I just wanna add!! My mum is making a quick recovery - she's gone from wheelchair to walking stick, and her aim is to be able to dance at our wedding :)

Honestly, I was just getting all comfortable and then this popped up.

Thinking about my "potential" gives me axienty. I don't want to think about huge goals, I want to feel rested for once. I want to learn how to rest without feeling guilty about not doing something "productive". I want to learn how to enjoy life. I don't want to base my selfworth on how much I produce or achived. Ex-gifted kid.

This dude is just so relatable. I feel like hes a male version of future- me explaining how to get my shit together

this channel is god tier

1 thing i will add. Do not fall into toxic productivity. Pay attention to the people and pets that matter to you. it's not a task, there is nothing to improve, no goal or end. Just turn off for at least an hour a day and LOVE FEEL!

“I don’t have a chronic illness” THANK YOU SO IMPORTANT. The Casey heist at lifestyle made me feel so bad about myself. This disclaimer means a lot more than you might think

I think it's also important to recognize that sometimes what is considered "full potential" is what society normalizes as being what everyone should want. For example, complacency about the wedding could also be a sign you want a smaller, more intimate, wedding. But it's often hard to draw strict lines between these two notions. Trust me, I had a smaller wedding and it turned out to have all the problems of a big wedding!

I love your disclaimer about the fact that you don't have kids, or a chronic illness or aren't taking care of someone. So many people give generalised solutions forgetting all the different struggles and issues people could be dealing with and making them feel even worse for not being able to reach that one-size-fits-all solution. 👏

This honestly could be a TED talk. I like the “easy path = hard life, hard path = easy life” part. That really is making me think about where I’m taking the easy path too much in my own life (staying at my boring job, not working hard enough to get in shape, etc.)

I really love how you mention other life circumstances like chronic illness. As a lifetime chronic ill person, I really appreciate you taking the time to mention that. We are all able to achieve things, we just take a bit longer and might require more help or flexibility, depending on our particular situation. Awesome work on the channel.

I just wanted to say, I found your videos after typing in "how to stop self sabotaging." Firstly, your energy and personality is incredibly relatable and comforting. Secondly, Your content is refreshingly valuable and helpful. I literally found you like an hour ago and already watched several of your videos. I was experiencing a moment of complete frustration and dissatisfaction of my life that made me feel like I was in a deep dark hole. Your videos are like the rope being thrown down to help me climb out. I know, corny. But thank you. Keep doing what you're doing.

The best part of the video for me was the disclaimer. I think that it is one of the most important parts! It takes into account the situation someone is in.

I’m not sure achievements mean that much on your deathbed. Most of the time people regret not doing things that are comfortable or spending time with people they care about. I know of a miserable heart surgeon whose the head of an entire ICU and he could care less about anyone dying anymore. I bet he’s going to the grave with regret. It is meaningless until you find self love. Achieving goals doesn’t always equal self love. Accept yourself now and you will die fulfilled. Much love and wishes of healing to those who need it.

I feel like I'm actually working on living up to my potential and it feels great. I meditate and journal, and I've started exercising. I'm sober now. I'm a cartoonist, and I'm working on a comic that's actually being published. I'm in school. I have plans for the future. I'm disabled and have mental health problems so it's been an uphill battle and I know it's not always gonna be easy, but I feel like I'm actually working on things in a way that will make future me happy.

Honestly, If you wrote a self help book I’d live by it

I have a small trick to help overcome that initial bump a lot of us experience when overcoming complacency. I call it "No Option." When you find it hard to do that thing you want or need to do, imagine a worst case scenario of you not doing that thing. Once you have the worst case scenario, tell yourself that "this is not an option" and immediately do it. I've been doing it for a couple of months now and it has been a lot easier to get things done. Give it a try!

Struthless: "I'm not your dad" Thomas Frank: *shuffles legal papers menacingly*

Ahah, as someone with ADHD I’m constantly looking for tutorials on life, this is in my top 3 and I’ve been seeking life tutorials for almost a decade!

I love all this advice but what I love even more is that you started out acknowledging that some people will have different barriers/obstacles to action and that's okay! So much "live your best life" advice is given in the tone of "all those things stopping you are just excuses!!" Which is so tone-deaf to anyone with differing life circumstances that it just sours the whole concept. I like how you said "there's nothing wrong with you" because little things like that really do make the difference.

The fact that you make the disclaimer about your capacity and that we might not all be able to do this is so self-aware and just shows how much you understand how human beings work. Thank you so much for your content.

