I already eliminated my notifications, and now I'll try to declutter my surroundings (digital and physical) so I can just keep what's actually important and useful for me (thanks for your vids! They're always a great watch!)
1. Settle for second best. 2. Finish one task at a time. 3. Practice digital minimalism. 4. Learn from others mistakes. 5. Unsubscribe from everything. (…Except Gabe. Lol) 6. Keep your to-do-list shorter. 7. Declutter 2x method (declutter your space essentially.) 8. Start automatically saving and/or investing. You’re welcome friends. 😁
I simplified my life by cutting out everything that was holding me back from achieving my dreams. For the first time in my life, I’m running full speed towards what I want. Feels good man.
@@sandycheeks1580 please don’t kill your child. I’m sorry your marriage didn’t work out. Adoption is a beautiful way to bless someone else if you don’t think parenting the child is ideal for you right now.
When I first started watching your channel, I did not get it or like it; however, I needed your help so I kept watching. Two years later, this is the most valuable channel I watch. You make it such an inspiration experience and easy ways to make good decisions, stress less while getting more benefits/reap more rewards, and live better with less clutter. You are a charismatic youtube presenter and you back up your information with all of your successes. Your good looks and professional speaking skills also make it better to watch.
I’ve been trying to simplify my life by just doing things as I think of them or as soon as possible. It took a long time for me to realize how much mental energy I was wasting, obsessing over something for a whole week that would only take me a few minutes to do. Now I can use that mental energy towards more productive things!
I’ve been thinkin, the more you save and work on your skill set which is a raise continually, the less you should need for retirement. Live your life well and retirement should take care of itself.
Very good advices. I'm using everything from the list for the last 3 months and I'm really surprised how I changed myself. I'm now contributing more to my learning experience with different things and I'm not losing time in scrolling through a bunch of apps. The declutter helps me a lot for keeping everything at every time clean and well ordered. I also unsubscribed from channels which are only creating videos such as "Let's throw this ball somewhere" etc. I'm only subscribed to channels from which I can learn and improve my life. I also started my UA-cam channel for tech in Bulgaria. Plus I also cleared my debt, and now I'm only saving. Here in Bulgaria the possibilities to invest are not good, it's better to save at the moment with the recession happening. P.S. Consistency is the key to success and well being.
Hey Gabe happy new year! Well i´m always decluttering and getting rid of stuff that comes into my home, I have a rule One in One out!!! And i only buy things i need like food gas just the basics .... cool video
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” - Richard Branson. This quote always reminds me of there are enough opportunities to grow in 2023... a fellow creator...
I don't think there was one tip here that I don't need (except the automatic saving as I saw your previous video and already started that one!) Thanks for helping me help myself.
My dear, late FIL had his own version of the “3 things on the to-do list,” which has become family lore. My dear, late MIL would give him a “honey do” list, Dad would do the first 3 things, and throw the rest of the list away! Made Mom both roll her eyes AND smile. Now my husband does pretty much the same thing, and I’ve learned to give him a list with only 3 things on it. 😉😆 (Honestly, that’s about how long his attention span and interest lasts, so I might as well work with what I’ve got!) Happy New Year, Gabe and family!
In most cases, if you buy a device, it's better to go ahead and pay out the extra money for QUALITY. Not quantity. Not brands. Quality. Know the difference. If you buy something of poor quality, it will likely wear out or break sooner than a high-quality product and you'll have to buy new ones over time costing you more in the long run. This is very true with shoes. You also need to pay for better shoes because you'll have yourself a lot of money on medical bills in the future as well as still being able to work when you need to. Or even just have fun. Can't have fun if you can't walk.
I'm simplifying my life by writing down my weekly goals, so that I know what I'm aiming for instead of just shooting in the dark, as it were. It helps me to focus when I have clear, simple goals as opposed to just ambiguous, big yearly goals that feel unachievable.
I love watching your videos. Your overall vibe is just so "chill". And watching today, I happened to notice the "bless our nest" artwork above your couch. We happened to get that exact same piece for Christmas a couple of years ago.
