okay this is exactly how dropping out of university and the chaotic weeks that followed
led to me becoming out of sync with myself and the reason i moved here not knowing either of my
flatmates to resin to resync and basically just get my [ __ ] together right now everything has
gone completely tits up and it climaxes with me getting mugged in soho losing 12 000 pounds
so subscribe to see that but that's not today's video this video is exactly why i moved to london
it's very case in my spark so it was after i dropped out of university i started to get
excited about the freedom i started going crazy and taking on everything i possibly could right
with work with youtube with social with travel and this is the story of the two weeks that sent
me spiraling into poor mental health poor physical health getting really ill and losing all track of
my ambition to the point where i was basically just depressed and ill at home and as a result
taking a step back looking at myself realizing i'm going to move to london i'm going to get this
clarity and try to resolve all of these issues that have come about over the last few months now
anyway how this video is going to run is i'm going to take you through the two weeks which is surface
level were genuinely some of the best weeks of my life beneath the surface was slowly killing me and
leading to all of these negatives okay but before we get into that basically this last two weeks
as so much more has happened and i need to make you want to actually watch this content so next
week i am dropping the video that explains why i moved for six different places in six days
why i got mugged how i got mugs where it all leaves me and why i'm now in this
penthouse flat with two of my mates jesus christ yeah but after i filmed this video having already
been mugged so much more happened and then that climax when i was at my friend ollie's flat five
days ago before i flew out to portugal for three days and yeah it got to the point where i was
very very burnt out i was tired and i was losing all the energy so i decided just to sit down and
do something therapeutic something that was going to help my mental health and put me
back on track take a little breather and just zone out for a while on this channel i'm going
to be doing a hell of a lot of that this channel is going back to its roots of personal development
trying to help you guys live the best life imaginable trying to create the reality you
want out of your own life and i'm going to be helping you to do that every step of the
way so if that sounds like something you want to watch i would honestly love it if
you subscribed anyway after that two weeks of burnout my therapy was trying to learn to cook
i am absolutely finished and tired and just in need a little rest but i want to learn to cook
and i feel like everyone says that cooking is therapeutic so i've lit some candles i'm going
to play some relaxing music and i'm going to give it a go i'm going gonna see if i can learn to cook
so i'm gonna be using hellofresh they've pulled through absolutely clutch and despite having to
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don't have to worry about sorting anything i can crack on with a recipe like it does
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anything close to this gourmet gaucho chimichurri cheeseburger let's get it
that's not too bad what is one thing you'd want to tell the world if you could yeah honestly
that was the best meal that i've ever put to my life and tom the stranger i met and cooked that
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your first hello fresh box and 35 off on your next three boxes with code 50 jake now on with the two
weeks after university that let me getting a bit depressed moving to london and trying to figure it
all out so let's take it back to the 17th of march just a few weeks after i dropped out of university
a travel day in the life of an 18 year old university dropout now heading growth a manner
if you want to know the full story as to why i dropped out but i'm still living here drop us up
and head to my videos tab where i posted a full explanation every thursday i now go from bath
to london to summarize weekly progress and act on new campaigns today we took over london bridge
interviewing strangers on their passions for the latest campaign on tick tock though i'm actually
going to be posting the best of each week on here too so drop a subscribe if you want to see those
i'm glad you've heard our strides we had a bit on the street there that was seven followed by
an instant rejection let's go it's pretty much all rejection apart from like two very specific
people definitely help me go on a personal level say that much confidence is um a crazy one but the
day ended over drinks with a few of my mentors for a little catch up and i then headed home
getting in about midnight this day was basically me going down to london figuring out exactly what
we had to do for the next few months in terms of work in terms of the direction of both mana and
my youtube channel because now that i've dropped out of university i had no content my content was
university content see i put this growth plan in place when and chatted with all my mentors
like the biggest influences in my life obviously after my parents they live in london i went and
chat to them and got like a bit more connected with myself and the direction i wanted to take
and that intense travel day waking up at like 6 7 a.m getting back at like 11 p.m to midnight i
was on a high like i fell in love with that work travel hybrid i loved it and that was dangerous
so anyway it comes around 18th march the next day i'm just working just grinding out everything that
we put in place the day before editing catching up on work getting things in place for the next few
months nice 19th of march is actually my aunt's partner's surprise 50th birthday i was meant to be
