Name: A Day In The Life: An American in Mexico
Uploaded: 2019-07-28T09:25:23.000Z
Duration: 12 min 23 s
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It's time I share a day my life here in Mexico City.

To-infinitive

I've been wanting to do this for the longest time,

but I haven't until now and I'll tell you why.

When people post this kind of thing online

it's usually pretty polished which is perfectly understandable.

Everyone seems to have their sh*t together

and I kind of felt a pressure to have my own sh*t together before making something like this.

We're all perpetually in a state of struggle,

be it fear, doubt, confusion, you know, whatever.

You think at 21 I have things figured out? Give me a break.

Don't let this fancy footage fool you, okay?

You are not seeing all the unsexy moments where I'm freaking out or whatever.

So I'm gonna do my best to be as honest as possible about what my days look like,

I feel very lucky to have the life that I have.

It's a lifestyle that I've been working towards over the last four years

you guys are helping me make this happen.

things I dislike and finally things I love about living here.

or "buenos días" as they say here in Mexico.

That's a rhetorical question considering this is a video that you're watching.

I sleep with a mic, apparently. That's realistic.

This is a really honest start to this day in the life video.

So I've been hard at work this year building habits that I think will improve my life.

I've been treating absolutely everything in life like a series of experiments

and I find that this takes the pressure off,

and it also allows me to take something out of every situation.

It's not so much about you know, success and failure.

Instead of chasing girls, partying, and doing backflips in blue-ass water,

I'm really just interested in learning about myself right now,

So usually I wake up between 7:00 and 8:00 a.m.

For a long time I tried to build a habit of waking up at five or even six.

"Productivity!" they say, "Start things off right!", "Grab your day by the balls!".

All right, I can pull it off maybe one or two days a week,

but that's just not how I naturally operate.

I don't feel like like doing something like that really improves my life.

Like eight and a half hours a night if possible.

It's a lot, I know. If I were to be waking up that early I'd be having to go to bed at something like 9 p.m,

which for me is borderline humanly impossible.

Who knows maybe that'll change but for right now that's how it is and it works pretty well.

It goes: "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you can be violent and original in your work."

I really like that, I mean I promise you my life looks super boring from the outside.

The secret is to pair drone footage with dramatic music and you're good.

Do I have one? And the answer to that is no.

I think that having a morning routine is fantastic, especially if it works for you.

But again, that level of structure for me just feels unnecessary.

Instead, what I try to do is I try to focus on habits that really anchor me.

There's no specific order. You know, there's no strict methodology about this.

It's all just about doing stuff that feels meaningful to me.

So I know this topic of morning routines has been spoken about extensively already,

so we're just gonna speed right through this.

So the things that I usually try to do within the first, let's say two to three hours of the day

some form of exercise, that's usually running.

I'll follow it up with a cold shower and a meditation.

It's really rare that I actually get to all these things in any given morning.

But if I'm doing let's say like 75% of it

75% of the time, then I'm doing really well.

I have no doubt in my mind that doing these things makes me a better human being.

If you've been following my digital minimalism series then you know that I do my very best to

try not to check social media or email until noon.

You know, I don't want to start the day off reactively.

It kind of takes me a while to get into the zone, and

if I'm giving you grandpa vibes right now, it's okay. I've mostly accepted it.

I'm calling this next stage in my day afternoon because it's just easier that way,

but really this starts at 10:00 a.m. give or take an hour.

I am committing my time fully and entirely to content creation online.

I feel extremely fortunate and this is thanks to you guys.

The trick was that I acted as if I was a broke college student,

and I was lucky enough to have parents who were cool enough to let me live with them,

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