before we get started on today's video let me just say this is not a toxic
productivity video new year's can bring a lot of pressure onto us and we might feel the need
to join a gym to lose those few extra pounds from christmas or finally find that corporate job
but i want to remind you that happiness does not come externally but internally
so in this video i'm going to share some tips that i've learned over the years to give you
a nice reset over the new year and hopefully bring joy into your life without any pressure
let's go i'm so so sorry for the terrible lighting it's new year's and i am in my family house
the first change that you could bring into your life which i think new year's is really the
perfect time for is learning a new skill first of all humans love change and we get bored extremely
easily so it's always great to be picking up new hobbies and activating different parts of our
brain i would always encourage people when you're picking up a hobby to try and go from what you're
used to if you're in the scientific department don't learn a skill in that area go into painting
or learn an instrument and vice versa you never even know you might find out that the job you're
currently in is not the one for you because this new hobby you've picked up makes you wanna
suddenly become a jazz musician and that's the beauty about learning a new skill as a language
student i hear every single year that language learning is a lifelong journey but i don't
think it's just language learning i think it's learning in general we should always be picking
up new things learning new topics new year is a great time to get started and plus i'm sure i'm
not the only one that hates the one for january i feel so bored in this time because the weather is
kind of awful and it's really dark outside and i have a little bit extra time than normal over this
holiday period and so it's really the perfect time to start a new hobby and schedule in time to do it
every day now you might be thinking well you see how do i learn a new skill isn't that really hard
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number two this is another really common thing in the productivity spirit but i don't think enough
people really realize how important it is and that is creating routines in your life since the
pandemic i really lost my schedule and i noticed it was taking a huge toll on my health because i
wasn't exercising daily and i wasn't taking the time to be alone by myself without my phone and
i wasn't working as hard because there was no work it was a pandemic and so when i finally
got back into a rhythm i realized how important routines really are now if you're interested more
in scientifically why rhythms are so important i would recommend this podcast here by andrew
huberman where he and a fellow scientist discuss the circadian rhythm which basically proves how
our bodies work on a 24 hour clock and how important routines are personally i do like
to keep things a bit interesting but three things that i will always keep in a routine
with is my sleeping schedule my eating schedule and my exercising schedule but yes as i said i
like to take the rest of the day to be a bit more spontaneous so maybe january 2022 is the
time for you to think do i have any routine in my life or maybe do i have too much routine
number three before you click off and you think this is not important let me tell you how much
walking every day has changed my life for the past year almost i think i've been walking for between
30 minutes and two hours every day and the best part about walking is you tend to do it outside
which means you're taking in sunlight therefore vitamin d therefore helping your circadian rhythm
oh my god so many extra benefits and all you thought you're doing was taking your dog that
walk that he needs to go on i was recently reading dopamine nation and something that
really surprised me is that over the past couple decades humans have doubled the amount of time
sitting down our work is making us lazier and lazier we're not exercising enough and
it feels good to get some fresh air so try and schedule in a walk every day for
the next week and just see how you feel you might really notice a difference like i did
number four do something for someone else this is not me trying to say that we are all so selfish
nowadays and that we need to do more things for other people and i'm also not insinuating that
by doing something for someone else you're going to get personal gain from it but what i do want
to say is it feels really good making the people around you feel appreciated especially in winter
where the weather makes us all a little bit seasonally depressed and maybe some people
have been alone over this christmas due to the pandemic so maybe send that message to your friend
that you haven't spoken in a couple months or make an extra cup of tea for your family without asking
them or even remind your partner how much they mean to you and how much you love them
let's see what happens what's that famous quote when you smile at the world the world smiles back
the last thing that i want to talk about again i've really tried to make these not
so stereotypical in the productivity shield because we all know that you need to journal
every day you need to take better note i guess my version of being the best version of yourself
isn't necessarily about productivity but about improving your mental health if you want to go
that deep though the last point is start trying to make friends that are better than you i'm a
big believer that we become who we are around all the time and so i really find it's important to
make friends that are smarter than you or are kinder than you or work harder than you so that
you can strive to be like these people if you're around a circle that kind of isn't making you the
best version of yourself well how do you expect yourself to improve when you don't have someone
making you want to improve i personally love being around my group of friends that make me feel like
i need to work harder and harder because it pushes me to do a little bit more instead of just lying
on my bed on youtube all day this is not me saying that you should ditch your current friends because
maybe you don't even realize that your own current writing group have so many better
qualities than yourself and you can think wow that girl there she's really really
hard working i want to be like her or oh my god this guy over here is going to the gym every day
maybe i'm going to start training with him to keep me in a schedule you know what i mean
sometimes we don't realize how great our current friends are maybe you could even tie number four
and five together and send your friend a text or some gratitude like hey
i really admire how funny you are teach me your tricks please okay i know those were five really
random ways to improve yourself but i hope that these are less pressureful and more positive
and dursting out of that word work because we have all had enough of the standard productivity
videos and i want people to start playing better from within and not just improving on the outside
so that other people notice how great you are because you've been meditating every day for one
more funeral so on that note thank you again for watching this video i hope you have a lovely start
to the new year here are two videos i think you might like if you want to stay on the productivity
and if not that's totally okay thanks again scott for sponsoring this video and bye-bye you