Really good steps to overcome complacency. Sometimes you just need to take small steps. I decided to sell my art online and dedicated a few days to setting up my online store. It's taken my way longer than I expected to list everything but love how it's turned out. I also started a KZfaq channel to motivate me to make more art.

This is basically free therapy, thanks man.

I actually avoided watching this video for ages because I KNEW it would be about me and I didn't want to deal... It wasn't as bad as I thought. It was helpful. Thank you.

I've been so complacent here lately that it's actually making me anxious. This video came at the right time.

Having watched (and hugely enjoyed) many of your videos it seems you are almost always addressing ADHD without ever mentioning it. At first I was wondering why, but I now see that by not using medical terms you are giving a chance for everyone with related or overlapping issues (anxiety, procrastination, self-sabotage...) an equal chance at receiving the message fully regardless of their condition. Props to you.

This channel was an awful lot of help to me during quarantine being an artist and all

I'm glad you're mom is doing well!

I’m terrified of regret, and I’ve found that imagined deathbed regrets are so helpful in getting me to get crackin on being confident, taking leaps, and truly expressing my wants and desires

After having a wedding i can say it’s overrated! A year of planning for a few hours that go by way too fast! That being said try to make the planning part fun and memorable!

You are like the older brother everbody needs.Honest and real people are rare these days.

Well done brother, at 45 I STILL suffer from complacency, however, there is another side of being comfortable. It is not always so bad. Took my wife 10 YEARS to get married after we got engaged :) You're all good

It was interesting doing the thought experiment while listening to you. I have a chronic illness and I found that my pain actually lessened, because I can literally Not Do It. And I am already taking the steps - they just happen to be tiny. Turns out I'm not really complacent about many things at all, I constantly strive to do it all, big and small, I just have to practice a lot of acceptance over the fact that I often Can't. But it did give me perspective on some unnecessary fears holding me back, which I think this really helped me let go of. Thank you for that! 😊

Currently binging all of your videos in a “time to get most of my sh*t together before I’m 30 so I can thank myself” spiral. Maybe I’ll meander back to this video in 5 years for an update lol - good stuff man.

I think you just uncovered the cognitive dissonance in my life and why it feels so... distressing. Cheers mate.

Most relevant topic in today’s time.Appreciate your knowledge and techniques to tackle it.

Everything in life is hard, finding your soulmate and working on that relationship is hard, divorce is also hard, being alone is hard being successful is hard, not having what you've always wished for is hard. We just need to pick wisely and think long term

I want to go to this coffee shop haha

The Cup List is similar to the Eisenhower decision matrix. If you don't make a plan for non urgent but important items, they can become urgent and important. Or, if you don't do them, stuff blows up. Yes, tackle urgent and important things. But you have to actually plan and do the important but non urgent stuff. Your channel is great! Thank you!

I don’t want to speak too soon but this hit a good spot. I can be very complacent. But when you said “life is short and you want the experience” that’s a reason for me to take action sooner than later….

I really appreciate your disclaimer. I love your attitude in general. It's healing and constructive compared to all of the toxic positivity I feel bombarded by. I was homeless a few years ago after escaping domestic violence and I'll never see anything about "potential" the same again. I don't feel judged when I watch your videos, just inspired. Thank you

man your kid would be so lucky to have you for a father

I sort of stumbled upon this method through trial and error myself. What I find helps is actually scheduling things - not "I'll do this on Sunday" but instead I open my calendar and drop the to-do things into a definite time (remember to give tasks 3 times longer than you think it will take). When I get that notification pop up, it's a lot harder to swipe it away when it's already sitting there than thinking "yeah, I'll do it later today" and catching yourself 34 videos deep on youtube with your hand stuck in a Pringles tube. You have that hesitation from swiping it away because you know you'll be failing your past self who already made the time investment to write it out and schedule it.

As someone who has always struggled with motivation I can confirm doing them feels better than not, 2 years ago I took on turning a truck into a home with all the comforts, I moved in 8 months ago and thought I was almost finished, ha, nope. I'm glad I didn't really grasp how much work it truly was going to be but even now I procrastinate but I always manage to get another job done that makes my life a little better, if you get overwhelmed, just stop and do something else for a while. Its not a sprint even though every boss every tells you it is.

after finding this channel, I've realized I've led a long path of doing what I thought I should be doing and making people "proud" instead of going for the path I truly desired. This video has helped in giving me the motivation to stop being complacent in my life and actually move towards whats fulfilling for me, not what makes me comfortable. thanks

Loved this video. Thanks for giving actionable steps. Didn't feel like I was "advised". This is what I would like productivity videos to be like. Hope all your dreams come true for real!

