 Hope you're ready for this video because it's about to get positive as a mother What is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem But focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is all about mental health And something I like to do is pull different topics going on in the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental And emotional well-being so if you're into that kind of stuff make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a Ton a ton of videos and this is actually a video following up That's some other videos I made about Garrett Watts and his hoarder house and Shane Dawson and friends like Ryland and Morgan and Andrew helping them out So before I get started with that My buddy Kay from the channel bipolar plug and I we just did our second episode over on her channel and basically we're documenting her journey of Overcoming and an abusive relationship and getting back into music and like if you're somebody who has struggled with this this entire episode It's talking about rebuilding confidence and if you need some inspiration this week like make sure you go check out that episode I'm gonna link it down in the description as well as up in the info card So anyways, here's a little backstory about my boy Garrett Watts So Garrett is a youtuber who I love and he is hilarious and he recently made a video about a month ago About his friends coming over to help him clean up his house and he had a little bit of a hoarding problem And I covered that there was so many great tips in that video and I'm so glad that a lot of you Were able to pull things from that to help in your own life But something that I mentioned in that video is my concern is People who do this they they overcome some obstacle in their life And then they don't you know do the thing that they said they were gonna do and in Garrett's case He said he didn't really record videos because of his house So in that video I gave Garrett until you know November like to see how many videos he recorded and I made a follow-up video saying I was a little disappointed I said good. You're killing me because you hadn't recorded anything But anyways Garrett just released his new video where his friends helped him pierce his ears and that was a little bit Crazy, and I was worried for my man Garrett you punch it like that with my little ear Oh my god, who are you thinking is gonna do this anyways? Anyways, I know I busted Garrett's chops a little in my last video But today I want to celebrate Garrett because he talked about something very briefly about his house And like I think it's important for all of us to talk about this I've got a few fun updates for you a quick little life update for those of you who saw my last two videos About my friends helping me battle my hoarder habits I am stoked to say that it's held up in general and feeling about a thousand times better because I am no longer living in an environment that Resembles the the bottom layer of a city dumpster. So whoo congratulations to me a grown man is fulfilling Very basic responsibilities. It's progress though. Let me have this, please So right there right there like something I see so much from so many people is that we don't celebrate our small successes And here's the thing here's the thing like for someone like Garrett like keeping your house clean After living in a house like that keeping your house clean for a month is a big deal It's a big deal and I know some of us, you know, we're like, oh, this is just something that you know Normal people can do on a regular basis But like for us for people like us who struggle with different Virgins of like mental illness or we have mental health struggles like we need to celebrate these things We need to be very mindful like these small these seemingly small things to other people are a huge deal for us So the fact that Garrett's been able to keep his house clean and in that order for the last month is phenomenal So even though he didn't record as much as I was hoping he would like I do want to give him credit where credit's due In that aspect. All right. So like sometimes me being the tough love guy I am, you know, I try to give people like a little bit bigger goals But I do want to make it very clear that the fact that Garrett was able to keep his house in order for a month is a huge huge deal So in order to kind of build upon that, I asked you guys some questions about how you, you know Had a small success that day and a great a great great article I just read from one of our subscribers named Steph About this which ties in perfectly in this middle link her blog post down below But she talks about, you know, um our plate being full, right? And in her article like you need to go read it But she talks about how we have different sized plates and for some of us Like if you're somebody who struggles with depression or anxiety or trauma or whatever it is Your plate is different So your plate might be full with little things that you know might, you know Not take up somebody else's plate if you will but it's a huge deal for you So please go check out that blog post Steph is somebody who's recovering from borderline personality disorder amazing amazing woman And I love her writing so anyways in case you didn't know We have a discord server and this discord server is Poppin it's always linked down in the description