Full Transcript for How to Get Moving When You Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything | Episode #185

sort of reticent to start because you're not exactly sure what you're even supposed to be doing? 61 00:04:19.375 --> 00:04:23.597 Are you fearful of doing that task badly? 62 00:04:24.597 --> 00:04:25.858 That can push you away from doing it. 63 00:04:26.598 --> 00:04:30.960 Different obstacles, different additions to your baseline laziness need different fixes. 64 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:32.801 So it's sometimes good to figure that out. 65 00:04:34.267 --> 00:04:39.550 But one thing you don't need to figure out, one thing you can stop doing right now is roasting yourself. 66 00:04:41.551 --> 00:04:44.113 Just admitting to yourself like, oh, I'm feeling resistance. 67 00:04:44.173 --> 00:04:46.474 I'm feeling a bit of laziness is plenty. 68 00:04:47.014 --> 00:04:51.597 There's no reason to just totally get on yourself and be like, I'm a piece of shit. 69 00:04:51.657 --> 00:04:52.117 I'm lazy. 70 00:04:52.137 --> 00:04:53.058 It's a character flaw. 71 00:04:53.338 --> 00:04:54.198 Save that. 72 00:04:55.059 --> 00:04:56.199 Guilt trips are dumb. 73 00:04:57.580 --> 00:04:59.101 They're incredibly short-sighted. 74 00:04:59.141 --> 00:05:00.762 It's just more emotions you don't need. 75 00:05:03.008 --> 00:05:09.771 What you can do instead is reconnect with your reason for doing the thing that you're supposed to do. 76 00:05:11.212 --> 00:05:22.197 I have to drive to Dylan's house to record progress channel videos because the progress channel is an important part of what I do with my life so that I can go to sleep at night and know I'm making some kind of difference in the world. 77 00:05:22.397 --> 00:05:24.018 Okay, I get in the car, I go to Dylan's. 78 00:05:24.038 --> 00:05:24.659 There's my reason. 79 00:05:24.819 --> 00:05:25.339 That was easy. 80 00:05:26.773 --> 00:05:33.077 And always leverage into positive reasons, and I would say almost never into negative reasons. 81 00:05:34.038 --> 00:05:36.980 I'm a loser if I don't do this is not sustainable. 82 00:05:38.681 --> 00:05:44.865 I'm slowly building my amazing empire of accomplishment that will make me feel real nice in a few years is a great reason to do something. 83 00:05:49.336 --> 00:05:53.103 Next tip of how to get going when you need to get going. 84 00:05:53.804 --> 00:05:54.686 This one's massive. 85 00:05:55.026 --> 00:05:58.633 When I learned this one when I was younger, I was like, oh, oh, I've been doing this all wrong. 86 00:05:59.950 --> 00:06:03.111 Don't wait until you want to start doing the thing. 87 00:06:03.291 --> 00:06:07.372 If you're being lazy and you're on the couch and you got something to do, you just do it. 88 00:06:07.992 --> 00:06:08.232 Why? 89 00:06:08.252 --> 00:06:14.353 Because you can physically move your body while still feeling mildly to moderately unenthusiastic about it. 90 00:06:14.533 --> 00:06:17.094 If you're waiting for motivation, that shit ain't coming. 91 00:06:17.174 --> 00:06:21.495 But you have something even better than motivation on