I was in a bad car crash four nights ago. For a split second when the airbag deployed and smoke filled the car, I thought I had died. I feel like if I died now, I would be really disappointed despite living a textbook good life. For years, I’ve lived a life strategizing different ways to achieve happiness and overcome barriers… the barriers ranging from friendships gone awry to just boredom. I’m a hard worker, had a 4.0 GPA through college, but I never feel like I’ve learned how to be ok with boring, mundane days without feeling loneliness or longing for “more”. It felt like a double edged sword, because the harder I worked, the less time I have to pursue deep friendships and enjoy my hobbies. But if I ever knew I didn’t do my best and just enough to get a “B” or “C+” (apply this to work life now), I didn’t feel proud of myself. I feel guilt and shame knowing I didn’t give something my all. I feel guilt struggling with discontentment, because I’m incredibly privileged. This makes me feel disappointed that I don’t know how to achieve real joy- the kind that doesn’t just come when something exciting happens and then ware off two days later when normalcy returns. At the end of the day, I pictured the first version of me with things achieved by reading the Bible, volunteering and putting others first. But besides growing my relationship with God and serving others, I still have a lot of questions about what route in life will bring long-lasting happiness and get me away from strategizing a new ways to FIND happiness each day. Many of the paths seem right and could all be the correct, biblical ones when I say them out loud (without going into detail of what they are), but they contradict each other. Or when I apply them, they work for a little bit and then ware off, and I’m once again left confused. I really don’t know why I’m sharing this, but God bless, and I hope y’all find that true, deep rooted, uneasily swayed joy that I’m determined to obtain through God.

Something about the phrase "spiral up" resonated deeply

As a girl named Jessi who is definitely living in her cave of comfort: Thank you :D I only found your channel a week or so ago when Sydney went into lockdown again, but your advice is already helping me get my shit together mentally. Next step: crawling toward the light of that rugged wilderness, and sprinting 20 miles to my new cave :D Cheers~~

I really appreciate that little disclaimer, as someone with chronic health conditions and a shitty life, it can be disheartening to receive advice from someone with a more privileged perspective. "Just backpack around the world/ find a guru/ just hop in your private jet and spend a weekend in Paris with your imaginary boyfriend/ just hang out with the friends and family you don't have/ just get therapy even if you can't afford it/ just leave the house even though you're crippled with anxiety" Thanks Karen...

I'm currently on the comfortable phase and I'm not complaining... Every phase of your life is important

We decided to get married on a Tuesday and got married 10 days later because that was the day my son could be there. Congrats on your wedding.

Awesome video! I’m gonna finish watching it later.

Your videos are amazing, I love how I'm over here taking notes, excited about it hahahaha

As an old person I can say, as you get older life speeds up until it’s as if you’re on the Cresta Run to death! So don’t waste the time and energy you have in earlier years, for me that was 30s when I knew enough not to be a total tool but still had interest in plenty of new things and the energy to do them. Life changed for me when I ditched pleasing others and backpacked around Australia by for 6months. Taught a lot, especially that all I needed for happiness I could pack in a bag, that I could do anything, just about, and that I’m a nomad at heart. Get out of the rut, off the couch and do anything you would be talking yourself out of if too idle mentally to move. Good luck.

I needed this! I’ve recently resigned from a job I’ve been at for 11 years, it was definitely the easy road but I feel like it would be a hard and boring life if I stayed. This has inspired me to stop being complacent about more things in my life. So thanks for sharing :)

I made some steps today to start the process of developing new heirloom tomato varieties. This is likely an 8 year process or so, but I’ll be growing tomatoes anyway, might as well start this experiment. I see myself as a seed saver/protector and developer and new and wonderful heirloom tomato varieties.

his self-help videos are the only ones i can watch without feeling drained. truly a great guy doing great things.

How is this channel free. The amount of effort, information and value that goes into every single video!!!

I just want to thank you for your videos; they seem to come up in my feed when I need them the most. You rock!

Your videos are genuinely such a source of inspiration bro, keep up the good work and do some different style videos (maybe a fred durst one because why not)

I like the point with "two future you's". In other words, you're gonna pass away anyway; you might do it having lived either happily or miserably.

i'm going through a rough patch for a couple of years and have never given up on myself, until april when i got quite sick and my happy balance fell to hell. So honestly i've been slacking off even when circumstances were a bit stable. Thank you for sharing your learnings, i'm working to implement them gradually and successfully. 💛

So good as always! I will probably listen to this one 25 more times.

