 okay here we go so i'm supposed to finish um one of this to um every day not today yeah but today but it looks like i've already done almost three quarters of it and it's not even midday yet i don't i don't know how much water you drink but i think water is very important let me know in the comment section how much water you drink in a day if you don't drink up to this is this is 3.2 liters yeah if you don't drink up to 3.2 liters you are really not helping your body and i think um my wanting to drink water also comes from um i think a kidney stone scared that i got like four years ago is it four years or five years yeah so yeah i like to drink a lot of water but also do not drink too much water don't drink 10 liters a day i think an average of three to four liters for the adults is fine but uh no i'm not here to talk about water today i'm here to talk about something completely different and uh i was thinking about this yesterday which is sunday and i actually think that this video should have been recorded yesterday because you know i was thinking of recording something to motivate anybody who wants to hear it yeah that's what i wanted to do it's just pretty random and as usual i'm really really loving the setup so it's easy for me to just sit here and talk or easy for me to just set up and talk when i have something on my mind and you guys have also said that you like the random stuff so i'm gonna be doing a lot more and there's a lady behind me who had traveled to the Netherlands and she's back so yeah usually she would be upstairs working but since we're doing random i decided hey you know what you can just feel free and do your work and wait let me make sure i'm recording feel free and do your work and i'll feel free and do my vlog so yeah Elaine is in the back there and oh yes we're gonna do a follow-up video of why we choose the one we love so you guys should look out for that also coming soon so in the meantime yeah what did i want to talk about and why did i want to record this video even yesterday i wanted to record it yesterday and post it maybe this morning because it's more like a motivational message that i got that i've been thinking about the whole of yesterday and it's it's just about looking back you know everyone's in a while because we're in november it's november 16th and this year although we've been faced with a lot more challenges than usual i think overall this year has been a steady climb especially for me because there are a lot of things that i wanted to do that i may have not done all of it or all of them but i've been able to do so much this year regardless of everything that has been happening and it just hit me that i mean for ambitious people professionals people who are the biggest critics and never you know have enough or never satisfied with what they get it's it's so easy for you to be caught in a you know space where you don't really celebrate your progress or you don't even see it in the first place and i've been mentioning this a lot in a lot of videos about you know celebrating your little victories and i i guess when it compounds and you're able to notice it it's it's really something that feels really good like do you remember the time when let me take it all the way back when you were a kid and you were you know wanting to grow up and do things on your own like can you remember the some of the things that you wanted to do if you were an adult that you would do like you thought maybe as a kid because they don't let you eat ice cream when you grow and you're an adult you eat all the ice cream you want because you can afford it and then you grow up and you start eating all the ice cream you want and you realize that it comes with a lot of problems diseases weight gain and all these things that your body doesn't need and on the more positive side you know all the things that maybe from you know your formative years i would say from junior high school when you wanted to become this you wanted to become that or you wanted to do certain things that you thought i mean you couldn't wait to achieve them and then you look back now and maybe maybe just maybe your path has changed maybe you're doing something else but it's something that you love you've grown you've evolved but at the moment you're actually slaying your own dragons you're actually you know killing it's wherever you are and you are adulting by yourself i mean adulting is i mean it comes with its only problems but do you remember like back when you used to want all these things that are coming to you one day at a time i mean you're doing it you are achieving goals you are doing the things that you said you do you are taking care of yourself you're taking care of the people around you do you remember all of all those things if you do or if you don't then well today i'm going to remind you that every once in a while just look back at all the little things that you said you do more of that you actually are doing them now but not realizing and gratitude is something that well maybe is the basis for this particular videos gratitude and celebrating little victories because the reason why we may not be as happy as we want to be is because we are often caught up in a lot of the things that we're still looking forward to doing instead of enjoying what's in the present while comparing it to where we used to be in the past it could have been worse if you ask me it could have been worse but you're here now you're doing the things you wanted to do and i get it i mean as humans our basic instincts or we are made or we're built to look forward to the future i mean we are the only species that um saves or have been able to you know make the future a thing where we look forward to it where we plan towards it and we achieve for it but then again our insatiable want for more can also rob us completely of the joy of what is in the present and what we're doing and it so happens that most of us are caught up in you know how the present is going or how it's not tying into the future they hope to achieve and that brings them down because they can't see the little achievements for what they are so today is motivation monday and if you're watching this particular video right now i'm not going to continue rumbling or continue going on i just wanted to remind you that everyone's in the wow if you can if you will if you should please try and just take a look back and see how far you've come it's been an incredible journey for me so far i mean i didn't think that from third january when i recorded my first video i would still be doing what i'm doing now and sitting here and actually doing what i want to do and loving it and surviving and being able to you know just live so yeah i'm really grateful for all the people that i have encountered and all the lessons that i have gotten over the past 11 months and i think you probably should take the time to do the same if you haven't done that as often as you wanted to yeah so yeah that's it for this video i hope it's very short and you should drink your water it's very important i probably finished this before three p.m and i'll drink a little more but i'll make sure i'm not going to drown my body internally so yeah my name is Kwame and if you like this video click a thumbs up if you don't like it maybe you should do a thumbs up twice and if you haven't subscribed to my channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell button select all so you get notified anytime i post another video when i'm not doing youtube i'm doing documentary films and voiceovers and thank you for watching this particular video i will cut you again very soon in my next video hopefully featuring oh she hates it when i do my wife so no hopefully featuring Elaine will come your way very soon cheers bye for now