your side once you overcome that initial bit of laziness. 92 00:06:22.215 --> 00:06:22.955 And that is momentum. 93 00:06:23.155 --> 00:06:24.576 Momentum is the ultimate crusher. 94 00:06:24.596 --> 00:06:28.157 I actually have people every now and again ask me like, hey, how do I get motivated to train? 95 00:06:28.197 --> 00:06:29.537 I'm like, I ain't got nothing for you, man. 96 00:06:29.557 --> 00:06:30.777 You either want to do the shit or you don't. 97 00:06:31.718 --> 00:06:42.021 But if you want to, in the grand scheme, do the shit, but not every day do you actually want to do the tasks that are required for it, then every day you remember like, oh, I want to do grand shit, but I don't feel like it. 98 00:06:42.121 --> 00:06:42.801 But it doesn't matter. 99 00:06:42.881 --> 00:06:43.641 I can just start. 100 00:06:44.301 --> 00:06:45.602 I can just start doing things before. 101 00:06:45.622 --> 00:06:48.202 I feel like doing them is one of the biggest unlocks against laziness you'll ever have. 102 00:06:48.403 --> 00:06:49.623 It doesn't feel so great. 103 00:06:50.123 --> 00:06:52.925 But it gets you moving and it starts to build momentum. 104 00:06:53.525 --> 00:06:59.649 Because after you get up off the couch and you start loading up the washing machine in the kitchen, you start scrubbing the counters. 105 00:07:00.270 --> 00:07:05.553 Like 35 seconds after you start doing that, if someone's like, hey, you don't have to do that. 106 00:07:05.573 --> 00:07:07.014 You can just come sit back down on the couch. 107 00:07:07.034 --> 00:07:08.555 You're kind of like, I already got up. 108 00:07:08.916 --> 00:07:13.258 Let me just do five minutes of cleaning up so that we'd have a clean apartment so we can chill and watch TV for the rest of the day. 109 00:07:13.419 --> 00:07:13.999 Cool, cool. 110 00:07:15.170 --> 00:07:20.556 Momentum is massively on your side, but you got to spark that and you just got to do it on straight willpower. 111 00:07:20.696 --> 00:07:22.018 Just like, I was going to start. 112 00:07:22.038 --> 00:07:24.260 You're not expecting motivation. 113 00:07:24.280 --> 00:07:25.922 You're not expecting it to feel good. 114 00:07:26.903 --> 00:07:27.243 And it won't. 115 00:07:29.806 --> 00:07:36.393 Another tip is to shrink the assignment ahead of you for the time that you're trying to get motivated to do it. 116 00:07:37.457 --> 00:07:48.862 So you don't have to like envision your entire workout and all of the 18 sets you're gonna do, because it's like a lot when you're feeling lazy, you're like, oh my God, I can already feel the triceps, like the skull crusher is like hurting my soul. 117 00:07:49.822 --> 00:07:53.504 Your next task can be like, put my shoes on to go to gym. 118 00:07:55.004 --> 00:07:57.045 After you put your shoes on, you're like, make shake. 119 00:07:58.206 --> 00:08:01.067 You have your shoes on, you have a shake in your hand, it's momentum now. 120 00:08:01.187 --> 00:08:02.848 You're gonna get

in the car and you're gonna go to the gym. 121 00:08:03.428 --> 00:08:05.529 Don't even worry about the whole workout right away, just be like, 122 00:08:06.378 --> 00:08:07.359 I know I have to work out. 123 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:07.920 Check. 124 00:08:08.420 --> 00:08:09.561 I'm being lazy as shit. 125 00:08:09.641 --> 00:08:09.922 Check. 126 00:08:09.942 --> 00:08:10.742 That's totally cool. 127 00:08:10.802 --> 00:08:11.103 Check. 128 00:08:12.664 --> 00:08:14.806 What do I have to do to get the momentum train rolling? 129 00:08:15.447 --> 00:08:22.154 Remember that question and ask yourself, what do I have to do right now to get the momentum train rolling? 130 00:08:22.895 --> 00:08:25.397 Because once that train gets going, dude, you're going to be doing stuff. 131 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:28.020 Put on my gym shoes. 132 00:08:30.228 --> 00:08:36.411 Aliens are outside of the earth and they have a laser gun pointed at the North Pole and they're going to blow us all the smithereens like in Men in Black. 133 00:08:38.592 --> 00:08:42.493 The only thing they require to save the entire earth is me putting on my gym shoes. 