Your videos genuinely make me so happy. You have such an impact on people, I really hope you never stop being you and never stop uploading Thank you for such awesome videos

I’ve just moved to a new country alone, and you’ve been a lifesaver during this period dude.

Been fighting a silly little(not so little) hoarding issue….I just cleaned my countertops after watching this. Thank you

I've been getting all comfortable since the last 3 months and tbh its completely killing my creativity.

The only thing I’d like to add is: make your bed in the morning (honestly makes or breaks my day, kinda like the one minute rule thing)

Just wanna put it out there that your channel gives me hope around these bad times. It's a breath of fresh air watching your videos.

Campbell Walker is a literal new age genius with a youtube channel.

Oh man- my wedding got canceled because of the quarantine and I was relieved as well- looking to plan something very simple for the second go around especially considering the money we lost from planning the first one

Yooooooooooooooooo... "The cup list" sounds revolutionary. Because the bucket list would be the "ideal" life, but the cup list would be a BETTER life :O Like holy shit I am making one rn... tnx!

I just noticed how homey your videos feel, a lot of youtubers have them sitting in their room which is still pretty intimate and has a similar effect, but here it looks like a place where you would sit and talk with a person, coupled with your personality and style, makes a very pleasant viewing experience.

I did something similar to this 3 years ago with Peterson's Future Authoring program and I'm definitely living my better life! I own a great business, I'm on my way to owning my first condo and actually building my first home next year.

I need a bigger cup!!!! Or am I missing the point ;-) Yes. I'll start with a teaspoon. All the best everbodypeeps.

Great videos man!

okay but this channel is something else entirely. i can't stop watching, taking notes, laughing and crying all at the same time bc of how relatable and kind and inspiring you are. you're a genius, man.. thanks so much

your disclaimers telling me the there is nothing wrong with me is so comforting bless you

Advice I would give to my unsuccessful future self: get a ballon :')

Somehow I can see you accidentally saying "I'm not your dad" to your kids once you have them lol

I recently turned sundays into maintenance days. Can confirm that doing small shit that you've been putting off for ages makes an unexpectedly big difference. And I believe that better environment (physical, digital, mental) = better QOL = better creative output too. I usually make the mistake of giving myself too much to improve on, but I always rebound, so making small sustainable improvements is great. Hopefully I can actually keep this one going!

Your videos always hit the spot, thank you Campbell for your efforts!

No, it's the depression.

i love this channel! recently found myself watching informative yet fun and entertaining vids from time to time whenever i start to feel lost and this channel always understands my feelings and guides me to a certain mindset that is helpful for me. thank you

I love how you combine analogies with animation. And thank you peering into my soul dude.

I really appreciate the frequent uploads! They way you talk about this stuff is extremely relatable.

The Cup List is highly relatable. We just moved into a new apartment so the tasks I'm being complacent about just tripled. I made my own Cup list (I'm calling it Offline Awesomeness) and tackling #1 right now. Time to put away these books! Thanks Struthless

your videos have been a great help lately, man. big thanks!

The vast amounts of ruts you’ve pulled me out of. I’m watching this as its 3pm and I haven’t gotten out of bed yet. Let’s try it

I don’t know whether you would find this fact boring or not (maybe you already know), but the videos you make help people far beyond English speaking countries. Big thanks from Russia. You really give me a lot of things to think through and helpful advices that came exactly on time of need Please have a nice day and all the best wishes with wedding! Sincerely, Eve

I usually don't like these type of videos. They are not real, they tell you to get up and do something that you obviously can't right now, otherwise you would have done it. Also, I don't trust them. That's not you. You are good, man. I trust you. And you explain everything, which is super good. Keep up!

I literally chose to watch this video, to get out of cutting vegetables to take to work with me. If you'd not made this video, I'd have been watching a top 10 just then. You've automatically made my life better.

Just found your channel and love it. Concise, pragmatic, personal, funny, and relatable. Keep up the great work!

always love your videos man, big love

You are SO ON IT! We love the consistency king 🔥

Man, you're so helpful and you always come right on time, God bless you!

This video made me feel much more than any TED talk I've ever watched. Thank you.

Another positive but super grounded and helpful video. You're awesome, man!

I love your content so much! My mindset and overall life has changed ever so slightly since I subscribed to your channel. The part where u mention that getting things done feels so much better than not getting them done is so real. It haunts your mind 24/7 if u dont get it done but the relief you feel afterwards is very rewarding. It's something that's clearly gonna take time to achieve but every single video of yours has been really helpful to me when it comes to taking those first few steps. Now I wash my dishes before going to bed to make tomorrow me more happy and it works! lmaooo