In this video, the self-improvement YouTuber provides a two-week plan to improve mental health and productivity. He emphasizes the importance of starting with the bare minimum to build momentum, such as doing one push-up or taking one minute for mindfulness. The plan includes exercise, meditation, gratitude journaling, and learning through a recommended online course and book. The YouTuber highlights the link between mental health and overall well-being, encouraging viewers to take action and improve their lives. He also urges them to share this plan with others to create a positive and supportive community.
Key Insights:
- Improving mental health is essential for achieving goals and success in life.
- Being lazy and using depression as an excuse prevents personal growth.
- Adonis is a role model to aspire to, as he overcomes failures and focuses on long-term growth.
- A two-week plan can significantly improve mental health and productivity.
- Awareness of mental health scores is crucial in tracking progress.
- Starting with the bare minimum in exercising, meditating, practicing gratitude, learning, and reading is key to building habits.
- Success lies in staying committed even when progress seems insignificant.
- Recommended exercises include any form that is enjoyable and low in friction.
- Meditation involves following your breath and returning to it when thoughts arise.
- Gratitude journaling allows for appreciation of smaller things and leads to positivity.
- The free online course „The Science of Well-being“ by Yale University is highly recommended for learning about mental health improvement.
- „The Magic of Thinking Big“ by David Schwartz is a recommended book for updating your mindset.
- Improving mental health leads to increased productivity and better relationships.
- The goal is for individuals to improve their mental health and help others in the same journey.
Transcript
Jeffrey thinks that he has depression, but he doesn’t know that he’s just using it as an excuse for his laziness. He says that he has goals, but he doesn’t take any action. Month by month, year by year, Jeffrey remains the exact same person, if not worse. On the other hand, Adonis is the man that we aspire to be like. He doesn’t use excuses, he doesn’t rationalize his failures, he overcomes them, he learns from them, and he focuses on long-term growth.
The truth is, Jeffrey would love to be like Adonis, but he just keeps engaging in wrong and destructive habits. If Jeffrey doesn’t fix these bad habits, he’ll never be able to improve and he won’t be able to achieve the life he wants. And that’s a shame.
Being a self-improvement YouTuber has given me a unique opportunity to focus solely on self-improvement. This has allowed me to learn a lot more and provide advice and frameworks to help people improve. Today, I want to walk you through the most important and powerful framework I’ve ever made, which is „Two Weeks to Drastically Improve Your Mental Health and Productivity.“
I know you may have been expecting to learn how to get a girlfriend or something, but trust me, if you follow this two-week plan, you will achieve so much more. Improving your mental health is the foundation for achieving everything else you want in life. So, are you ready?
First and foremost, we need to assess your mental health score. You can find a mood assessment by the UK’s National Health Service in the top link of the description. It only takes a couple of minutes and it can be kind of fun to see how depressed you are. Save those numbers and write them down somewhere.
Next, we’re going to create a habit tracker. On the left side of the tracker, write numbers 1 to 14 going downward. This represents 14 days, which is two weeks. At the top of the tracker, write the tasks: exercise, meditation, gratitude, learning, and if you want to go the extra mile, reading. We will separate learning and reading.
Now, here comes the mindset that you may not like, but it’s crucial. Success in these habits comes the moment you’ve done the bare minimum. Yes, the bare minimum equals success. If you do one squat or one push-up, you get to tick the box. Don’t be pissed off or tell yourself it’s not enough. Your brain will come up with limiting beliefs and excuses, but you need to shut it up.
For the next two weeks, we want you to do any kind of exercise that you prefer. Choose something enjoyable and low-friction. For meditation, simply follow your breath as best as you can. Whenever thoughts pop into your mind, bring your attention back to your breath. You can use a meditation app to help you. I’ll link the one I personally use in the description.
For gratitude, start gratitude journaling. Write down things you’re grateful for, even if it’s just one word. Express gratitude for the smaller things that may feel harder to be grateful for. If you can be grateful for the small things, you automatically become grateful for the bigger things.
Now, for learning, I highly recommend taking the „Science of Well-being“ course offered by Yale University. It’s a free online course and one of the highest-rated courses available. You’ll learn everything you need to know about improving your mental health and becoming a more productive person. I personally owe my self-improvement journey to this course.
Additionally, I recommend reading the book „The Magic of Thinking Big“ by David Schwartz. This book has helped many of my coaching clients see significant progress. I’ll find a free online PDF and include it in the description.
Remember, everything I recommend and link is free. I’m not sponsored, and I don’t benefit from this. I simply want to see more guys improve their mental health. As your scores decrease after taking the test, you’ll notice an increase in productivity and positive outcomes in your life.
I want you to become another person who drastically improves their mental health in just two weeks. Spread the knowledge to others as well. We all need to adopt these fundamental good habits. Let’s work together to improve ourselves and our mental well-being.