I’m starting to see the great need in minimizing my household goods & realize just because i can afford it doesn’t mean i need it, recently stayed at Habersham Mills Complex for the 15th time and enjoyed their style to keep the spaces minimalist deco so much less stress mentally
Trying to do one task at a time is something I’m still working on but that is so so helpful. I’ve asked my partner to help - I tell him what I’m doing and ask him to tell me if I’m straying 😂
Happy New Year! I decided to take bites out of a big çhore and set a 30 min timer. If I can still go on, I will. I get stressed easily, so if I need to stop, I will. If I can do a chore at 10pm, I will. I thought I need to do as much as possible or as the Johnsen's do. My health is most important, so I plan to finish each room/ area in less than a month. It will all be good in time.
Hey Gabe, I hope you are having a great day, I found your youtube channel this past year and, even though I follow several frugal / minimalist youtube channels, I got hooked to your channel, your editting is superb and I am on my way to begin a youtube channel (for the same topics of frugal / minimalism), I am from Mexico and I think down here people needs to learn this kind of content, you are becoming a great inspiration for a lot of people, already including myself, please keep it up, since this makes others keep up. Keep it up man, you are a beast!. 🙏
I think my OCD would give me twitches if I had a cardboard box in each room to collect unnecessary things. But I like the concept. Thanks for the insightful and honest video.
The richness of this content is a guiding force in life. A book I read with related material provided a transformative experience. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze
Can't put a box in any room, because my cat will claim it and can't donate or throw him away and yeah, won't forget I have him because he definitely makes his presence known especially at mealtime. It's like he owns a watch or something. For the rest, solid advice, worth doing. Thanks.
This made me think of you! Carl sagan’s thought about books: “When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented them. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A book is made from a tree. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.” -Carl Sagan, Cosmos
I automate certain decisions. I don't have to decide what to wear in the morning as I just wear the next item in line in my closet. I don't have to think about what tea to drink as I just rotate through the ones I have. I don't have to decide what to clean as I just follow FlyLady schedule. I don't have to think about investments as I buy only ETFs with dividends then have them in DRIP which automatically uses dividends to buy more ETF stock\bonds.
I am buried under clutter, everywhere. I should probably get rid of half of what I own, and I actually want to, but I am so afraid of what pure, fresh-hell evil is coming, that I am afraid of not having what I'll need. That is how it always works out. Sell scrap metal - the price immediately skyrockets after. Buy stock - the price immediately plummets after. Unpack those last few boxes - immediately have to move. Use up the last roll of rope, it is suddenly unavailable at the store. So many times, I (and others) have been helped because I hung on to or bought "excess" of something, and I've been helped because friends have done the same. I know the moment I got rid of everything, everything would just completely collapse and then I'd really be screwed. The clutter and fear doesn't make for a good life, but the clutter and fear came from life not being good. I don't see any possible way to win.
Not everyone has spare $20, I sort of get this decluttering can be a privilege, but also decluttering doesn't mean getting rid of things you need, but the fear of selling or buying at the wrong time is something to overcome, you are almost certainly remembering the times it didn't quite work out for the best and forgetting the times it did. This is well documented that bad experiences are on average spoken about passed on to friends 11 times while for good ones it's only three. It is better to save at a second best interest rate than not save at all.
These are some great ideas. Thank you. I no longer scroll social media (except for these positive videos on YT), I also have been working on my fitness. I’ve been exercising MUCH more than before, but I haven’t changed my diet yet. I am very proud of my fitness and energy level right now. Next up will be the diet, but I won’t beat myself up because I’m not this perfect being who is doing the perfect diet along with her workouts. I honestly feel no guilt anymore because I am doing this one thing well. I’ve learned to make a few small goals and follow those, and not try to be a perfect human being.
