my life as a full time traveler for the
00:05
last six years straight does not allow
00:07
me the luxury to have a lot of things as
00:09
a result every single thing that I own
00:11
fits into a tiny backpack that only
00:14
weights nine kilos
00:15
however there’s only one thing that
00:18
matters only one thing that’s a lot more
00:20
important than everything else I am and
00:23
will always be an extremely minimalist
00:27
for most people these days minimalism is
00:30
this really fancy word that maybe has
00:33
actually even become a trend especially
00:34
then you should wear you know they would
00:36
go oh well you know I used to have ten
00:38
pairs of shoes and now I have seven
00:39
that’s amazing you know what I mean and
00:41
and as opposed to actually being a
00:43
really really really important thing for
00:45
a lot of them it’s probably just
00:46
something they might want to follow
00:48
however in my case it’s a very very
00:51
different story because I spent the last
00:53
six years six years traveling the world
00:57
literally 12 months per year throughout
01:00
that time going back home to my home
01:01
country of Lithuania has actually been a
01:04
lot more as a vacation or a trip than
01:07
going to you know most other Kenji’s
01:09
ends and so I mean I never had a place
01:12
where I could actually store my stuff I
01:13
always had to deal with my stuff every
01:16
single day for example for a lot of
01:18
people had the question of whether they
01:20
should have 5 or 6 t-shirts is never
01:24
really a question but for me I literally
01:26
spend hours sometimes debating on which
01:29
shirt to have and which one to throw
01:31
away because every single thing I own in
01:34
my life has to fit into this tiny
01:36
backpack that weights 9 kilos for this
01:40
one every time I buy a new shirt I know
01:43
I have a rule and I have to throw away
01:45
one other shirt that I’ve got because I
01:47
don’t have more space that’s it that’s
01:49
it and because for years now it’s been
01:51
such an absolute necessity for me to be
01:54
an extreme minimalist I maybe could say
01:56
I’ve spent so much time thinking about
01:59
the whole thing and obviously you know
02:00
learning and from experience with trial
02:03
and error until one day I actually came
02:05
to the conclusion that in my life
02:07
there’s literally just one physical
02:10
thing that really does matter apparently
02:13
if I lost every single other thing that
02:15
I own but had that one thing with me I
02:19
could still easily get by as long as
02:21
that the clothes on my back as well of
02:24
course
02:25
so I absolutely can’t wait to explain
02:27
everything to you really hope you’re
02:29
gonna see what I mean maybe it’s also
02:31
gonna you know have an impact in your
02:32
life because the creasing clutter in
02:34
your life really doesn’t have a
02:36
wonderful positive impact at least for
02:39
me that all being said can’t wait to
02:41
share everything with you let’s bounce
02:45
what I’m gonna be doing now is basically
02:47
I go through every single thing that I
02:49
own in my life and there’s not too many
02:52
things but a couple I guess and they say
02:54
I’ll explain to you why I could actually
02:56
survive very well without them if I had
03:00
the clothes on my back and the most
03:02
important thing that I own in my life so
03:05
first off and I have this thing and that
03:07
is my camera bag so instead I have the
03:10
camera with which I’m filming now and so
03:13
this camera is not inside now good you
03:16
see what I mean hey so even though this
03:18
thing has been you know amazing to me in
03:20
my life and the fact that I can
03:21
communicate with you here on YouTube
03:23
mean so much and and I really appreciate
03:25
it but if I lost my camera I could
03:27
always buy a new one if I had the money
03:30
and I certainly wouldn’t die next up I
03:33
have my cables back so here I have all
03:36
my chargers all my batteries SD cards
03:39
and you know all that stuff once again a
03:40
very important thing without this and
03:42
couldn’t charge my electronic splint at
03:43
the same time I can buy this absolutely
03:46
anywhere I go moving on we
03:49
my cosmetics bag and of course you know
03:52
it just medics back it’s a very
03:53
important thing if you wanna if you
03:55
wanna
03:55
you know brush your teeth and do things
03:57
here and there you couldn’t I mean you
04:00
couldn’t live without it suddenly this
04:01
for a very long time but if you lost it
04:03
you know do getting a teeth British and
04:05
and some toothpaste it’s just so easy
04:07
any 7-eleven absolutely chef will always
04:09
have them
04:10
next up inside I have my crock slippers
04:13
once again I’ve done so many beautiful
04:15
things with these slippers they’re
04:17
absolutely amazing if you’re traveling
04:18
and I don’t know countries like India
04:20
Southeast Asia South America know that
04:21
the warm climate but once again you can
04:23
find it anywhere not a life-or-death
04:25
thing and if you wanted to buy them 15
04:28
bucks here we go not necessary moving on
