self determination

If you're ambitious but lazy, please watch this video…

So you're ambitious you got Big Dreams. You want to be successful and ultimately. You want to live the life you've always 0:05 imagined but there's a problem you're 0:07 lazy you know exactly what you should be 0:09 doing yet you don't do it leading to 0:11 feelings of guilt because deep down you 0:13 know you're capable of more this guilt 0:15 builds up over days weeks months until it turns into acceptance and then the 0:19 New Year arrives and with it the same 0:21 goals from last year you start off 0:23 strong fueled by motivation and a bit of 0:25 delusion but before you know it 0:27 procrastination Creeps in like that one 0:29 relative who always shows up uninvited 0:31 your lingering procrastination turns 0:33 into a daily cycle of laziness and 0:35 before you know it you've labeled 0:36 yourself as a lazy person so how do we 0:38 break this cycle and break free from 0:40 procrastination well there are many 0:42 videos on the internet but majority of 0:43 them only address the symptoms like 0:45 deleting social media or removing 0:47 distractions while these may help in the 0:49 short term they fail to address the real 0:51 issue the root cause behind 0:53 procrastination which can be summed up 0:55 in one word inertia in physics inertia 0:58 is the tendency for objects at rest to 1:00 stay at rest and objects in motion to 1:02 stay in motion unless acted upon by an 1:04 external Force this also happens to be 1:06 Newton's first law of motion and it 1:08 applies just as much to tasks as it does 1:10 to objects getting started on any task 1:13 no matter how small requires an initial 1:15 push and some amount of energy to 1:17 overcome the resting state of inertia 1:19 and this precisely is the issue we make 1:21 this initial push so big and difficult 1:23 in our minds that instead we just avoid 1:25 the task entirely and distract ourselves 1:27 with cheap dopamine inducing activities 1:29 so to break break procrastination we 1:31 need to break inertia and there are two 1:33 ways to do 1:35 this getting started is the most 1:37 difficult part so make this as easy as 1:39 possible by reducing the stakes and 1:41 taking the smallest step forward for 1:43 example if you tell yourself I need to 1:45 sit down and complete my 5,000-word 1:46 essay the inertia is too strong as the 1:49 stakes are so high but instead if you 1:51 tell yourself I'm only going to write 50 1:53 words the feeling of inertia is much 1:55 lower as now it's pretty easy to get 1:57 started without needing to rely on 1:59 Willpower or 2:01 discipline another popular technique is 2:03 the two-minute rule if you don't feel 2:05 like doing the work just tell yourself 2:07 you'll do it for 2 minutes and then stop 2:09 should you want to for example you don't 2:11 feel like cleaning your room put on a 2:13 song clean your room and stop when the 2:15 Music Stops the best part is usually 2:17 you'll continue longer than 2 minutes or 2:19 you'll end up writing more than 50 words 2:21 and this is because objects in motion 2:23 stay in motion meaning once we get 2:25 started we start gaining momentum and 2:27 this momentum keeps us going for longer 2:29 initially it's like pushing a ball 2:30 uphill but once we pass the point of 2:32 inertia it's downhill from there and 2:34 that's why it's important that the 2:35 initial push is small and Easy in other 2:37 words reduce the stakes and start with 2:39 just 2 minutes you can apply these two 2:41 methods to any area of your life to 2:43 overcome procrastination whether that's 2:45 getting to the gym working on your side 2:47 hustle maintaining your relationships or 2:49 pretty much anything you can think of as 2:51 Martin Luther King once said you don't 2:53 have to see the whole staircase just 2:55 take the first step