come join it. We have almost a thousand people in there We have so many different support channels in there. We have like Anxiety support depression support personality disorder support lgbtq support We just made a channel for sexual abuse survivor support in there too But anyways, we have a channel dedicated to positivity So I posted in that channel when I got the idea for this video I'm like hey tell me about a small success that you had today. So first we got Mimi Mimi a long time subscriber in the reward So she said she was able to turn some stuff in on time And that is fantastic because if you're somebody like me who loves to procrastinate Turning anything in on time is a big big accomplishment Then we had scenery saying she got earplugs to help with her noise anxiety And you know what that's what i'm talking about. That is what i'm talking about right there like getting into the solution I will celebrate you all day long if you get into the solution, right? So she found something to kind of like help with her anxiety. So don't do everything Just do something even if it's buying some earplugs Then we had get rekt and get rekt said they finally felt confident in some clothes that they wore today How much would some of us like to have that same success? You know what i'm saying travis travis. I love this one He said instead of isolating he went out and hung out with friends And that is huge that is huge so many of us are isolators And sometimes you just got to force yourself and say look this isn't what I want to do But it's what I need to do and that's that's a mental health tip that I really want to get through to all of you Mental health recovery isn't about what we want to do. It's about what we need to do So super proud of travis right there Then we had shannon say that she got out of bed this morning Even though she didn't want to and yes like this is this is one of the reasons why I made this video Like you guys sometimes just getting out of bed and doing some stuff around the house Or showering like that is a huge deal that you should celebrate. Yeah, I know it's not something that some people struggle with But for some of us when we're in that deep deep dark depression not laying in bed all day long Is a very big deal. So i'm super proud of shannon So then I went over to twitter and I was like yo reply to this and tell me about some small successes That you had today and by the way if you're not following me on twitter I don't know what you're doing with your life at the rewired soul. Come on over. Follow me. It's some fun stuff. So anyways first we had at died underscore t And she said I made dinner and didn't burn it That's fantastic. That's fantastic for somebody who is constantly trying to improve my cooking skills That's good. Uh, the next oh my boy ryan from crimson stoodle studios He said wrote a video and got 10k views on another one. That's awesome So by the way, you guys if you like commentary channels like you need to go check out my buddy ryan from crimson studios Me and him are working on some collabs as well. Please. Please go check his channel out It is so underrated. It blows my mind like his editing and his humor I absolutely love it. I'm gonna link him down in the description below windy and right here I stood up for myself. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes Like this is something that I'm meaning to make a video about soon But standing up for yourself is a huge deal like a lot of it is finding a balance So windy and I hope you have I hope you kept your cool a little bit But to stand up for yourself like it's especially for somebody who like Let's people like walk all over you and you have like confidence issues or self-esteem issues Because we let people do that to us because we don't feel too good about ourselves So just telling somebody no Sometimes just telling somebody no is a huge huge success that my girl sabi luce She is actually the one who started our discord server and I I love her so much for that But she said got out of bed and got to work and came back home safe. That's good But here's even better also and here's a little trigger warning Didn't self harm last night despite feeling the desire Like that is such a big deal you guys that is such a big deal Like whether it's self harm or whether you're somebody who struggles with an eating disorder Or whether you're somebody who struggles with an addiction like eat like Overcoming the trigger and that craving to do this thing is huge For example, um the last few days It's a funny story kind of funny I was like reaching for my cat because she was acting ratchet and I jerked my shoulder in a weird way And it like hurt for like two days But you know what like I didn't have to go snort a pain killer because of it I'm like for some of you you're like wait, what but for a recovering prescription drug addict like me Like when I'm in pain and I don't get high like that's a huge deal So i'm really glad that sabi lu shared that like if you overcome any of your triggers or cravings to do that thing That's toxic or harmful to you like that is a big deal at joey or vina. Is that how you say it? Hopefully it is Joey said I cried on video last night and didn't delete it today I feel like i'm finally starting to get comfortable with the idea Of being my authentic self with my channel and a potential audience love