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How To Be Happy: Learn Practical Techniques You Can Start Using TODAY Towards a Happier Life

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Trailer

      1:22

    • 2.

      Key 1 - Environment

      10:17

    • 3.

      Key 2 - Choices

      6:39

    • 4.

      Key 3 - Disappointments

      10:53

    • 5.

      Key 4 - Other People's Opinion

      4:59

    • 6.

      Key 5 - Perfectionism

      5:49

    • 7.

      Key 6 - Be Positive

      12:15

    • 8.

      Key 7 - Perspective

      7:18

    • 9.

      Key 8 - The World Moves On

      8:05

    • 10.

      Key 9 Scenarios

      12:56

    • 11.

      Key 10 - The "3 Question" Method

      3:40

    • 12.

      Key 11 - World Ranking

      5:26

    • 13.

      Key 12 - Social Media, Bullying & Dealing With Difficult People

      11:02

    • 14.

      Key 13 - Work

      15:49

    • 15.

      Key 14 - Variety

      3:43

    • 16.

      Key 15 - Block Scheme of Happiness

      2:26

    • 17.

      Key 16 - Take Care of Your Home

      4:24

    • 18.

      Key 17 - Health

      7:16

    • 19.

      Key 18 - Dealing With Complainers

      4:26

    • 20.

      Key 19 - People Like to Talk

      5:39

    • 21.

      Key 20 Don't compare yourself to others

      7:48

    • 22.

      End

      3:03

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Nowadays it's very easy to find negativity. Not only because there are more and more sources, but because negativity sales. Newspapers, TV, Radio, magazines, social media. Everywhere you turn you hear about natural disasters, murders, kidnappings, frauds. This makes it very difficult to have a positive attitude. Difficult but not impossible!

In this course, I'll show you tips and techniques that will increase your happiness level. We'll discuss common problems we face and give practical solutions to those problems.

For full happiness, you can't use just one or two of the tips from this course. You have to use as many as possible.

The whole course is designed in a way that you can get back to it at any given moment and rewatch only a specific part you need to refresh.

How is this course different from the rest?

Most online courses fail. That's because the content is not good enough or the trainer fails to keep the attention of the students. Or both! For this course, I gave all of my energy, positivity, and even my voice in order to keep you engaged.

As to the content of this course… consuming videos on the subject of Positivity, coming from the most positive person you'll ever meet… you simply can't go wrong! The best part is that I have lived through (and still living) all the things I discuss. I don't reproduce a book I read. Instead, I give you my actual techniques for a happy life.

Put together educational content and an engaging trainer, add practical examples and answers to common problems, and you'll get a fantastic course!

I'm very excited to have you on board!