I'm loving this vid, but I just find it funny that I tend to listen to them while cleaning because the physical activity actually helps me concentrate in the sound... so yeah, maybe the second tip ain't for me, but the rest are great, I'm gonna try them out
For me with digital minimalism I found that if I limited the time I spend on various apps in my settings, it didn't actually work for me because I ended up adding to the timers instead. So for my digital minimalism I found that I had to completely remove all distracting apps from my phone. I started by deleting the Kindle app and only reading e-books on my actual Kindle, lived with that for awhile, but found I had just replaced that time by playing more games on my phone. So I deleted all games on my phone. Finally I deleted all social media on my phone so I can access it only via my computer. This has helped me sooooo much.
On the topic of digital minimalism: go through you past 3 months of bills and cancel any subscriptions you aren’t using or don’t add to your well being. I cancelled maybe a dozen monthly subscriptions that were stressing me out and costing me a lot of money. I’d wind up using none of them and just wasting my time deciding what to do😊
I was curious about unroll me, as I want an easy way to unsubscribe. So I googled it and it instantly showed up as unsafe because they sell your data to third person companies. So depends if that bothers you or not.
I want the essentials of what we need/use. My loving husband, on the other hand wants to hang on to *everything.* I want to pare down so our kids won't have to go thru all the stuff my husband wants to stuff into the storage bldgs on our place.
Sorry couldn’t listen to this one. The back ground music was competing with your voice and it was hard to focus. All I wanted to do was turn it down so I could listen to you. The music did not add anything either.
Sadly this will be my last video i watched from you, lately the amount of products you’ve been trying to sell me is mind blowing. I do understand you want to make a living from UA-cam but your channel is about minimalist is about cutting the clutter and stop the spending and live life in a meaningful way. You wanted to sell me 4 products in this video of 10:42 plus the add I watched in UA-cam 🤯
How are you simplifying your life this year?
I take care of myself. I don’t have time for petty issues, Life is too short.
Valuing my time better
I turned off Notifications in my phone.
I have no notifications and decided to talk less.
I already eliminated my notifications, and now I'll try to declutter my surroundings (digital and physical) so I can just keep what's actually important and useful for me (thanks for your vids! They're always a great watch!)
1. Settle for second best.
2. Finish one task at a time.
3. Practice digital minimalism.
4. Learn from others mistakes.
5. Unsubscribe from everything. (…Except Gabe. Lol)
6. Keep your to-do-list shorter.
7. Declutter 2x method (declutter your space essentially.)
8. Start automatically saving and/or investing.
You’re welcome friends. 😁
My man
Thank you
I simplified my life by cutting out everything that was holding me back from achieving my dreams. For the first time in my life, I’m running full speed towards what I want. Feels good man.
@@sandycheeks1580 The baby didn't scam you. It's sad that you can't keep the baby.
@@sandycheeks1580 please don’t kill your child. I’m sorry your marriage didn’t work out. Adoption is a beautiful way to bless someone else if you don’t think parenting the child is ideal for you right now.
im screenshotting this❤️
I already said this guy was the best, did anyone listen? No. Now you all are sayin he’s the best. 🙄
I simplified my life immensely by dumping my girlfriend, also saved me a ton of money !
I can’t help but respect you for all the work. Ty.
That's a really good point Gabe: that we procrastinate doing things we subconsciously feel we may fail at. I'm right there with you!
I’m taking extra time to cherish my sons this year. Even tho the Dad ran off, my kids are everything to me!
When I first started watching your channel, I did not get it or like it; however, I needed your help so I kept watching. Two years later, this is the most valuable channel I watch. You make it such an inspiration experience and easy ways to make good decisions, stress less while getting more benefits/reap more rewards, and live better with less clutter. You are a charismatic youtube presenter and you back up your information with all of your successes. Your good looks and professional speaking skills also make it better to watch.
I’ve been trying to simplify my life by just doing things as I think of them or as soon as possible. It took a long time for me to realize how much mental energy I was wasting, obsessing over something for a whole week that would only take me a few minutes to do. Now I can use that mental energy towards more productive things!