going down to swansea with my family we're gonna have a really nice little vacation staycation yeah
we're gonna see the whole family it was gonna be a great night my mom caught covered and it
meant that i had to go down alone so i dropped my flatmates in town and headed on a little solo road
trip to swansea and this was that man all i'm saying is what a day this weather is immaculate
oh i am absolutely shattered uh we're like already caught in the way there but
if i keep driving i'm gonna fall asleep so i hope you're going to grab a coffee
might have a quick 15 minute nap as well just managing me this sun it's beautiful it's tiring
right so we just got here but i don't actually know where i'm going to be parking like there's a
car park for the hotel by residents but you need the code and stuff to get in so i'm
gonna go check in see what the code is and then see if we can park there let's get it
oh this is nice well i'm not gonna lie i haven't already walked in here how do you think the camera
got here but no the room is nice yeah this is the accommodation for the night i'm unpack i'm
a shower and we get ready uh getting some like a nicer fit because the surprise is at 7 15. it is
now 4 40. quarterback five i'm going to go down socialize with the family have a couple drinks
and get ready for the uh the big surprise and then the night to incur should be good yeah shower time
surprise is 25 minutes out pacifica
all right so the surprise went absolutely brilliantly but i missed the memo i forgot
it was hawaiian so this lay has come through absolutely clutch but
one thing as well is there is karaoke and you guys know how much of a sucker i am karaoke i
love karaoke so tonight is going to be a brilliant night and in fact if one
of those videos of me singing doesn't end up in this vlog i failed you guys
so anyway then comes around sunday morning 20th of march and i am hanging like crazy running on
about four hours sleep but we go and have a really really nice little breakfast with all
the people who are at the 50th tell you why i'm stressed now but uh yeah banging lunch i met some
really cool people and after that i get my car and start driving home but on the way home i'm like
oh i'm in cardiff let me just see if my mate's around he goes to cardiff uni so i swam by his
back is popping before carrying on the journey home it came back to bath
monday morning i woke up really ill but just decided to power through work hoping it would
go away over the course of the day it didn't the next morning i woke up completely bedridden i
couldn't do anything the whole day the travel had caught up to me but in my mind it was completely
unrelated i just thought okay no the lack of sleep the constant traveling the stress of work whatever
has nothing to do with the reason i met i was still in love with that travel mentality
calm 23rd of march wednesday slight recovery but again still pretty bedridden i might splash out a
little bit of work and then went down to the local weir with my flatmates to get a bit of fresh air
that was really nice really enjoyed that then seven days after the first trip to london we're
back in london on the thursday because that was the new plan every thursday i was going to go
down and have a full work day in person with the full commercial team four mana so last week we
took over london bridge this is the story day of the campaign all that time and work but it's
a beautiful day as well today like the weather is immaculate so i am ready let's go so we headed to
london to meet up with the crew got a little bit of prep done on the way before picking up some
much needed money right off the underground now so we've gotta basically write all these post-it
notes together we'll start getting ready to go tackle the campaign on london bridge it should
be good looks like so we've blasted out about 100 passions onto post-it notes and got some food in
before heading to the location scouting locations then we got to work whacking them all up and began
asking passes by to add their own even doing mini interviews with them about their passions
follow to see those but after four hours we left all the gear went out to get dinner and drinks
before coming back and seeing that everyone had kept adding their own whilst we were away
on that high we headed home but the next day they were all gone but again i was up super
early i got back really late and that just didn't help the illness whatsoever 25th i'm still just
grinding out work the illness is still present by the end of the day i go out for dinner with
my flatmates who's got kfc sit at the top of this car park and i'm trying to convince them to come
down to portsmouth with me on a spontaneous like sunset drive to the beach and then a big night
out because i was actually planning on having a little reunion with all of my mates from home in
portsmouth one of all of my mates from home just one of the groups the persuasion was unsuccessful
and again i headed on a solo sunset road trip down to portsmouth and this was that night
oh
ollie's place this place is sick both gonna grab a shower get changed go start for the night because
right now not really getting outside so i mean so yeah we're gonna get changed get ready we're gonna
head up to alfie's place we're gonna pre there and then they'll probably go like 11 30. he's mad they
go that late because in bathrooms you should leave like ten because the clothes get packed then you
gotta get in time so this is gonna be a massive change and a bigger club i'm excited let's go
wake up in the morning
uh
i ended up staying in some random guys accommodation just sleeping on the floor
he was a legend he actually knew my mate how set me
beautiful because the person who's accommodation i was meant to be staying out just like fell through
i can't actually remember what happened but it just meant that i couldn't stay there and i had
