 Today we got nine awesome habits you can start doing today and it doesn't have to be a new year to do it. You can do it any time for improvement. Hey there, njrew22.com here with another vlog and today it's going to be sort of like we got the idea because it's the new year soon or by the time some of you might be seeing this it'll already be 2020. And we thought why not, let's throw our hat in the ring for sort of, this is not resolution. It's just awesome habits I call it. You need funny words these days to get anybody to watch your stuff, but awesome habits are fabulous. I don't know what to call it. But these are like nine things I came up with that you can, if you engage in these habits it will improve your life. I'm not guaranteeing it because I just can't because what am I going to do? Pay you if it doesn't help you. I can't guarantee it. So I'm just going to rattle off a list of nine things, habits you can partake in starting now that will improve your life. And number one on my list, and there's no order here by the way, this is just random order. It's not like a countdown. Oh, the top 10 item, no, no. This is just nine items I came up with and I wrote it, stream of thought. And the first item I have for you today is to avoid mainstream news and particularly the partisan politics that's happening now. And I should say that you shouldn't turn it off completely. I mean, the TV, yes. But if you could just scan the headlines, I recommend you use an RSS reader and you could subscribe to like the top or whatever five popular mainstream garbage news sites just to see what they're talking about because you kind of need to know what society is buzzing about because that may be a problem in your neighborhood one day soon, whether it's riots or some stupid laws or gender issues or whatever it is. You need to kind of know what society's talking about or trying to talk about. And I recommend you find some alternative sites. They're not always easy to find because there's always somebody messing everything up or publishing misinformation and disinformation. It's a crazy world out there to have to deal with with all this information and swelling around. So, but my best advice is to avoid the mainstream news because it's just bad news. Even your local New York news is just bad news. Always somebody got hurt. There was a big fire here and like you don't need to know about that stuff. Worry about your friends and your family and your own backyard and your life. And whatever, I can go on and on about politics and all this other stuff, but keep an eye on them and that's about it. And my second tip, number two is something I've been talking about every week here on this channel, it's going carnivore. We're so happy that we're mainly meat and we've never been better when it comes to digestion, food, hunger, being satiated. I really do think carnivore is the best thing for humanity that has happened in the last few years. And I see it slowly taking off, but it really isn't. But if you can't fathom just eating meat and not having your vegetables and fruits and all that other nonsense, you could do one thing by going low carb and with the focus on reducing the amount of sugar slash carbs. I think sugar and carbs are identical. People worry about the sugar content. Yeah, there's differences between refined sugar and all this other stuff. Don't worry about just reduce your your carbs. If you're take a note, notepad and see how many carbs you're eating a day. And if it's in the hundreds, you're way you're in big trouble later on. Even if you're skinny and you have good metabolism, you are in big trouble later on in your life. So if you can cut it down to 50 grams of carbs or less a day, preferably not more than 20 in a sitting, you should be OK. And that you'll lose weight, you'll be you'll sleep better. Your pains will go away. I'm telling you right now, but avoid wheat, too, if you can. It's inflammatory for the human body. But that's another question for another day. My number three item for a good, awesome habit to partake in now and going forward any year, not just 2020. And that's question everything you see, including this video or what this website question. Do I have any ulterior motives? Are there people paying me? And if you question and you vet it out, you can find find some good things going on. But question everything, whether it's diet advice or new laws that are published. Oh, you get a $400 ticket for being on your phone or we have rainbow colored crosswalks now and we have all this stuff. Just whatever is happening in society and whatever is trending. Just question everything because, like we've said in the past, there's a dotted line somewhere to somebody who's benefiting from what's happening in the world today. And sometimes that dotted line is hidden and you have to kind of deduce on who benefits by disrupting a government or by changing the fuel source from oil to batteries. There's always someone that can cash in. So question everything and find out who the benefactor is of any societal shift or change in your environment. There's always someone that's going to profit handsomely from something that goes on with society as a whole. And number four, this is kind of important for us. I mean, I think that everybody should reduce their phone usage. I know these smartphones we have are extremely high tech and they're very capable of doing a lot of things, apps everywhere. Apps, apps, apps, maps and coupons and all this other stuff. And there's banking and I don't even know what else there is. But most people are on social media and they're interacting and they're getting dopamine hits and so on. I think that the phone is taking over and I see people out and about just everywhere they go. The minute they pull into a parking spot, they look at the phone. They look at their phone as they walk from their car to a store or a coffee shop. They're just constantly on this phone. There are people in general are losing, except the younger generation. I guess under 60, older people I see still actually pay attention. They look around, but by losing touch with your environment, I think he's going to have a profound effect later on. They're going to say in 20 