I've decided to just wear the same type of clothes everyday, just can't be bothered with trying to decide what to wear.
I’ve been thinkin, the more you save and work on your skill set which is a raise continually, the less you should need for retirement. Live your life well and retirement should take care of itself.
Great, so now I have to add “shorten my to-do list” to my to-do list.
Very good advices. I'm using everything from the list for the last 3 months and I'm really surprised how I changed myself. I'm now contributing more to my learning experience with different things and I'm not losing time in scrolling through a bunch of apps. The declutter helps me a lot for keeping everything at every time clean and well ordered. I also unsubscribed from channels which are only creating videos such as "Let's throw this ball somewhere" etc. I'm only subscribed to channels from which I can learn and improve my life. I also started my UA-cam channel for tech in Bulgaria. Plus I also cleared my debt, and now I'm only saving. Here in Bulgaria the possibilities to invest are not good, it's better to save at the moment with the recession happening.
P.S. Consistency is the key to success and well being.
Gabe: stop multitasking...
Me: making soup, emptying and refilling the dishwasher aaannndd watching Gabe 👀
I liked the content of your video, but the music is….distracting. No music pls
Hey Gabe happy new year! Well i´m always decluttering and getting rid of stuff that comes into my home, I have a rule One in One out!!! And i only buy things i need like food gas just the basics .... cool video
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” - Richard Branson. This quote always reminds me of there are enough opportunities to grow in 2023... a fellow creator...
Hi I'm from Zimbabwe I'm so grateful for these they are really helping on self improvement journey. Thank you so much
I’d like more stuff on the tools you use. Buying your books has helped me tremendously!
I don't think there was one tip here that I don't need (except the automatic saving as I saw your previous video and already started that one!) Thanks for helping me help myself.
Watching this again as I multitask. Laundry is washing.
Done. Never giving you a gift bc you’ll declutter it!
My dear, late FIL had his own version of the “3 things on the to-do list,” which has become family lore. My dear, late MIL would give him a “honey do” list, Dad would do the first 3 things, and throw the rest of the list away! Made Mom both roll her eyes AND smile. Now my husband does pretty much the same thing, and I’ve learned to give him a list with only 3 things on it. 😉😆 (Honestly, that’s about how long his attention span and interest lasts, so I might as well work with what I’ve got!) Happy New Year, Gabe and family!
In most cases, if you buy a device, it's better to go ahead and pay out the extra money for QUALITY. Not quantity. Not brands. Quality. Know the difference. If you buy something of poor quality, it will likely wear out or break sooner than a high-quality product and you'll have to buy new ones over time costing you more in the long run.
This is very true with shoes. You also need to pay for better shoes because you'll have yourself a lot of money on medical bills in the future as well as still being able to work when you need to. Or even just have fun. Can't have fun if you can't walk.
I'm simplifying my life by writing down my weekly goals, so that I know what I'm aiming for instead of just shooting in the dark, as it were. It helps me to focus when I have clear, simple goals as opposed to just ambiguous, big yearly goals that feel unachievable.
Let’s get you that Tesla! **subscribed af**
Love it all Gabe! I hope you hit 1 million subscribers! Your content is SO GOOD!!!! Happy New Year!
I love watching your videos. Your overall vibe is just so "chill". And watching today, I happened to notice the "bless our nest" artwork above your couch. We happened to get that exact same piece for Christmas a couple of years ago.
Your editing on this video is very captivating!
I’m sick today, your video cheered me up.
I’m starting to see the great need in minimizing my household goods & realize just because i can afford it doesn’t mean i need it, recently stayed at Habersham Mills Complex for the 15th time and enjoyed their style to keep the spaces minimalist deco so much less stress mentally
This channel is noteworthy especially for teenagers! ❤️
Your videos are changing my life
❤this video came just in time. our family is in the middle of de-cluttering and simplifying. thanks for sharing.❤
I recently heard “your money is you.” That was a concept I don’t think I thought about before. Why hasn’t money been personal to me?
