🦾8 Obvious Free Ways To Make The Most Out Of Your Existence

Squeezing every bit out of life can seem overwhelming. Especially stuck at home.

We aren’t given a game plan when we get out of the womb.

We just learn what our parents do and follow them for a good 18 years.

95% of our behavior, speech, way of walking, physique is from our parents and 85% of the decisions we make in our twenties define our life.

No pressure at all.

We are a different person as we get older, start to live alone and pro-create but we are also them for a majority of our lives.

But sometimes listening to your parents might not always be the smartest move. Of course, they have the best intentions for you but since they grew up in a different era, dealt with easier or more difficult circumstances, were exposed to a whole new environment so on and so forth, it’s not right to compare.

Viewing ourselves like our parents at our age is like comparing apples to oranges. They are similar in their respects for being fruit but they are unique in their many ways.

This isn’t a debate about who has it harder. We all go through challenges in our life and if you haven’t, you aren’t living.

I won’t count that as one of the 8 ways to make the most out of life since it should be obvious.

It’s important to have challenges. School bans failure and making mistakes. We memorize facts that go in one ear out the other in order to get a degree written in Latin script that has no meaning behind it unless you know how to use it.

Who knows, maybe you paid your way into college or spent thousands of dollars on tutors to practically take the entrance exam for you. There are many ways to cut corners and there’s no doubt students have done it.

But without getting jealous or comparing yourself to them, what’s in your control is to put in what you get out. The hard truth about chlalnges is that they happen when we least expect them.

I’m not talking about an extra mile you have to run in your Barry’s bootcamp class, I’m talking about serious challenges, financial hardship, loss, heart ache, etc. As we’ve witnessed during this pandemic, we must plan for the worst hope for the best and majority of the world doesn’t do that so they only learn once they are forced to change through brutal challenge. That’s one way to learn a lesson. Not a terrific way to live but does have a supportive ground to get you pumped.

I won’t consider these crazy stunts or anything. They are activities that will help you push out of your comfort zone, guaranteed fulfillment and lead to no regrets, the best feeling because who wants to be comfortable with regrets anyway? I would rather be uncomfortable with no regrets so let’s get started.

#1: Be Selfish

Your sole priority in life is to take care of yourself. When you spill something on your pants, you don’t wait for someone to clean it for you unless you are 2, you do it yourself.

When you get into an argument, you don’t ask someone to step in your place and resolve it for you, you do it as as result, you must be selfish and take care of yourself to take on those moments of life.
They are expected to happen. We don’t want them to but mistakes happen and we must get over them and deal with them properly to be there for ourselves first.

Taking time to rest isn’t being lazy, it is necessary for growth. Workaholism and burnout is real. Don’t let Musk tell you that sleeping on concrete Tesla factories working 2–3 hours a day is going to make you healthy.

Health is all you have. Without it, you can’t do anything.

Don’t take it for granted because you don’t realize how much you need and love something until its gone.

#2: Eat Better

As I always say, health = wealth. No, eating broccoli won’t grow money on trees, but it will give you:

-Extra few years of life which means more investment opportunity
-More energy to meet people, gain more experiences and actually live better
-Feel healthier, pay lower in medical bills and insurance
-Just feel better and you! There’s nothing that cna replace that feeling.

You are waisting your money by eating fast food. It’s cheap and will haunt your health. Spend the extra few dollars on organic whole foods to save life down the road. You’ll thank me in 50 years.
Resist short term gains a.k.a crap for long term rewards (a.k.a life).

#3: Take More Breaks and Breaths

Being selfish isn’t selfish. We have 1 priority in life and it’s ourselves. What we feel we’re in 100% control of. It starts with perspective and our mind.

Breaks are necessary for growth. Without them we cannot function. I’m not talking about a 2 month hiatus, I’m talking about 20 minute power naps to make you feel rejuvenated, a nice walk in the park to spark curiosity and calmness and some quality unplugging to start plugging into what you really need in life which is experience outside of fake social media and screens.

It’s never lazy, it’s necessary.

