How to live
A Fun Life
How to Live a More Interesting Life
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hey what's up I am Michelle B and in
this video I want to talk about how to
make your life a more interesting one to
live the older you get and the more
familiar you get with your surroundings
the more familiar you get with your day
to day experiences the more the your day
is kind just start to merge together
your days kind of start to look like a
blur and you can't really run what the
difference was between Monday Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday or Friday when you
think about any activity that you
complete on a consistent and regular
basis so for example your daily commute
to work in your memory your 15-minute
commute which equals 75 minutes a week
is simply one 15-minute commute your
brain sees that activity is there a
repetitive and unimportant that doesn't
really need to store all those memories
of all the times that you took that
15-minute commute and your brain does
the same thing for every other
repetitive consistent thing that you do
in your life in this video I want to
talk about how to have a more
interesting life and also equally
important how to live a more memorable
life so that your life doesn't become
that one big stretchy blur sometimes the
best advice is also the most basic
goodbye so I'm gonna ask you to stick
around for this first one in summary
what I'm trying to say is make plans to
do new things and then stick to those
plans so the other week I was going to
my parents house my parents house is
about an hour drive they live on a
beautiful big piece of land there are
kangaroos hopping everywhere and animals
that look like this that hang around
their house that morning I literally did
not want to leave my house I didn't want
to leave my couch I just wanted to sit
there and I wanted to read a book so
there remainder of the weekend but the
thing is I was the one who actually
initiated the plan and scheduled in the
plan to go to my parents I know that
going and hanging out with my family and
having a laugh and having dinner is
really good for my soul so as I really
reluctantly put together my bag and I
took my sweet time doing it I just kept
on saying to myself the plans that I
dread the most are usually the ones that
I enjoy the most and I've found that to
be a consistent theme for me I recently
read the book off the clock as part of
book club for babes which is a book club
I started some time ago in it that also
talks about having conscious fun so
conscious fun is something like having
Taco Tuesdays or you got all the
ingredients ready for Taco Tuesday you
might your friends over you probably
have to clean the house and they come
over and it's great time conscious fun
is planning a picnic to the beach so you
have to make a whole bunch of free put
in a picnic basket get all your stuff
together probably chuckling some sons
Green take yourself to the beach
conscious fun is finding a new
meditation class near you and taking the
effort to go out of your way to go to
this new meditation class conscious fun
is effortful fun you have to actually
put an effort to create the memories now
I know I have a lot of people in my
audience that are similar to me and you
guys are probably the first people they
would want to stay in and read a book as
opposed to going outside and doing
things but the reality is that if you
want to be able to create memories and
you want to have a string of fun
experiences and live a more interesting
life you need to put in the effort to
have more fun the very simple way that
the author of off-the-clock approaches
this is to plan it in and do it anyways
and this is the approach that I take as
well I like to plan things when I'm at a
high vibe and yes when it comes to the
Wednesday night I'm booked in this new
exercise class I am absolutely dreading
it when I get there I really enjoy it
and when I leave I'm in a better state
of mind than I was when I arrived and I
have new memories memories that are
gonna stick out memories that are going
to blow with all my other memories we
know that I'm an actionable kind of
human so I wanna give you a really
actionable way to approach planning it
in and doing it anyways this is an
activity to add to your weekly review
and if you don't have a weekly review
I'm gonna have a link up here and down
here at the end of my weekly review I
have a checkbox to say are there any
adventures that you can schedule in to
accompany that I have a list of
adventures that I want to go on these
are local simple adventures I think I
talked about this originally in my 8
list to make to make 2018 amazing so
I'll have a link to that video right
here and down there that question has
left me to go to club besides I went
this week it was exactly what you'd
expect it to be it's led to me gifting
my sister two tickets to the drive-in
movies booked in for next weekend is
going to the Brisbane vegan markets I've
already booked in a self-care day where
I'm going to Flora Green House and many
other mini Adventures nothing like
incredibly insane but enough that it
keeps my life interesting the next way
to keep your life more interesting and
more memorable is to learn new things
you might be at home in the same room
that you're in most days eating the same
usually that you eat every day but if
you're learning something new your brain
is not going to mush that memory into
another memory your brain is going to
remember that time because learning
literally lights your brain up and not
only will that make that moment of
learning mobile you're also gonna get
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free at for two months we all do a lot
of the same stuff a lot at the time and
some of that stuff unfortunately you
cannot cut out you can't cut out
brushing your teeth you probably can't
cut out that daily commute to work you
can't really cut out work in general
making your life more interesting to you
not to anyone else is not about quitting
your job and traveling the world for a
year even though that is so I'm rebel
and amazing it's about making the life
that you already live more interesting
and more memorable to you so before we
talked about how when you do the same
thing consistently your brain will
basically take all of those things and
just go okay yeah that's boring an
incident for him we don't need 365
memories of that thing I'm just gonna
crunch it all down into one memory so if
you always sit at the back of the bus
and you know talk to anyone said it's a
front of the bus and dad have a chat
with the person to your right if
whenever you meal prep you usually meal
prep in silence or with music behind you
try meal prepping with a focus behind
you if every lunch time you go to the
same spot on your own try that lunch
spot over there but with someone else
it's truly the little changes and the
little variety that you add to your life
that makes it all more memorable that
stops your brain from pushing it all
together into one big blur so take the
normal things that you do and think
about how you can add a little bit
variety into those normal things if
you're seeking to live a life that is
more interesting then you need to
actually figure out what an interesting
day looks like to you if I have a day
where I had public transport on my own
going to a place that I haven't been
before and I meet a new person that I
never met before but doesn't really it's
a wild
that's an interesting day for me Gomi
four branching out of my bubble another
person might look at that day me like
wow I do that every other week that is
not interesting to me on the other hand
someone might look at me making YouTube
videos and be like wow that's an
interesting way to live your life
whereas to me this is very normal and
very standard and doesn't take much
getting out of my bubble to sit in front
of a camera
what is interesting exciting memorable
and breaks things up for you might be
something that's really boring to
another person what's interesting
memorable exciting to them I'd be really
boring to you are general things that
you'll look at a person me like wow
that's interesting that person wrote a
book does keeps a public presentation in
front of lots of people and has traveled
the world but I think it's important to
think on a smaller scale of the smaller
things that make life more interesting
because not everything is on a grand
scale so figure out what those little
things are that just stretch you that a
little bit that you know will make your
day is more memorable and more
interesting the word interesting itself
holds such a different meaning to so
many people that you really need to look
at what the word is and figure out what
it actually means to you before you
start pursuing it the next way to make
your life more interesting is to
actually try the stuff that you learn
about you've clicked on this video so
it's more than likely that you've
clicked on an article that looks like
this oh you've clicked on another video
that looks kind of like this so you've
listened to a podcast like this so maybe
you've read a book like this how much
does the advice and the practical
exercises that you consume information
about do you actually try out trying out
meditation for a month made my whole
life more memorable than going through
the process of the life-changing magic
of tidying off and my 30 days to
simplify challenge literally changed my
life if you're struggling with this it's
likely you're consuming too much
information and you need to cut it down
I'm not saying to unsubscribe to my
youtube channel but instead try choosing
one book to live by for a year or try
doing a life experiment or try following
all the advice that you get in a video
and see how much more interesting your
life will get and my last thought which
is very simple it is just do what you
always do but someone you read your book
but don't read it on the couch go ahead
and
at the beach plan your next day but
don't do it in your lounge room do it
outside while you watch the sunset
there is really no escaping some of the
things that you always have to do so why
not do them in somewhere new ah don't
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