I have three Important things on my list today, one is a little more promising.
I very like your videos, thanks you for your work 😊
Trying to do one task at a time is something I’m still working on but that is so so helpful. I’ve asked my partner to help - I tell him what I’m doing and ask him to tell me if I’m straying 😂
THANK YOU!!! Going to use the FOCUS function , I wasn’t aware it is helpful with filtering to specific contacts
Happy New Year! I decided to take bites out of a big çhore and set a 30 min timer. If I can still go on, I will. I get stressed easily, so if I need to stop, I will. If I can do a chore at 10pm, I will. I thought I need to do as much as possible or as the Johnsen's do. My health is most important, so I plan to finish each room/ area in less than a month. It will all be good in time.
Hey Gabe, I hope you are having a great day, I found your youtube channel this past year and, even though I follow several frugal / minimalist youtube channels, I got hooked to your channel, your editting is superb and I am on my way to begin a youtube channel (for the same topics of frugal / minimalism), I am from Mexico and I think down here people needs to learn this kind of content, you are becoming a great inspiration for a lot of people, already including myself, please keep it up, since this makes others keep up. Keep it up man, you are a beast!. 🙏
Your videos are super inspiring!
I think my OCD would give me twitches if I had a cardboard box in each room to collect unnecessary things. But I like the concept. Thanks for the insightful and honest video.
The richness of this content is a guiding force in life. A book I read with related material provided a transformative experience. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze
Any apps you’d recommend for EU citizens trying to invest automatically?
Can't put a box in any room, because my cat will claim it and can't donate or throw him away and yeah, won't forget I have him because he definitely makes his presence known especially at mealtime. It's like he owns a watch or something. For the rest, solid advice, worth doing. Thanks.
This made me think of you!
Carl sagan’s thought about books:
“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented them. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to
stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have
invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A book is made from a tree. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Love your vids 😊 super helpful
You are a godsend this morning, Gabe Bult. This one is so spot on for me today it's like youtube is reading my coffee mind.
Your channel helped me kick the soda habit!
One of your best videos yet!
Do you have a video on being a Property Manager? Any tips?
Thank you for ideas. Very useful. I do some of these. But need to do more.
I automate certain decisions. I don't have to decide what to wear in the morning as I just wear the next item in line in my closet. I don't have to think about what tea to drink as I just rotate through the ones I have. I don't have to decide what to clean as I just follow FlyLady schedule. I don't have to think about investments as I buy only ETFs with dividends then have them in DRIP which automatically uses dividends to buy more ETF stock\bonds.
Why do you leave your closet door open? That looks messy?
I am buried under clutter, everywhere. I should probably get rid of half of what I own, and I actually want to, but I am so afraid of what pure, fresh-hell evil is coming, that I am afraid of not having what I'll need. That is how it always works out. Sell scrap metal - the price immediately skyrockets after. Buy stock - the price immediately plummets after. Unpack those last few boxes - immediately have to move. Use up the last roll of rope, it is suddenly unavailable at the store. So many times, I (and others) have been helped because I hung on to or bought "excess" of something, and I've been helped because friends have done the same. I know the moment I got rid of everything, everything would just completely collapse and then I'd really be screwed. The clutter and fear doesn't make for a good life, but the clutter and fear came from life not being good. I don't see any possible way to win.
You’ll be so surprised once you’ve started. If you can replace it for under $20 in less than 20 minutes, it’s ok to let it go.
Not everyone has spare $20, I sort of get this decluttering can be a privilege, but also decluttering doesn't mean getting rid of things you need, but the fear of selling or buying at the wrong time is something to overcome, you are almost certainly remembering the times it didn't quite work out for the best and forgetting the times it did. This is well documented that bad experiences are on average spoken about passed on to friends 11 times while for good ones it's only three. It is better to save at a second best interest rate than not save at all.
Can’t wait for the next video!
