10 Minimalist Rules That Changed My Life — Transcript

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1. 0:00I used to feel really stuck in my life
2. 0:02and unmotivated I'd always try these
3. 0:04extreme things to change my life 30 day
4. 0:07challenges that I saw other people doing
5. 0:08but over the past few years I've built
6. 0:10some small simple rules for myself that
7. 0:13have really improved my day-to-day life
8. 0:15and I hope it can improve yours as well
9. 0:17the house on fire rule recently on our
10. 0:20trip through Europe British Airways lost
11. 0:22our luggage we kept our backpacks but we
12. 0:25lost all of our clothes and it was at
13. 0:27that point I had a really cool
14. 0:28realization I didn't really care about
15. 0:31any of that stuff it didn't make any
16. 0:33difference to me if I never saw all my
17. 0:34clothes again it wouldn't really matter
18. 0:36so I've been practicing this rule
19. 0:37recently and the rule is think about
20. 0:39your attic or your closet your storage
21. 0:42unit whatever it is what would happen if
22. 0:45it just went away it evaporated Into
23. 0:47Thin Air your house burned down and you
24. 0:49lost all that stuff would you actually
25. 0:51be relieved are you overly attached to
26. 0:53it does your stuff actually kind of own
27. 0:56you a little bit for me I had this
28. 0:58realization there's a few things in my
29. 0:59house that I wouldn't love to lose for
30. 1:02the most part it wouldn't really affect
31. 1:03me as a person my happiness levels
32. 1:06anything if my house burned down and
33. 1:07that's a really freaking concept because
34. 1:09the stuff we own ends up owning us so
35. 1:12the more stuff I've gotten rid of the
36. 1:13more like calm and mental Clarity of
37. 1:16ended up having in my life the 2020 rule
38. 1:19or just in case I think I first heard
39. 1:21this rule from the minimalist but
40. 1:23especially in my beginning stages of
41. 1:26decluttering when I was going through a
42. 1:27bunch of stuff and I realized that we
43. 1:29have so many things that we hang on to
44. 1:31for just in case just in case people
45. 1:33come over just in case I need to make 18
46. 1:35cups of coffee at once just in case I go
47. 1:37up a size or I go down a size we've got
48. 1:39all of this stuff for just in case so as
49. 1:42you're decluttering you're trying to
50. 1:43figure out what to get rid of if you can
51. 1:45replace an item for twenty dollars in
52. 1:48under 20 minutes then just let it go
53. 1:50obviously without being wasteful but
54. 1:52when I've used this Rule and I've
55. 1:53exercised this there really hasn't been
56. 1:55one thing that I've actually needed to
57. 1:57replace so if you're on the edge with
58. 1:59something use the 2020 rule if it fits
59. 2:01in there just let it go the Box rule
60. 2:04this Rule and actually the last two are
61. 2:07my absolute favorite rules so make sure
62. 2:08you stick around for those but the Box
63. 2:10rule kind of expands on the last one
64. 2:11where if you're going through
65. 2:12decluttering stuff you're unsure about
66. 2:14it maybe it doesn't fit in the 2020 rule
67. 2:16throw it in a box put it in your attic
68. 2:18put it in the garage and set a reminder
69. 2:20on your phone for like six months from
70. 2:22now that you will go through that box
71. 2:24and decide that so this is for the
72. 2:26people who have a hard time getting rid
73. 2:27of stuff and you're like well I'm not
74. 2:29getting rid of it I'm just putting it in
75. 2:30a box and when that time comes maybe six
76. 2:32months from now and you realize that you
77. 2:34haven't gone to that box because clearly
78. 2:36you didn't need anything out of it you
79. 2:37have two choices you can either go
80. 2:39through it and decide to sell or
81. 2:41declutter it or you can just take the
82. 2:42entire box and donate the entire box
83. 2:44because clearly you don't need anything
84. 2:46that's in there so if you want to trick
85. 2:48yourself into cluttering this is a great
86. 2:50by the way if you're enjoying this and
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89. 2:55a week so I won't clutter up your
90. 2:56YouTube feed the two day rule I'm pretty
91. 2:59sure I already originally learned this
92. 3:00one from Matt this rule is super simple
93. 3:03it's pretty much that you're not going
94. 3:04to miss a new habit two days in a row
95. 3:06for me I use this a couple different
96. 3:07ways I read a page of a book every
97. 3:09single morning and it's okay if I miss
98. 3:11one day because I've got an appointment
99. 3:13in the morning or whatever's going on
100. 3:15but I can never miss two days in a row
101. 3:17and that has kept that habit extremely
102. 3:20consistent for over a year now I also
103. 3:23use this with going to the gym where I'm
104. 3:24going to do some type of exercise every
105. 3:26day and it's okay if I miss one day but
106. 3:28I can never miss two in a row but it
107. 3:30also keeps you from like falling off the
108. 3:31bandwagon for habits that you really
109. 3:33want to keep the investing rule this is
110. 3:36a rule that I've like followed but I
111. 3:37don't I don't really know what to call
112. 3:39it if you have any ideas let me know I
113. 3:40just called it the investor rule but
114. 3:42pretty much instead of investing into
115. 3:44stuff into into random books what is
116. 3:47this hence Christian Andersen I didn't
117. 3:49even know we had that these are Meredith
118. 3:51books by the way we should be investing
119. 3:52into experiences investing into stuff
120. 3:55has generally led me to being more like
121. 3:58stressed it all takes up space and my
122. 4:00mind it doesn't really make me happy
123. 4:01even when you buy a new car it's cool
124. 4:03for a little bit and then it's just a
125. 4:04car again same thing with clothes and
126. 4:07most things but experiences really help
127. 4:10change you as a person they're great
