooked to this game I think one of the fundamental reasons why
people get hooked to video games especially if you're shy or if you know
if you're lacking lots if you're lacking self-esteem is that it allows
you to really live your dream life you know because you're controlling this
character and you know you can really be yourself you know how people are running
around these them MMORPG games like just shouting and just being like crazy
dancing around or going up to girl saying hi sort of deal this is actually
how our dream core self really wants to be you know and we're like hiding behind
this screen just like basically because there's a there is no anxiety involved
we're just really being ourselves anyways I believe I was my true self in
these games you know I would go up to girls and if they were actually girls
sometimes it's guys playing girls characters but I'll go up to him and
I'll start striking striking conversation and you know in in
runescape you can buy and sell products I was doing like little businesses and I
was really scared about risking money and I just really enjoyed it it was just
an element it was just almost like I was living my second life and I remember I
managed to get this gold gilded armor and I forgot all the names now but you
know people are really just especially the new sea world we call on them free to
play world and they'll they've never seen this armor before so they will all
follow me around and you know you feel significant and it's something that
you've you don't really experience in every date day to day life you know when
you're shy or sufferings from social anxiety like I was so it was just
really escapism for me and after runescape I managed to get over that
game eventually you know I eventually ended up quitting but then I found
another game which was Call of Duty 4 I believe and that game I was hooked just
as much as runescape you know I was playing it but this time it was like you
now got a headset on so you're really communicating with other people and
you're doing all these like team strategy stuff and you know I created a
clan on there and you get that sense of union and belonging sort of deal and I
trash that game just as much as runescape and you know I remember my
parents actually had to disconnect the Wi-Fi on one of the days because they
were simply fed up of me reliving on this game one day I decided to quit
because I really decide to just question my life and I began to think about is
what I'm doing today really going to make me you know is it gonna be
significant in 20 40 years you know is this daily habitual behavior gonna
get me to where I really want to be um and they answer is simple it wasn't if I
carried on gaming unless I was monetizing it unless I was creating
YouTube videos forever unless it was my career there was no way I was gonna
make money from it or there was no way that it's gonna make me achieve what I
view success you know health wealth and love and you know playing games every
day was really ruining my social interaction with other people because
you know speaking through a headset and not really meeting people face to face
you know it just ruins your social and communication in your social dynamics
especially if you're shy and especially if you low you know if you have low
self-esteem or you suffer from social anxiety just like I did and so I decided
one day that was it I was gonna quit and just go live my life because the truth
is guys I you know in games how we're leveling up our character or
making our characters better the question you gotta ask yourself is why
aren't you making yourself better in real life right
real life is essentially a game right it is a game if you think about it we're
all destined to the graveyard right there's only certain amount of years we
can actually live you know because we're in this physical world by definition we
have to enter the non-physical world right we're all gonna die one day so
in a way you can treat it like a game right the game you can decide what your
goal is what is success for you do you wanna have a model girlfriend do you
wanna become a millionaire do you want to have a six-pack rip body and join and
become a bodybuilder what the truth is guys like this is essentially a game and
it's like you spend hours just you know just on the screen just leveling up your
character and you know making everything better like the technology around you
you you're upgrading your PC you're buying a new Xbox but ask yourself when was the
last time you upgraded yourself right you're running the same OS running
back when you was like 15 right you've not upgraded yourself you gotta ask
yourself why I'm tired moving forward and as soon as I began asking myself that
that was it I was like I'm gonna do whatever it takes to become the best
version of myself and this is why I created this YouTube channel you know
this YouTube channel was a turning point for me because I learnt so much in the
last 5 years learning about self development learning about reinvention
and I got to the point where people were asking me how to do it so I became a
coach as a part-time thing and I'm still coaching to this day but I got to the
point where I was like you know I look back and I'm like it was crazy what I
was doing it really was and yeah you just basically gotta ask yourself right
and if I really look back now it just it seems crazy right it seems crazy that
everyday I was wasting you know don't amount of hours I remember looking on my
cod4 account and it said I had over 100 days gaming time played and I just you
just think to yourself that's hundred days of your life right can you think
about it if you're gonna die at the age of 80 you know that's not guaranteed by
the way because you know we could die today for all you know we there's no
guarantee in life but say you're dying at the age of 80 like just imagine if
you're at the age of 78 how important the days are and you'll just be looking
back like I've wasted those days but let me just let you know let let me just let
you in on this right the truth is right when we're stuck in this situation so if
you're addicted to games right now your emotional mind is gonna disagree
with me because it can't have that perspective it is until you move away
from that perspective you realize how stupid it is so for example if you were
to basically be a smoker and you don't really think smoking is disgusting but
it isn't until you've really quit smoking you really want to stay away
from smokers you're like oh my god I can't handle the smell it's just
different perspective it's the same with gaming guys if your gamer at the moment
you're gonna rage at me right now and you're gonna you know throw all your
troll negativity but you gotta realize guys one day you are gonna
get out that pit and hopefully you get out of that pit sooner or later and
you'll look back at this and you'll look back at yourself and you realize you
know I was kind of stupid guys just if you take away one thing from this stop
leveling up your character in games and start leveling up yourself right in
runescape you would reach 99 and get a golden gilded cape or a special skill
cape why don't you get a special skill cape and master something in real life
and actually begin to live this life you've been blessed with
if you think think about it from a biological point of view right 400
million sperm cells it took right and only one went through and it's you you
show up right there's a reason why you're here but if you're wasting all
that time spending on video games are you really gonna become successful or
are you really gonna make the most of your life the answer is no so get real
with yourself and I start upgrading yourself upgrading and leveling up
yourself and start really living this life it doesn't matter where you are
right now as long as you start as long as you make the first step right as the
saying goes a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step is up to
you to begin now if you're playing games that is all for me guys I just wanna
say stopping video games have literally changed my life and I hope this video
one of the key messages have really resonated with you guys if you found
this video helpful please give a thumbs up if you know any avid gamers that you
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change their life and you would have contributed towards that and guys if
you've got any questions please leave me a comment in the comment box below and
guys the power of having friends on gaming is what really become you know
make you become hooked so what I've done is created a group right where you can
become friends with success driven people as well as successful people and
if you wanna join that Facebook group you basically have to go in the
description box below and click the link and I will approve your requests okay guys
have a very successful day and I'll see you next time remember always take
action see you soon