Hey, I am Michele B and in this video I want to share with you five things I've started doing
Stopped doing that have increased the quality of my life
You guys really seem to like my things that have improved my life video
This is kind of an unintentional spin off about decisions that have improved my life this year
these are all things that I'd honestly been wanting to do for a while and to actually do them and took like a random
Snap decision not really any planning behind it
But just like not this is the way life is going from here on this is gonna be a bit of a chitchatty video
So grab your peppermint tea or your beverage of choice and I will move right along to my decisions the first decision that I've made
This year that has been impacting my life in a big way is no coffee. No caffeine
So at the start of our overseas trip that I went on
Recently here a few photos if you haven't seen them on my Instagram
I went into many a coffee shop after looking up how to ask for soy milk in whatever the local language was and I found
That half the places either didn't have it. Or, they didn't know what it is
Maybe I just couldn't say it right unsure except for some rare and exciting exceptions
It was extremely difficult to find any form of soy almond plant-based milk at some point really early in the trip
I was just like you know what I've wanted to give up coffee before while
I am at a point in time where it is difficult to access decent coffee and soy milk together
It's probably a good time to just do it
so I didn't drink any coffee for a while until
I was in Berlin and we happened to be right down the road
from a great coffee shop that of course had soy milk and also was connected to a vegan grocery store my heart so
I decided I was gonna make an exception and I absolutely needed a large caramel latte on almond milk a few hours later
We took the train to the sexton house in concentration camp and the coffee
Anxiety appeared if you're someone who is sensitive to caffeine, you will know what I mean by coffee anxiety
It's that like heart beating fast, feel kind of dizzy need to like sit down and have a breather kind of
Anxiety that you try to blame on anything but coffee because coffee tastes so good
and I've always been affected by coffee anxiety
I guess when you're having one every day, the anxiety gets dulled a little bit and it's not so bad
But I did get morning anxiety, which I always just thought was a thing. It wasn't related to my coffee
I mean maybe in the background I knew it was but I was just like no, it's definitely not the coffee. It's just a me thing.
That short bout of coffee anxiety has left me coffeeless for a month
Which for me is really good considering the last time that I tried to give up coffee
I lost after about two days and then I started whining about headaches dizziness my inability to move in the morning
Etc
I am now on a serious
Peppermint tea binge which has led me to google the time how much have mint tea is too much peppermint tea fYI
There is no solid answer. Everyone says something different. It could be one to two cups
It could be two to four cups. My recommendation is have as many cups as makes you feel happy
The next decision that has had a big impact on my life is creating an adventures list
So this is one of the lists that I recommended riding in my 8 list to write to make 2018 amazing video
I'll link it down below
I've created lists like this before but something about having a list of many
Adventures so not like big grand things that you're doing like little local adventures that you can do that it's hardly accessible
Don't feel like oh god. How would I even get that done?
It's really motivated me to actually go through and start taking those things off whenever I'm like thinking about my weekends in advance
Or planning dates with people
I'm just like oh, how about we do this not the other like things that are from my eventual assign
Like I want to tick it off
Also, I want to do the thing
but I do like that accomplish feeling of ticking things off life is nothing but a string of
Experiences so you may as well make a few of those experiences
Interesting ones and create an adventures list the next decision that I've made and I feel awkward talking about this. I don't know
It's a bit of a vulnerable one for me is no binge drinking. Please don't get it wrong
I'm not the type of person that binge drinks every weekend like no that is not me in any way shape or form that is
Not me if anything my binge drinking it usually occurs, maybe like maybe like four to six times a year
Well six is probably pushing it but even still I've made a decision that that is too much
Once again while we were overseas, we were pretty much Nana's for the entire six weeks. We often would wake other times
That would probably like too reasonable to be waking up at at a hostel
We had ventured all day and then we usually be soundly asleep before
12:00 or maybe a little bit after 12:00 if we were pushing it one night and even that for me that's kind of wild like
At home. I'm like, it's 9 p.m. Time to hop into bed and snooze 5 a.m. Wake up like yes, loving it
So going to sleep at 12 waking up anything off to 5. I'm just like ah, how did I do that?
I don't understand. We had a turtle into Cherie party night and 2 was too much
I've always had a really spotty relationship with alcohol if you've watched my video on no drinking for one year
Which was the thing that I did it grows a little bit more in depth about it
I got really awful like hangover anxiety, but hangover anxiety is a new phrase that I learnt semi recently
I get shocking post drinking blurs
My hangovers are terrible also don't love drunk Michel's decisions 70 percent at the time at this point
I feel like there are so many reasons to me not to drink heavily that doing so is
Basically self-sabotage and I get really stuck between the like, ah, but like it's just one night and you're just having fun
You're just living your life
which is reasonable and totally fun for any other person like
Absolutely get that. But at the same time like if I guess it's affecting me so much
It's at the point where it's like no I can't do this anymore. Like we're done
So I did a year of absolutely no drinking. So that was my restriction just like no alcohol whatsoever
and then the next year it was just like oh
I'm just gonna focus on building a healthy relationship with alcohol and really that didn't do very much to change my behavior
So I feel like moving back into an area of progressive extremism
So by saying like three drinks max and it must be like one and a lot that works much better for me than like
Oh, just think about developing a healthy relationship
It'll likely be like I drink my birthday a drink for me and leeks
Anniversary know when you have those whitie decisions that you're like, yeah. This is a real thing
That's absolutely happening. Kind of like going vegetarian or vegan
Um or not drinking for a year. It's just like yep. This is what's up
So that's that moving on to a more fun one
I made a decision either Elia the CEO or it might have been late last year to create a new tradition
Mine involves me and Luke every Sunday night
Philosophical Sunday he gets home from work on a Sunday
We usually will try and make it like our take out day
We take it in turns to pick documentaries to watch
If you have any good ones
Please leave them in comments down below and if we can't find a documentary that you want to watch
We've also created a fall back which is classic movies because I've probably seen about two classic movies in my entire life
So I need educating. Near and far is a blog that I really like. I will link it in the description
He has a tradition with his friends where he'll get together with a few couple friends
They'll have dinner and there will be one question that they talk about. I love everything about that tradition
So they might talk about questions
Like what's one thing your parents taught you that you want to pass on to your children or something more practical
Like how do you disconnect from your iPhone on weekends a tradition like philosophical Sunday lets me and like break get educated
So we feel like we're learning something. We don't allow phones so
We're like fully present spending time together and they're just like really treasured times
Like I really like philosophical Sunday as a concept and I like spending time with luke it's a great time. I
Usually stick to one question for this video, but I have another one for you guys
What are your traditions like traditions with your friends traditions with your partner traditions with your family?
I want to hear all about them in the comment section. I love traditions. I want to build more
So those are some decisions that I've made this year to improve the quality of my life
I hope that you guys find this interesting obviously
This video isn't about saying like yes, you too, should stop binge drinking and give up coffee and create some traditions
It's more just like hey, that's what I've been doing
Maybe it'll inspire you to make your own little decisions that could potentially
Improve the quality of your life
If you liked this video
you might like my 8 list right to make 2018 amazing in which I'm pretty sure I talk about my
Adventures list a bit more. I appreciate you guys so much subscribe to my channel if you haven't already and I will see you soon