Change Your Life in 2026 | 10 Habits That Changed EVERYTHING

[music] [music] [music] Welcome back to the channel. Is this too dark? Too bright? I brought my light in here. Let's see. That's Is that too bright? Something like that. Okay. Welcome back to another video. This is going to be a fun one. We're going to go over 10 of my what am I calling this? It's not just habits. We're going to talk about just like the 10 most important things that I would say completely changed my life. So implementing these things, whether it is a habit or whether it's a mindset shift or whether it's [music] just some good oldfashioned great advice, it's going to fall under this category of let's make your life better by implementing these things. A couple years ago, I uploaded this video right here, the six months to change your life video. I know it reached millions of people and a lot of people a lot of new subscribers have requested more videos like that. So this is going to be it's not necessarily for weight loss, right? But overall improving your life and that's what we want to talk about today. The first thing I have to talk about because this is the thing that's changed my life the most is Jesus. You got a good relationship with Jesus then you're going to be just fine. I would say that I have definitely felt a shift in my relationship with Jesus over the years. And it's really been I feel like I have more of a relationship with him where it's not just I say a morning prayer or an evening prayer and that's kind of it. I am pretty much praying all throughout the day. If a thought comes to my mind, I'm asking the Lord for some help or I'm asking for some guidance or I do my prayer walks where I go on walks. And I'm I'm going to talk about this in just a minute too. I'll go into more detail, but just having a relationship with the Lord will completely change your life. If that is something that's lacking in your life, let's start there. Let's start with the Lord because we are first a soul and then we are our body and then we are our mind and we are everything else. But you got to be fueling your soul and it starts with that relationship. So getting the word in, saying your prayers, having that relationship is going to completely change your life. To me, that's the most important one. So we had to start with Jesus. I'm going to have to beat this into you guys because I think some of you aren't listening to me when I give this advice. You listen, but you're not actually doing the thing. And that is, are you going on walks? Are you actually going on walks? What are we doing if we're not going on walks? Like, be honest with yourself because this could change your flipping life. Okay? If you're in a bad mood, go on a walk. If you're sad, go on a walk. If you need some energy in your day, go on a walk. I do believe that walks will change your life. In fact, if you are not busy right this minute, if you have 5 minutes, I want you to go on a walk for 5 minutes, 2 and 1/2 minutes, 2 and 1/2 minutes back, and I want you to come back and report in the comment section how much better do you feel. I want to hear it. Somebody has to do this, okay? Go on a walk, come back and report, and I I will pin your comment to the top. I want to know how you felt before you went on your walk and then after. And even if it was 5 minutes long, I want to hear it and I will pin your comment. So, you will solve so many problems by just going on a walk every single day. I have done it for 300 days. I go on walks every single day, sometimes multiple times a day, and it will change your life. Now, I did mention a minute ago, prayer walks. So, what's a prayer walk? This is when I go on a walk with no headphones. We're not listening to music. We're not listening to a podcast. We are literally walking and we're imagining that we are walking beside Jesus and we are thinking of questions and just like tuning in. Like you're really focused on these questions or these thoughts and what would what would his response be? Woo! These can change your life. If you have never done a prayer walk, that's another thing. Try that today. Sometimes I'll pull out my phone because I will be getting those rapid fire ideas and I'm like, "Oh, I'm going to forget all this, so I got to hurry and jot it down." So, that'll level up your walking experience. Number three is journaling. How many of us are actually journaling every day? What I like to do and what has completely changed my life is I like to start my morning with my little morning routine with my journal. And I will write out my intentions for the day. And this really helps keep me on track for the day so I don't get so distracted. It's way more easy to be distracted and like sit and numb yourself and just doom scroll if you don't really have an intention set for the day. So that's something I actually want to ask you right now. When you woke up this morning or maybe it's middle of the day by this point that you're watching this video, did you have an intention for the day? And if you didn't, what is kind of happened in the day? I have just noticed if you it's kind of like goal setting. If you don't set a goal, there's no mark for you to hit, right? So we can really get distracted in our days if we're not being intentional. We we don't really have intentions or goals for the day. By the end of the night, we're going to kind of be like, "What even like happened? Where did the day go? What even happened today? I kind of spent 8 hours on my phone scrolling." To avoid that, we need to start with the intentions. And then something else I like to do is I start that in the morning. And then I come back at night and I will journal the end part of my day. Two things I like to write down in my evening journal session is if I achieved the goal I set out to do. So, if I did stick to my intentions, but another thing I like to report back on is what I learned that day. And this really helps keep me focused on that learning mindset. So I like to try to listen to some kind of podcast or some kind of audio book or I'll actually read a couple chapters out of a book, something that's going to develop me, something that's going to make me learn. I want to learn something every single day. So that is one thing that I will write down every night is what I learned that day. And again, this just really helps keep me focused on living