Taking breaths is the same deal. It doesn’t mean sitting in a classroom pretending to meditate. It’s paying attention to your breathe, doing what makes you feel alive and rested and feeling special inside without anyone’s approval.

#4: Work for Free, Pleasee

If you always expect a reward, then you’ll never be given the chance to prove yourself and seek better chances. The best opportunities I got were for free. Especially as a student, it isn’t your responsibility to make money, it’s to learn so take that chance to explore, make mistakes because failing is a privilege.

School doesn’t allow it so do it outside the cold walls.

Now, I’m not saying you won’t have a great life if you don’t fail, we don’t purposely do it instead we do it for fun and it happens naturally.

Don’t time your mistakes or miss out on opportunities because you are afraid to fail.

Working for free will give you that comfort because free means:

-No expectations
-No boundaries
-No limits
-No temptation
-No frustration
-No pressure
-No money tied up

More often than not, it’s the resume that needs fixing not you.

Before you do the job, you have to do the job.

#5: Think About Thinking

When was the last time you took the time to just have a thinking period and reflect on how far you’ve come in your day? Instead, with the extra time we have on our hands, we resort to social media, more screen time, others’ opinions and usually eating due to boredom.

But what about you?

Once again, never think it’s selfish or embarrassing.

It’s important to be alone and acknowledge your thoughts.

We aren’t taught in school how to control them. Our mind is a dangerous place. Don’t get caught up in it.

Instead think about what you are doing and deviate from negativity when it hits. Excuses don’t lead you anywhere, control does.

#6: Do and Wear Cheap Things

When you live the frugal, minimalist stealth wealth lifestyle, you become less clueless, spoiled and start living.

You appreciate what you have.

The more you own and accumulate, the more trouble you have with dust, security, selling and most importantly, keeping it.

Less = More.

Gratitude = Joy not the opposite.

Junk and depreciating assets such as luxury goods, cars, wallets, fancy $30k Rolexs can be gone in an instant and will only fake you into thinking you’re becoming a better person. Instead you’re becoming worse trying less as your stuff is speaking for you instead of your true character.

Cheap doesn’t mean it will break tomorrow and looks hideous. Cheap means an investment. Buy something today that you will be able to keep next year in almost same shape.

#7: Live in An International City

Gaining perspective and experience are one of the most vital things in your life. They will open your mind to discovering new things and you won’t be so close minded.

Just by meeting someone across the world, you experience a whole new side of culture and yourself.

Believe it or not, you uncover more about yourself when you are somewhere else.

Just think about it.

The places you spend the most time in currently, your bedroom, kitchen and office/bedroom, aren’t changing you. You rarely do any deep thinking and different things in there, just tasks that are habitual.

It’s all the same.

But if you reach and branch out to somewhere different, you will become different.

Becoming different doesn’t mean dying your hair pink and getting tattoos, it means shifting your way of thinking to now uncover what only the 10% of true successful believe believe in.

Experiences = best use of money along with investing in yourself.

I can only imagine how crowded every destination in the world will be post-Covid…

Look out for creeping gauged airline fares!

#8: Sleep On It

Whenever I make a mediocre big decision, let’s say buying an investment piece of clothing such as a $200 cashmere sweater, I take 24–72 hours before I make a move.

I’m not into quickie sales and drop shipping nonssense.

If something goes in less than 2 hours, let it go. That means it wasn’t for me anyway.

It’s a pain to return something and companies are making it harder these days to do so not allowing it at certain stores after a certain date.

After the e-commerce holiday shopping spree this year, Amazon and Walmart had seen record number of returns. It’s time consuming, costing brick and mortars a couple hundred million per year to deal with pure money down the drain.

With hoarding and returns on the rise, less = more. Don’t overcrowd your life because a messy environment = messy life.

Save yourself energy and money so wait before a purchase, except for food if you’re starving.

Life is as complicated as you make it seem.

You project how you feel and your perceptive is everything.

These days are tough. We are going through 2 pandemics, a mental and health crisis but these are all free, low cost and in fact literally and figuratively cheap things to do at home, outside in your car, on your balcony, you name it, you go for it.

No excuses allowed.

Go live your best life.

Now.