To your success

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1. Trailer: Hello and welcome to our online course that aims to succeed. Yeap. You heard correctly, aims to succeed. Because unfortunately, most online courses don't succeed. That's statistics. And I'll tell you why in the content of this course. But this course comes from a person who claims to be the most positive person you'll ever meet. I stand behind that. However, let's leave the door slightly open in case you are in a very, very, very positive environment. I still claim that I'll be one of the top five positive people you'll ever meet. I stand for that. I am confident, 100 percent sure. I am one of the top five you'll ever meet. I broke down every method I use. I listed it and I broke it down. What is it, what does it mean, how you can use it. I'm using practical examples. I'm using humor and I'm using solutions that you can start implementing right now. My goal with this course is to help you and to help as many people as possible. I want this course to reach as many people as possible so it can help them with their life and be happy. I'm so excited. A lot of energy you will find in that course, as you can see from now, I'm so excited to welcome you. So let's begin. 2. Key 1 - Environment: Key number on: environment. Have you heard that expression before? "Environment is stronger than willpower"? if you haven't heard it before, well, now you have my dear friend and make sure you make a note, make sure it gets stuck in your head. Let me repeat it once again. Listen carefully. If you haven't listened before, listen now, environment is stronger than willpower. Please make a note of that. Try to keep it in your head. And for now, let's break down these two terms. So what is environment: "the surroundings, or conditions in which a person, an animal, or plant, leaves or operates". I needed to read that. So what is willpower? "The ability to control yourself. Strong determination that allows you to do something difficult, such as lose weight or quit smoking. Remember, "environment is stronger than willpower". Your mind will always look for the shortcut and for the easy way to do things. It will be always easier to play video games instead of doing your homework. It will always be easier to lie down on the sofa instead of starting a side hustle. It will always be easier to order food instead of cooking it yourself. Willpower is a very difficult skill to acquire, very powerful, but very difficult to acquire. And it can be ruined with the snap of your fingers, just like that. So let's get more detailed here. Imagine you are a heavy smoker. You have been smoking for 14 years without any break. Every day you smoke between 12 and 19 cigarettes, and then one day you decide it's enough. Slowly but steadily, you start reducing the cigarettes you intake every day. So you start smoking 15 cigarettes per day, 12 cigarettes per day, 9, 7, 3 cigarettes a day. Then one day, surely you stop smoking. Well congratulations, my friend you have developed enormous willpower. However, Check this out. Two months after that, you change your job and then everybody in your new working place is a smoker. What happens? You go to work and you smell the smoke on their clothes, on the fabric. You smell the smoke in their breath. You go for a coffee break - here that they're smoking. You go for lunch. Here, they are - smoking. You go to a party with them. Here they are - smoking. Some will even start offering you cigarettes. "Hey, why don't you smoke with us? But even if they don't do that, The fact that you're surrounded by all the smokers smoking while you are quitting or already quit... Well, that is the true test of your willpower. This is a very difficult environment and it's very difficult not to break and start smoking. This will be your true test of willpower. Now, imagine a different scenario. You have been a heavy smoker for most of your life. You have tried multiple times to quit, but simply not enough willpower. He didn't succeed. You're still a heavy smoker. Then one day you change your job and everybody in your new working place is not smoking. Nobody is smoking. So if you want to smoke you need to go outside, alone. Now, I'm not a smoker, but I know that people who smoke, if that's you, right, You like company. "Hey, how about we go for a smoke, right?" You always want to have somebody to smoke together and discuss things, right? You will have to go alone in the working space and smoke. And then what happens is if you're a nice guy, the people will start carrying about you, they will start making some jokes "hey why don't you quit smoking". They will start hiding your cigarettes, cigarette boxes, just as a joke. They will make comments on the smell of your closes, the smell of your breath, your smokey breath. And all this in a nice, jokey way because they don't want to hurt your feelings. But what we say in Bulgaria, we have this expression that goes like that: "It's good that we can joke with ourselves so we can tell ourselves the truth". It's a very powerful expression. So think about this in those two scenarios. Non-smoking but in a smoky environment, or smoking in a non-smoking environment, which one will be more powerful? In which one you'll be more inclined to change your habits. So just remember, environment is stronger than willpower. That's why you see expressions like "show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are". "Show me your friends. And I will tell you your future". "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with". This is the meaning of these expressions. It's the environment. And this does not mean only money. It's not about how much money these people who are close you are making and in correlation to how much money you are or you will be making no, that also reflects on lifestyle and habits. So it's really important: environment is stronger than willpower. Unfortunately or fortunately, but most likely, unfortunately, it is not only the closest people that are around you. I found a really curious study that I want to share the results with you. And I'm going to pick up my phone because I don't like memorizing these things. I'm just going to read it. Research shows that if one of your friends become obese, fat or chubby, right? You are 45 percent more likely to gain weight over the next 20 to 40 years. Imagine you hang around with 5, 6 people. One of them becomes a bit overweight, right? And then in the next two or four years, you have 45 percent chance, 45 percent chance that you're going to gain weight as well. This is crazy. And then it continues. If a friend of your friend becomes obese. Your likelihood of gaining weight increases by 20 percent. Even if you don't know that friend. What this means is that your friend, Let's say Jim, Jim is your friend and he has a friend called Karen. So Karen becomes obese. You don't know Karen but because through Jim ≤and Jim is getting the lifestyle and the habits of Karen, and then you are correlating with Jim's lifestyle and habits. You get 20 percent more, bigger chance to get obese just because Jim knows Karen. This is mental. But if you think this is crazy, just wait to hear what's happening next. Right? The affect continuous. One more person out. This is crazy. Check this out. If a friend of the friend of your friend develops obesity. So if Jim, your friend Jim, his friend Karen, and her friend Stacy, became obese, you are still 10% more likely than a random chance to gain weight. This is, and I'm getting goosebumps. This is crazy. You should be careful who are you hanging around? Who are you spending your time with? And not only that, apparently, you should be checking who these people are spending their time with. And environment is really, really, really important. If you want to be, for example, in the real estate business stance, start spending time around people that are into that real estate business. If you want to get fit, starts spending time around people that go to the gym, that are eating right? Fit. So here is a call to action for you from this chapter, it's only the first chapter we have call to action. This is crazy. We usually don't think about who we spending time with. We just spend time with these people, but not here, not here right now, you need to think of the three main groups, which are family, your friends, and your coworkers. Think what these three groups, think about what people are in these groups. Then you need to ask yourself two questions. One, What do they stand for?" And 2, "what do I stand for?" And if the answers are not similar, then you might have a problem. If you were thinking to start a business, but none of your friends is entrepreneurial, then it might be a bit difficult for you environmental wise because you're going to get comments like, "don't do it". "It's too risky though". "It's not worth it". "My uncle tried it and he didn't succeed". These comments are silly. If you think about it, everything in life is risky. Crossing the road is risky. But just because somebody tried and didn't succeed, that doesn't mean that this will be your faith. Be careful. Sometimes the negativity you need to get rid of could be right at your doorstep. That could be your family. And if your family is not supporting you, maybe it's time to move out. Sure, that might not be the best scenario, might not be the easiest scenario, but it's definitely the right choice. So my dear friend, this is the connection between environment, willpower and happy life. You can't have a happy life if somebody else is dictating it for you, even if it's your family. And before we move to the next chapter, please don't forget, don't forget the call to action from this first chapter, which is think about family and your close friends and coworkers. What do they stand for? What do you stand for? Mix-and-match. Check the answers and hopefully, you will be on the right track. 3. Key 2 - Choices: Welcome to Chapter 2 or key number two: choices. By now, I trust that you have assessed your friends, family, and coworkers, and you already know if you are okay continuing communicating with them all, or you should make some adjustments and changes. So let's move forward. Once again, key number two: choices. I need you to realize something. I need you to realize that whenever you make a choice, take a decision, right? You make a decision. You're making that decision on the basis that you have that information currently, and you're taking the best possible choice at that moment. You can never know what's gonna be happening Later on. After that... I remember watching a documentary. Here's an example, here's what I'm talking about and maybe, maybe you are going to get it better now if I tell you this, I remember I was watching a documentary about Lady Diana. Royal family, UK, England. And if you're not familiar with what happened, just watch it online. But the interviewer ask Diana or told Diana, just a few days ago, Diana, you are a teacher in a kindergarten. Now... You are part of the family. One day, you'll be a queen". Those were her words. I remember it, I quote that! I'm sure, I quoted it by memory. "You will be a queen". However, little do they know that the Queen, the current Queen, the actual Queen of England, will live for many, many, many more years. Little did they know, the interviewer, that Diana, at this point has less than 20 years left of her life. You never know what's going to happen next. Think of your journey as a road, a path that you're walking on. Your road, your way, your path, whatever it is, will never be just a straight line. Every once in a while, whatever you do, wherever you live, whatever you work, every once in a while, you'll find yourself on a crossroad, a junction with at least two choices. So sometimes you have even more choices, but you cannot waste time and ponder, and debate, and wonder and strategize what's going to happen. "Which road I should take you????" Yes, hink about it. Don't take rushed decisions. Think about it. However, don't think about it too much. Because what happens is 1) you don't know everything, you don't know what's going to happen, and 2) you're wasting time, you're staying in one spot. while you should be moving forward. People think there is a right answer. There is no right answer. There is no possible way you can know the right answer is because you have too many variables. Think of Kobe Bryant for example, he was a really respected basketball. He was one of the best basketball players in the world. He was a hard worker. He was a family guy. He was a person that was given as an example. We all know sadly that Kobe died in a helicopter crash. Was just recently and What if you rewind the tape of bit and what if, let's say, he decided not to go to that meeting and not take a helicopter ride or what if he turned out to be a doughnut seller? He wouldn't have died who have lived for another 50, 60 years maybe. What if his daughter had a play and he decided to go and watch his daughter instead of going to that meeting without a helicopter. And it's just so many variables, you cannot know what's going to happen. You just need to live on the decisions based on the data that you have now. And speaking of information and decisions, you once again take that decision based on the information you have at this moment, a week from now, you may get new information and then you may decide to change your decision. That is completely fine because you already have new information in assessing that like, okay, actually that isn't going to work. Let's go over here. That's completely fine. What you need to do is you need to get comfortable changing your decisions. And here is your in-depth solution. You need to learn, start to learn how to stop over judging yourself. And what do I mean by that? Oftentimes, the decision-making process is slow. That's because we're thinking too much about how this decision will affect our lives. And probably sadly, even more, we're thinking about what other people will think about our decision, which is mad. We put on a pedestal, other people's opinion, which shouldn't be the case. What you need to think of, what you have so far as information, and then just take a decision based on that. Stop thinking about other people's opinion. Stop thinking about how this is going to affect your life because you cannot know everythung, you don't know everything. Just keep going with the decision, if you want, change it later on. We are debating too much because we're thinking that we are going to fail. We're scared of failure. That shouldn't be the case. You should admire failure. You only fail if you don't learn from your mistake. If you make a mistake and you learn, that is a LESSON. It's not a failure. It's a lesson for your future decisions. So stop debating and pondering, strategizing. Ïs this going to ruin my life" "What would people think"... you can't grow without failure! Same as you can't start walking. You can't learn to walk without falling on your knees. No baby has ever, you know... crawling, and one day... Okay, "I'm going to start walking" and just rose up and starts walking. No! You fall off first. You can't learn how to ride a bike without falling from the bike. And these are just life lessons, but we forget about these things. You should embrace failure. Failure is part of the graph. You cannot grow without getting a failure. I'm going to close this chapter with a quote, but before that, let me quickly recap what happened in this chapter. Don't overthink the situation. Speed is an asset. Make a decision and continue with your life. Don't judge yourself if your decision happens to be a bad one, find a solution. And here's the quote that I'm going to close this chapter with. It goes like this: The reason why we fall is to learn how to get up. Don't over judge, yourself. Pick a road, and keep moving forward. 4. Key 3 - Disappointments: Moving to key number 3, I call it disappointments. We're going to talk about this appointment here and disappointments. It's no doubt, without a doubt, one of the things that will make you unhappy in life, you see it's not only important to know what makes you happy in life, but it's also important to realize what makes you unhappy. Once you know these things that make you unhappy, it's easy to work towards that and either fix them or eliminate them. So disappointments, One of the things, and I'm going to give you the exact key that will set your life free of this appointments. And this key is called expectations. Think about it. Think about all the conversations you have with your friends and your family. How was your trip to Sweden? Horrible. I expect it to be called but the temperatures that were on another level, how's the new jab or could the banner to be fair? Because it's an international company. I expected the stuff to be more friendly. How's the food? I didn't know your national dish and have so much oil. And I'll be disappointed to be fair. Before my trip to Bali, few people asked me, what are my expectations from the trip? Are you going to see monkeys? Are you expecting some nice beaches over there? Personally, I don't care about these things. I traveled to experience a new culture, to connect with a place, to connect with the people, to try new foods, to learn a foreign language. And in my mind, I have already accepted that not all food is going to be tasted. Seawater, want to try it and not, Oh, people are going to be nice. Having a disappointment from a whole day may not seem like a big thing. However, when few little things start piling up, Terrell lead to bigger things. So don't ignore the little things. Let's walk away from expectations for a moment and talk about disappointments as a whole. Few techniques that can help you tackle disappointments, talking about practical examples and practical solutions. Here is, these techniques are exactly this practical solutions to your problems. The first technique is refocusing on something that you already have in your life. That technique is useful when you have lost something or someone. We, as humans, we tend to focus on the loss. It's normal. Like we don't focus on the thing or on the person when we have them, we focus on them, when we lose them. And it's completely normal. Unfortunately. Unfortunately it's normal. However he is the solution. Think of what you still have in life. You're going to start thinking what you lost. No, no, no. Move your focus to what you still have in life. And that might seem like you, you might say, okay, patho, but I don't have much as wrong. No matter where you are, no matter where they're from, no matter where you live, no matter where you do. You have let me tell you. This can be things that because these are things we take for granted. This can be they have food on your table every day and get you that. Do you have a soft bed that you sleep on every night? You have roof on top of your head and you import for health, are your parents still alive? Focused on these things. And then as you start pointing them out, you see how many they are, then this will help you forget the thing or the person who just lost. That will also help you focus on these things that you have and you're going to start appreciating even more. So focus, shift your focus on what you have and that's what you have lost. The next one is called learn from your failure. I scratch that one a bit. And again, as human beings, It's not wrong. We fail and we get disappointed. And yet it's appointed by, as we get this appointment by people pointing in and put in theaters. I told you so caraway mean that however, here's how you should approach failure. Fail it. Once again, I said, I'm going to say it again. A failure is a failure only if you don't learn from it. If you extract some conclusions from that failure, if you learn