intentionally. The fourth one is protect your mental diet. We often pay attention to what we're putting into our bodies when it comes to food, but we do not really pay much attention to what we're putting into our minds. So, if your mental diet is lacking, okay, think of it the same way as we do with our physical body. So, we are seeking out nutritious things, think of your brain in the same way. You're consuming things that are going to uplift you, inspire you, encourage you, motivate you. Are you doing those things? Because again, if you're not, it's going to show up kind of everywhere in your life. Everything really starts here. Because what we're thinking about, we're projecting, we're creating, we're always doing those things. So, if you are not consuming the adequate nutrition for your brain, it's going to show up in other ways in your life. Hey, listen. I love me a good bedrock. I love me a good doom scroll. But you need to be honest with yourself. How much time are you spending on your phone? I actually challenge you right now. Pause this video and go and check your hours spent on your phone. How much time are you doom scrolling a day? I've seen these really, really awful statistics. It's like, "Oh, if you spend this many hours a day, you're going to end up spending 45 years of your life on your phone." I beg your finest pardon. What is it that you're consuming, though? What are you actually consuming? While we're kind of on this topic of doom scrolling, let's bookend our day, so the start of our day and the end of our day, without our phones. How much different would your life look if for the last 30 minutes of the day, you set your phone down? So, like crawling into bed, you weren't just scrolling cuz it's so easy to do. And the first thing when you got up, if you didn't jump on your phone, because that's really going to set the tone for the day. Years ago, I've shared this before, but we're going to share it again. Years ago, I was going through something in my life. I was saying one of them desperate, desperate prayers about what I needed to do. And my response that I got that I felt like the Lord put on my heart was, "Pay attention as you scroll on your phone." I was like, "What the heck? This has nothing to do with what I just prayed for." So, when you get a download like that or you get a random thought, I pay attention. So, I was like, "Okay, well, I'm going to scroll for a little bit and I'm going to pay attention to how I feel." So, I did. I I got on my phone. And I was just scrolling like my, you know, my typical daily scroll and I noticed within a 5 minute period I went from feeling like super like oh happy then kind of sad then a little bit angry because I like there was a post that I read that kind of fired me up a little bit and then just it was I literally felt every emotion in a fiveinut period. That's the danger of social media is when we're just doom scrolling. We're not protecting our peace because we have no idea what we're going to come across. It's really just the luck of the draw. You just have no idea what you're going to be shown. Why do we do that to ourselves every day all day? And then we wonder why we have so much anxiety and we do have full control over what we consume. So just pay attention to that. Start your day without your phone. End your day without your phone. And then while we're talking about diets, let's talk about an actual diet. So I have done macros. I have done low carb. I have done keto. I've done a lot of different types of diets. I would say in my lifetime, what I have stuck with the longest, I would say it's either between macros, and I'm not really even doing macros lately. What I have been focusing on is just every meal I focus hard on protein. Trying to get 30 g of protein in a meal. I know if I can do that, it's going to help my appetite. It's helping me build muscle and keep muscle as I'm doing workouts in the day, and I just feel so much better. So focusing on protein is really what I have been doing. What works for you is not necessarily going to work for me. What works for me is not necessarily going to work for you. So my biggest suggestion is to just try different things. What can you actually be consistent with? Because whatever it is you can be consistent with, that's going to make the most change. So if you've been struggling like, oh, I've been trying to do like low carb and I just can't do it. Maybe low carb isn't for you. It's just the consistency. It's not the short what can you do for 20 days? Anybody can do something for 20 days, but what can you do long term? and whatever that is, that's my recommendation. Go with that. And kind of piggybacking off of that. My next tip is to move your body every single day. What are you doing to move your body every single day? I want to just say this actually is kind of random that today I sat down to do this video because today on my my watch, I have an Apple Watch. I hit 300 days of consistency of closing my rings. If you don't have an Apple Watch or you're unfamiliar with that, so closing your rings, there's three different rings. There's one of them is your move ring. So, how many calories you burn every day. The next one is your workout. And the next one is standing, which I wish you could change that goal to something else, but it's a matter of how many times a day you like stood up. So, they have that goal set, too. Anyway, when I started this, this was actually back in February. It was sometime in February that I'm like, you know what? I think I did it for like a week straight. And I'm like, well, now that I've done it for 7 days, I want to keep going. And then I just kind of never stopped. So, it wasn't like I set out to like, I'm going to do it for a year. It was a small little goal like, well, I've done it for a week, so I should like, what if I could do it for two weeks? What if I could do it for a whole month? When I saw that first month done, I [music] was like, oh my gosh, well, now that I've done it for a month, I got to like, what if I could do it for 2 months? So, that's kind of how this whole thing started this year. But there's a couple things I want to share when it comes to moving because you have to find something that you will be consistent with. What do you like to do? Because some people love Pilates and yoga and like that is their thing. Some people love