this by the way Like that is so big like that's something that i'm trying to encourage everybody to do like Open up talk about your struggles talk about your successes Because I've mentioned this in other videos like when we just run around and trying to paint this like perfect light Like everything's all unicorns and rainbows all the time. It's beautiful Like we we can help more people by just being real and just saying yo not every day is great But here's what i'm doing to get into the solution charlie aka at spooky underscore bunny said took a shower Smiley face this kind of goes back to like what I was saying about like getting out of bed that morning Like sometimes just like taking a shower that day is a huge huge step in the right direction You guys accomplishing these small little goals will get the entire ball rolling. Oh wait. Oh wait You thought I was done. You thought I was done I am so excited because I had some of my amazing friends come over and share some of their experiences with celebrating small successes We live in a society that is very critical of success and what we're allowed to celebrate and what we're not allowed to celebrate And I feel like if you are a very self-critical person like I am it's really hard to see anything As success, but the reality is that there are small successes every day whether we're making small improvements with Editing whether we're just getting things done when we didn't think we could that is a small success And the least we can do for ourselves is celebrate it in whatever which way it doesn't have to be you throwing a party It can just be you realizing that you did something and congratulating yourself for doing it I think all successes are big successes So it's hard for me to say a small one but getting out of bed creating a video That I was excited to make and and and and then making that thing happen huge success for me Okay, so since I set my own work hours one of the bigger challenges for me is procrastination and using my time wisely Um, so one of my goals is to use my phone less and less and this week that was less than two hours And I did that so that makes me really happy. Yay I think for me as a self-proclaimed person who just like beats myself up constantly about everything that I do that Just small victories for me are those moments where I just allow myself to be Excited about something that I did even if it's something very small all the way up to really big things and for me It's also about just setting myself little goals because sometimes it's the biggest victory Just getting out of bed in the morning and like that's something that should be just acknowledged and appreciated that you had the Just that strength to do that that day because sometimes you just don't want to do that at all Um and there are times because we have things that we have to do every day in life and we have jobs We have work. We have school whatever it is. Um, I like to set myself little 30 minute goals Sometimes when I'm feeling at my worst mentally and those goals could be like I'll give myself if I'm working on a new film I'll give myself a goal of I'm going to edit this dialogue part for 30 minutes And then at the end of those 30 minutes if I actually get through that then It's just a little mini celebration and whether it's just standing up and stretching and saying okay great That's a little box that I can check off then amazing and then maybe I'll set another 30 minute goal And just see how many of those I can do in a day. Sometimes it's one sometimes it's 20 you know, but every little step forward is something to be celebrated Boom, you didn't even know this was going to be a collab video So a huge thank you to kody and to dana and to Ready to glare and as well as swoop for coming over submitting these clips to me I love all of you so much. Make sure you go subscribe to their channels. They are all so amazing kody. Oh my god kody like If you guys are subscribed to my channel and you're not subscribed to kody warner Like you need to figure out what's going on with your life. Go subscribe to him ready to glare Like i'm so glad her and I are talking and stuff like she just followed me on twitter the other day And I was like, yo, you know, it'd be great if you did this clip because I know a lot of you love her channel as well Then there's dana from psych uh iorl I absolutely love dana and what she does with her channel if you haven't checked her out yet Go check her out. She just hit a hundred thousand subscribers. She's doing awesome. And then my girl swoop She's amazing and hopefully swoop and I get to do some kind of collab I want to collab with a few people when I next time I go out to la But thank you all of you for coming over and submitting your clips But I will link everybody's channels down below. Make sure you go check them out and do me a favor Do me a favor to show garret that we need to celebrate our small successes Tell me about the small success that you're going to celebrate down in the comments below. All right But anyways, that's all I got for you with this video If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon You're all amazing and if you're a patron make sure you go check it out because I just put up some new Exclusive content of me testing my audio, which is kind of funny Anyways, thanks again for watching and I will see you next time