something from it, something that you can learn for the future is not a failure, is called the lesson. If you're boiling water and you touch the Pan OS or whatever you call it. Ah, it's hot. Hi, I failed. I burn my fingers. This is a failure. However, it's not a failure actually because I learned that I don't need to attach that ever again. Well, it's hot. You see, it's not a failure. It's a lesson. I turn the failure into lessons learned to do that hen you see how your life would change. The next technique is taken with somebody that's close to you. Talking your problems and issues with someone is a method that is comforting for many different people, will have different solutions. I know people that when they're frustrated and mad and sad, they just go to their car and drive four hours. That is relaxing them. Me driving. It's making me anxious because I need to be like watch out. I don't responsible for lives, you know, I need to watch out, you know, pay attention. This is not me. So if you are the one with the car Gong, be my guest. Go drive with your card. If you're the one, just just think about that. If you haven't for about that, I'm talking to somebody. Think about this now because that might be you. If that's not you, that's okay. If it's you go and find someone like that. If that's not, you look for something that is comforting you when you're feeling bad. And lastly, but not least, don't be a perfectionist. Speaking of disappointments, disappointment, you can get disappointed by yourself. And the way you get disappointed by yourself is just being a perfectionist. You want everything to be done perfect. What did they tell you earlier? These appointments are born out of expectations. So if you are a perfectionist, you have high expectations of yourself. And the higher your expectations are of yourself, the bigger the chance that you get disappointed by not reaching those expectations. So you know what I'm going to say an hour, right? Don't be a perfectionist. I tried to be one. I tried. But believe me, it takes time, it takes effort, and it gives you headaches. Let me give you an example. I am a videographer. At the beginning of my journey, late 2016, beginning of standard 70, I was a perfectionist. I wanted everything to be perfect, right? So when I was filming, I will take multiple shots. I want that magnificent shop that they can use. Then when I edit, I was coming back again and again the video, I'll add different music or more music or more sound effects, different edit transitions between the shots. Like I was adding more texts, I was adding more and more things and re-watching the video again and again and again and again and again and again, just to be perfect, right? And then however, what I found out slowly and painfully, that there is no perfect video and no video is perfect. And I'm getting goosebumps and I'm talking right now. And here's why. I can spend a month making a video and then I can brag that this is the best video I have created, right? However, the video they spend month can be a magnificent video for my mother and for my cousin and for Steve from Manchester. However, this same video can make half Europe feel awful. So bottom line, you can never know everyone's taste, can never know that just like the choices you make. It can never know what's happening two months from now, since you take that decision. Can never know that. Same as with the taste. You can never know what people are feeling. I can spend a month doing that video and then comments coming back like, oh, you can have a bit of light or Oh, you should speak louder because I didn't hear what you say. How for the video. You don't notice things. So my advice is just do, just do, make it, let it all out. Or if it's not content, just, just do something. Don't be perfectionist, and then listen to what people say. This is what people say, okay? Okay, okay. If you think that's right, then apply it. If you don't feel it's right, ignore it. But don't be perfectionist. Once again, I was going to lose your time and it's going to give you a lot of headaches and it's going to need a lot of effort. Once again, there is no perfect video, no perfect book, no perfect audio book, no perfect meal. Nothing is perfect because everything subjective was perfect for you, may not be perfect for me. And here's another example. I listen to an audio book from James can't, if you don't know who James kinase, he was in Dragon's Den, a TV show here in UK, quite popular. You can just go to Output. He's named James can have this. James Scott. James can. So James count the outcome was in a taxi one day. And on the radio they said that this guy, I don't remember the name, but he was a famous popular guy, donated X amount of money in x, a company or charity. And the taxi drivers reaction, Check this out. The taxi driver reaction was like, this guy has so much money, has given just done March. And it's not like he he gave $200, right? He gave in the thousands, but the taxi drivers to lapse so much Renee. And so that taxi driver has probably never made any donation. Still, he's not putting the focus on what he can do, but what people are doing. And he's even criticizing that, that is a really bad behavior. And just comes to say that he can never please everyone. And saying that just a story comes to my mind as story that has been stuck in my mind ever since I saw it. And I'm going to help visualize that with a picture. I would like to share it with you as well. That'll happen in the next chapter. But before that, let me quickly recap what happened in this chapter. Expectations are leading to these appointments have 0 expectations from anyone and anything. Nobody and nothing will ever disappoint you ever again. 5. Key 4 - Other People's Opinion: Okay, welcome to the next chapter, chapter that I call out other people's opinions. That's a very big one, very, very big one and a favorite of mine because I care very little of what people think. I care what I think, because that's my life. And I'm gonna teach you how you can do that with very, with only this chapter, only this chapter can help you do that. So every time other people's opinions started attacking me, right? I imagine this story and this picture, a story picture, they come together so it's easier for me to visualize it, easier for you to visualize it as well. So I'm going to share the picture is in four quadrants, right? And I'm going to be shooting each quadrant. As I'm continuing with the story, imagine what you need to imagine. Now, I'm going to show you the first quadrant that you need to imagine an old man, an old lady, and a donkey. That's all you need to imagine now, right? Oh, actually imagine to stand by us to young people walking on the road. So the old man and the young and the old lady get that donkey. And one day they started walking to the next village, right? Nobody is on the donkey. They're, they're walking beside the Dunkin. So old man, Lady banking, walking and just, just, you know, over there in the distance, they see two young gentlemen, right? As they're crossing paths. The two guys said, Check this out. These guys have a donkey and nobody is riding the donkey. These guys must be to pet. And they leave laughing like crazy old man and old lady look at themselves. Maybe they're right. Okay. Let's go on that then. Can, so they'd go into donkey, both of them. Okay. Okay. Satisfy, satisfy. We were doing good thing, right? Okay. They tell us this. Yeah. Okay. They go into donkey just a bit later. After that, they see two more guys. They see that the old guys approaching with a donkey and they say, Oh my goodness, Check this out to people on one donkey. Poor, poor, poor donkey. This is such a sad life. How are they terrorizing this donkey? And they leave criticizing the old couple. The, you know, putting so much weight on the donkey. The old couple Lucan themselves, the guy to the woman, the woman to the guy, and they're like, You know what I mean there, right. And the guy says, Okay, you know, let me go down. Okay. Let me go down. I'll go down. You just heard and then k So the old lady on the donkey, the old guy walking, right? They start walking. Guess what happens to people? See them shortly after? Guess what they say. Maybe you guessed it by material. They say, Look at that. The ladies on the donkey, we know who is the boss over here in the family's old man, the boss up there, right? And they leave laughing. The old guy and the old lady confused, like Okay. The lady says, Okay, let's switch. I don't want to be on top. Let's switch the guy. The guy goes on the donkey, the latest styles walking. And just before they go into the village, they see another two guys, right? I guess what happens? Check this out, check this out. The guys on the donkey and the poor ladies walking next to him. We don't have the gentleman's anymore in this society. What is happening here? Why are you over there while the ladies walking? And they leave, nodding their heads and doing this, right? So what is the conclusion here? Probably see it, probably see it coming. But have a look at this picture and let me share the conclusion while you're looking and glazing in the picture because it is remarkable. Every time something like that happens, people are talking to me. Don't do that. Why did they did they did the picture and the story come to my mind is like wherever it to my friend. And I cannot please do so, please leave. So here is free conclusion from this story. Number 1, you cannot please everybody. So stop trying. Number to whatever you do. There will be people who will criticize you. And number three, do what you believe is right, and don't be disrupted by criticism. 6. Key 5 - Perfectionism: Moving on to the next key, I would like to talk a little bit about an old friend of ours. We already know that guy, his name is perfectionism. And the reason why I want to talk about perfectionism a bit more is because you might be a perfectionist without even realizing it. I already told you there is no perfect meal, photo, video book on whatever it is, nothing's perfect. However, if you keep chasing that perfect result, has a higher chance that you get disappointed by not achieving that result. And you also lose a lot of time trying to achieve that. In the past when I was chasing those perfect videos, I was, you know, keep going again and again. The videos keep adding new things and keep spending so much time over there, instead of me scripting the next video or film in the next video or anything the next video, I was going back to the previous video and it was debating, should the color of the subtitles be red or yellow? These are things that don't matter that much. They matter only in our head. And we fed. Look at, look at this theory here. I think that going to perfectionism in a way is a procrastination methods of our brain. I cannot prove that a theory that I came up, wow, scripting that online courses, but it definitely is something that they consider. I'm giving you examples with perfect video, and that's because I am a videographer. However, you can then perfectionist in every single matter. You can be professionals when it comes to finding the right person to live with or the perfect place to live in. I moved in 2018 in a new place, a place that was looking really nice. And I thought this is the place, this is the place that, you know, this is the place, the place. And it was all was flowers and rainbows. However, things that are the pop-up boiler wasn't installed correctly. The balcony the floor and the balcony wasn't steep enough, so water was keeping over there many more little things. And when it comes to finding the right partner, many people is a common misconception. Many people think that you have a list with criteria for the partner and all these criteria, all they need to be ticked. However, it is. Another thing that ever happened. Finding the perfect life partner is not only about ticking boxes, it's about adjusting because you're going to need to adjust some things in your behavior as well. Finding the perfect life partner. It's not only about receiving, it's about giving as well and continue with perfectionism. I want to take a quick moment here and talk about self judgment because self judgment is closely related to perfectionism. Now, self judgment is a bad thing. However, self-reflection is a very good thing. Let's grab a quick example here. Shower because once again, practical examples. Let's, let's get practical examples here in the online course so you can extract more habit and you feel more related to it. Okay, here's the example. Imagine you are an accountant and you lose your job one day, you lose your job. There are two ways that you can take from here. I'm so stupid. I can do a simple task. Is it really worth it to apply for another job? I don't see how the new place will be any different if there is a new plays at all. I think I will just apply at McDonald's. Before that. I'll give myself a month or two to relax. Yes. That sounds like a plan. Well, that didn't go as planned, although it was my first job as an accountant, I'm sure I can be more focused though, eliminate the mistakes I made so far. It is a difficult job role, but I kinda like it. I'll give it another try. I believe you can see the difference. One mindset focuses on negativity and judgment. The anima and said focuses on positivity and improvement. Which road you will take depends only on you. You just need to learn to give yourself a break. That's it, Simple as that. And remember, don't judge yourself too much. Especially don't judge yourself more than you. What you judge someone else. And remember this thing, you're 80% is someone else's a 120. What this means is that if you use your 80 percent of your capacity of your energy or your knowledge and all these 80% of your overall skills to record the song, 80% of your recorded a song. Somebody else will need a 120% from their skill to record that same song. Of course I'm going to exactly the same, but you know what I mean, right? 8% of your skill, you record a song that good and someone else we need a 120% of their scale to record song at the same level. So don't judge yourself too much. In conclusion, I want to tell you that everyone makes mistakes if you didn't know that limited at now, everyone makes mistakes, everyone. So don't beat yourself up. You made a mistake. Well, fair point and knowledge that move on. Here's an interesting strategy that you can use to forget about these things. Just list all the good qualities that you possess. Then write them down somewhere, keep that list and can go into it every once in awhile. That's a good strategy. Try it out. Don't they perfectionist? Don't look for the perfect thing wherever it is. Don't beat yourself up too much. Make a mistake, okay, no problem, move on. Just keep moving forward. 7. Key 6 - Be Positive: Oh, okay. Now we have been learning for a while and I told you we will stage every wants to know us. So since you've been sitting for a while, when stand up, go instead of witness stand up now stand up. No matter if your living room or on the train. Stand-up witness stand up now and just grab your hand from here and just stretch it a bit. Let's stretch it and yellow side and feel a stretch. Yes. Because we need to keep that blood flowing. It keeps them from I'm so fat. The other side? The other side. Yeah. I am so sad that I cannot see you and I cannot just say your name and just motivate you push a bit more, but that is very unfortunate and that's okay. Put your hands together, put a forward stretch, stretch those hands. You should feel your upper back and even your shoulders. Pull them up now. Pull them up and lift go over your green screen. Yeah, cut your hands. I don't really care. Make those crazy sounds. Go to the side, right and left? Yeah. And then go down. Just go down to your feet, stretch it. Bumpy, right? Go up in 321 and go up. Let's do a few jumps, just like 4321. And let's go. Oh my God, I feel so pumped. It's so unfortunate that I cannot see you and just tell me your name and just motivate you personally. But you know that it is with online courses, with recorded online courses. So let's move on, move on forward. The next key is called Positivity. It's a very big 11 of my favorites. Why? Because it cannot have a happy life without having positive vibes. And this is what this chapter is. Positivity is basically get what you're looking for. If you're looking for negativity, if you're looking for criticism, well, that is what you're going to have around you. This is, this, this, this is a very important chapter and I'm gonna say, I'm gonna make this a very important centers. I'm going to put it here. I'm going to say what you're looking for is what you get randomly. I'll put it here. What you're looking for is what you get and a big one, what you're looking for is what you get a positive person, foxes on the good things of life, on the small things as well, and realizes that not all things we can control. But now I hear you say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very easy to say that. So easy to do. Don't worry, don't worry. What did they tell you at the beginning of the course? Practical examples. Well, my dear friend, let me give you a few practical examples that you can start implementing right now. To be more positive. Number one, practice gratitude. Practicing gratitude has been shown to reduce stress and improve self-esteem. Think of people, moments and things that make you feel happy and feel positive and give you a good vibe. And Express your gratitude towards these things. People are moments that can be your coworker helping you with the assignment. That can be your wife washing your dishes or your dog for your, for the unconditional love that you received. And that, by the way, here's the beauty, here's the beauty of this that has a double effect that will help you with your happiness and will also make them feel good, which will make you a better human being in their eyes. Double effect. This is a great win-win. So practice gratitude, say, thank you. Say thank you for helping with that assignment. Thank you for washing my dishes, dear. Tap your dog giving Next and be scared. Don't make them overweight. Don't give them too many bees kits, but practice. Gratitude. Thank you and please can go a long way. Number 2, keep a gratitude. Journal studies have found that writing down the things you're grateful for can improve your optimism levels. I don't know, there is something with this writing staff, I think I believe when you write stuff and you see them, it's a, it's a reminder and also it helps you visualize them. So get a gratitude journal and write things down and read them occasionally, live in the moment and stay away from the past. I know people like that. They keep going the path. They cannot sleep because of the past. And I'm not talking about something that happened 20 years ago. Something i'm I'm talking about something that happened three days ago, something that's already gone, conclusion already been made, decision had been made, the cart had been unfolded. All this is gone. The situation is gone. Nothing can be changed, nothing can be approved. And people still coming back to what is that moment? They cannot sleep. They ponder their life. The other aspects of life are going down. They're slowing down just because people are still focusing on that moment in the past. Try not to do that. I don't know. It could be difficult if you are that person that keeps digging in the past. You start working on that. Maybe you noticed that, but probably you haven't noticed it enough that you realize that you need to change it. Living in the past is not a good strategy, especially if there is nothing you can do to affect the results and check and change the results that happened. Forget about these things. Don't even think about too much of living in the future. Live in the present, live today. Focus on the positive, challenging situations are part of life. Whatever you do, you cannot escape them, even if you just don't go out and live with your parents and stay only in the house. Eventually, a challenging situation will come to you, I promise you. And when that happens, a great strategy is not to overthink that challenging situation, but to think about the positive that you can get out from that, maybe those positive things are not directly related to that situation. Maybe those positive things cannot be found at first glance, but deep, deep, deep somewhere, you go find at least one or two good things. So just keep looking and find them and focus on the good things. For example, let's keep it example, practical, practical examples, practical solutions. For example, a global pandemic. Quite trendy, isn't it? Pandemic lockdown, you know, all these things, they are it is a strategy. It's a catastrophic event. However, it depends how you look at it. Yes, it's a disaster economics. Many lives are lost. That's unfortunate. But if you haven't lost anybody around you, where you are fortunate, here, fortunate because you taste that pandemic, you probably had the chance to spend more time with your family and you had the chance to do all these things. You never had time to do. So focused on the good things. You focus a new find, good things in every situation. Laugh. More. Many studies throughout the years have highlighted the importance of laughter. It reduces stress, anxiety, and depression. How do you do that? Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty easy. Surround yourself with positive people. So non-disabled people with a sense of humor, they won't make you write some jokes, they will make you laugh every once in awhile, watch comedy shows or stand-up comedians or wherever it is, something that makes you laugh. And also here is the thing that you can track. That is this laughter, laughter therapy. I'm not sure how it's called, but basically you force your laughter. And then when you force your laughter, at some point, hint. At some point, you just started laughing by yourself. And I just want to throw quick example here. I was this app club house, if you don't know what it is, is just for Apple so far and just a podcast. In a way, people are talking, making conversation. They just opened a room, you join room. And I joined the room for about positivity. And these people are like, I don't know, They were all super extremely positive in that room and then somebody jumping. So basically there's a moderator and say, okay, why don't you talk now? Why don't you talk now you take a seat. Okay. Why don't you talk now it's all online, virtual, no videos, just voice. And then these couple comes up and they say, Okay, let's also get a laugh now, right? Let's start laughing. And I'm like, let's everybody unmute themselves and start laughing. I'm like I'm at and beauty myself. I'm not doing that. And you're like, Okay. Okay. Okay. And they were like 25 people probably in the room and they started laughing. And you hear all these different Laughter. And then you hear it all these labs. And I started not smiling. I started laughing as well. It was so funny. And I'm laughing as well now, thinking of that. So whenever you have a bad situation, if as an extreme scenario, if you're alone, if there is no way to comfort, you, probably try that. Try I don't know, maybe write something down. I don't want you to forget that. Try to force your laughter because when you force it, you keep laughing. Eventually you're going to start loving naturally. So laugh more, spent time with positive people. Just like how negativity attracts more negativity. Positivity were more positivity. It's simple math. I don't know how this math works, but it works. And OH, goes down to environment when we talk earlier. If you are environment with positive people, well, you're gonna get positive attitudes from these people. If you go in a circle where everyone's like, it's raining again today. I have no money. Looking nice guy. I hate his shoes. If you're in a circle like that, you're going to attract these attributes have, even without knowing it, even without understanding it, this attribute will come to you, a new start being that person. So eliminate those people from your life, get away from these circles and find positive and good people to be around and see how your attitude changes, face your fears. We are all not born with fears, however, we develop them later on. As you see, if you're afraid of heights, some people are just normally just like that, walking around and don't butter. So if you start eliminating those fears, which you can, by the way, you have more or less people to worry about, which makes you, which gives you more things to be positive about. So eliminating your fears is also a good strategy. And lastly, but not least, try new things. Because when you try new things, like I always say, I cannot know if I like apples or not, if I don't try and Apple, right? So what happens is in that, in your case, Apple might turn out to be your favorite fruit ever. However, you cannot know that without try and an apple. So I always encourage people to try new things because you don't know. Once you try something, maybe that'll be your next hobby. That would be your next business or your first business, or you meet the perfect business partner or your next future life partner doing that thing. So always try new things. See what works for you, see what doesn't keep, what works for you. Eliminate weather doesn't end, just keep moving forward. And these are those practical examples that I have for you in this chapter. Alright, I hope you're still stretch. We're not stretching that next chapter, but I'm very excited to share with you. 8. Key 7 - Perspective: Welcome to yet another key. I hope so far you've been collecting keys as many as you can, hopefully get them all. If not, you can always come back to this online course. You can always re-watch some sections and you can always try and improve if you haven't accomplished anything so far on that particular section. So the next section is probably one of my favorite lines, probably actually my field. I know I've said that a few times already, but probably this is my most favorite one. It's called Perspective. I'm going to give you the key, the exact key that I use to look at things at perspective, at the right perspective. But before that, let me tell you a quick story. It's not my story. It's a story I heard. He said, I think it's a fictional story, but anyway, a story that resonates with that section. So it goes like this. For the story. Imagine two brothers, you need two brothers that had a rough childhood, very rough. One of the brothers, they both grow up, they will have hemorrhoids. One of the brothers now a father and a husband, beats his wife, beats his children. He's an alcoholic. He spends his money on drinks and drugs. And it's not a pleasant picture. It's one side, the other brother, he is taking care of his family, who was also a father and husband. He's taking care of his family. He's bringing them to vacations. He's spending money for them and he's taking care. He's, he's making sure they have a good making sure that the tuner have good childhood and basically a dream father. So they ask one day, the two brothers, why are you such a horrible father? And he said As because my father was like that. And then they ask, why is such a great father and a great husband? That's because my father wasn't like that. You see, it's again, probably a fictional story, but it's a really powerful one because it easily be true story. You see, they both had the same as children. They grew up with the same principles in a way. But then there comes a point that you choose. How you look at things. You choose, how you look at the world, and you choose how to react to it and what you're going to give. So again, going back to positivity, if you're looking for the negativity, that is how that is what you're going to get. Because the person that bad, that what do you think he's going he's getting back from his family, negative thoughts and criticism and bad words and probably and probably I'll harassment. And then what he's gonna do, he's gonna double Baghdad. He's gonna double that Buddhist Baghdad, and it's just a constant fine. However, the positive guy, the good guys, the good father would think he's getting, he's getting positive thoughts, good feedback, nice compliments and all this. Whenever you are looking for, that's what you're going to get. And what you get is going to be amplifying with the people that you're around. So just looking at the positive things. And then here is the key that I use to fix my perspective and make me happier. People always make me happy. People always ask me why he's so happy. Why are you so happy? They call me on the phone. How are you doing? I'm great and the quicker you always great. How are you doing? That perspective is my biggest key, perspective and how I fixed my perspective, how I just did is by history, just knowing even basic history. I'm not talking about long paragraphs, years, and dates, and long sentences. No, no, no. Basic history is enough for you. They asked me, okay. Our interest feeling bad in this pandemic, you can not go out your stack in your home. And then I answer, sure, it's bad to be restricted not to have to be limited to be stuck in your home. But I prefer that rather than going to the border and defend the country. You see, because if you think about it, there were times that when people were born in the First World War, they experienced the First World War and then they fought, things are going OK, fixer going better and that bomb, Second World War. So things can go real bad. And if you know a bit of history, you can see how bad we're actually thinks over there. You know, you think lockdown is bad. What about the Black Death? What about the plague comes here? That's bad. That's a bit similar, but back in the days when the play came, technology wasn't that develop. People wasn't, didn't know what's happening. There were wondering, well, what is this happening? Well, how did all these things, so it's even worst? And here's a curious fact by the way, I just kinda curious. I just cannot I cannot help it. So here is, have you ever wondered where the term bless you comes from? Because we all use it, right? Somebody sneezes, bless you, bless you, bless you as well. Where is this coming from? Well, it comes from the days of the Black Death, where the plague was here. Because what happens is that it was considered that when you start sneezing, this is a sign that you're going to die. You're going to die. And then when you sneeze, people will say to you, God bless you in a way like, okay, you're gone or okay, may God help you? God bless you. Bless you. So this is where it comes from, from the days, no, we didn't know this history. You get this random curious facts as well, but knowing basic history can fix your perspective. So if you think it's bad to be locked down in your flat, would you prefer to spend your winter ones at the border defending the country? Would you? Or imagining you're born in Poland, you living peacefully, You rock in it. You have a shop, business is booming. And then one day the Germans come with tanks in your city and then you're, you're out-of-control. We cannot do anything. Nowadays is different, especially if you are not living in these countries with the war zones and their suffering and, and they, and they suffer for food. They need to walk five kilometers for water, especially if you are in, uh, in America or in European country, western European country. You need to fix your perspective because your life is really, really good. Okay? I'm going to talk slightly a bit more about these things later on, but I just wanted to give that about perspective. Perspective, once again, one of my favorite things. Just, again, you don't need to know the history. What you know from the news or basic knowledge you have is enough. Just realize things are really good. Things are really good. And honestly, if you've got that one right, your, your happiness going to increase. I guarantee you that. 9. Key 8 - The World Moves On: Before we move forward, I just want to make a quick disclaimer here about this chapter. This chapter is going to be rough. This chapter is going to get you like a wet mop smack in your face. It's going to be a rough eye opener, but it's needed one. So here we go. One of the things you need to realize is that the world moves on always. No matter what happens, the world we'll keep moving on. And what do we mean by that? Think of the worst thing that can happen to anybody was that deaf, they can die. And because I mentioned Kobe Bryant earlier, let's, let's take over brands and example once again. So when people are talking about Kobe Bryant, The happened when he died, when he died, people about for a month. They're talking about copper brand and then goes silence. Of course, in the people that are close, closer to common brand, their work towards a common brand. There'll be talking more often that that's normal. But the world will start talking about Cotman brand. The next time. The world will be talking about co-brand is on the same date, a year after death is just a remembrance, just people remembering that what happened and that's it. And then it's going to repeat again a year after and then again a year after, and then again a year after. We people with legacy, it's a bit different. Like coffee brand probably can be a bit more, right? Because when you create legacy, when you're famous, you get in people's mind, you're associating something with that. So in my case, for example, when I hear professionalism, dedication and Family Guy, I think of coffee brand. Creating a legacy is a different subject, but for people that create legacy, there will be, remember more often adult Hitler also created legacy, believe it or not, when I think about German Shepherds, genocide and second world war, I think about out of Hitler, Prince dies. I don't know if you remember when Prince died. The whole world were circulating his songs for a month and then slowly faded away. And then after a year, that all came back for a few ways, only his songs, and then it faded away. I die. People will be sad for a month, for a week. Some even for an hour. Some will not care whether it's natural, the ones that are closer to me, there will be grieving probably for free months or even more. And and it's it's completely normal. However, I don't want it to be that way for for glutamine closer ones because the world moves on. You can't be stuck with whatever it's gone. It's gone. It's gone, it's gone. That's it. You cannot change it. Just I want them to keep moving forward because they keep stopping and pondering and remembering me and what was that? What happened, how it happened, why they happened? I was going to ask going to stop the life. They going to affect the way they socialize with people. It's going to affect their work performance, is going to affect their happiness. It's going to take everything that overall is going to affect the life which is not over yet. So remember the world, we'll keep moving on. No matter what happens, they will keep moving on everybody in the world who's still alive, you cannot afford to be stuck in one place. The world move past you, you need to keep moving on with the world. I warned you this chapter is going to be rough and it's already rough in the beginning we're talking about death. This is crazy. However, this may mix makes sense to you, but at the same time probably you are saying or asking yourself, okay. All right. I see where you're going with that. It makes sense, but it's not easy when you lose someone to move on especially quickly. Like it's not easy. And I'm like, Okay, we're talking about practical examples here, right? Let me give you a practical example. Let me give you a practical solution. Actually, let me give you my solution, how I deal with that. And hopefully, you know, once again, it's going to be rough, but hopefully this will help you as well. So how do I do that? How do I keep moving on with the world? Well, here's the thing you have to realize even before, you know, you need to start realizing this. Now, before you lose something, the sooner you realize that the better will be four, you have to realize this, that nothing, you know, will last forever. Nothing, not your car, not the tree from your house that you're bet that your relationship, not even your mother, as bad as the sound, everything you know will either disappeared before you or you will disappear before that. So basically nothing is forever. This is no news for anyone. This is not news for you as well. You already know that. We already know that everybody knows that everything will disappear now, everybody is dying. However, we know it. Just as a little fraction over here, which you need to do is you need to keep that in the back of your head, right? Once you do that and you keep reminding yourself, we just take the tank would take things for granted. We take life for granted. We, we don't think about these things. Some people actually, they can live forever. Some people argue that they're going to be here forever, but that's not the case. It's not the case as you realize that you are mortal and you're going to be gone one day, I should put more pressure you to enjoy things and start doing more things, not just lying down. You're not going to be here forever. I'm not going to be here forever. Our time is limited. So if you have this in your back of your head that nothing is forever, nothing is eternal. Nothing lasts forever. It will be a game changer for you. I promise you. And of course, this is difficult, this is super difficult. How we can imagine that your mother dies. I imagined that. I've told you this chapter is rough and I'm opening here to you, but I really, sometimes, I imagined that the die, my mother dies, my father dies, my sister dies. I imagine what life without them. And that pinches me and makes me realize, okay, that's a tough life is going to be tougher life without them. So that flips the coin. It was like an flip side. I still have them. Let me give them a call. Let's see how they're doing this. Doing that, realizing that everything will disappear and everyone will die with one, make you live in the moment, in the present. And, you know, enjoy them while they're here and to make it a bit easier when their car. So rough chapter once again, if you master this, if you become good at this, this will help you a lot. I can promise you that. And a way to do that is probably to write something down on a piece of paper, write something like everything dies or nothing is eternal. Or every movie Gone, satellite that write on a piece of paper and place it somewhere where you're going to be seen it. In fact, right? Every chapter on a piece of paper, every key, right? Every key on a piece of paper, list them down and probably even circle the ones you doing good with. And put a minus the one that you need to work on once you once you work well with those ones, with the minus, just circled them or just put a plus and make it as a plus and put them somewhere where you're gonna be seen them, put them in your pattern mirror within wallet on your nightstand, put them somewhere, you're going to see it and just read those chapters, those keys, read them every once in a while and remind them. Remind yourself what you have learned today and that you need to practice them. So I'm closing out this chapter. It's a really tough one, rough one. I agree. But if you master this, I promise you, you're going to