nowhere to stay so i was either sleeping in my car or carter's friend bollocks africa on his name
said that i could sleep on his floor with a pillow and a blanket so i was like okay i'm not sleeping
in my car i'll sleep on the floor damn that is mad i get up and i'm running on about four hours late
just leaving now i'm gonna be up all my sophomore year from my bags and some ollies
last night uh so i'm just waiting for one of these lives and then we're gonna go
five ten minute walk to ollie's i'm gonna pick up my stuff and then i meet my family uh it's
my dad's birthday today so we're gonna celebrate his birthday i go to meet my family on the 26th
still in portsmouth because again my family aren't living that travel work mentality so
they are always trying to get out of the house always trying to do something so i said you know
what i'm in portsmouth as it is why don't you come down get a little hotel for the night and
then i'll come and join you after this night that's what i did when enjoying them that was
so so nice and honestly it was weird because at this point i was probably the
most confident like with myself on my future like i'm at peak enjoyment at the surface
but obviously below that surface everything is slowly dwindling and slowly go and share
moving on sunday the 27th of march head back to bath finally back camille was shattered look at
all this so much character we finally made it back so time to get in eat some food chill out for a
bit say hi to everyone give him all the debris oh yeah back to work she's got lots and lots to do
and this is when the action-oriented way of living that i've experienced over the last two weeks the
constant work travel mentality just sticks with me throughout the rest of the time i'm at university
it was to the point where i was going on a night out going to sleep at like four five six am
sometimes even eight or nine on the weekends and then i'd be getting up for work at like nine am
working to like six seven eight pm and then going out again constantly moving around and
packing everything that i possibly could into my day now don't get me wrong i thoroughly enjoyed
it like it was fun as anything but because i was so focused on like getting through getting
the next thing done and trying to pack as much into every day as possible i never really had
a chance to step back have some time to myself and make sure that what i was actually doing was
aligned with my ambition and where i wanted to be in the future jesus i need to sort this hair out
it's even worse jesus christ so when i got home from university and i nappa my nap was
sick by the way again i was still kind of in that mentality when i got home i got super ill
and for the first time i actually had a chance to just like be alone with my thoughts i wasn't
doing anything i didn't have enough energy to work didn't have enough energy to edit youtube
videos whatever my physical health was suffering my mental health was suffering and despite doing
so much having this crazy lifestyle which i genuinely thought i loved and i did love
i realized i had no idea what i was working towards i mean i hadn't posted a youtube video
in two months and i i just felt so unsure of my future like more unsure than i've ever felt before
which sucked it really did so yeah regardless whenever i seem to hit moments of crisis like this
london seems to be the place where i go like over the last few years i've managed to build up an
amazing support network of like mentors friends other creators and there's people that are on
the similar paths to what i'm on and london is like the concentration of all those people
so whenever i go down to london i have great conversations i come to great realizations and
i just get a better sense of direction for where i'm heading in the future now i was obviously in
a pretty poor mindset so that thought didn't cross my mind and i mentioned like wanting to
go to london and wanting to go to bali wanting to do all these things and my dad was just like why
don't you do it and i was just like you're so right why don't i do it so i called up leo my
friend and i was like do you know of anywhere that i can stay in london for just like a couple weeks
he was kind enough to be like yeah you know what my flatmate is traveling i'm sure he won't mind
you staying in his bed checked with his flatmates they were calm with it and then i moved to london
for a month without knowing the flatmate and having only met leo once ever in my life i
just said [ __ ] it and now here we are like i've moved to london to put myself in an environment
away from distraction where i can just focus on work content and doing as much as i can to grow
personally on an internal level basically build myself from the inside out as opposed to building
all of the outside stuff and just neglecting the end does that make any sense yeah when you
get into that like pure work mentality it is easy to let the personal development slip and although
you're achieving all of these tangible goals on the outside you're not actually growing personally
and that sucks because it means although you're growing like the visible prospect and deriving
those tangible outcomes you're not setting yourself up for a great future great mental
health great physical health whatever and i felt like that was what i needed to do in that moment i
was like yeah let's move to london let's do it but as you're about to see in the next video it went
completely wrong from there and yeah it's been mad so remember as i mentioned at the start and what
i'm covering in the next video i flat flooded i got mugged i lost 12k i lost access to pretty
much everything on that device and i'm now staying in one of my mates houses like i don't currently
have anywhere to stay i could go back home i want to be in london and it's a hell of a journey so if
you want to hear all about that i would drop a subscribe and yeah i'll see you in the next one