Sell Your Crap. Pay Your Debt. Do What You Love. Top TED Talks

In this TED Talk, Adam Baker shares an incredible personal journey of how he redefined his sense of "freedom" and liberated himself from his current lifestyle of financial burdens.

For Adam and his family, discovering true freedom meant defying the 'status quo' of how typical Americans perceive success. He sold most of his possessions and restructured his life to minimize debt and start truly enjoying life.

During his compelling story, Adam mentions a powerful quote by Nigel Marsh:
"There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don't like."

Are you one of these people living under the myth that things and possessions identify success?

Do something about it. Prioritize what makes you happy. It's your life, and you have the power to change it.

Dreaming and Doing | Top TED Talks

"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney

This is the foundation for Saku Tuominen's TED Talk. He underscores a major problem with people today: many individuals claim that they cannot dream. And those who can dream, struggle to do.

Saku breaks-down people into three categories:

• Dreamer's - those who dream and inspire great ideas, but fail to action
• Doer's - those who take action, but leave their dreams aside
• Did's - those who dream and take action to do

Saku also makes a great reference to happiness. He relates to a common perception of how humans struggle with a losing battle of seeking happiness.

The answer lies in how we manage our perception of time, and what we do with that time. "It's all about the balance," Saku says. And the new "KISS" - "Keep it simple (but) smart."

According to Saku, to fulfill your meaning of life good (and find ultimate happiness,) you have to find balance in 'dream, do, and did.'