have happier life. 10. Key 9 Scenarios: Okay, so we established now, right? The, the world moves on and so should you, you should not be static. You should be moving the world. Okay. I feel I'm, I feel like changing the tone here, so I just just weren't changes black as well. I just want to change something else. Okay. White, much better. It's a new date. I'm going to be honest with you, right? I am open here. It's a new day yesterday and stop recording because I felt my energy is going down. And I promise you, I'm gonna give you high energy, only give the engagement. So if I don't feel right, I will not force it. I don't want to force it. So just to give you something, I want to give you the best. Okay, So moving on, let's talk about scenarios. As I told you, I love giving practical examples because practical examples will give you practical solutions. And every impractical is everything that you can relate to. So let me give you a few scenarios and how I would react and hopefully that will help you in your cases, all these scenarios are commonly known. Commonly you will find them in the practice very often, so hopefully solutions will help you out. Let's start with the black sheep with the big thing that everybody talks about, lockdown or you might be thinking, log down, it's almost gone. Pantothenic is finishing this phase that far away from me. You know, maybe we should not be worrying that much about this thing anymore. Well, Here's a news for you, right? Maybe if, if you know history, if you are at least slight fan of history and they have studied slightly at this a bit more about history. You know that every once in a while, the world throws crisis to you. So every 10, 15, 20 years, you will not be leaving a perfect life just because we're going out of this pandemic now that doesn't mean something else or come around the corner, right? So be mentally prepare that something's going to happen every once in a while, no matter if it's going to be a global pandemic, world War, financial crisis or something else every 10, 15 to 20 years and no more than 20 years for sure, something bad will happen in a global scale. That's just how the things are rolling. So be mentally prepared itself is going to happen. Okay. It's picking flop down. Okay, let let's keep it into lock down a bit. People are like, Okay, lockdown first scenario, lockdown, well, wow, one or we can do. First of all, you need to realize that if you haven't lost your job and if you haven't lost anybody you love due to this disease, you're really well, you are incredibly well. If, if staying home in your home is depressing you, you should be trying to figure out your mental health and what's happening there. Because staying home, as I told you earlier, it's much better than fighting for your country at the borders, right? It is just if you fix the perspective, you know, you're going to be really fine. But to me, this is this is what keeps me sane. If you want to put it that way during a pandemic and during lockdown, I just figured out that it can be way worse. I'm like, I'm okay. I didn't lose my job. Well. I'm leaving my job, but it's my decision. I didn't lose my job. I nobody that I know died from an academic so as to have food, as to have to sleep. So things are things that really well, okay, next scenario. What about if you lose your job? Well, here is how I would do it. And all this pandemic showed us that nothing is certain. Because before you think, okay, you sign a contract and you get a job. I at the beginning when it came to England, when it came to London, I was told get a job here. Santa contract. And then once you have this contract signed, you have to do something ridiculous, stupid to get fired. Rather than that, you'll be set here, you can even retire here. Now, however, the pandemic showed us that that's not always the case. You know, you cannot predict anything that's going to happen. As you can see, global pandemic comes and then some jump ropes needs to be eliminated. Some people, you just need to let go of them. So how are you going to react to that? It's just comes to mind set again so you can react from your point of view a y, you firing me, This is not fair. What am I gonna do? You know, this is 1 of view like one side of things. The other side of things is To do what most people don't do. And that is seen from others people's perspective. So if you just turn the tables a bit and sit on the other side and this is like, Okay, I'm business, right? And I I need to cut some costs. I'll get some color. What I want I'm gonna do I'm sorry. You have to go. You have to go. You have to go. I'm really sorry. Don't take things personal. It's not personal. People just want to survive the tip. If you are in their shoes, you probably have to do the same, right? So it's not nothing personal, nothing against you is just how things are happening. And they want this, what is potential. That's once again, nothing is certain. So what I would do, first of all, I will not take things personally. Secondly, what how I had been living my life in the last three or four years is that I don't put my eggs in one basket. You know, you have heard this expression, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Why? Why don't do that? Because if this basket falls on the floor, all your eggs are gone. I say this metaphor. I was, I was a guest on a podcast and I said this and the lady was like, I know what? We here, don't put all your eggs in one basket, but I never heard the other part of the story and they will have y you don't have to do that. Then I just occurred to me now and I'm like, okay. So if it didn't occur to you, that's why you don't put all your eggs in one basket because if this basket faults or your x will be broken or we got, you'd be left with no X. So if you distribute your ex doesn't need to be evenly. But if you distribute your eggs in 234 baskets, if something happens with one basket. Or two baskets, you have 12 baskets left. So how I been living my life in the last three or four years and be distributing my eggs in different baskets. My main income was my main job and then I had a side hustle when I was selling things, then I was doing freelancing videos as well. So if something happens and your main basket disappears, you may not have a full basket, but at least you're going to have something that either can help you or you can start building on. So if I want to scale the things that the business side, the hustle side of doing videos for Finland's videos for companies and brands. I can double that on that, and I already have slight Foundations over there. It's not going to be like starting from scratch in this income disappeared for like, oh my god, I want I'm going to do now. I have a small incomes over there so I can put more efforts over there. It's going to be growing more. So always what my advice would be to you. Don't leave your eggs in one basket. Don't focus only one income. Have an income, but do a maybe a side hustle like things, something you like walking dogs. If you like dogs. Dogs for people, you know, it's a really nice I'd ask you just to four hours a week. It's something small. But if something happens with your income, people already know you already have clients. So you're just going to start with those clans. And then more and more clan just gonna keep more, a bit more advertising. And I let people know that you're looking for more jobs and the ball is going to start rolling, believe me. So my my advice would be, if you lose your job, well, it's unfortunate. Think if you want to find another job or you want to start finding jobs yourself, like like doing something for yourself. But never take things personally. Never because even if they are personal, even if they fire you because your personality or something like that, then that wasn't the place you have to be anyway. So you don't lose, you don't lose. Okay, next scenario. How about ending up a relationship or this is difficult. This, in a way, could probably be more difficult than losing your job because you did not invest so much of your soul and your job, right? Right. You go and work for somebody just to take the money. You don't work for the business with all your strength and power in sweat. More than business for the person who each is usually what people do they go for a salary, right? However relationship you leave your soul over there, you connected with the person. And especially if it's a long relationship, and things can go really, really, really difficult. However, here's my mind. I always believe that it's better to be with nobody rather than being with the wrong person. All right. I have met people that had been on the relationship for years. Year by years, I mean like 20 years. They're miserable. They're unhappy, but they don't want to end that relationship because one, it's been so long and then I go singular than one, I'm going to do no, it's too late for me now. And to probably the bigger one is what people say. His guys got divorced. So this guy has a divorce or reading or what people would say. If you haven't established that already, we cannot live our lives based on other people's opinions because that's ease their life. They live our lives through them. For us, this is, this is a nap. What this is about this course is to make you realize that you live your own life. You are in charge of our life. So don't focus on what people say. So we end up relationship. If you are struggling in a relationship, try and fix it. Don't leave it miserable. If it cannot fix it, probably walk away because no relationship is better, unhealthy relationship. Just remember that no relationship better than unhealthy relationship. So either try and fix it or walk away from it. If it happens to walk away from it. And then he had been long time for long time in that relationship. Well, think about how the relationship was, right. The worst case, the worst thing you can do is not be in any relationship anymore. Close all the doors because this relationship failed. Just because one apple, listen to this, just because you try one apple and there was a warm inside and it was a bad apple. That doesn't mean you should stop trying appose. And that doesn't mean you should stop eating apples, right? Just because one bad apple. So just assess what went wrong, what went right, what went wrong in that relationship, and just use this as a foundation for the future. Remember, it's not a failure. If, if you learn something from it, then becomes a lesson. Take lessons. And I want to give one last scenario over here. I have mentioned these things before, but I just want to clear up in a separate chapter so you can go back to it whenever you want, whenever you need two. The last one is losing somebody. Again, as I said before, if you fix your mind that before, especially beforehand, if you fix your mind that everybody will be gone. And it's either you first order them first, everybody will be gone, then one, you'll be more prepared for that when that happens. And to you live in the present, you'll be like, oh my god, my dad will die one day. I'm just call him now and see how he is. Hey, there, how are you doing? Are you need something from me? Shall I send you some humans? Are things sent him a basket of fruit basket or a bottle of wine. Just realize it's again, a bit of a dark matter. But if you realize at everything and everyone will be gone, either for you or after you anyway, anything will be gone. If you realize this, this will be helpful for you and for the ones you love. So hope that helps with the scenarios. Again, we scratched a bit of a dark matter, moving 40, we're going to be, we're going to be slightly more positive. And let's go to the next chapter. 11. Key 10 - The "3 Question" Method: Okay, next step to a happier life is the free question method. I call it the free question method. However, I want to give credit to someone. Uh, his name is Samuel leaves his my former boss, and I heard that from him. He didn't point out this to be part of a happiness process or becoming more happy. But I, I adopted that to that, of course, because it really will help you to your happiness. Here is what he says. Every time when you are about to do something, ask yourself three questions. Am I are you, are you are learning something from the process. Are you going to be making money or are we going to be enjoying it? Are you going to be entertained? So the structure to remember even better head is how it goes and earning. Are you learning? Are you enjoying yourself? So every time you just think, as we say of these questions, so let's say our play FIFA on and go play FIFA. Am I earning? Know, am I learning? No, I'm enjoying myself. Yeah, I do. Okay. I'm gonna go and I'm going to work, right? Am I earning? Yes, I am. Am I learning now? I'm enjoying myself. Know at least one of them every time I try to have at least one of them tick. So, but there are other examples. For example, you want to go, you are invited to a wedding of a guy that you don't really know much. You were invited a friend of friend or something anyway. Are you earning? No, you're not going to earn their adult learning in I'm going to learn anything. Are you going to enjoy yourself? Not really. So this thing, you should not be doing everything that has nothing as a yes from these questions, then you should not be doing it. Wash your balcony windows. Are you earning? No. Are you enjoying yourself? Know, maybe. Okay. Let's say a bit. Okay. Are you earning no adult learning an add-in, join yourself a bit. Okay. Let me wash the windows. Okay. What about what's happening? Of course, questions like, shall I go to the dentist? Should not be part of the app because that's part of your health, like earning, learning, enjoy yourself. No, it's not two of them, but if you don't go to the dentist, I was going to happen you're going to have bigger problems. So questions like that are not included, but all other questions try to have at least one. Yes. If you don't have money yes. There big no-no. Don't do that because that's going to make you happy. You want to do something, you know, you are forced to do something you don't enjoy, make money from it, or learn anything. So just don't do it. However, a big win, win, win, win, win, win is if you are learning, if you are earning, and if you're enjoying yourself. That was the case with my job with Samuel leads where where I learned this, I think it was a earning yes, I was getting a salary was a learning yes. I was learning things about property and it wasn't enjoying myself. Yeah. Because I was traveling and filming and meeting new people and all these things I really enjoy. It was a win-win-win for me. It was when for them as well because they had a great guy with a great video skills and it was a win-win for everyone. So these are the three questions. Are you learning and meta-learning? Are you enjoying yourself every time you're about to do something? Ask yourself if the answer to all of them is not. Don't do it or avoid it. And it's easy to memorize because it rhymes, right? So always remember as your questions, are you earning? Are you learning or are you enjoying yourself? 12. Key 11 - World Ranking: Welcome to a great chapter. Chapter they named world ranking. And with that chapter, I just want to make you realize that you are actually living in a prison nice life. I mean, that without even knowing you much, I know that you leave a routinized life. And how do I know that the fact that you are watching that on an electronic device sitting probably not in a coffee house, but at your home, already tells me that you're leaving a really nice life. So let me explain even more, right? Imagine at the moment, people in the world are almost 8 billion, right? Imagined. All these 8 billion people are ranked in a system. The top being lavish, life, beautiful, Reach, maser nets, tunes, helicopters and very bottom. You know, people that have no food, no shelter, you know, people that need to maybe even steal to get food. You know, people that have nothing, really, nothing that's at the very bottom. Nothing diseases. No notion of nothing at the very bottom. Top. Oh my goodness, I am loving it. Bottom. I want to die, right? This is a billion people's ranked. Now, I'm going to ask you a question. Here is how you, you score yourself. Here's how you get the points in order to see where you rank, right? The questions are simple, right? Do you have a shorter yes? You get a point every time you answer yes. So question, do you have a shelter? Yes. Do you have access to drinkable water? Yes. Do you have all your limbs in other must be could be a funny question, right? You have all your limbs, but they're people that, you know, imagine living your own life without one arm. How about that or not? All your life from now? What imagining that if only with one atom, imagine you leave only with your weak arm. And here's a challenge for you. I was actually going to do that and I think I will do that live one day. And now it's easier because you probably said home since it's still locked down, lift one day with only one arm and make it your weaker arm, right? Just put your arm here. Let's say if you're right-handed, put your arm here, tired with something and don't use it all day, 24 hours, right? Brush your teeth with your other arm. Cut your salad with one arm, right? Play FIFA with one arm. You know, it's, it's, it's really, really ridiculous. But that could be you. And then pop void. Yeah, I actually have two hands crazy. So do you have all your limbs? Yes. Point. It helped me. Yes. Point. Do you have food every day? Yes. Point. We have money coming in. Yes. Point or your family, are they still alive? Yes. dot-dot-dot. So many questions like that. And then once, you know, I, I'm just giving you a few questions here, but you can think of way more questions. And if you struggle, reach out to me, I will give you way more questions. You can, you can pull up 5050 question even more, but put 30 questions now, right? Just put the questions and see how well you rank and I'm selling you. You realize that you actually live a really nice life. And the thing that makes you unhappy is the complaining and wanting more. But the fact that the things that you want more are not that important as the things that you already have. Once you realize that you realize how good your life actually is. And to summarize this chapter, actually there's nothing to summarize. What I wanna do here is I want to give you an assignment, right? I want you to stop after this chapter. Stop. Remember I told you please do what I asked you to do. Please do what I asked it to do. Don't ignore this. What I want you to do now is stop this online course after this chapter, I don't want you to take the next chapter, stop it. I want to take a piece of paper and write down 30 questions that the answer is yes, 30 questions that give you a point in that world ranking. And every time you think the world is against you out, Just look at this list. Don't throw away, keep it somewhere. Looking at this list, I already gave you about 57 questions. Just put 30 questions. You'll find that it's easy to get 30, probably even more go forth. Let's aim for 30, got 31st, 30 questions that you have. The answer is yes, that that in your favor. And then every time you feel bad, every time you feel attacked, every time you feel miserable, every time you think the world is going, guess you sit down on the desk, open up that book that you put the list or whatever it is taken out, read those 30, 40 questions that are in your favor. Actually, I'm not that sad anymore. That cost of coffee and a half. My coffee with cream I love on top. Actually have actually pretty well and slid it back in. All right, three questions. Do it now before you go to the next chapter, Let's go. 13. Key 