how to make every day interesting | 15-minute routine transcript

15 minutes can change the whole entire day. I don't want you to miss out on this because anyone can do this. There's no excuses. All that's left is to take action. And I'll tell you how I've been able to do this. We'll come up with some 15-minute daily routine things to do together while you're listening to this. I'll show you my thought process, too. But, what is the purpose of this 15-minute routine? Everyday, you spend 15 minutes doing something you haven't done before.

Whether that's walking at a different street, reading in a park, learning a card trick, calling a friend, texting someone you haven't texted in a while, sketching a building, visiting a local shop you've never entered, trying a handstand, see how many push-ups you can do in 15 minutes. Basically, those things that you don't have planned, that you don't expect doing, that are slightly uncomfortable, but if you were able to do them, they would be really interesting and they'd make that day count.

Every single day, I like to think of what three things I did that day which made it cool, unique. And the 15-minute routine basically makes this task effortless. So, right now, I'll literally jot down with you. I'll write down some 15-minute daily routines that we can do to make everyday interesting. So, I'm going to write down The first thing I wanted it to be was unique. Also, for it to be uncomfortable. Also, unexpected.

So, the three uns. Unique, uncomfortable, unexpected. After you got that, you can write this down with me, so you have this permanently and you could do this too. It's right in front of you also. So, you got unique, uncomfortable, unexpected. Now just think about things that are unique, some challenge, something you never get to do. For uncomfortable, what are those things that you say, "Oh, I can't do this. I can't do that.

That's too crazy. I can't do I can't do this." Those things that you have an idea for and immediately say that you can't do it, those are the things you should be looking for. For example, one thing I used to do which I thought was too crazy to do, I can't do this, was having people over at my house. It just worlds colliding, it felt so weird and awkward, but I knew deep down that it would be pretty cool if I had some people that I knew and like over at my house and we could do fun things there.

So, I made it my mission to one day have that uncomfortable moment. And have some people over my house. So, what are some things that are uncomfortable to you? Maybe it's being around people, talking to them, saying the first thing, saying hi. Maybe it's a working out. Maybe it's exploring some type of part in where you live, some area, and it's uncomfortable because you don't know that many people and it's hard to You feel like you can't survive there basically.

Those are those uncomfortable moments you have to write down. And the third on, which is unexpected, that's my favorite one because you do it spontaneously. You don't have it planned. You don't take time to procrastinate on it. You do it right away. You do it the same day. How I made my first video, which I'm making videos 3 years later and it's ingrained in my life and I love it. I started this on a 15-minute routine thing.

I had a unique experience of filming a video, uploading it on YouTube. I was scared and uncomfortable as you can ever imagine. I was scared to even put my whole face in it. I didn't even have it as my name. So, Timothy, my name, it was originally Tenacious Trees because I was scared to, you know, make it about my name and stuff. So, I basically did the bare minimum to complete this routine daily thing. So, it was 30 seconds long.

I mustered up all the courage I built up for the past years, posted that video, and it was extremely uncomfortable. And the best part is it was unexpected. I didn't have this planned. I randomly thought about this as a challenge to do, and when I thought about that challenge, I gave myself 24 hours to complete it. So, from the thought, 24 hours I would have a video posted. And that's exactly what happened. I know it's a lot easier said than done, so start simple.

Start small. If I was watching this video 4 years ago, I would tell myself to the same thing, start small, make it simple, but to be more specific, start a challenge where I have to see how many push-ups I can do in 15 minutes. And then I could even make this a weekly recurring thing where I keep trying to break the record over and over again. Let's say I got the first day. And then next week I get 70. And then I want to get to 100.

That's like a goal I had. That would a cool goal to just gradually work yourself up to 100 push-ups. It feels like you have this world record, this speed running thing to get for yourself. You can actually see yourself progressing because you used to only do 68. Now you can do this much. I would also have myself go on a 10-minute walk and wave to anyone that I see walking by. The reason these are 15 minutes is so that you don't have an excuse that you don't have the time to do it.

You come home from work, you can still do one of these things. You have a busy day, you can still do one of these things. Another thing could be making your own video. The reason why I'm talking about this 15-minute routine because it's so much better than spending that 15 minutes to scroll on your phone, which goes to 30, then an hour. Then you forget everything you've done and you've got nothing out of that hour. It's using your time in a more fun, interesting way that helps you.

The benefits from this are you get more confident, you grow and the layer of what's uncomfortable to you grows. More things become comfortable for you, meaning you're able to get more done. You're able to talk to more people. You're able to get stronger, get smarter, put yourself out there more. And you stop living in insecure ways. All this was able to happen because I spent less time on my phone, more time in reality trying to do these things.

It's the reason why I have a whole program to help people lower their screen time and replace it with more meaningful things and a community with over 9,000 people talking about this problem. Because as soon as you're able to get rid of this, you can spend your time doing these routines that make everyday interesting. Once you do this for a day, a week, a month, it just becomes a part of your life, which makes you keep these benefits for good.

So, you don't want to go back to how you were living. So, think of literally everything that you can do to make that day count. Cleaning your room, dusting, vacuuming, washing the dishes, cooking something, standing on the grass with your bare feet for 15 minutes, trying to do a handstand, learning how to do a cartwheel, making a new friend in the free community that I have in the description, getting plenty of ideas in there as well.

You don't need to invest crazy amounts of hours and crazy amounts of money to start doing things that make life interesting and fun and make you more happy. You just have to subtract the time from screens by having a somewhat optimistic mind to try something for 15 minutes that's small, that's simple, and using that as momentum for the future. Write some of this stuff down, join the community and get ideas, take action on something.

Make this video count. I'll see you later. Have a good one.