He says room a whole lot for someone that says ruum
These are some great ideas. Thank you. I no longer scroll social media (except for these positive videos on YT), I also have been working on my fitness. I’ve been exercising MUCH more than before, but I haven’t changed my diet yet. I am very proud of my fitness and energy level right now. Next up will be the diet, but I won’t beat myself up because I’m not this perfect being who is doing the perfect diet along with her workouts. I honestly feel no guilt anymore because I am doing this one thing well.
I’ve learned to make a few small goals and follow those, and not try to be a perfect human being.
I focus on my blessings. My wife, my dogs, fitness, etc. if something won’t benefit me in a productive way….not worth my attention.
Tell me your American with our telling me your american 🤣 room not Ruum 😝 also side note great video quiet helpful!
I'm loving this vid, but I just find it funny that I tend to listen to them while cleaning because the physical activity actually helps me concentrate in the sound... so yeah, maybe the second tip ain't for me, but the rest are great, I'm gonna try them out
Appreciate the content but using sponsored/affiliated 3 times in a video with only 8 points? That’s a bit much.
For me with digital minimalism I found that if I limited the time I spend on various apps in my settings, it didn't actually work for me because I ended up adding to the timers instead. So for my digital minimalism I found that I had to completely remove all distracting apps from my phone. I started by deleting the Kindle app and only reading e-books on my actual Kindle, lived with that for awhile, but found I had just replaced that time by playing more games on my phone. So I deleted all games on my phone. Finally I deleted all social media on my phone so I can access it only via my computer. This has helped me sooooo much.
By not being so helpful to others and focus on my priorities first. Declutter the energy vampires. Not being mean, just setting boundaries.
I recently ordered an OG razr flip phone. Mint mobile has 2g so I am pretty sure it will work. I’ll be using it day to day unless I am going on a trip
On the topic of digital minimalism: go through you past 3 months of bills and cancel any subscriptions you aren’t using or don’t add to your well being. I cancelled maybe a dozen monthly subscriptions that were stressing me out and costing me a lot of money. I’d wind up using none of them and just wasting my time deciding what to do😊
Thanks for sharing. 😊
Redefining "BEST" Low stress place or item can make it the best.
Good content, but could you use less music or whatever the background noise is. Thanks
I was curious about unroll me, as I want an easy way to unsubscribe. So I googled it and it instantly showed up as unsafe because they sell your data to third person companies. So depends if that bothers you or not.
Love your videos so much. You changed my life
I want the essentials of what we need/use. My loving husband, on the other hand wants to hang on to *everything.* I want to pare down so our kids won't have to go thru all the stuff my husband wants to stuff into the storage bldgs on our place.
a very honest person that repeatedly reminds anyone listening that he is LAZY! Follow the lazy?
Don’t multitask. Stopping the video here to do my current task. Seeya
The best gets in the way of the good
On skillshare it seems that it’s more of a business platform. I was looking for singing and guitar lessons. Am I missing something?
Simple is king !
Congrats on 300k, long time subscriber 😃
Hey since this is fresh, how about video editing software?
How hard is it to invest into an index fund for a newby? Do I need to study or is it really easy.
I think this was your best video. Congrats.
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thanks from Chile
Nick Jonas Doppler 😂👍
My son called this 'analysis paralysis'.
Very helpful, thank you!
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My new favorite channel!
Thanks Gabe i love Minimalism
Where is the link to the journal?
Awesome tips
Cool cover.
king of captain obvious
4 ads inside one video? Wow
...and android?!
As always.❤.
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Sorry couldn’t listen to this one. The back ground music was competing with your voice and it was hard to focus. All I wanted to do was turn it down so I could listen to you. The music did not add anything either.
Sadly this will be my last video i watched from you, lately the amount of products you’ve been trying to sell me is mind blowing.
I do understand you want to make a living from UA-cam but your channel is about minimalist is about cutting the clutter and stop the spending and live life in a meaningful way.
You wanted to sell me 4 products in this video of 10:42 plus the add I watched in UA-cam 🤯