12 - Social Media, Bullying & Dealing With Difficult People: Welcome to the next chapter. I hope you really wrote these things down. If you haven't, then please stop this course now and write them down. Please do so. All right. Let's say you wrote them down. I believe you I trust you and I trust that you will not play with my trust and you do, as I said, next chapter, we're going be talking about difficult people, bullying. And these people can be found not only in real life but in social media. So that thing, the things that I'm going to say in this chapter, we'll apply for both. So what happens when somebody is mean to us? What happens? Well, the natural reaction is to be mean back at them. However, what happens is they'll be mean, there will be mean back to us as well, and sometimes even double the force. So what your reaction then is going to be like be mean back and then it's going to be here. Take that mean, mean, mean, mean me, mean, it's a never ending story. Once you realize that bullying will be at another level, I mean, dealing with bullies will be at another level in your head. So the lesson here is when somebody is mean to you, don't be mean back, be nice beanies and this will honestly, this would confuse them. So they will either leave you alone and go away or they can even start treating you well. So just try this, be nice. This advice doesn't come from me. This advice doesn't come from somebody five years ago. This advice comes from a wise men, 3 thousand years ago. This is what they say. The wise men don't treat others the way they treat you, treat them the way you want to be treated. I understand. It's very difficult when you treat them the way you want to be treated. Treat your light. Nothing. And it's really difficult to still treat them the way you want to be treated. I understand that. However, it's something you want to work on. And then as you get better, I must admit, I'm still struggling with that and it's difficult it's difficult to be nice to someone who is mean to you. It's difficult, but if you start doing these things, that's going to be a big change. But really this is the golden rule when it comes to dealing with difficult people no matter if it's online or in real life. And this is what Martin Luther King said. You cannot drive out hate. With more hate. Only love can do that because love is greater than hate. You don't have to be friends with everyone. You will have to treat them like friends. Here's how I treat people in my life. And my advice would be, you know, treat them the same way whenever I meet somebody for first-time are treated in the way I want to be treated. So in my case, I'll be smiling, I'll be giving them compliments. I will be telling jokes in my books, and so should be in yours as well. When you meet somebody, everybody should be equal. They're fixing go both ways. If they accept this positivity and giving them that jokes and complements, I'm just going to continue treatment. That way. I'll probably even double down. I'm going to give them even more compliments, even more jokes. My jokes are funny, even more jokes. But if they don't react on the basis that I'm given IM or giving them positivity and smiles and complements. If they don't react positive on that, then what I will do, well, if they are stupid, if they're selfish, if they don't care, what I would do is I will ignore them. And here's the golden thing, right? Don't treat them the way they treat you. Because Let's go back to the beginning. Hit will bring more hate. So if you, if they treat you badly and stuff in treating the bad and the goal is to keep treat NEW bat again. And that's going to be bringing more and more head. It's a never ending story. Now this circle that keeps repeating. However, what you should do is ignore them. Don't treat about ignore. That doesn't mean that if they call your name, for example, a patho, can you can you come for a second or a part of it? Did you did you get that from the shop? You know, if they if they engage in conversation, that doesn't mean that you ignore them then, right? Talk to them. However, what I mean by ignore them, don't engage in a conversation or if they ask you something, said, fine, okay. Don't engage in conversation. Don't keep them in your circle. Don't stay around them, don't get involved with them. That's what I mean by ignoring. Just get away from them as much as you can. Again, if you start treating them bad, I mean, the way they treat you would just scale up. And then what happens is this is going to go inside you. Even if you don't realize it, this is going to go inside you. And then let's say Jim, Jim is super bad, right? And then you start engaging conversation with Jim. He's been to you, you mean back his mean You mean he's mean you mean and as a law, the helmet, I have enough. I didn't you leave. But this means to the new any meet Sarah that you are really good friends with or you're in good terms. And Sarah, Sarah, leave me alone. I don't want to talk to you and lead. So how solid is going to feel now? Sides feeling confused, sad, and miserable now because of you, because you get that head from Jim. So just ignore these people and focus on the positive people like Sarah. Sarah, how's it going? How is your day? Just stay with positive, smiling people. Ignore the ones that are treating you bad. However, here's why I'm telling you you should ignore them. I take it that since you're in this course, you may have some difficulties with connecting, find your happiness connecting with people, you probably have some difficulties. There is an option that you don't ignore them and you tried to help them. This is a difficult option. I know you listen to this only for your advanced. If, if you are not advanced, probably just go and grab some water now, right? So if you're advanced, there is an option. You can try and help them try and talk to them. Try like Okay, why are you so negative? Why you look in the world like that? What's happening, you know, tried to help them. However. In order to do that, you need to have a strong mental health. You need to be solid and you have a really massive invisible shield. Other people's opinions, because they're going to start shooting it you're in. If you're weak, if, if your mindset is not strong, you're going to get converted very easily to their, their point over there. So don't try that safely. Safety first, I would say ignore them. Just don't engage with them. The world is a massive place, almost a billion people there, enough positive people already. So just ignore GMs and find more Sarah's, right, looking for Sarah's ignoring James. But I hear you saying now. I hear and I hit it through the camera. I know you hear I hear you saying the puzzle. This is so easy if you don't know the person, but what if you have to spend time with the person? Alright? Practical examples. Practical examples. What if the person that is means to you is in your job? What if you work together? Well, my friend, then it's time to make a choice. If you ask me, you probably already know what I'm going to say. Get out, Get out of there, don't ignore it. The worst thing you can do here is ignore the situation because it's only gonna get worst, right? You're going to get, keep getting that negativity. Then I'm going to go home. What's going to happen? You're going to transfer that negativity in your home with the people you live in and you live with. And that is nicely, but I have seen that. I've seen that and it's affecting other lives as well. So it's not only that you are going to be making your life bad, but you're going to make other people's lives miserable as well. So then you need to rethink the situation. You're working with Jim together. You're working on projects. So then you need to ask some questions. Okay. Can I change the department and it moves to a different department? All right. Can I work on a different project? Can I be transferred somewhere? Can I talk to my manager about the situation? Can I talk to Jim? This is also an option. Talk to Jim like okay, Jim, Well, what's happening? What way, hate me or what's the problem? Y means. Y mean to me. Talk to Jim, Dr. Jim, what's happening and then changing your job is also an option. Imagine if you don't like your job and you don't like Jim with any have a win-win situation, my friend, because it's time for you to move on? Yes. It's difficult to find a job. Yes. It's comfortable to stay in the jam because they giving you money, then you don't work much. But if it's a toxic environment is going to affect people in your life and your household and your life as well. So we're going to talk about work a bit more in details after that, but it's time for you to make a choice. If that's a situation that you're in, it's time for you to make a choice. Staying static is the worst thing you can do. Move on and look for your happiness. I was going to wrap this session up. As you probably got from my tone. I just ended up on an exiting tone. And to be fair, it was really good sentence to wrap it up. However, as I was talking, a sentence that I heard before came to my mind and the sentence goes like this, right? I'm just gonna put it here on the side so you can enjoy it as well. The sentence goes like this, life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you take it, right? I'm going to leave it here for a while so you can have a look at it for a longer more and I'm going to read it again. Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you take it. Okay, it's time to wrap it up for this session. As I said at the beginning, negativity is everywhere. It's turnaround. Negativity, right? It's everywhere you cannot escape it. However, it's your responsibility to decide how you take that negativity and what you're gonna do it, it, you know, 10 percent how you take 90%, how you react to it. Also, social media or real life. People would mean that mean people everywhere. It's up to you. What you're gonna do. Never be me back to them. Either ignore them or fight them with compliments. Thanks so much for staying through that difficult chapter. Let's move to the next one. 14. Key 13 - Work: Welcome to the next chapter which is called work. Yes, work. Just when I told you a few minutes ago that I will get into more details in the work. And now we're gonna be talking about workplace. Is that a coincidence? I don't think so. So here is what I mean by work. Let's start with the simple calculation, right? Let's say you practical example, right? Most people are working nine to five Monday to Friday, which sums up about 40 hours per week. The working spot then let I want I want I want to calculate here is your weekend. So today's the weekend has 48 hours. Let's put let's put 48 hours. Right. Then let's put let's say you sleep eight hours per day, right? Eight hours to days, 16 minus 16. That's 32 hours. You have tested two hours in your home with your family and friends to chill, to relax. 32 hours, your whole week is 40 hours only at work. So you spent more time at your work per week at your home, you know, I exclude the time when you come back home after work and all is fine because probably your tie as in it's cooked meals, maybe you need to. And I exclude these times, right. But most likely you'll be spending more time at work then at your home. Right. So probably see where I'm going with that. You have to work something that you really enjoy, right? I'm saying again, you have to work something that you really enjoy. Unfortunately, most people are not like that. Most people are struggling to wake up in the morning because they have no motivation to go and work over there wherever it is because didn't like it. They don't like the environment, didn't like the colleagues there, like the work, like you are learning, are you earning, are enjoying yourself? The more yeses you have here, the more happy life you have. So what can you do here? I think this is something that it's not talking society enough. And you're fortunate that you are here and you're going to learn this because if you realize this, this is a big massive k. If you realize this, The, you'll be really big. Step ahead towards your happiness. Here's what it is. Happiness is not my people say la happiness is not money ever happened. Yeah, let me know how it is that money. Yes, we need money, but happiness is not money. Being in a beggar, bigger job, not higher position is not equal, not equal happiness. Happiness is having a happy life. Be happy with yourself. Be happy to wake up into the stuff you love. This is happiness. I am so much enjoying talking from the front the camera. This is happiness. I am enjoying this, however, walking up to a place. With toxic environment, with little money, with things that you don't enjoy. If you, if you started to account in your account on them, but you don't like it, then leave. Why you staying there? It makes no sense. It makes no sense. So let me tell you a bit about myself. I told you the beginning. I will share a bit more about me later on, and this is how it is. Now, I want to share my story because I think it's a really big practical examples after that you can relate to, probably if you can relate as a whole, then look for little sentences and periods that you can relate to it. So here it is. I'm from Bulgaria. If you don't know this, gary, it's a small, nice little countries, Southeast Europe, really beautiful, quite cheap for tourism as well. So whenever had a chance, visited mountains, lakes, case, see everything you want to do. You can do it there. I promise you you will not be surprised. Amazing people, beautiful food, okay. Advertisement is over. I really like to advertise my country because I think it deserves it. So I'm from Bulgaria and I says 18 when I started my first job, I changed jobs almost every year. Almost every year. I changed jobs. Till now. I'm 30 free at the moment. So what happened is I change a chain few jobs. I'm not going to start with a for jobs, but I worked as an entertainer. And if you don't know, entertainment has nothing to do with erotic entertainment is hotel entertainment where people go in holiday resorts and some people would like to chew and don't, don't touch me. Other people like to be active. So I'll pick those active people and organize volleyball games or games during the day and in the evening. I'll be on stage with a microphone and I'll be presenting, and I'll be inviting people and I'll be doing Bingo shows for the music which shows best couple in the hotel, Mr. hotel, and do some values against with them. And I enjoyed that. I did three years in Bulgaria. I did that. Then I went in Greece for two summers and then a waned in my orca for one someone's altogether six slumped summers but long summers, like 67 months, eight months. And I count that as a year because you work six days and they're really long days, big experience anyway, I really enjoyed that. When I win, you give me a stage and give my microphone. I feel alive. I really enjoy that, so I wanted to continue doing that. However, I realized that I cannot be 45 and still do that. So I came to London. Came to London with the idea that here, there are a lot of opportunities and I'll be able to do that. So first thing I did when I went to London, when it came to London, is I went to talent agencies and I gave them a small video of me like, look, this is what I do. This. Yeah, this is me. Yeah, let's do something here. And they all said like, No, this is not something we're looking for now. This is not our style, this is not how business works here. So it didn't happen. I was very disappointed. I'm not going to lie. I was this was the reason I came here. I was very disappointed and unfortunately, I needed to pay the bills. So I started working as a waiter. I did one year in a restaurant. I did I was applying for whatever jobs I just wanted to to pay. Bills. I didn't care. I went to introduce a waiter, didn't know that I apply for this job. They call me. Okay. I don't remember a plank anyway. Then I spent one year there, then I went to work a year and a half almost and the reception as a concierge. And what hit me there is that I don't need all these agencies, all these gatekeepers, right? All they need it is to find my audience and to find opportunities. So if I start creating content thanks to the Internet, I can jump over this gatekeepers and then find my audience and my own opportunities, right? So there are three ways to do that. Just that making photos, videos, or audio podcasts. But because I want to be on stage in from camera, I do videos. So I started videos. The problem was I didn't know anything about videos. And you have camera. I didn't know anything but cameras. I didn't know anything about lighting microphones, nothing. So as I placed ads around Facebook, I'm looking at studies YouTube channel. If somebody wants to join me, there is no pay unfortunately. But if you want to do the project with me, It's a great portfolio. I got comments like stop offering jobs with no money. Just take a selfie stick and do it yourself. Ouch. But I was raised to do that until a one-point actually got a guy who I knew his sister and she was like, It was so funny, were once in her car, she was driving me somewhere else and I just said like, Oh, I'm I think I'm going to say YouTube channel. I don't know, start by. I'm going to figure them out his eye. And she was like, Well, you know what? My brother is into video, he probably would be interested, so we started doing that together and a year and a half after that. This is the biggest achievement probably of my life because it started from nothing developed something a year and a half. After that, what happened was I went for an interview. The interview wasn't announced anywhere. It was. It was because I was in the field of videographers already in London. So people were talking this and this here. Why don't you apply for this and they recommended me. So apply, I go into interview on the intermediate, open my YouTube channel When I was presenting things, I was presenting travel stories about London. That's how the channel started the YouTube channel. And the channel, they open it on that interview and we will set our room. The room had a table, chairs and a TV. That's all the room hat. And they play my YouTube channel on TV. And they're like, Yes, yes, Interesting, Interesting. Yeah. Why did you do that here? Why you didn't do that over there? And I'm just explaining them. And I got the job and I feel completed because the role here, the the, the decision, not the decision, But the goal was not to have a YouTube channel, to be a YouTuber. The goal was to have something that stores my portfolio and I can show it to people and I can track my own progress as well. And that worked. They open the channel and they're like, Oh my God, this is crazy. And they called me the next day. You're hired. And I was so happy. I accomplished. I was so happy. Couldn't believe it. I was there videographer and presented to for a year, about a year, slightly a bit more. And then I went to a different company. The Somalis that I told you about where I spent a year and a half as a videographer, not present there, but pay better job. We've gotten into troubling. And then it's just, it's just remarkable. So what I wanted to say, just follow your dreams. Because and the concierge, when I started the YouTube channel, I told you that year and a half after that, I got the job as a geographer. However, that gap year and a half, I wasn't a concert. I was in marketing. I moved to a marketing position which was good pay and not much work. And everybody there is staying for the money and the little work. I remember I was saying that to my colleagues and to my boss. I'm leaving. And they were like, Oh, why are you leaving? Amazon? And it's something that I want to do is just videos. And