134 00:08:42.553 --> 00:08:43.474 Can I do it? 135 00:08:43.634 --> 00:08:43.934 Yes. 136 00:08:44.935 --> 00:08:45.735 Okay, get up and I do it. 137 00:08:46.675 --> 00:08:47.836 All right, kind of make the shake. 138 00:08:47.976 --> 00:08:48.816 All right, I'm going to the gym. 139 00:08:49.937 --> 00:08:54.819 Halfway through your workout, you're going to be like, I can't wait to work out forever because now you got that motivation on your side. 140 00:08:54.839 --> 00:08:56.180 But remember, it won't be there to begin with. 141 00:08:56.400 --> 00:08:57.220 Stop looking for it. 142 00:09:00.465 --> 00:09:06.030 A humongous way to help yourself do this first little mini action is to make it two things. 143 00:09:07.091 --> 00:09:11.535 Physical, actual fucking movement, and obvious. 144 00:09:12.316 --> 00:09:14.918 For example, pause the TV. 145 00:09:16.372 --> 00:09:17.753 Turn off the TV is even better. 146 00:09:18.133 --> 00:09:27.437 Physically hit the turn off the TV button because then laziness is on your side because your TV has like a five-second refresh rate after you turn it off to where you turn it back on again and it actually loads the shit. 147 00:09:27.457 --> 00:09:28.597 You have to log back into YouTube. 148 00:09:28.617 --> 00:09:29.358 You ain't going to do all that. 149 00:09:29.378 --> 00:09:29.898 You're too lazy. 150 00:09:30.278 --> 00:09:35.380 So as soon as you hit the power button on TV, you're like, ah, all right, well, TV is gone forever. 151 00:09:35.820 --> 00:09:37.341 Guess I'm doing the next thing now. 152 00:09:39.248 --> 00:09:40.809 Put your feet down onto the ground. 153 00:09:41.510 --> 00:09:41.910 Here's one. 154 00:09:42.171 --> 00:09:42.711 Stand up. 155 00:09:42.911 --> 00:09:43.612 Just stand up. 156 00:09:44.373 --> 00:09:48.216 Because once you're up, she looks and feels a

little bit different than when you're sitting down. 157 00:09:49.217 --> 00:09:51.059 Physical, hardcore actions. 158 00:09:53.297 --> 00:09:55.479 Simple, physical, obvious. 159 00:09:56.100 --> 00:09:56.881 Get into car. 160 00:09:57.521 --> 00:09:58.002 Shit like that. 161 00:09:58.202 --> 00:09:59.123 Put on clothes. 162 00:10:00.204 --> 00:10:06.471 You can do this thing where you're lying in bed and sleeping in and you should be like getting up and doing stuff, but you're like, ah. 163 00:10:07.051 --> 00:10:10.755 You can have all the philosophy arguments that you want in your head. 164 00:10:13.255 --> 00:10:13.855 They're going to help you. 165 00:10:14.355 --> 00:10:15.336 They never helped me, man. 166 00:10:15.696 --> 00:10:20.237 I never, Dylan, do you ever like get some revelatory shit about why you should be trying in your life when you're like lazy? 167 00:10:21.258 --> 00:10:21.438 No. 168 00:10:21.718 --> 00:10:21.898 No. 169 00:10:22.098 --> 00:10:23.139 Just like start doing shit. 170 00:10:23.379 --> 00:10:23.539 Yeah. 171 00:10:23.779 --> 00:10:23.919 Yeah. 172 00:10:24.119 --> 00:10:24.259 Yeah. 173 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:26.080 Just have to next action. 174 00:10:26.100 --> 00:10:26.640 Next action. 175 00:10:27.460 --> 00:10:30.261 And I have some Q phrases for myself that helped me know that next action. 176 00:10:30.821 --> 00:10:36.403 One of my absolute best Q phrases is, Isretel, do your job. 177 00:10:37.404 --> 00:10:38.444 I say it to myself in my head. 178 00:10:39.940 --> 00:10:50.356 It is an incredible honor for me, an incredible privilege and an incredible thing of massive, massive influence in my life and my own self-respect is can I do my job well? 179 00:10:51.758 --> 00:10:52.600 Can I do my job? 180 00:10:53.967 --> 00:11:00.972 If I have to write scripts for the progress channel and I'm laying in bed and just letting the morning go, is there a hell to your job? 181 00:11:01.373 --> 00:11:01.613 Boom. 182 00:11:01.653 --> 00:11:01.993 I get up. 183 00:11:02.213 --> 00:11:02.393 Boom. 184 00:11:02.433 --> 00:11:03.334 I walked to the computer. 