do you feel like you blinked and the year is almost over well you're not alone okay most people are very good at preparing to live but not so good at actually living you'll spend 10 years to get a diploma then work 40 years hoping to eventually retire some of you are still waiting for your life to start before you know it you'll wake up old wondering where your life went because well you don't have much to show for it the antidote is in this video here are 15 ways to slow down in life and live a life worth remembering welcome to alux the place where future billionaires come to get inspired number one put the damn phone away all right the speed of time accelerates in direct proportion to the amount of stimuli lighting up your brain social media and the mainstream media have made it their business to keep you as engaged scared and mentally exhausted as they can everything is a crisis everything is important God forbid you ever feel bored for a second some of you are scrolling on your phone while watching or listening to this aren't you turns out your parents were right when they said it's that damn phone you want to gain back control over your life and mind well next weekend put the phone in a drawer and see how long you can go without checking it go offline for a little bit just to see what it was like before before you had to fill every single second with some sort of digital brain sugar pill if something is impactfully important it'll reach you if not just let it pass you by number two experience what it's like living your life you're probably living your life on autopilot it's time to switch to manual my friend because the surprising thing is that you can in an instant switch up your life to feel like an adventure change where you have your morning coffee how you get to work walk into that store you walk by but never go into take a chance order the chicken with sauce pretend your work colleagues are secretly spies one of the biggest traps of our generation is that the culture has brainwashed everyone into dreaming of careers I'll be a workaholic lawyer or a pill addicted doctor or more recently a social media manager selling Moisturizer in Paris there's more life than work and most of Western Society has forgotten that the only reason one should work is to be able to live life more fully if the second part never comes true you're doing work wrong number three shift from 1. 5x to 0. 8x normal life goes at 1X that's probably where you grew up the busy City life is more like 1.
5x but in our experience New York City is kind kind of like 2x but when we travel to Sardinia or Greece it takes us around a week for our internal clock to slow down to about 0. 6x the speed back home it's in the environment and how stressed and fast everyone around you is you can slow down your life just by changing locations another trick is to stop eating food on the go or eating in your car actually stop ordering food altogether and start cooking sure it'll take you an extra half hour to do it but a shift will occur at the same time the chemistry in your body changes instead of deep fried oil infused food you eat vegetables and real foods once you fix your nutrition the way you experience your life will change even small acts like going from drinking coffee in a paper cup to drinking jasmine tea from a real glass cup will do the trick number four reprioritize what you need and find important your smart enough to know what you want and what you actually need somewhere along the way you lost yourself though so let's get back on track the worst thing you can do in life is to deploy effort to get something you don't really need in the first place wanting something just because somebody else has it or that a celebrity is making you want it is meaningless there's a beauty in knowing yourself so well that it leads to what we call Jomo the joy of missing out because the truth is you're not actually missing out because you have different priorities than other people once what's important to you becomes the priority well everything else falls into place even if it comes at the expense of societal expectations number five have a dopamine menu so we put together what we call a happiness menu for ourselves just let us explain what we're talking about here so we made a list of all the things that make us happy reading books watching old movies listening to vinyl engaging with our friends playing with our dog taking care of our garden and plants going for a coaching session you know all the regular stuff this happiness menu or dopamine menu if you will comes into play whenever we have any form of down time if we find 30 minutes in the day well instead of lying on the couch and watching 150 Tik toks we read a few chapters instead what we found is that at the end of that 30 minutes not only do we feel happier with our choice but we take pride in using our time well for most people any downtime is immediately absorbed by a continuous opening and closing of the same four apps right but putting together a dopamine menu allowed us to gradually improve our health score in the app if you didn't know by now we track what we call the five pillars of a good life money Health intellect relationships and emotions in an app that we built and called the alux app and every 3 months months we go through a complex survey in order to figure out how well we're doing in each with the sole purpose of maximizing the quality of our daily lives for the longest possible time Horizon now the people using the app have known about dopamine menus for over 2 years now because we get International experts to teach you these kinds of things before they become mainstream so go to alux. com slapp right now download the app and fill in the first survey just to figure out where you are in life on those five pillars you'll get a score for each pillar and clear suggestions on how to improve downloading the app and doing the survey is completely free by the way you can even start off with a 7-Day free trial and get the elite stuff for a full week before getting charged so go ahead and try it you'll quickly realize why hundreds of thousands of