then the videos there were giving me less money. So I decreased my salary just for the do the thing that I love. And that that was so difficult to understand to so many people they would like, it makes no sense. Just stay on this job, It's already secure. They need to have probation period again, then you have less money. Are they going to promote you later on? It's all uncertain as this didn't make any sense to many people. However, what happened was I went to that job. I stayed there for one year. That helped me to scale it up. They fed enough. They they couldn't scale it over there. But that helped me to scale it up. In my my my knowledge and my CV and I went to have a different job and all things that jump was an advertise as well. All things because I was in the field of videography. So networking is really important. And it's just chasing your happiness over chasing money is a big thing. Because if you have all the money in the world, it doesn't mean that you be happy. And oftentimes we think that this will be the case because we see things on the site or this guy can afford this and this and everything. However, you don't know what's happening when the camera turns off, right? I don't know if you know this case, but Michael Jackson once had he had a friend who had a supermarket, McCloskey supermarket. They hire people to act like regular customers in that supermarket. And so only that Michael Jackson can go in a supermarket and experience what it is to shop as a normal person. Can you think about that? Can you realize that how crazy that is? Because people are like, I want to be like Joe Jackson. I want to be the world knows me travel the world, See, you know, get a lot of money. But this is just what you see on the surface. This comes with other things that you don't see it don't realize at the time. And then that's one thing and the other thing, just because you see Michael Jackson on TV and D4 and performing and making money. That doesn't mean that guy is happy. How many people you know, that you have seen they have big careers and then they just die from overdose. Why do you think that was a happy life? There was something missing that if you're unhappy with your job, just do something, doing Nothing's never the right thing. Whatever you do, chain department change jobs, change status, side hustle, whatever it is, just do something. If you start a side hustle, will go back to the baskets. You know, you'll be able to either leave your job one day or sub, happens over there. You have a small foundation. Even decide how so we can conclude that can keep you happy from all this negativity that's happening in your job? So just do something, Do nothing is never the right thing and it's never too late. You might watching this and you're like, Oh my God. Okay. Powell, but I'm 45. Right. What I want to teach my job at 45, why shall I do that? Look, your life. You can live a long life nowadays, people living until 1890 even more. If you look at it that way, if you look at the 85, you have 40 more years, used to have a lot of years to live. Why are you sacrificing years of your life to be unhappy? It makes no sense. Just look for the happiness, do something and I'll tell you it's never too late. I wrote something down here. It's never too late because Morgan Freeman became famous at the age of 5250 to Joe Biden, who is the president of USA now. Do you know how old is he? He's 7878. So it's never too late. Never give up. Just try, try, try, try doing nothing being static is the wrong thing. Just try, try, try, try, try. Whenever you find yourself in an unhappy place, just try and change it. Happiness over money. Success doesn't equal money. Success equals happiness. Once you're happy, you know what we want to know how we can crack life. That's how it can crack life. When you become happy, when you find the formula for happiness and work is a big key. I hope you take that key, hope you do something with it. And oh my God, I'm sorry, I opened up a lot on this chapter, but I really hope that you can resonate. I really hope that you can connect with the chapter and I will hope that was useful for you. 15. Key 14 - Variety: Just coming up the subject of work, I just want to slip in very quickly a subject called variety. I think, in my humble opinion, I think you'd have variety. Remember back in the days, probably don't, maybe you don't remember, but my parents are born in the sixties, right? Back then. Your go to school, you go to university, you go out straight away. You've got a job here. This this is your Jaap and usually you work that job until you retire. So that's a lot of years repetition. Same thing over and over and over again. Then when I started changing my jobs every year, my parents like, when you're going to win again, I said, Oh, I'm like, what is what is about settle? What's the settling? Think you should do? What feels right? I I cannot survive doing the same thing over and over again. I fail. I have an insight radar or whatever you call it, every once in a while, which happens a year in the year of Minecraft. Time for change, time for move on. Am I earning am unlearning? I'm enjoying myself. So variety is really big, big thing. Sure. You go somewhere like workplace, let's say, and then you start feeling comfortable, right? You already know the people, you already know the work routine, you already know the way to go to work. It's always the same, f is the same. It's super easy. You don't need to stress out. It's fairly easy. However, this very easy zone is very dangerous because we know that you cannot grow when you're in your comfort zone. So I would suggest do something else, have a variety. Now, I'm not telling you quit your job. Variety doesn't only come with jobs, as he said, can start a side hustle that will keep your mind active and keep your mind active is also one of the keys to have a longer life and happier life as well. So variety you can have at work, you can change your job, you can start a side hustle. However, you can have variety in different options as well. Here are a few. For example, you can rearrange your furniture. You can paint the walls in a different color. You can change your coffee shop. Why don't you try and find a new coffee shop? I don't know, just to free blocks away, that's where you'll find a new route. You stimulate your brain to think of it, how to get where, what's happening, then when you get that you meet new people. Another thing you can do is change your workout routine or just try and soften Yasi can still work on same muscles, are still go for the same results, but just try a new workout routine. That is another key to keep you motivated to keep working out because you're going to try different things, are going to be using the same exercises over and over again to achieve the results. You're going to change them. So right now, your assessment after this chapter is assess your routine, day-to-day routine, and I'll just your work not just your tasks at work, but also your day-to-day routine. What are you doing? Are you going and taking food, buying food from the same place? Always. But why don't you try and buy food from somewhere else? Different restaurants assess your routine, day-to-day routine. If you find a pattern that keeps repeating, it's too much. But you haven't noticed, already noticed, but it's nice. It's easy, it's too comfortable. All right, well, just try once to change it, try something new. So here's your assignment. Analyze your routine, and then pick up alternatives, change something, or why don't you add something? Anyway, just shuffled it or do something, you do something new, please. Variety. 16. Key 15 - Block Scheme of Happiness: Okay, what I'm about to present to you now in this chapter is something called block scheme of happiness. If you don't know what block scheme is, then just Google it. We don't have time for this right now. Let's focus on the main. Think this is very practical. This is something that stayed in my mind. This is something that I use every time I have a problem. And I'm sure that you can implement that and you can start implementing it straight away. So here it goes. Every time you have a problem. First of all, ask yourself, Is that a real problem actually? Is that a real problem? Is that a problem that needs my attention? If it appears that this is not an actual problem and you don't actually have a problem, you're just worrying too much. And if the answer is no, Don't worry. Why do you worry? That is no problem to worry. You're just figuring out new problems. I bought. Don't worry, don't create problems. But what if you actually have a problem? Then you need to ask yourself this question, k's solve it. Can you actually solve this problem that you have? If the answer is yes, then don't worry. Why do you want and if you already have the answer, you know, you, you know that you need to take action abc. And then once you do that, you know, like problem-solved. And what are you worried? However, here's what happens here. If you have a problem and you cannot solve it, then don't worry. Why are you worrying? Sure you have a problem. Sure it can solve it. But if you cannot solve it, then why are you worrying? Because there is nothing you can do actually. See what I mean, no matter what the outcome is, no matter what the problem is, no matter if you can solve it or not, no matter what the end thing is, you have no reason to be worried because you either will solve it and why you're worried, or you, either you can solve it then why do you worry if, if something's out of your control? So no matter what happens, keep this block scheme in the back of your head. Always, usually when you have a problem and, and don't worry. So please memorize these block scheme. I will try to attach it somehow to that lesson so you can have it printed. Well, I don't think you need to print it to be fed. All you need to do is just memorize and put in the back of the head. And every time you have a problem, just go through it mentally. Hope that helps. I'll see you in the next chapter. 17. Key 16 - Take Care of Your Home: Moving on to the next key, which is taking care of your home. No matter if you don't live with anybody to help you out or keep you accountable, cleaning, tried to take care at least a little bit about your place. I'm not saying you should always clean, make it spotless. Everything shine. No. Just don't leave piles of closes and dishes everywhere. Maybe somewhere. But not everywhere. And why is that? Because you cannot expect to walk in and then feel great with all the mess. You see, it's not going to happen. Now, I want to put a little disclaimer here first because I'm not the best person to do that. However, I'm lucky enough that they live with somebody who does. So. Opposite opposite sides are tracks, right? Is that correct? I don't know, but I think in that case it works. Anyway. Try to figure that out how things are going to happen. But the more organized your home is, the better your mind will be. And that is the only thing I'm going to say about your home, because that really is an app, the actual subject of this key that I want to give you. You look surprise, but here's why. Along ago, I heard this expression that I'm giving you some expressions this course right along, I heard that expression stacking my head and I only give it to me as well. It's called like that. You only have two homes and when by you I mean you, me, your father, everybody. You only have two homes and that doesn't refer to the home you live in. You only have two homes and these are your planet and your body, right? This is really powerful. It is, you plan it and your body. These are the two homes you've got, and these are the two homes he should really take care of. Next chapter probably already see it's called health, right? It's an continuation from this chapter. So your body health, I'm going to talk a bit more about that in the next chapter. However, let's focus on this chapter while we're still here, right, your planet. So what do you do think about is, what do you do? When you go to someone's home? You go somewhere. You go and visit current for the first time. You walk in the door. And i o current lego, what shall I do with my code? Okay. Am I taking off my shoes? Are keeping them. Okay. Okay. Where is the toilet current? Okay. Can we sit here or shall we say, like, What are you doing? You're trying to figure out the rules, right? What is happening here? What is acceptable, what is not same here? U i, your father, Karen, Jim, your cousin. We're all visitors on this planet and we should play by the rules, otherwise will be banned in a way, you know, you know what I mean? So what are the simple rules here? You don't even need to have money to act on that. Or you can do simple things. You leave the room there on the light, you brushing your teeth, turn off the tap, stop the water from flowing. You don't need that. You're brushing your teeth saying We'd hoping your soap, your body, turn off the water, right? You go to the supermarket, will take your backpack instead of taking plastic bags from there. These are all small, little, tiny things that not only help the planet, but who will save you money as well. So it makes no sense not to do these things, probably laziness, but how lazy you have to be and that's turned the water while we don't use it or how lazy you have to be just to grab your backpack on the way out. Like, I don't understand. These are things that please please do them because they might look small, but small steps and leaving always two big things. So this is for this chapter, take care of your home as much as you can. Take care of your planet as much as you can. Please don't let, don't throw your staff on the street just like that. You know, you eat a candy bar from the package on the street. Can we just keep it in your pocket? You see a beam 10 meters after that. Just don't pollute the planet. Take care of it, take every home they can replenish it. Let's talk a little bit more about the health. 18. Key 17 - Health: Let's get physical, physical. Let's get physical, physical. Alright, let's talk about health, how to be healthy? Well, I have the secret for you. My friend have the secret command can come closer, emitter, which you come closer. Okay. You only need three things. And that is exercise, eat well, and sleep. All right, go back. How, How about that for a secret era? Good. Right. What you knew about it. You knew up. Well, that's a surprise. It's no surprise. Of course you knew a barrier. This is not secret. Everybody knows about it. But then if everybody knows about this, and why not, everybody's fit. Well, let me answer your question with a quote from an interview. So Jeff basis, if you don't know that, if you don't know what your basis is that the owner of Amazon is one of the richest people on Earth. Probably second to Elon Musk, was interviewing Warren Buffett. If you don't know who Warren Buffett is, he is a really big investor. He had made, he made his fortune with investing. So give basis asks Warren Buffett, warren your investment phase. This is so simple and yet so brilliant. Why doesn't everybody just copy you? To which Warren Buffett says to me, so why doesn't everybody copy you? Because nobody wants to get rich slow. You know, he's doing investments, right? He's investing, but he's keeping them there. And it's generating money over time, right? Over time, not next month. Same with exercises. That's where I'm the part two parts for exercising in keeping in good shape. The first one is that everyone wants to see the results. Now. They want things fast. They were like, Okay, Well, I will I went to the gym for one month, whole month. I don't I don't see results. Why shall I continue? You know, everyone thinks one's the things fast. I've been eating fruits and vegetables for a whole week. Why, why don't see the results? What's happening? Right? Everyone wants their results fast. Maybe you're not doing the right food regime. Maybe you're not doing the right workout routine. Maybe this and that right there other things, but just because you don't see results straight away, that doesn't mean stop. Everyone wants things fast when you should have patients, right? But that was one thing. Everyone wants the results fast. And the other thing is work ethic. You need to be persistent with that. And just to clear the air here. When I say working out, I don't mean going to the gym every time and making some heavy work out all the time. Oh, we need to do is stay active. Needs the active. Okay. Gyms are closed. What I'm gonna do now, or the resistance bands, they had amazing workout only with resisting bands. Also, a simple walk out is also a movement. Even if you do small exercises, this is still something, this is still progress. Small exercise, short exercise, five-minute exercise is way better than laying down on the couch. Even if you do something small is better than doing nothing. So what you need to do to have good health, it just it well, yeah, no problem. Ideally cook your meals. Don't be lazy. Don't be lazy. The other thing is exercising. Think about this. You don't need to our workout sessions, five minutes, sometimes movie enough. In fact, know what I'm going to give you. I'm going to give an extra chapter here to discourse and I'm going to add five minutes, work out that gonna keep you fit five minutes, you do it everywhere. It's going to kick your butt. Five minutes. Okay, that's, that's interesting. And then the last thing you just try and get some sleep because sleep is the time when your muscles are recovering. Okay, that's it for this session. Health is really important. Health issue temple, you cannot expect to be happy if you have bad health. I haven't seen people that are coughing all the time and they're limping and they're happy. You can achieve that, but it's very difficult. And here are a few more points when it comes to having a good health. One of them is having enough sunlight, especially now in lockdown will work too much indoors. Sometimes we don't have good access to sunlight. So don't forget, just go for a walk or just gone the balcony, or even if it's too cold, even stay sound closer and the window for a bit, then you can get some sunlight. Sunlight is quite important for eHealth. If none of these is an option, there are artificial options like full spectrum light bulbs, maybe purchase those for your rooms so you can have more light. Your body can enjoy more light. The next one, please, don't forget to drink water. I have seen so many people because I interact and communicate with many people. And I've seen so many people that are drinking fizzy drinks and they think that's good enough substitute to water? No, it's not. Water is water you cannot substitute with Coke or fizzy lemonade or whatever it is, what it is, what it please drink water. You know, it cannot survive without food between 820 days, but without water, you cannot survive three days. Three days. That means that, that should tell us enough. If you think that the food you take, it's like the fuel for the car will then the water is the oil for that car. It keeps everything going. So please hydrated yourself. If you get dehydrated, that can leave for some issues that are not noticeable at the very beginning, but in long-term that can live for some issues, but short-term headache, you have headache, don't take any medicines, just drink that, drink water, make it as a habit, wake up. Keep a glass of water next to your bed. Wake up, finished our water. Here you go. We just developed one habit. Just keep that on your nightstand, wake OUT, finished glass and you're going to be set for the next few hours. Another thing you can do is setup alarms, etc. Last during the danger, drink water, okay, here's my law. Just try and stay hydrated. And lastly, but not least, is breathing. Breathing keeps us alive and we are breathing, yeah, because if we don't brief, we die. However, we forget how important that is. Sometimes, especially when your stress. Having a deep breath. Few of them brings more air to your brain, calms you down. So breathings really important. We often forget to breathe. Really interesting videos. You can watch breathing techniques. So just check that out and don't forget drink out of water and brief that will help your health take care of your health because your body is your temple. And it's really important that if our health, let's move to the next queue. 