Do the Opposite #36 - Video Edition: No Spend Year, Get Out Of A Rut, The Power of Believing You Can Improve
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I've collected some videos I wanted to share with all of you so I thought that this week's newsletter will be a Video Edition. Here are the highlights of what I've watched recently, the videos that I hope will help assist and inspire you in changing your life for the better, as they have inspired me:
1) "My No Spend Year" by Michelle McGagh | TEDxManchester
Michelle shares her experience of becoming fed up with constant spending and trying a "no spend" experiment for a year, when she only bought the absolute necessities and nothing else. She managed to save £22,000 that year and became a happier, less stressed person.
2) "How To Quickly Get Out Of A Rut" by Joey Schweitzer
This often happens to me: I commit to making some changes in my life, hold strong for a couple of weeks which are then followed by a sort of "breakdown" or self-sabotage, when I reduce and, eventually, stop all the new activities connected to the changes I was trying to make. That depresses me a bit and then I lose about a week of effort trying to get myself back together. Joey shares some practical advice for people like me on how to get away from that negative place quicker.
3) "The Power Of Believing That You Can Improve" by Carol Dweck | TED
If you haven't yet picked up Carol Dweck's book "Mindset", you definitely should. If you are not convinced or haven't yet heart about it, Carol's TED talk is a great starting point. The main idea is that the beliefs that we hold about our abilities being predetermined from birth (as in, "I am not good at math like some other people") are limiting, and untrue: with a flexible, "growth" mindset, we are able, through practice, improve in any area where we might have erroneously believed we have hit our ceiling in.
4) "Mandy Harvey: Deaf Singer Earns Simon's Golden Buzzer With Original Song" - America's Got Talent
This is an absolutely heart-warming story of courage of Mandy Harvey who became deaf but kept signing. She performs a song that she herself wrote in this amazing video.
5) "Is Your Stuff Stopping You?" by Elizabeth Dulemba | TEDxUniversityofEdinburgh
Another case for getting rid of things that are limiting your life. Do you want to move to another city or country? Do you want to travel more? All of that can be accomplished much easier if you don't have tons of things (=crap) holding you back and sucking out your discretionary income.
Regarding this Video Edition:
Let me know how you like this format and once in a while I might be doing this again :)
Tweet that resonated with me
Ethos:
Quotes:
"A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate."
— Steven Pressfield, "Do the Work"
"Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day."
— Steven Pressfield, "The War of Art"
"The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say... What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing... the thing that might be worth saying."
— Gilles Deleuze
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Alexander Kallaway
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