people find this app lifechanging number six do just one thing that saves the day and makes it valuable if you do just one thing per day that contributes to your well-being that's 365 things you do per year on average it takes you 1 hour to do it it could mean writing a page in your novel creating some art getting a workout in cooking a great meal you know what makes your heart fill up here's the most valuable thing that you'll learn from this video never let the day go by without trying to save it some way just ask yourself how can I save the day today what's a little or big thing that I can do to make today feel like it was a good day because that's all you have to do sometimes it's buying flowers sometimes it's calling your mom sometimes it's going for a run even if that little voice in your head is telling you not to save enough days and a luxir you'll begin saving your own life number seven spend more time walking in nature nature feels you with energy while slowing down your body to match its frequency we're big fans of trees especially the old ones okay looking at something that's been there before you were born and probably will well outlive you puts things into perspective doesn't it you should take a lot of cues from nature spend time in the sun drink water avoid toxicity and rid yourself of what you deem unnecessary stand tall and strong you'll quickly realize that nature smells smells different sounds different and that at your core you were never designed to live in a concrete cage surrounded by dust and smog entertained by a piece of glass number eight read for entertainment books are the highest form of slow entertainment your brain processes words on paper slower than video input but it triggers a special part of the brain your imagination and the more you exercise that muscle the better you feel about reality because you see it for what it could be not for what it is here's a wild thought okay when was the last time you went to a public library they're one of the few public spaces left in our society where you're allowed to just exist without the expectation of spending money whenever we have a little bit of hunger for entertainment we read books that don't impose on self-development we separate between learning and reading for enjoyment and found it to be incredibly rewarding number nine do new things every time you do something new you expand as an individual every new experience polishes your identity even more you'll find things you never knew about yourself and things that light up showing you that there's something worth exploring here so jump head first into something new alexir go hiking join a running club an art Club an improv group volunteer go ride a bike or go fishing it'll open up a new universe and a rabbit hole for you to dive deep into in the process you'll make friends and find communities that gravitate around your shared interest and you'll finally start to feel like you belong number 10 reflect and journal daily pay attention to your mind alexir because your mind manifests itself physiologically depression is a real illness dictated by the chemical imbalances in your brain when you write things down you pull things from your mind and lay them out on paper or screen to the individual it feels like you're removing them from your mind and body we found journaling to be an incredibly effective tool for increasing our overall happiness and we have yet to meet someone who journals who doesn't say it's made them feel happier and More in tune with what's happening which is why when we developed the Alex app we made sure to include a smart Journal as a part of the experience it's a journal for people who don't usually but want to use it as a tool to get better in life it takes less than 5 minutes a day to do it just how we like it but you will find it valuable and by the way the journal is also free to use you can just download the app and use it without a subscription it'll help you to build discipline and over time you'll build up a value Vault of small ideas and insights right from your own brain so here's a challenge for you download the app by going to alux.
com slapp and try out journaling for 7 Days let's see if you're able ble to do it without missing a single one number 11 start saying no a lot every yes you say implies you're saying no to something else saying yes gives away all other possibilities so be careful to what you say yes to whenever you do say yes a portion of your calendar fills up with commitments and responsibilities which at the end will speed up your life you'll end up with a full week of you didn't want to do in the first place place so start saying no to anything that is not conducive to your well-being and on a similar note here number 12 stop taking on new projects the hardest thing to do is to say no to yourself your life will fill up with shiny objects trying to trick you into pursuing them like little leprechauns but here's the truth okay the most progress in life you'll make is when you focus on your main thing the reason you're not moving forward is because you keep trying 100 different things instead of focusing on just one you can make any of them work if only you focused on it exclusively number 13 go to sleep 2 hours earlier you are not a night owl okay nobody is it might feel like it when you're in your early 20s but if you go band for band screw that if you go M for M you'll realize that 80% of your progress in life is made during your Peak Focus hours most most successful people see the highest return on their time happens between 9:00 a. m. and 10000 p.
m. that is your primary window to get done when you go to bed at 3:00 to 4:00 a. m.
what you're doing is robbing your brain and your body from the day after not to mention you're going against millions of years of evolution that conditioned your body to be up when the Sun is up and to recharge when it's dark being awake at 2: a. m. puts your brain into overdrive even if you don't feel like that's what's Happ happening and we guarantee that when you put everything on paper and draw the line you're not getting that much done you'll wake up at 11 a.
m.