04:32
yeah oh yeah apparently there’s nothing
04:34
else here this section is done now let’s
04:37
go to the main section of my bag which
04:39
is this beautiful thing right here here
04:42
inside this section I’ve got three
04:45
packing cubes with all of my clothes now
04:48
as you know of course having some
04:49
clothes is pretty necessary in the 21st
04:52
century maybe anywhere you go you’ll
04:55
probably have to use clothes but people
04:58
wear clothes every country in the world
05:00
which means that they will sell clothes
05:01
in any country or right completely not
05:05
necessary
05:07
then in my buckets right here I got my
05:10
wireless earphones and my phone now as
05:14
you obviously know having the phone
05:16
especially when you’re traveling would
05:17
like you know maps and booking websites
05:21
and everything is it is it pretty
05:23
necessary thing these days however if
05:25
you lose it and you have the money you
05:26
can of course buy anywhere you go but at
05:28
the same time I met quite a few
05:29
travelers who actually didn’t even have
05:31
phones and they were completely hacked
05:33
and to be completely honest with you I
05:36
think my life would be a lot better and
05:39
happier if I didn’t ask
05:40
I really hate we finally got to the very
05:45
last section of my bag which is this
05:48
beautiful thing right here and inside
05:51
here I got my daily dirt map now this
05:56
thing this book this journal has
05:59
absolutely changed my life and I don’t
06:02
know if you know this but I basically
06:03
printed a journal for myself
06:05
got my permissions that I have to
06:07
happiness journal that I’ve got my to-do
06:10
list that I’ve got like my worry journal
06:12
you know all this so this is an amazing
06:14
thing I use it every single day and even
06:16
though it really helps me think it
06:18
really helps me reflect on my days
06:19
however yes life maybe it would be a bit
06:21
harder but I wouldn’t pass away okay so
06:27
I guess the first round is over these
06:31
are all the things that I’ve already
06:33
discarded pretty much 95% of the things
06:36
that I actually open my life right here
06:37
in this tiny part we have a few things
06:40
left here in the backpack basically
06:42
three different things that actually go
06:43
to round 2 because they’re incredibly
06:44
incredibly important let’s go to round 2
06:50
okay so round 2 as I said we have three
06:53
main contenders right now first off I’m
06:56
gonna
06:57
my passport having a passport as you
07:00
might have noticed is a pretty useful
07:02
thing especially if you want to go to
07:03
other country second contender is
07:05
obviously my wallet that I have in my
07:08
back pocket and to be complete honest
07:10
with you
07:10
haven’t googled is not important but
07:12
having a debit card or a credit card is
07:16
very important because if you have this
07:18
beautiful thing right here and you have
07:20
money inside you can buy it literally
07:22
every single thing that we already
07:24
talked about well it no but this thing
07:26
is really important and lastly of course
07:29
I have my personal particular the third
07:33
competitor right here now as already
07:37
said at the very beginning of the video
07:38
I spend so much wrong well in literally
07:41
years thinking about this thing trying
07:43
to minimize every single thing that I’ve
07:45
got and that’s why throughout all these
07:47
years I actually came to the conclusion
07:48
that there’s only one thing that really
07:49
really matters one of these three things
07:51
first of all let’s talk about a car
07:54
course as I mentioned before if you have
07:57
the money you can buy pretty much every
07:58
single thing right there but what if the
08:02
money runs out you know what do you do
08:04
that what do you do if you have a credit
08:06
card or a debit card that does not have
08:09
any money you need to have a way to make
08:11
money but if you have if you have just
08:12
the card does it help you make money no
08:15
so it’s a very very important thing to
08:18
have you should probably always have it
08:21
but it’s not gonna save your life if if
08:24
it’s empty then let’s talk about a
08:26
passport a passport is once again a very
08:28
important thing there’s so many things
08:29
you can actually do without having a
08:32
passport but at the same time it’s not
08:34
gonna feed you you know it’s not gonna
08:36
buy you clothes it’s not gonna buy you a
08:37
computer is not good
08:38
camera if you don’t have the money a
08:40
passport it’s pretty useless because
08:42
you’re in colony you can’t do anything
08:44
with it right so there’s a lot of people
08:46
in the world that actually never had a
08:47
passport because for example they never
08:49
traveled abroad they never actually
08:50
needed it so very very important thing
08:53
to have but I mean it’s not gonna save
08:56
you and then we move on to a personal
08:58
computer now this thing is so so so
09:03
important to me in my life without this
09:05
thing I couldn’t do anything anything
09:09
whatsoever that I actually do in my life