years, oh my God, all these people were paying attention to their phone the whole time. They forgot how to be situationally aware of their environment. And I think that's going to have a bad effect at some point in the future. So I like to just be where I am and not be on a phone. If I use my phone sometimes at home, just the way I would use a computer at home, I don't lug my computer everywhere I go. And that's sort of what happened with the phone. You have almost the capability of a computer with you at all times. And while it's a good resources for some things, I think overconsumption, overuse is a bad thing. So the next thing, it's sort of similar, but it's cutting the cord on your television set or video monitor, whatever you want to call it. I call it mind programming, no matter what it is. No matter what it is, whether it's a entertaining TV show, whether it's a comedy, drama, or no matter what, news, for instance. All these things, I think of it as mind programming. And it's very addictive. It's intelligently written. It's psychologically manipulative. And that's why I know that if I ordered, I don't have Netflix, but if I started watching seasons of things, I almost the other day I was at the library and we get videos for our kids because as much as I fought it tooth and nail to not put my kids in front of the TV, sometimes your hands are tied so bad. And I will admit that we will throw them in front of a PBS kids show like the Bernstein Bears or something like that just to keep them occupied. It's sad because that's another story for another day. But I know that if I saw at the library, they had MacGyver seasons one through 10 or I don't know how many seasons it was. And like I remember watching that as a kid. I'm like, oh, let me watch it again. And I knew I had it in my hand and I put it back on the shelf because I knew if I started watching it, I would without a doubt be hooked on it and I would waste hundreds of hours of my life sitting there watching the show and enjoy it. Although MacGyver is probably a good show because it really did teach you situational awareness and making do what can I do with this glue and this chisel if I'm stuck somewhere, you can you can use things like that. So but I think TV is is a passive activity and should be cut that my next little tip is reading. I think you should read, read, read, read, read, read books, not just fantasy novels or romance or I think history and psychology are some of the best books you can read. I'm not going to get into the authors and stuff like that. But I think some of the authors you might find interesting are authors that may have been critically attacked when they came out with their books. I'm reading an author now, Robert Anton Wilson and his books. And he was all into that LSD stuff and Timothy Leary. And there those books were pretty much attacked and demonized by mainstream medicine and ideas, conservative ideas. But they're really eye opening. And I think that's something you need to challenge. Stretch the limits of your mind. So read as much as you can instead of using those hundreds of hours to watch binge watching. That's something I think is good. And number seven here is is sort of a dual thing. It's a practicality and frugalness. And by practicality, I mean do it yourself. Learn how to fix things, get skilled in tools. Do things smart. I think that's it's kind of a general thing to talk about here. But in frugalness in terms of asking yourself, do you really need that latest thing? Can I deal with used? I think challenging yourself not to get the latest and greatest thing is a real good first step in combating consumerism and not getting caught up in the trends of things that are hot today and then a year from now that it's already obsolete and replaced by something. It's this vicious cycle that happens in our world. And quickly moving over to number eight here. And this is with all the time you've saved by not having your phone, not watching TV and having a mindset of questioning everything. I think one of the good things you can do with your newfound skills is observe society. Watch people. When you go don't just spend your time chatting with your friends digitally. By being in the moment and being where you are in your environment, I think you could start picking up on things and when you watch how other people behave in groups and what they're talking about, listen to what other people are talking about, you can sort of really get a good understanding of what's happening in the world and make better decisions going forward. It's just fun to do also to watch how things that happen over here affect people in general over here. And you could see it. Maybe you can even make some money on it if you can really pick up on it. If you can market the people on their phones, somehow maybe you can make it. That's what Gary Vee says all the time. And last but not least here, this is a very difficult one. It's trying to solve any problem you may have with toxic people and you know who they are. Everybody has them in their lives. It's not just people who disagree with you or like different things or have different political beliefs. It's there's people, you know, narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths that are out there and everybody has them to some degree. And sometimes it's kind of hard to solve the problem because of the complexity involved. I'm not going to get into it, but some you can't just get rid of. But in some cases, the only way to deal with these type of people is to completely cut the cord on them too. But that's something that's it's very tricky to deal with. And that's that's about it. I really do think the phone is one of the big things to contend with and that if you can just keep it in your pocket or turn it off or not even need it. It does a lot to keep the brain strong. And I think having a strong brain and an uninfluenced brain is very important for not just 2019, 2020 and beyond, but always. So that's it. Please hit the subscribe button and the like button and all that. I need more subscribers. I need to get to a thousand. I'm eventually going to have it one of these days. 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