How to live
A Green Life
WHAT I WISH I KNEW BEFORE STARTING A SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE
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thank you so much for joining me for
another video I'm so happy that you can
join me for this one because I would
have loved to have watched a video like
this before I started my sustainable
lifestyle so hopefully some of these
things that I wish I had known before I
started will be helpful for you guys to
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it out if you have the time so today I
want to talk to you about the things
that I wish I had known before I started
plant-based eating veganism low waste
low impact all of these things and I'm
just going to get straight into it so
grab a cup of tea and let's get straight
into the video
the first thing I wish someone had told
me is that you can't change everything
all at once and that that is actually
okay if you think about it we want to be
on these lifestyles for the rest of our
life so if we're really trying to sprint
to get there we're going to be taking on
all of these extra things and actually
it's gonna be super difficult also you
have to take accessibility into account
when I first started going low waste or
trying to reduce my waste we didn't have
any zero waste shops we didn't have many
kind of accessible farmers markets near
me but now obviously I do but that this
is three four years like into my journey
and some of you probably still don't
even have zero waste shops or or farmers
markets or even supermarkets that have
stuff that you can buy unpackaged mmm my
words are really really doing well today
guys so definitely trying to do
everything all at once can make you feel
really really really bad about your
efforts even though your efforts are
obviously going to be pretty damn good
so definitely don't give yourself a hard
time and try and think realistically
about what you can change now and then
where you can change in the future the
next one is I really wish someone had
said to me
that making mistakes on your journey is
a very natural and noble part of any big
change or even a small change in your
life I definitely gave myself a really
hard time but in a very serious way
every time I made some kind of mistake
if I wasted something by accident in the
early days if I ate a bit of cheese or
something completely by accident I would
still feel really guilty about it even
though it wasn't my fault so I
definitely think that understanding that
making mistakes is the perfect way to
learn and thinking about it in a
positive way rather than a negative way
can really alter the way you are seeing
your journey and give you that
motivation and that inspiration to
continue or be like oh I made a mistake
and I've learned from the
I can use this knowledge to move forward
in a much better place because I now
have this newfound kind of information
so definitely making mistakes is
actually a good thing and seeing it as a
good thing can really help you with any
eco anxiety that you're feeling or any
kind of worries you're having about your
journey the next one which i think is
actually the one of the most important
but your journey is your own do not
compare yourself to you other people and
just focus on what you're doing and your
own personal journey now this can be
said for so many other parts of your
life as well but I think it's one of the
most important ones because if you're
comparing yourself to see someone who
uses a trash jar or if you're comparing
yourself to someone who has quit flying
or if you're comparing yourself to
someone who is a hundred percent ethical
vegan and has access to everything to be
that way then you can get so down about
it and this is where your eco anxiety
can really take over and also this is
where you can start comparing yourself
and you get these horrible feelings like
jealousy I know I certainly did
or you get these feelings of like you're
not good enough or actually your efforts
aren't good enough and that is
absolutely not true everything that
you're doing is amazing
you are becoming a conscious consumer
and you are deciding to take control of
the way that you're wasting or your
habits or you are participating and
trying to make this place a little bit
better for yourself and for everyone
else here so try not to compare yourself
to others because your journey is your
own and it's important what you do and
how you participate in your own journey
and the collective as a whole the next
one is to remember that these terms such
as minimalist zero-waste they're just
guidelines they are not absolute rules
that if you mess up on then you've
completely failed the good thing about
these terms is that they provide these
kind of guidelines so you can understand
the parameters of what you're trying to
stay in and what you're actually trying
to achieve so if you see them as
absolute then again you can have these
really negative effects and you
and actually be doing yourself more harm
than good because you're trying to
strive for this perfectionism that you
might not actually reach now if you're
someone who has access to all of these
things and you're really really really
close and you're really really near that
perfect kind of thing then then good for
you that's not the same for everyone
else and everyone's journey as I said
before is personal so it's so important
that you see these things as guidelines
and as goals and these kind of places to
get to because when we have goals it
makes it so much easier to actually
achieve really big things but just
remember to see them as guidelines
because then when you do failure and you
make mistakes then you see it as a
learning curve you do not see it as an
absolute failure the next one is you do
not have to give up everything you love
and in fact I encourage you to not do a
lot of people when I started making zero
waste videos would say things like oh
but I'm an artist and I have all of
these different things that I have to
use does that mean I have to give them
up oh I love reading and I just can't
stand reading it on an e-reader do I
have to give up all my books no I really
don't encourage you to give up these
things that you love because you can
make massive changes in other areas of
your life without sacrificing some of
the things that bring you genuine joy if
you gave up everything that gave you joy
imagine how hard your lifestyle would be
to continue for the rest of your life it
would make things so much harder because
you wouldn't feel empowered and you
wouldn't feel excited to make those
changes also you do have to remember
that yes while some of the
responsibility is yours some of the
responsibility is also of these
companies or these corporations to make
better more eco-friendly stuff for us to
consume all I would say is maybe think
about another way in your life that you
can really dramatically reduce your
impact without having to give up all of
those things that you desperately love
and the last one is to connect with
those things and those motivations that
actually made you want to be on this
lifestyle in the first place I don't
know why but I for some reason just
when I decided to go sort of low waste
plant-based vegan etc I didn't connect
with those motivations very much and to
be fair when I went vegan I decided to
do it for animal welfare at the
beginning so watching these sort of
horrific videos like I just didn't need
to see them anymore and that was
absolutely fine but not getting out into
nature and seeing the beauty outside and
everything that was the reason why I
wanted to protect this earth and
understanding you know the reasons why I
wanted to not contribute to fast fashion
anymore and understand the human impact
and the human stories now I make it an
absolute must that I connect with those
things and those people and those
animals and nature so that my motivation
never dwindles I want to understand
everyday why I am trying to live this
lifestyle why I'm putting out videos why
I am living a low-impact why I am eating
plant-based and living an ethical vegan
lifestyle so I really encourage you even
if it means getting out for a walk every
day or once a week or once a month just
connecting with those motivations and
honestly it will keep you inspired like
it kept me okay that is it I hope you
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