If you're watching this video right now you are probably under some sort of
lockdown or quarantine unable to leave the house with far too much time on your
hands many of you are probably treating this like it's a sort of holiday doing
nothing all day watching videos playing games and surf in social media but the
thing is this is no holiday there is a worldwide crisis going on and I am a
firm believer that whenever there is some trouble up and about that one
should be spending a good chunk of their time sharpening their axe getting ready
for what's about to come most of you will have months and potentially even a
year of free time on your hands before things return to the way they were
before you should be using at least some of this free time focused on bettering
yourself so that you can emerge from this crisis stronger and better than
ever before so that you're in a better position to recover from whatever
happens next so today I want to issue a challenge to those of you that want to
make the best out of this situation I call it the quarantine challenge and
here are the rules first I want you to take out a piece of paper draw a line
down the middle horizontally and vertically and assess the four areas of
your life as of today on a scale of one to ten take your time to really think
about where you currently stand for each of these areas the first is health which
focuses on your physical health do you exercise at all are you over healthy
weight what is your diet like are you happy with the way you look and feel
physically the next is wealth here you should think about your current savings
and also future income streams do you have any form of income still coming in
are you prepared at all for a recession if we were to answer one do you have an
emergency fund the third is relationships here you should think
about the social support system that you currently have in your life do you have
someone close that you can trust and can talk to do you have a good relationship
with your parents or siblings or someone in your family do you have friends that
you can chat with to pass the time and finally we have happiness which focuses
on your mental health do you feel anxious about the uncertainty in the
world right now are you currently dealing with any mental obstacles that
are weighing you down preventing you from taking action are you happy
take your time and really carefully assess yourself in these
four areas and maybe even write down a couple of sentences for each of them to
flesh out your thoughts rate yourself on a scale of one to ten for each and after
doing so I want you to focus your attention on the one area that you rated
yourself the lowest on this will be the primary focus for the quarantine
challenge and also make sure to keep this sheet of paper I'll tell you why in
a minute your next step is to figure out which one habit would help improve your
rating in this area the most let's say for example you analyze your life and
you realize that your wealth or your current financial situation is the one
area that you're most worried about you got laid off and you barely have any
savings so you rated yourself a two on a scale of ten this means that your
primary focus for this challenge should be to improve your financial situation
as much as possible this is the best thing that you could be doing right now
with your free time so now that you figure this out your next task is to ask
yourself this which one habit could I build that would help me improve the
financial aspect of my life the most well off the top of my head there are a
couple things you could do building a habit of reading could help write
reading financial education books would give you a better understanding about
the current world situation it would teach you about the best things you
should be doing with your money and it would also give you more ideas for
making money even during this period of uncertainty another habit that might
work for the challenge could be to pick up a skill something that could make you
money even if we were all hypothetically locked down for another year ideally
something that is recession-proof that could be done remotely now you would
have to do your own research on this subject but spending some time every day
learning such a skill would absolutely position yourself to be in a better
place financially if we were thrown into a long lasting recession take your time
figuring out which one habit would help you out the most when you do so make
sure to comment down below under this video so that you can be held
accountable this is the habit that you will focus on for the Quarantine
challenge your job is to spend at least 30 minutes a day doing this one thing
once you do so you can enjoy as much relaxation or entertainment as you want
that will be your reward what's important is that you enjoy your reward
only after doing at least 30 minutes of whatever you've
challenged yourself to work on and finally as a way to track yourself
during this challenge I want you to take out a piece of paper and draw out a
calendar for the rest of this month you can even find an empty calendar that you
have lying around or print one from online place it in a place that you
frequent often and use it as a tracking tool you can use exes check marks or
even fill up the entire box it's up to you your goal for the quarantine
challenge is to stick to your habit as much as possible during this lockdown
notice how I use the word as much as possible I do not believe in counting
streaks your goal is to try and stick to your habit for at least 90% of the days
for the remainder of the time you're locked down this means every month you
can miss up to three days if you do miss a day for whatever reason do not be hard
on yourself nobody is perfect miss days are to be expected but when it happens
remember that piece of paper where you broke down the four areas of your life
yeah when you miss a day simply take a look at the paper and remind yourself
why you're taking on this challenge in the first place why you need to improve
this area of your life why you need to emerge from this crisis stronger and
better than before take your time and really think about that and then make
sure you stick to your habit the next day now I usually do not recommend
building more than one habit at once but because of the extraordinary amount of
free time that some of you might have due to the current situation I think
it's safe for some of you to try and build two habits at the same time right
now if you're up for the challenge for example let's say after analyzing
your life you realize that your health isn't that great either so you could
work on reading at least 30 minutes every day to help improve the financial
aspect of your life and you could also adopt eight thirty plus minute
bodyweight fitness workout at home to improve your health I do not recommend
trying to build more than two habits at once even if you have a tremendous
amount of free time as multitasking with that many things is usually a recipe for
disaster and if any of you wants to help in
regards to building habits you can refer to the team course which I will link to
in the description down below this video is brought to you if to help the guys at
autumn using audible to listen to audiobooks
it's one of the best habits you can build right now for the quarantine
challenge regardless of what area of your life you want to focus on improving
they have audiobooks on just about every conceivable self-improvement subject you
can think of if you want to take advantage of all the free time you have
I suggest you go to www.mptv.org/outdoorwisconsin challenge
which is why the book I'm currently listening to is the simple path to
wealth by JL Collins which is considered to be one of the best books to read when
it comes to investing I highly recommend you guys to check it out if you want to
improve your financial education as well and besides that guys I wish you the
best of luck with the quarantine challenge and I look forward to reading
about your experience in the comments in future videos