185 00:11:03.554 --> 00:11:03.754 Boom. 186 00:11:03.794 --> 00:11:06.176 I take out my cock because I have an only fans live stream. 187 00:11:06.196 --> 00:11:07.777 I forgot about, I make a bunch of money. 188 00:11:07.797 --> 00:11:09.378 I don't even have to have the progress channel. 189 00:11:09.398 --> 00:11:09.739 Dylan. 190 00:11:10.199 --> 00:11:11.680 When are we starting only fans? 191 00:11:12.481 --> 00:11:15.643 Uh, well, how many of those videos you got banked on your computer question? 192 00:11:15.983 --> 00:11:17.885 Glad you asked thousands. 193 00:11:18.265 --> 00:11:19.126 Oh, we're good then. 194 00:11:19.166 --> 00:11:19.446 Thousands. 195 00:11:19.466 --> 00:11:20.747 How many days have you, you know what? 196 00:11:20.807 --> 00:11:21.768 I'm not even going to go down. 197 00:11:21.808 --> 00:11:22.868 Constant live stream. 198 00:11:22.908 --> 00:11:23.769 Constant live stream. 199 00:11:25.978 --> 00:11:35.620 Next, if you're really feeling dug down, try five minutes of whatever work you wanted to do and then honestly reassess maybe you're just too tired that day and you won't do it. 200 00:11:36.921 --> 00:11:39.141 Small commitment is actually quite easy. 201 00:11:39.161 --> 00:11:40.702 Just be like, all right, all right, all right. 202 00:11:40.762 --> 00:11:42.362 I got some computer work, I got emails to do. 203 00:11:42.402 --> 00:11:45.203 I got a couple of things to do on the computer and documents to submit. 204 00:11:46.992 --> 00:11:48.913 Let me answer an email and see how I feel. 205 00:11:49.073 --> 00:11:53.374 Cause after answering the email and you're like, oh, you're like, ooh, actually I think I'm really fatigued. 206 00:11:54.014 --> 00:11:56.855 But after answering email, you're like, ah, okay, I'm already sitting here at the computer. 207 00:11:56.895 --> 00:12:00.216 I kind of got a flow going, but I'll just answer the rest and I'll just do all my work and I'm done. 208 00:12:03.077 --> 00:12:04.458 So try something small at first. 209 00:12:06.078 --> 00:12:12.220 If you're confused about what to do and that's helping the laziness, cause you're like, I could get up but I don't even know what I'm supposed to do. 210 00:12:13.061 --> 00:12:16.782 Just make your first task the definition of the task. 211 00:12:18.156 --> 00:12:23.897 So something like work on business transmutes into draft three email bullet points. 212 00:12:24.398 --> 00:12:25.278 Oh, I can do that. 213 00:12:25.338 --> 00:12:26.838 I know exactly what to do. 214 00:12:26.998 --> 00:12:28.039 I'm not confused anymore. 215 00:12:28.359 --> 00:12:28.999 Well, I'll just do it. 216 00:12:30.079 --> 00:12:31.659 Way better than being like, I ought to do work. 217 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:32.580 What does that even mean? 218 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:36.281 And then you just sit there and you do that mental philosophy that gets you nowhere. 219 00:12:37.841 --> 00:12:43.162 If it's perfectionism that's blocking you, give yourself permission for an ugly first pass. 220 00:12:43.382 --> 00:12:45.483 First pass is supposed to be ugly, you guys. 221 00:12:47.626 --> 00:12:49.827 Editing requires something to edit. 222 00:12:51.707 --> 00:12:54.868 So tell yourself, look, I'm being a perfectionistic. 