09:11
let me explain when I start traveling
09:12
the world at the age of 19 I already had
09:14
a few remote businesses that were making
09:17
a good income and allowed me to travel
09:18
to anywhere I wanted to the only reason
09:20
I could actually manage those business
09:22
this was because I had a personal
09:23
computer and wherever I travel to I
09:25
could connect to the Wi-Fi connection
09:26
and I could actually keep on working
09:28
with those businesses so every month I
09:29
would be using some money for my travels
09:31
but every month I would actually be
09:33
making some money I only started
09:34
focusing on YouTube quite a bit only the
09:36
last six or seven months or so and and
09:38
right now obviously you know without
09:40
having the personal computer as well I
09:42
couldn’t do it
09:43
now I’m not sure if you thought that a
09:45
personal computer was the answer at the
09:48
very beginning of the video but when you
09:50
think about it like thinking about this
09:51
literally is the answer if I lost
09:53
everything that I’ve got I had no money
09:55
I have no you know cameras no whatever
09:57
well it’s whatever but I still had my
09:59
computer I could actually keep working
10:01
it could keep keep making money slowly
10:02
by slowly I could actually buy
10:04
everything that I have and continue
10:06
doing what I did this thing literally
10:08
changed my life now I didn’t say this at
10:12
the beginning of the video but this is a
10:15
sponsored video I know that some of you
10:17
guys
10:18
necessarily enjoy sponsored videos I
10:20
guess in me since I brought her you know
10:22
sponsors if they really do help this
10:24
channel and I only work with the
10:25
companies that I actually love and trust
10:27
and want to use and this video is
10:29
actually sponsored by LG they really do
10:32
care about the digital nomads of the
10:34
world and you know the travels of the
10:36
world the youtubers of the world and
10:37
what they set out to do some time ago
10:39
they set out to create the perfect
10:41
computer for traveling digital nomads
10:43
and traveling bloggers traveling you
10:45
know youtubers traveling social media
10:46
influencers and stuff they wanted to
10:48
have a computer that’s really strong so
10:49
that people could run their businesses
10:50
which is what I’ve been doing for many
10:52
years right now and they wanna tell the
10:54
computer that it was very very thin and
10:55
very light and it really is like it
10:58
literally is a lighter than most books
11:01
that I’ve ever had in my entire life
11:02
it’s incredible and it’s so big for for
11:05
quite a few years I’ve actually been
11:06
using you know mag books and even though
11:07
I really do love their design but ever
11:10
since I started taking YouTube seriously
11:11
I ran into the problem that they
11:13
couldn’t actually properly edit footage
11:16
on my macbook pro because even though it
11:18
was a beautiful computer worked quite
11:20
fast but then every time over start
11:21
working with you know footage it just
11:23
basically crashed all the time and then
11:25
else you told me a bro we have a pretty
11:27
cool computer doing a test about then he
11:29
sends this thing to me I still haven’t
11:31
used it for too long but from what I’ve
11:32
seen right now it really is a game
11:35
changer for myself so you know if if you
11:38
also want to become a digital omen if
11:39
you want to travel the world by making
11:40
videos and stuff
11:41
this just might be a very good solution
11:44
for you oh man I really you know what I
11:49
mean nice I’m on the roof now amazing
11:53
and so that’s pretty much it for today
11:56
thank you so much for spending this time
11:58
with me if you watch the whole video
12:00
from the very beginning to the very end
12:01
you’re an absolute legend means so much
12:03
to me let me know if you like me doing
12:05
these kinds of videos where it’s not
12:07
just me traveling but also talking about
12:08
things that are really important to me
12:10
in my life such as being a minimalist as
12:12
I said like even if I do settle down
12:14
somewhere in a couple of years or so I
12:15
really hope that I’ll still only have
12:17
five teachers in my life never more
12:19
because decreasing clutter in your life
12:21
in Maya
12:22
is incredibly awesome because you just
12:24
focus on the really important things in
12:26
life as opposed to having to other
12:27
things and worrying about what you’re
12:29
gonna wear and you know all that stuff
12:30
you can really focus on being creative
12:33
on doing the work that you love on on
12:35
the people that you love most and you
12:36
know all this stuff so yeah let me know
12:38
if you like me doing videos like this I
12:39
absolutely can’t wait to do more let me
12:41
know what you thought about this video
12:42
in the comment section down below
12:43
and I guess that’s it yeah yeah thank
12:46
you so much have a wonderful day
12:48
wherever you are in the world greetings
12:49
from a sunny California Oh
12:52
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