128. 4:12memory they help you learn and expand
129. 4:14your horizons so I've been really
130. 4:15focusing on taking that money that I'm
131. 4:17not spending on stuff and investing it
132. 4:19into travel for holidays we gift each
133. 4:21other experiences instead of gifting
134. 4:23each other like random crap that we
135. 4:25don't need and that should be like
136. 4:26literally in our budget is to invest
137. 4:28money and experiences
138. 4:31have a home rule I really gotta get
139. 4:34better at naming these things this is
140. 4:36this is embarrassing if stuff does not
141. 4:38have a home in my house I just get rid
142. 4:41of it since I took the time and I found
143. 4:43a place for everything to go I've
144. 4:45stopped losing my wallet stop losing my
145. 4:47keys my phone has a place to go all my
146. 4:49clothes have places to go all the toys
147. 4:51have places that they go everything in
148. 4:53my house has a place where it belongs
149. 4:55and if it doesn't have a place where it
150. 4:56belongs it probably does not belong in
151. 4:58my house and because it'll end up on the
152. 5:00counter it'll end up strewn all over the
153. 5:02place and if it doesn't have a place
154. 5:04strongly consider getting rid of it like
155. 5:06this is just a good overall rule that if
156. 5:08it doesn't have a place where it belongs
157. 5:09and it's always just sitting around you
158. 5:11probably don't need it other people rule
159. 5:13a lot of times we do things either
160. 5:15consciously or subconsciously for other
161. 5:18people when we're getting the newest
162. 5:19iPhone it's partly because we want that
163. 5:21new flashy thing but it's partly because
164. 5:23you can kind of show off it's cool to
165. 5:25have it's a status simple same thing
166. 5:27with maybe a pair of shoes or a car or
167. 5:29the house in the neighborhood or closed
168. 5:31part of it's for you and part of it is
169. 5:33for other people even like posting to
170. 5:34social media unless it's like for work a
171. 5:37lot of that is just to get some
172. 5:38validation from your day for other
173. 5:40people and kind of make yourself feel
174. 5:42better because maybe you're not having a
175. 5:43great day and you want people to tell
176. 5:44you how great you look or how hard
177. 5:46you're working or or whatever so this
178. 5:48one actually took me a while to get out
179. 5:49of but instead of worrying about what
180. 5:52other people think especially when I'm
181. 5:53buying stuff I've been really focusing
182. 5:55on wants versus needs is this something
183. 5:57that I actually need or do I want it
184. 6:00because X Y and Z because maybe people
185. 6:03think it's cool like when I spilled
186. 6:05water on my laptop I realize that I
187. 6:07didn't need a second laptop I was able
188. 6:09to share Meredith's for like a year
189. 6:11almost and then when we went to travel
190. 6:13and I needed to edit while I was
191. 6:15traveling I bought a laptop because I
192. 6:16needed it not because it was like ah
193. 6:18that'd be cool to have I don't really
194. 6:20care what other people think I'm doing
195. 6:22what is best for me I don't really care
196. 6:24the 90 rule I use this rule two
197. 6:26different ways first when I'm looking at
198. 6:28stuff to buy I try not to buy it unless
199. 6:30it is a 90 or above so 1 out of 100 does
200. 6:34this shirt reach a 90 for me does it fit
201. 6:36well will I wear it a ton and if it's
202. 6:39below there I'm not gonna buy it and as
203. 6:42a result every shirt that I own is my
204. 6:44favorite shirt I can reach my hand in
205. 6:45grab it I love it I used to have a lot
206. 6:47of stuff that was maybe 60 70 and be
207. 6:50like oh that's pretty cool yeah I like
208. 6:51that yeah it's not bad and I never wore
209. 6:53it because I would wear my favorite
210. 6:54stuff and now everything's my favorite
211. 6:55stuff and since I found all my favorite
212. 6:57stuff I I don't really buy anything
213. 6:58anymore so that's really strict criteria
214. 7:01to buy pretty much everything in your
215. 7:02house and while sometimes that might
216. 7:03mean spending a little more money to get
217. 7:05a more quality thing in the long run at
218. 7:08least for me I've spent a lot less money
219. 7:10because I don't shop ever like for
220. 7:12anything like obviously I need some
221. 7:14stuff but I I don't like cycle through
222. 7:16anything anymore and then the second way
223. 7:18to use this is when somebody asks you to
224. 7:20do something an opportunity comes up is
225. 7:22that a 90 yearbook is it a heck yes and
226. 7:25if it's not then it's a no and doing
227. 7:28that has cleared up my calendar
228. 7:29incredibly I do so much less stuff now
229. 7:32the two minute rule I think I've done a
230. 7:34whole video on this let's give you the
231. 7:35quick version life-changing rule if
232. 7:37something takes two minutes or less just
233. 7:39do it put away the dishes clean up your
234. 7:42room bring that thing upstairs that's
235. 7:43been sitting on the staircase for a
236. 7:44month finish that repair put on your
237. 7:46workout clothes and go sit in the car
238. 7:48only commit to the smallest thing
239. 7:49possible and by doing that you'll trick
240. 7:51yourself into doing the big stuff and
241. 7:52you just clear up like a bunch of crap
242. 7:54that you've been avoiding the nightly
243. 7:55reset every night before bed I walk
244. 7:58through and I reset my house I lay out
245. 8:00my clothes for the night before I load
246. 8:02or unload the dishwasher so we never
247. 8:03leave any dishes around fill up my
248. 8:05Kettle so that I can make coffee by just
249. 8:07clicking the button in the morning I lay
250. 8:09out the book that I'm going to read I
251. 8:10set up my next day for Success the night
252. 8:13before and it's been life-changing
253. 8:14almost as life-changing as subscribing
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