CrossFit. My mom when she retired, she decided to go to CrossFit for the first time. She was like, "If I would have known how hard it was going to be, I don't think I would have ever shown up and done it for the first time." But I signed myself up for a class kind of blindly going in. It was hard, but I loved it. And my mom has been doing CrossFit for years now. It's like part of her daily thing. She was 65 before she ever tried CrossFit. Find something that you love and just try everything on. Try all of the different things. Go to the gym. If you don't love it, it's not for you. Maybe it's walks. It doesn't have to be this crazy strenuous thing. I personally love to just work out at home. I do like a couple minute workout. It's not crazy, but I do lift weights every day and I go on my walks and that is it. I'm burning the calories I need every day and I'm getting movement in and that is why I've been consistent because I can stick with that and I enjoy it. I actually look forward to doing both of those things every day. This tip is a little bit different. If you implement this, it's going to make your life so much fun and that is elevating the ordinary tasks in the day. So, another way to phrase that is romanticize your life. That might be a phrase you've heard before. So, I really started implementing this when I became single. Because I think oftent times in relationships, we expect our partner to create special moments for us when we're fully capable of making those mundane moments special. Why are we not doing that every day? Here's a couple things I love to do that really just help me love those little mundane moments that are typically boring. Like, for example, making dinner. Okay? Something we have to do every day. I always have music playing, a candle going, and it makes the whole experience fun. So, my kids always know, mom has her music on and my candles going cuz I just love the vibe. I love the vibe of good music and a candle and food being made. So, it just makes it a fun experience. Every single night, I take a bath, which maybe that's not for everybody, but I hate the bright lights in my bathroom. So, I have my lights off and I light candles and it makes the experience more fun. I have music playing. I have my candles on and I have usually like a fresca or some kind of drink there and I'm like this is just I'm living my best life. I am literally living my best life taking my looks like a very romantic setting and it's just me but I love it. I love it so much. I take myself on mini dates all the time because um who else is going to if I ever don't have my kids I will go window shopping sometimes actual shopping. I will go get myself a yummy drink. I will go on drives and just jam out so hard to music. Anything that just brings joy to my life, I make sure to do almost on a daily basis. I do go on drives almost every single day. I give myself an excuse to leave the house and to just listen to music and drive around. Sometimes that's the highlight of my whole entire day. Maybe you love to make yourself drinks at home. Okay. Do you have any special mugs or cups that you never use because they're special? Why aren't you using that? Just make your drink in the special mug. You know, I always heard the phrase, "Well, we're saving it for the Pope." we're, you know, the special occasion that like this one time somebody special might be coming over. Do it for yourself. What are we waiting for? But if we're not making those little moments special for ourselves, who else is going to? There's a tip for you. If you're not doing it, let's romanticize our lives. My last tip or word of advice is to pay attention close attention to where your focus is on a daily basis. If you are faced with a problem, and that is where your focus is. Okay, I had a problem today and I called my friend and was like, I'm dealing with this problem. She's like, "What are you going to do about it?" And I was like, "I know what I could do is I could sit here and I could focus on that and I know the outcome will be me spiraling and it's going to be negative and when my kids get home from school, I'm going to be projecting that onto them. I'm going to be in a bad mood and then it's going to kind of make them in a bad mood. So, that could be my outcome cuz I already know I know myself and I know if I focus and spiral, this is what happens." Or I can be productive. And I had this video that I knew that I needed to create and I was like, I'm going to sit down and I'm going to make my video. I'm going to get to work. I am going to focus on only consuming good, positive things. And I'm going to have a great day. I know I have the power to change my day. And if I can change my day, it changes my week. And if I can change my week, it changes my month. Before you know it, your entire life is different and it's better. And it all starts with this. I know I've touched on it a couple times, but what are you doing? What are we focusing on? What are we consuming? What are we listening to? Sometimes it's okay to just have a day. Notice when you need to pull yourself out of that and what are you doing to do that because we're in the driver's seat of our life. You can't always control what happens to you. In fact, we can't really we don't really have that control, [music] but we can control what we consume and what we give our attention to. So, my advice is to just choose something that's going to uplift you. And it can be something so small. But the more you do that and the more you practice this, you will recognize, oh, I'm kind of spiraling and I need to just change my focus and really watch what happens. You can completely change the trajectory of your life by doing these small and simple things. So, I hope today's video was helpful. I have a couple more videos up my sleeve that I want to upload before Christmas. We're I don't know if I would call this Vlogmas cuz I'm not doing every day. I don't got time for that. I don't know how people do that. But I do have maybe I could do something more like the 12 days of Christmas, but we're going to count the other. I've already done like four, so something like that. I got plenty of things that I have up my sleeve that I want to share with you guys. So, thank you for watching. If you haven't yet, hit that subscribe button. Make sure to do that. 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