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Lifestyle Motivation Success

5 Tips To Motivate Yourself Daily

I am probably the laziest person I’ve ever met. I need constant daily motivation to avoid becoming a complete bum. The 5 tips below help me motivate myself to get stuff (eventually) done.

1) Break big steps down

Having goals is nice and all but if you’re like me, your brain shuts down if the goal is too big.

For example, if my goal is “write a blog post today”, it will probably take me months to write it. But if I trick myself and say “write a blog post title today” or “write one sentence today”, then I can do it without any trouble.

Doing just a little bit boosts my confidence and pushes me to keep doing more. Look up the Kaizen principle and thank me later.

2) Shrink your to-do list

Having 30 things to do every day makes me feel productive – when I get them done. It also makes me feel like a loser if I end up putting them off to a later time. I limit how much I have to do per day to keep myself from avoiding it completely.

It’s easy to commit to doing one or two tasks per day that you know you can finish. Be honest with yourself and be flexible. Although it’s fun sometimes, you don’t have to be your own worst enemy all the time.

3) Have a positive attitude

This is very common knowledge but that doesn’t diminish its importance. I do my best to have a positive attitude every single day and it really helps.

Does this mean every single day is perfect and my life is just “Hakuna Matata”? I wish. It means I look at what I can do. I look at what’s possible and do my best to push through to get to what I want.

4) Surround yourself with the right people

As much as I like saying I don’t need anyone, we need people. Humans are tribal by nature and need to feel connected. The right people can really enhance your life experience.

Some people help me feel like I can build a spaceship in my garage; I really like those people. I like to keep motivated people around me because they help me grow and motivate myself.

5) Do what you enjoy

There is nothing as demotivating as a boring routine. Find an activity that makes your heart happy and do it. You don’t have to do it for a living, do it for pure fun.

That activity will motivate you to do your other work and will open up so many other doors for you.

Share this with your friends if these tips motivated you to not be a bum today.
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Motivation Success Travel

Sitting on a plane

When I have a flight, I always opt for a window seat because I love taking pictures during the trip (I have a plethora of cloud photos). On one of my recent flights I had an epiphany. I was looking out the window during landing and it suddenly hit me how small everything and everyone really is.

I mean it hit me how T I N Y our entire world looks from a plane. I zoomed in (mentally) and noticed a highway with little moving specks on it. Then I started thinking about how each one of those tiny moving specks is a car with people (smaller specks) in it. Each one of those people (probably) has goals, hopes, dreams, ideas, beliefs and a life. But at that moment, all the specks were headed in the same direction. They were all part of the same system. They all needed to work together to reach their respective destinations. Sure, their destinations were different but they still depended on each other, whether they thought about it or not to get there.

This small humbling experience made me think about how much we all need each other and how interconnected our world is. One small action you take can have huge consequences for this tiny place we call home. Our technologically advanced world might make us feel big, but as far as the universe is concerned we’re nothing but tiny specks.

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Adventure Lifestyle Motivation Travel

How I Travel So Much (& Why)

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

I get the question “how do you travel so much?” so often that I decided to share my secrets with the world. You’re welcome fellow humans. If you’re rolling your eyes, you should know that I’m a Leo so I can’t really help how humble I am.

Let’s start with the most important secret:

1) Budgeting

Not trip budgeting, life budgeting. If you don’t have enough money to travel, one of the reasons could be where you generally spend your money.

Do you really need the latest gadgets as soon as they come out? Do you HAVE to have those fancy overpriced shoes? When you decide to spend, do it on experiences not things – experiences last longer.

2) Travel like a local

Wherever you’re going, seek the less touristy areas and spend most of your time there. Not only will you save money, you’ll also get a more genuine experience of the place you’re visiting.

What’s traveling if you don’t get lost in the weird part of town?

3) Pack light

Take only what you need, your chances of getting stranded for a year while on vacation are pretty low. And if that does happen, you can always find a job there and buy new things.

On most of my trips I only take a backpack packed with the essentials.

4) Find a trip package

Find out if there are packages on sites like Expedia that combine flights, hotels and car rentals. Sometimes these can save you a lot of time and money, but you really have to dig to find them.

5) Take your time doing research

Is it better to get a hotel or Airbnb? Are there any minimally sketchy hostels? Should I take the bus or the train? Should I use Uber or risk getting kidnapped by a cab driver?

Depending on where you’re going, these are things you need to consider. Every location is different, don’t assume that the whole world behaves the same way your hometown does.

6) Find the free activities

Nature. Nothing beats the beauty of nature. (Most of the time) nature is free since it’s a bit hard for most countries to charge you for seeing it. And if they do happen to charge, the prices are usually very low and usually worth it.

If you live in the US, a good idea for a cheap fun trip with lots of scenery is a National Park. There are 58 National Parks spread out across the US, find one and go!

7) Travel with a group

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

Taking a trip with a group of friends can really help you cut costs while having an enormous amount of fun. Yes it can be stressful to please everyone in the group, but that’s part of the fun. It also gives you lots of stories you can tell when you get back!

8) Allow yourself to spend

Money comes back but your time won’t. Pushing off a trip you can take right now to a later time is probably worse than procrastinating in school.

The older you get, the busier you get and the harder it gets to travel. Your taste will also get more expensive as you get older so the same trip could cost you double or triple if you delay it.

Take as many trips as you can right now, future you will thank you for it. If this motivates you to take a trip, share your story with me!