 Robin, I'm gonna talk about you on YouTube. Did she hear? Is she coming? Well, maybe I don't want her to hear this anyway. All right, if you followed this channel for a while, you have met my wife, Robin. You've seen her in a few Q&As. She's helped me pick the best date night colognes and she's even chosen what she believes to be my best outfits ever. She's not gonna be on today, but I'm gonna talk about her because we've been married for about five years now and in that time I've learned a lot from her about life that has definitely made me a much better person than before I met her. So let's jump right into the five life lessons that Robin has taught me. So I am an only child and I am an INTJ. I'm not very outgoing. I like to kind of keep to myself quiet and I'm comfortable just sitting quietly with someone and not really speaking. Doesn't bother me. Doesn't feel weird or anything like that. Robin, on the other hand, is not that way. Can we roll that clip? Keep things in. I'm not a big communicator, but you are. I might be an over communicator, so I think there is the balance of... She said it, not me. Robin loves to talk about how she feels. Doesn't come naturally to me. I guess it's kind of weird though when I think about it because in work scenarios, I'm pretty upfront with people. If I have an issue with someone or they did something to f*** me off or whatever, I will immediately address that thing with them. So yeah, it's weird that I don't apply that to our relationship, but it's something that Robin has helped me with and it's definitely improved our relationship and certainly made me more confident in other situations as well. One thing I have always loved about Robin is her natural beauty. She doesn't wear a lot of makeup and when she does, it's just kind of to enhance her natural features, not like to cover anything up or anything. She looks the same in the morning when we wake up next to each other as she does midway through the day. 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It's like my closet explodes all over the studio, which is fine if I picked it up. But the way my life is now, I just sometimes don't have the time or I don't make the time to put everything back where it belongs and need in the space up. So when it comes to the next time we need to work, it's a mess to start with and it gets even messier from there. And the worst part about it is not necessarily the mess though that's definitely bad too, but it's the way that it affects me. It stresses me out. It makes me anxious. I'm less productive. Everything suffers as a result. Now, studio aside from time to time, our house is immaculate. Like everything is put away, perfectly styled. There's no clutter. It looks like a freaking magazine, honestly. And that is because Robin is obsessive about keeping it this way for the exact same reasons that I can't stand when the studio is a disaster. It seems like a simple thing to do, but it's not easy, you know? You have to make the time, dedicated time to keep things neat and organized. You'll learn why it's sometimes hard for me in the next section of this video, but following Robin's example here does improve my stress productivity and overall just kind of feeling good about things. So, related to this specific thing, work-life balance, one of the stories that Robin loves to tell about me goes like this. So it was before we were married. She's still living in New York City, and pretty much every other weekend I'd be up there and we'd hang out, go out to eat, explore the city. So this particular time, I think we'd probably just finish eating at Little Prince, which is a really nice, casual little French place, and right around there, we'd go out to eat, explore the city. Right around there, kind of right at the corner of Six and Prince is this little park, and there are benches, and Robin suggested that we sit down and I smoke a cigar. And I kind of half jokingly said, why don't we just sit and do nothing? That's time that we could be doing something else, like being productive or whatever. So I tend to be a workaholic, and that's generally the way I think. If I'm not doing something or working more specifically, that's time I'm wasting and I'm not gonna be able to get as much done as I should. Robin, however, is much better at drawing lines between, okay, I'm working now, and I'm done with that, and now it's time to relax. It wasn't the easiest thing for me to embrace, having operated in a completely different way for a very long time, and I have to admit that I sort of felt lazy at first, but as things have changed in my life, whether that's having more seniority and responsibility in my army job, and if you're new here and haven't followed the channel and didn't know that about me, I talk more about it in that video that I've got linked right up there. And with all that and trying to keep up with Eastpoke style, which has continued to grow, it would be very easy to get to a point where I'm just completely burned out. So I've learned, and Robin has helped teach me, about the value of downtime and what it does to recharge you physically, mentally, and emotionally. I've always been really thankful and appreciative of all the things that we have, the life we've made for ourselves. I'm pretty good at that. And when it comes to being thankful and showing gratitude towards others, it's something I definitely feel inside, but it's also something I don't express outwardly, maybe as much as I should. Robin is great at this. She's one of the most caring people I have ever met, and it doesn't matter who. Friends, family, coworkers, she always goes out of her way to tell people that she appreciates them, the job they've done, and even just randomly texting someone she hasn't talked to in a while to let them know that she's thinking about them. 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