It’s been an exciting and eventful year for us so far, full of many positive changes.

I’ve managed to lose about 25 pounds over the last several months, and am writing and creating YouTube videos more regularly than last year. While there have been some stressful aspects during this time, much of it has been mitigated by the habits Amy and I have implemented this year.

Overall, I’ve been feeling more productive, creative, and much healthier than I have in quite awhile.

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There’s much to be gleaned from entrepreneurship, even when it comes to something as everyday as how to build habits in your daily life.

The process behind entrepreneurship has always been a fascinating one to me: you see a need, create a solution, tell people about it, improve people’s lives and earn a living (or much more).

Especially very early on, there’s a scrappy element to doing whatever possible to bring an idea into reality. I really like the fact that while you can think about an idea all day, until you actually try to build it, nothing much will happen. The core of entrepreneurship requires very little in the way of traditional education or schooling.

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There’s a major disconnect between what we say we want in our daily routine, and how we’re actually spending our time.

And for me, the origins of this daily routine disconnect started more than a decade ago.

In the spring of 2004, I was a second semester freshman at Eastern Michigan University living in the on-campus dorms. Perhaps my first brush with minimalist living, I shared a 160 square foot room with my friend (and roommate) Sean while sharing a bathroom with the suite next to ours. It wasn’t glamorous, but when we ran out of breakfast cereal, it certainly made it easy to see if the neighbors had any.

More importantly, a few months earlier a guy named Mark Zuckerberg launched this thing called The Facebook and people were pretty excited about it. When The Facebook launched, it wasn’t available to anyone and everyone; it started at Harvard University, then slowly expanded to the Ivy Leagues, then other prestigious schools. My girlfriend at the time attended a more prestigious school than I, about 20 minutes away. I remember receiving the text message saying she had signed up, and all her other friends were already on it as well.

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There’s more to success than what we would typically think. It’s not all about habits, consistency, and hard work—although those are all important parts of success.

I’ve recently had some experiences that made me realize there’s something that matters more than good habits.

Since early January, we’ve been down in Phoenix, Arizona house sitting for my in-laws while they are caring for Amy’s grandmother in Taiwan.

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Feeling stuck can be the absolute worst—you know you’re really not happy with your current circumstance, but also might not know where to start to get unstuck. With millions of “solutions” out there, there is no shortage of offerings for things to buy, diets to try, and quick-fix answers to your problems.

Most often, the answer requires nothing but a little bit of science—lifestyle experiments, to be exact.

Over the last few years, I’ve tested dozens of lifestyle experiments to see how the change would influence my and Amy’s life. In fact, you could call our rounds of decluttering and downsizing as several lifestyle experiments—ones that led to the eventual launch of this website and massively positive life changes over the following years.

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