19. Key 18 - Dealing With Complainers: Next point I want to discuss here is complaints, complaints, and I'm going to give you free little keys over here. So I am a good guy and I'm a loving guy. I love people, humans, objects, I love a lot of things, however, I hate. Hate is a really strong word for me. I usually use this slide. Hate, pretty strong. However, probably the only thing I hate is complainers, people complaining. It bugs me, but we really had people complaining. I have seen enough of that. They pivoted to play other if you think about it now, I'm sure you remember somebody that you know, oh, you knew before and it's complaining about everything. And is it raining arm I got Raney here. Is it's any arm I saw hot. Everything that happens, they'll find a reason to complain too. And these are the type of people you should aim to stay away from. Because as we said before, negativity attracts negativity. If you hang around complaint as you know what's going to happen, you're going to start complaining when the next complainer. So annoying, stop being around containers. Let's go to the other side. If you're not a complainer, if you are realizing that they are things that you cannot control. Because usually people are complaining about things they cannot control. This is the worst thing you can do. They're complaining about things you can control. Like the example earlier, the weather, when it completable winner, you can't control the weather. Actually you can, you know how he can move to another country. You think it's raining too much removes ourself where it said it too much, but I know what's going to happen. They're going to move that. It's so hard over the time, it's so humid, it's own try they will complain all the time. So just ignore them, leave them, go away. Stay away from my life. No complaints in my life, no complaints. Porsche w4, get out. So you're going to be positive, right? You are positive and you realize that there are things you cannot control, like the weather if it's raining. Oh, well, it's raining. If it's sunny, sunny day, it's semi things we cannot control. What are the things that bugs me is I see people end up in the elevators that come close the doors. Come on. What's going to happen? Nothing. You're not going to control the doors more. You press the button once and let the Lyft do its work. Already gone the streets. And you see these, these buttons that you press so you can cross the road. Still read it. Eyes, nothing's going to change. Nothing's going to change. You press the button, one that said, you are bringing extra negative energy to you. This is something that I really don't understand. And I hope more people understand that, that these things you cannot control. We don't need to worry about that. So be positive, be in-charge of the things you can't control and leave aside the things you cannot. And the first subject I want to touch here is how to deal with complainants. I actually already told you. Is the question the answer to which you already have the best way to deal with complaints is simply, you know, it, you know it. Ignoring them, ignore, let them get them away. Hustling again. You don't want tomorrow's going to be sending in Leif. Leif. Leave them. You don't need to be there reading complaint by themselves. They didn't complain to the other complaining friends, you know, who's listening them, the plane in France because they have nothing to complain about as well. You should not be in that circle. How did you would complainer leaf? If you want, you can try to change their mind, however, have in mind that that can be very difficult. It's very difficult. Change someone's mind, especially if it's a negative one. Please be positive and ignore complaints and don't be complainer. That's it. 20. Key 19 - People Like to Talk: Okay. Okay. We're almost done. Stay with me, stay with me. We're almost finished. Next point is that people like to talk, oh my goodness, have I seen this before? If I only had a pound every time I saw that. So people like to talk, and here's an example. I have seen it because I like networking and network all the time. I meet new people all the time and communicate with people all the time. And the amount of time I have seen the following conversation happening to me is staggering. Here's what happens. Hey, patho, have this really cool idea. I think we will make money within two months after we started. I mean, it's gonna be really good. Great, Carol. Let's, let's catch up. Ok. Ok, and let's start working on it. And was like, okay, let me just do a few more things and then and then we're going to start working, but I'm promised it this will blow up, we will crash it. I'm like, okay, a week passes nothing. Two weeks passes nothing. I don't hear anything. Three weeks passed. Nothing. I give the person and go. Hey, Karen, what happened with that idea that you are talking about? I know I was going to do this and this, but then this happened in so many things came into my mind and occupy my attention that that are just and it couldn't happen. Sorry. I just need to do more things. I'm like, Okay, do you know when we're going to start doing this? Now? I don't know, but but I'm gonna give you a call. When to give me a call to update me on what's the situation? I was going to but I forgot. I'm like, okay, thanks a lot and leave it right. What to do in this scenario? And what I have done, I think what I've done is the correct one. When they tell you, we're going to do this in this in that, right? What you should not do actually is you should not wait for them. I still have WhatsApp groups with people that who are going to do projects together and never happen. This WhatsApp groups are dead. Nobody is writing them. And there was some groups with 46, 10 people. 11 group was 15 people or actors and presenters and video cameras guys and the like. He didn't do these big project. Yeah, it's going to be massive. It's going to be work for everyone. Yeah. That happened two years ago. Two years ago. Still there every once in a while somebody drops a video. Oh, yeah, I remember the feeling we're going to do angle. So what you should not do is wait, never wait, Never ever wait. Because people like to talk. And most likely what happens is they'll never come back to you. So when somebody comes to you with a project or something like, let's keep it at a project. In this case, somebody comes with a project. I have this cool project. I have this great idea, right? I'm going to need your services and where major skills I'm going to need you're presenting skills, right? We're going to do this by starting in one month from now, Okay? Which to be ready, okay, one month from now, I'm going to pay you 500 a month. Let's say 5000 a month is going to work just ten days per month. It's great opportunity. Let's do that. You're like, Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. And then what's going to happen in most possible, what most people do like Cao, Cao, Cao, okay, I have is I have one month to relax. Relax and then I'm going to have some money every month coming from the MAF half half a month for 40 days work. Okay. Arabs, good. And don't need much. Okay. Okay. I can relax from now. What's going to happen most likely is that mom's going to pass. You, either not going to hear from that person or you're gonna hear from that person and like, okay, so I'm sorry, but we're not going away without wound up going forward with that project. And I'm really sorry, but we're not going to do it. And then you lost a month doing nothing. And then you have nothing at the end. The worst thing you should do is wait. Chase people. Yes, wait for them. Know. One of my favorite things is when it comes to talking to people. So we established that right? Chases him? Yes. Wait for them. No. Okay. Yes. No. We established that. And when it comes to talking to people, one of my favorite things is take this up. Remember, I'm sure 98, 99.78%, I'm sure that you have experienced that as well. You're walking on the street and you see an old friend of yours. You haven't seen that guy or GAO for ages like a salmon. How are you Do we haven't seen for ages and some others whom I got. How you doing so many years pass a current recognize you're like, Okay. Yes, Samantha. Let's go for a drink. One there. Yeah. Okay. Let's do it. Let's do it. I'm going to call you, okay? Okay. Let's chat, okay. Okay. That's never going to happen. Never know what's going to happen. So one of the funniest thing I experienced when I, I experienced that in the past. But when I, when I see people now doing that, I'm laughing and laughing about as never going to happen. If you don't set up a date and time or if you cannot do that, if you don't set up any call to action like I'm going to call you, you should usually take that initiative. I'm going to call you next Monday and arrange something. I'm going to call your Monday and we are in something. If you don't set up something on the spot when you meet someone, in that case scenario, for example, if you don't set up something on the spot, nothing's going to happen. Either set up a date and time or either give a call to action because if you just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, nothing's going to happen. 21. Key 20 Don't compare yourself to others: Okay. Okay. We are finishing I told you we're finishing with almost that. Next point is I'm getting more and more practical, so much practicality in that course that I love it. So next point is, don't compare yourself to others. I see more and more people doing that. And the sad thing is that even our parents are doing that for us. A jaw hook, your your friend your friend Sam is already having two kids and you are still traveling around, like, when is that going to change? When you're going to end this? Come on. You know what's so funny? In Bulgaria have this expression. When we were kids. This is hilarious actually, it's not funny when we were kids. And if they catch you doing something and then your parents are mad at you like, What do you do this? Are you nuts? Why why, why did you do that? And then when you say something like because my friend George did it. And then the response back then was George throw himself out of the bridge. Will you do the same? So what's Hillary's here is that when, when you were a child, your parents, we're not comparing you to your friends. But then when you grow up, your parents are constantly comparing you to some of your friends. So the one that they choose to, like, for example, if they, this is unfortunately the part where parents want you to live their life. So if your parents want you to have kids already, they will compare it to somebody who has kids, right? If your parents ones that are similar age. If your parents once you have I don't know, a house and you're traveling around, you're not anchored yet. They'll compare it to somebody who has a house. If your parents want you to be a manager and be a higher position at work, they will compare you to somebody that has this already. It was like Look at look at John. John is a manager of regional whole region. What about you when you're going to, we're going to start doing that. This unfortunately it's a thing that can bring us slightly down. We need to realize and make other people realize people that are around us that this is our life, right? Mom, maybe you will not like this, but this is my life and I'm not ready to settle down yet. I'm not ready to have a job where I want to be a manager. I still want to experience other things. Please understand that. You know, you have to be open with these things. You have to have to say out loud that this is the time for you and you are making the decisions. Because what happens is if you leave your parents live, there will happen now, but down the line, you will resend them. And that will be really bad for your relationship. So when it comes to other people comparing you to other people, just like just say, Okay, Thanks so much. Thanks for thanks for information. Thanks for letting me know about jom. Honestly, I'm not interested, but thanks for that. And I wish you a great day. Just leave. My mother's still keeps coming with me. Your cousin had a child, or your neighbor has a child or this guy had a child. She's even giving you the people that I don't know that they had a child. Not only reason, the only resemblance is because we're the same age roughly. I'm like Mom. Okay. I understand that, but look, this is my life. This is how I have chosen to live it. And at the time, I don't want kids, I want kit, but none of the time. Please understand that. I promise you it will give your child, but not now. I'm I'm opening again, but but I'm honest. I just want you to understand everything. I just wanted to understand from where I'm communists were and what I'm talking about. I have experienced it. It's not like I read it somewhere. I experienced that and I'm over it. I told my mom multiple times this and this and that. Don't worry. We'll give you just not now. She keeps going. I'm like Mom, I'm going to stop calling me. Right? I'm going to stop calling you. Just please stop talking about these things. They should stop talking about these things. But then after that, she started sleeping them slightly hook into the conversation. Ally, mom, I see what you're doing. This stop doing this things. Yeah. So I would say be honest, be opened. Just say what's in your mind because people cannot read minds. If you don't say these things, people will just continue doing it their way. And then the other thing I want to say is this is, this is the part where people are comparing it to other people, but it's as dangerous as you're comparing yourself to other people. And this comes if you're a creator. I know I see that. Then comparing themselves to other creators. I cannot do transitions like this guy. I cannot create that good music. I cannot film that much. I cannot smile so much on camera. That's not me, that's not, that's not me. So I will not succeed. That is true. The world has proven that no matter how good or bad you are, you can succeed if you have persistence and how to work. Look at, look at Sylvester Stallone. I wouldn't say he's good looking. He has problem with his pH. However, he was very successful for Rocky and Rambo, right? Looking at our own charts and eager. He was made fun like bodybuilding. Ha, he made it with persistence and hard work. Also, he wanted to be in movies. Ha, who are you? He made it just because he was unique. He people said, Your body is so big, you will not fit anywhere. And he fitting column because he may have a big body, big body. They said your speech is to broken. You will not fit everywhere, anywhere. And he fit in terminator because they, they wanted exactly this. They wanted someone who speaks like a robot. So it was perfect. So no matter how good you are, bad you think UI, you can succeed if you just keep pushing, keep pushing, just persistence. Persistence and hard work. These are the two things that you need. Keep working, keep working. Keep working didn't happen. Okay. No problem. Keep working, keep working, keep working. I'm pitching this project didn't happen. Okay. No problem. Keep working, keep working, keep working, keep working for assistance and hard work. So don't compare it to other creators because they are in a different part of the journey. No plus, plus, you're seeing you're competing with PSC of you started last month, and you're comparing yourself to somebody who's been doing that for 4.5 years. That makes no sense. That makes no sense. Just, just look at how they do it. Okay, That's interesting. I don't like this or like this. Okay. I'll take just this. Okay. Put it with me. Right. Okay. You just stay with me here. It's a distributor. No, no, no. Too loud. Too many transitions. I don't like the camera he's using. Okay. I like the sound effects you put in. Okay? Okay, do that with 50 different creators and you now have your own personality, your own style. That's how we do it. Then persistence, hardwork, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo like that? No. Okay. Do we do we do do like that. Yeah. He likes it. He likes it. Okay. Here you go. Yes, Hiroko. This, how would that persistence hardware? And don't compare yourself to other people. If you don't compare yourself to other people, this is a great key to have for your success, successful road to happiness. So thanks so much for listening to that. And I see you in the final chapter. 22. End: Oh, okay, we made it we made it through that long course. So I firstly want to congratulate you for finishing it. I want to thank you for staying with me for a long time and thank you for stretching. If you stretch, if you cheat it. Well, I feel sorry for you. For free. You should have been, you were supposed to be invested in that course. That was our view at the beginning, right? That was our deal. If it didn't stretch, please go back and stretch now. Don't go back in the courts. Just stand up and stretch now. Okay. Just stretch. Okay. Now just stretch of it. Okay. I just want to thank you for doing that, for doing that course, for staying for the whole time. Because as I said at the beginning, online courses have an issue. They don't get finished, but you finished it. You are bidding Thus stats, and that is a big thing. Then the next thing that's stopping online courses from success is people that finish it. Don't implement the stuff. Please. Don't be like that. Implement what you work. Implement what you just learned. Don't forget a write them down on a piece of paper or these keys, check them every once in a while, have the homework that you finished as well. All these things that you wrote down, have them somewhere. Keep them safe every time you think the world is going against you. Take them out and read them out loud. Out loud so you can hear them properly and get them stuck in your head more and more. So I want to thank also everyone who has been in my life for short period, for a long period because that helped me to be the person I am right now. And you should do, you should be doing the same. You should. Thank everyone who has been in your life, who has impacted your life with a little or a little more, or even a lot, that person helped shape your personality. Even it was a bad experience. You know, that that is a lesson. Another bad experience, not a failure. That is a lesson. And that lesson who help you for the future. Frank so much. If you have any questions, any remarks, anything, whatever it is, please reach out to me on social media, asked me wherever it is, Tell me whatever it is. And I have a mission here. As I told you, I want to impact as many people as I can with this online course. So please share this with your friends. Share this course with your friends, let them know anytime you think somebody is missing some of these keys, follow that course at them, let them know where they can find it. And oh my God, I really invested myself. I'm out of breath. I really gave my 10 out of 10, but I'm ready to give you 11 out of 10, reach out if you need anything. And I thank so much for taking this online course, and I wish you all the success.