 Listen, even if you're not a gamer or you're not into the game Fortnite, TSM Dayquan is this very, very, very popular professional gamer and has this life philosophy about that W key that I want to talk about today because I truly believe that it is extremely beneficial to anybody struggling with anxiety or depression or just hitting a rough patch in their life so let's talk about it. 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 are new to my channel my channel is all about helping you out with your mental health whether it's anxiety depression or PTSD or dealing with loved ones or friends and just navigating through life like make sure you subscribe and hit that notification bell because I do a ton of videos to help you out with your mental health and some of my recent videos have been on some controversies and things like that and trying to help you all like learn lessons from this to improve your mental health and like I've been meaning to make this video about Dayquan ever since I saw the TSM video over on their channel I'll link it in the description below and it's called Meet the TSM Dayquan so I'm a Fortnite player it's a great some great bonding time my son and I have is when we play Fortnite together it's awesome and I watch streamers and Dayquan is one of my favorite I don't know much about the guy but he's absolutely hilarious to watch but anyways I like that TSM does this by the way it's really cool because I'll link up in the info card if any of you are interested I used to be in the professional esports career industry right and I kind of ruined it but anyways if you want to check that out and hear my story go ahead and watch but I like how TSM is like letting us get to know their players like this but anyways it's so cool like man there's so much news out there just about like gaming this gaming that is bad for kids it's bad for that and like there was some controversy like last week about parents paying people to coach their kids in Fortnite and by the way let me tell you this over 10 years ago people were paying me to coach them and counters like this isn't something new um but anyways besides that like gaming is a great thing and I think it's beautiful especially like growing up with video games like it's it's beautiful that kids can do something that they love and actually like do it if they want to like for for their career like it's amazing and and the reason I say that because some of you are like yeah but how many are really going to become pros like I look at it in the same way you would look at like you know hockey or football or basketball like the thing about gaming is is like you don't need certain physical attributes to do it so it's much more realistic but anyways anyways getting back to the point of this video um Dayquan he he has this like W crew and like in the TSM Dayquan video he talks about how this is life philosophy and I really think it's beneficial so let's watch this clip and then we'll come back and we'll discuss that's the whole thing about like people you know I have like my W gang about the W key and how it's just like the W key moves you forward in a video game like for example you press W on a keyboard and moves your character forward in Fortnite and my W key is pretty much just like no matter what it is in life whatever you're going through you can press that W key you can get out of that situation you know the worst thing that you can do when you're sad or depressed or going through something is just to be alone you know just to not do anything just to sit in your room and do this or do that you know you really want to force yourself to move towards positivity all right so the first thing I want to say is like there's some really really good role models out there who are in the streaming community like really good role models so if you're paring out there you're like ah quit watching these streamers like like how often do you hear about these huge controversies with gamers like these big streamers from fortnight like you don't really hear it that much and that's like that's really cool because you hear drama about everybody else every five seconds so that's one thing but anyways I wanted to talk about this because yes yes yes yes like like for those of you who don't know and they want to explain this like the W key moves you forward okay you got WASD forward backwards left right and like I just thought like when he popped up like he was just like yeah always just be pushing be aggressive and stuff so when I heard this I'm like yeah man true that so like I want you guys to look at this and just think about moving forward in your life every single day every single day do something that moves you forward all right so for me personally for me personally I wake up every day every day with one goal just one goal just one all right every day I want to be a little bit better of a person than I was the day before that's it I don't put this huge expectation on myself so when we're talking about you moving forward and doing something to improve your life improve your mental health we're not talking about these massive leaps like oh become a business owner tomorrow become a millionaire tomorrow become this tomorrow no no no these tiny baby steps so like for me it's just like okay today how do I be a better father today than I was yesterday how do I be a better boyfriend today than I was yesterday how do I be a better son today than I was yesterday how do I be a better employee today than I was yesterday how do I be a better youtuber today than I was yesterday all these things like whatever it is I just try to look at one thing I assess my day and I'm like okay what can what's something I can improve on today all right and this is constantly moving me forward and like for all of you when I'm talking about these baby steps like you got to understand like even though you're not making these huge strides like little by little if you're doing this once a day every single day you you get this kind of equity built up and eventually you're just people start to notice people start to notice you're becoming a better person you're becoming in a better place so for you here's my suggestion here's my suggestion to you set up small goals to accomplish every single day and here's why science has proven okay that setting specific goals and accomplishing them increases the production of neurotransmitters in your brain neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine these are the things that make you happy this is a natural way to make you happy so set up very small goals I'll list some examples all right so every day say one nice thing about yourself every day write down five things that you're grateful for every day call one person and ask them how they're doing not to call them and complain about your problems but simply to ask them how they're doing like pick from any of these any of these things will help and that could be your goal okay so if you call that one person a day and ask them how they're doing it is guaranteed that you will feel better afterwards just by asking them how they're doing all right say positive affirmations do something for yourself gratitude lists I've talked about gratitude list a million times here's another goal and I'm gonna challenge you all to do this and I want you to come back to this video and let me know if you did it okay meditate for 10 minutes a day if you could do that goal I will just be oh it won't make me so so so happy and here's why I just read an article today which I will link down below Yale y'all ever heard about this place called Yale is a place where really smart people are Yale just released a study that people meditating for 10 minutes a day improve their cognitive functions and the beauty of this is it is not experienced meditators so we're talking just random people they took random people and just had them do guided meditations for 10 minutes a day they hooked them up to brain scanners and they saw improvements in their cognitive functions now you're saying but Chris what exactly are cognitive functions well I'm glad you asked cognitive functions come from a part of your brain right here in the front called the prefrontal cortex it's what separates us from the animals we're pretty smart people but the problem is a lot of us don't access this part of the brain as much as we should 10 minutes of meditation a day strengthens it think about it like doing a bicep curl for the prefrontal cortex but here's a list of some of the things that the prefrontal cortex does impulse control all right emotional regulation okay fear modulation attunement how you feel connected to other people here's a great one logical decision making so for example if you have poor impulse control and poor emotional regulation then you're probably not going to be that great at logical decision making all right so meditate for 10 minutes a day set that as your goal all right but anyways I just want to make this video and just talk about some positive stuff out there some things that you can do to just keep hitting that w key of life and moving forward even if it's hard even if it's challenging like I promise you just make baby steps and things will get better all right let's do this let's start a conversation below and let's let's let's talk about something that you're gonna try to do for the next week the one thing a day that you're going to do to keep moving forward all right let's hear it down in the comments below and let's talk all right and support each other I love that kind of stuff so much but that's all I got for you today so if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you're new here I'm always making videos to help you out with your mental health make sure you subscribe and hit that notification bell and a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon I love all of you all right if you want to check out some more videos on my channel you can click or tap right there thanks so much for watching keep moving forward today and I'll see you next time