- We all wanna have a
good time this summer. I personally look forward to the summertime every single year because I live in British Columbia and 90% of the year it's
overcast, rainy, gloomy, cloudy. It's not a fun time. When the weather starts to get good, I really start to think every single year, "How am I gonna make this summer count?" How am I gonna feel good, take advantage of the nice weather? What things can I do to
sort of make some memories?" If you're anything like me< you don't want to have a summertime where you're just inside all the time, rotting away, feeling depressed because everybody that you
know on Instagram or people that you don't know on Instagram
are traveling to Greece, they're in The Bahamas having a great time and you just feel like
(censored) about yourself. How do we avoid that situation? How do you have an adventurous,
fulfilling, exciting summer? Well, as a summer enthusiast
myself, over the past 27 years of my existence, I've been
asking myself that same question and I've developed some answers. So I wanna share those
answers with you guys. Here are five things that
I randomly just thought of. - I made it the (censored). - But have taken me 27 years to realize that will hopefully
help you have the best summer that you've had in years,
potentially the best summer that you've ever had in your entire life. Tip number one, and this is very simple, but it's extremely important. Wake up earlier. Unless you're working a shift job where you have to wake
up super early anyways, the summertime is the best time to wake up about an hour
earlier than you usually do. That involves also going to
bed an hour earlier as well. Go figure. When you lay in bed and
you don't do anything with your life and you rot
away inside, it feels extra bad 'cause you just have this idea that the whole world is
going on without you. And that's why I think it's
so important to wake up early during the summertime. Don't let the sun catch you sleeping. I personally find that the summertime mornings
have a magical aura about them. There's something very
special about, you know, the bugs flying around and the birds chirping and
the the sunrise coming up. You know, the world is waking up and if you wake up with that, there's something so ancient
and special about that. You're part of the rhythm of the universe as woo-woo as that sounds. But give it a try. Wake up earlier this summer. You can't go wrong. And right along the same lines, tip number two is to go outside
as much as humanly possible. Unless you have a very good
reason to be inside, go outside. It's summer. What are you doing? - It's summer. - If you're just doom
scrolling on your phone inside, just go to a coffee shop, sip a nice ice coffee
and people watch instead while doom scrolling on your phone. I guarantee you, being a person in the world doing nothing
will feel infinitely better than being a recluse doing nothing because just being around
people, being outside of your house, subjecting
yourself to social judgment, it'll make you second
guess your choices in life. Isolation is degenerative
in large quantities. I had this thought recently. So many people are so addicted to their phones and their
computers, their laptops, Netflix, just basically screens, and they hide away inside
regardless of the weather, which means that if you
are of the awoken variety and you understand the
healing nature of the sun, and you decide to go against
the tyrannical screen culture, the likelihood that you meet people on the exact same wavelength
as you is so much higher because the people who are doom scrolling are doom scrolling
inside, which means, yeah, there's just such
high-quality, optimistic people when you leave your house nowadays. You'd be shocked as to
how many like random, beautiful people you come across
when you're just on a walk and you choose to make
eye contact and you say, "Hey, what's up?" Personal challenge: go
try to chat up a stranger. You'd be shocked as to
how receptive people are and how friendly people are. Okay, tip number three is to
optimize your environment. Are you going to design your environment in a way that keeps you stuck
inside and not want to leave? Or are you going to design
your environment, you know, your home, your bedroom, your
kitchen, wherever you reside in a way that refreshes you and
recharges you to go back out into the world and continue the momentum, continue the adventure of your life. Recently, I've been
very cognizant of this. You know, I don't want to
make my house too comfortable. I don't want to rig out my gaming PC. I don't want to get a comfier and comfier couch with a
bigger and bigger screen. I wanna make sure that
my clothes are clean, my laundry is done, quality of life things
that help you feel good so that you can go back out there. It's like the ultimate pit stop in NASCAR. I don't watch NASCAR. Like, is it called pit stop? I don't know. Who watches NASCAR? (sad music) There's cars that go fast,
and I know they like pull away and there's like the
guys that have the drills or something and they put
