Habits

Let me break down my personal journey from around mid-March to mid-April of this year.

Before the pandemic, I was going to the gym five to six times per week for an hour, walking a 5K outside daily, and tracking my food to ensure I got about 200 grams of protein and 2,500 calories per day. I went from that to working out at home at best two times per week for a while. Nowadays, I’m working out at home regularly again, but the transition took time. However, I’ve stopped tracking my food and I finished a 4.5-pound bag of chocolate chips in a month’s time frame.

Yeah.

You could say things are skewed off the rails a bit.

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Did you know there are 600 hours of content uploaded onto YouTube every single minute?

Back when I first started my YouTube channel, that number was 50 to 100 hours of content per minute, maybe. The amount of YouTube content out there is more than you could consume in your lifetime, 100 times over. And that’s just YouTube.

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In part five of This Can Help, a short series about the small habits we can do during times of greater uncertainty, it’s all about the benefits of music.

Music is an international language that we can use to change how we feel.

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During this time while you’re at home more than anything else. Now’s the perfect moment to go through your entire house, get rid of all the things you don’t need, and finally become a minimalist.

I’m kidding.

That is definitely not the Break the Twitch way, or our philosophy when it comes to decluttering and minimalism. But particularly when what’s outside of our control is beyond typical, it feels great to do something we can control.

If decluttering seems overwhelming, doing a daily declutter of one space can be a great way to get started.

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Up until a month and a half ago, Amy and I had a really solid gym habit that had been going on for more than two years.

We were going to the gym consistently about five to six times a week. I was tracking my food and following a fitness program—when it all came to a halt. With no more gym to go to, things pretty much went downhill.

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I sat at my kitchen table for about eight hours moving beans and seeds around to make the title sequences for this series—This Can Help—about the little things we can do during times of uncertainty.

Considering that I could’ve made simple text titles, was that a pointless thing to do? Instead of spending about an hour for each title sequence, I could’ve spent just three seconds.

However, there’s actually a rationale for doing things for no purpose.

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