the wheels on really fast, the tires on really fast. I don't know, make your
house like that or something. I don't give a (censored). Tip number four is don't try
to recreate the golden years. Be present instead. What I mean by this is that if you're a
summer enthusiast like me, you probably have
memories of days gone by, that perfect summer that you had, that perfect moment when you
were camping with your friends when you were 17 years old. You were lying on the beach
and everything just felt right. Those were the good times. Those were the days. - Man, I wish I could go back in time. I'd take state. - You know what? Maybe you're really
inspired to make this summer like the good old days, right? You know, you try to reflect on what made those days so good and you try to just like do that again. (legs shuffling) - Do it again. - Trying to recreate the
golden years doesn't work. (hand slapping) You can't compare the present moment with this like propagandized
version of your past. Memories are a completely
different ball game. What am I doing with my life? The present life will just
never feel like your memories. But one thing that you can do to ensure that you create new,
good, favorable memories is to just focus on being present. Do the exact opposite of reminiscing about the good old days. Try to be present with your own reality. Don't distract yourself with
dopaminergic rabbit holes. You know, that's the
opposite of being present. Instead, think about the people in your life who you
wanna spend time with, the things that you want to do and set up a schedule to
spend time with these people. You know, phone them up. What do you personally want to
accomplish with your summer? And then focus on that,
be present with that. When you fully engage in your activities, when you're really intentional about how you spend your time, you'll find that memories
are created automatically. (lively music) One of my favorite summer memories of all time is when myself and my siblings were back in our hometown and we made an effort to jump
in the lake every single day, no matter what, no
matter how we're feeling, no matter whether it's raining, whether it's like blistering heat, whether it's midnight or
midday, let's just jump in the lake every single day this summer. It's almost like baptizing yourself in the waters of summertime. It's a very optimistic thing to do. Make adventure a mechanism,
take emotion out of it. Do things that are good
for you automatically without considering how you feel. (host chuckling) - I shot a cow with a bazooka. I'm not proud of that last
one, but I did it, man. - So often we'll talk
ourselves out of going to the gym when we don't
feel like it, but sometimes, you know, we don't feel
like gonna the gym, but we go to the gym anyways and then afterwards, we feel so good and so empowered that we
went anyways despite the fact that we didn't feel like it. So clearly, how we feel after having done the
thing is a better indicator of the value that thing has in our lives than before having done the thing. (water bubbling) Man, I'm bad at grammar today. Did that make any sense? - Eh. No. - Bottom line is you already
know what's good for you. Usually these things are moderately to majorly uncomfortable, but you have to do these things anyways as a mechanism, like clockwork. And also, if you live
near a body of water, I highly recommend that
specific challenge. I guarantee you, I'm letting
you in on a little secret here, the mental benefits of that
specific challenge are insane. By the way, I think we only
did it like 36 days in a row, like we didn't last the whole summer. But those 36 days are so immortalized in our summer archives, our summer memories that
my brother gifted me this "go jump in the lake" plaque as a reminder just to do
things like this automatically whether or not you feel
like it because they'll turn into some of the best
memories of your life. Okay, my final tip is to be OK. Don't succumb to FOMO. Nobody's having nearly as good of a time as you think they are. Mental health is at a
critical moment right now. Don't add to that by looking
on Instagram and thinking that everybody has it all
figured out and you don't. No one has it figured out. 99% of people don't have it figured out. Realize that, get off Instagram, just don't be on it in general, especially during the summertime. Don't be doom scrolling. Take a deep breath (Ace Ventura inhaling) and realize that you're okay. You don't have to do any
like crazy Outer Banks (beep) in order to have a good summer. In the morning when you're
waking up nice and early, do what's good for you. Do what advances your life and your goals. Work hard in the morning so that you can have
nice patio conversations during the evening but ultimately, just be
present with all these things. Don't distract yourself
with the (beep) of screens and Netflix or Apple TV. "Silo's" not that good. First three episodes were quite good and it's starting to drag. (upbeat music) Good luck, guys. - You're gonna need it. - So I injured my shoulder
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