223 00:12:54.888 --> 00:12:56.208 I don't want to start until it's perfect. 224 00:12:56.268 --> 00:12:57.709 I'm just going to make the ugly version first. 225 00:12:58.489 --> 00:13:03.230 Then when you make the ugly version and you're a perfectionist, you're like seething to just perfect it. 226 00:13:03.350 --> 00:13:04.791 And then your laziness is not your problem. 227 00:13:04.811 --> 00:13:05.571 You have the opposite problem. 228 00:13:05.591 --> 00:13:09.172 You're going to be working until 8 p.m. because like, oh, now you're in the flow. 229 00:13:11.217 --> 00:13:16.601 Another big

unlock here, guys, is to make starting the thing more pleasant. 230 00:13:16.941 --> 00:13:18.322 That is totally an option. 231 00:13:18.462 --> 00:13:20.283 Do not think of it as a crutch. 232 00:13:21.985 --> 00:13:25.568 The idea of thinking about almost everything as a crutch is fucking stupid. 233 00:13:26.388 --> 00:13:28.630 We live in a civilized world. 234 00:13:29.431 --> 00:13:38.517 If you think turning on your favorite music before cleaning your house is a crutch and you should be able to do it without music at all, then, like, why are you so soft on yourself when you get sick? 235 00:13:38.537 --> 00:13:40.279 You take drugs, you bitch. 236 00:13:41.019 --> 00:13:48.445 When you're tired, Dylan, you sit on the couch, you F-word that isn't the one about sex but about gender orientation. 237 00:13:50.007 --> 00:13:53.333 sexual preference, whatever that word means, pile of sticks. 238 00:13:54.716 --> 00:13:57.902 You coddle yourself with driving a car instead of walking. 239 00:13:59.058 --> 00:14:04.082 And like a total, total little pussy, you avoid going out in bad weather. 240 00:14:04.482 --> 00:14:05.463 You're not tough. 241 00:14:05.743 --> 00:14:06.764 You're not David Goggins. 242 00:14:06.924 --> 00:14:07.785 You're a disgrace. 243 00:14:08.245 --> 00:14:09.406 No, no, wait, I said that wrong. 244 00:14:09.626 --> 00:14:15.811 You're a normal person utilizing the tools of civilization to make themselves better at being productive by using the tools. 245 00:14:16.632 --> 00:14:19.854 So don't you go telling yourself I should be able to clean my room without my favorite music. 246 00:14:19.934 --> 00:14:20.475 Fuck that. 247 00:14:20.755 --> 00:14:22.056 Turn on your favorite music. 248 00:14:23.197 --> 00:14:25.078 Make your workspace really comfortable. 249 00:14:25.758 --> 00:14:28.378 Have an enjoyable warmup before you get to your main work. 250 00:14:28.479 --> 00:14:30.279 Suffering isn't extra credit. 251 00:14:30.579 --> 00:14:34.540 Stop suffering and produce value, period. 252 00:14:36.021 --> 00:14:40.962 Oh, Dylan, the David Goggins reviews are already weighing on me. 253 00:14:41.582 --> 00:14:42.823 We haven't even gotten onto it. 254 00:14:43.643 --> 00:14:47.664 There is absolutely value in pushing yourself to that next level with inconvenience. 255 00:14:48.164 --> 00:14:49.965 But don't you take that shit too seriously. 256 00:14:50.125 --> 00:14:51.045 You got shit to do. 257 00:14:52.022 --> 00:14:55.264 Elon Musk has to go to work and work on rocketry physics for nine hours. 258 00:14:55.544 --> 00:14:59.986 Do you think he's like, oh, this would be more challenging if I didn't eat and also worked out for three hours before? 259 00:15:00.006 --> 00:15:00.406 Yes. 260 00:15:01.347 --> 00:15:03.908 But Elon's not trying to challenge himself with rocket physics. 261 00:15:03.948 --> 00:15:04.348 No, no. 262 00:15:04.428 --> 00:15:08.090 He's trying to put our civilization on different moons and different

planets. 263 00:15:08.110 --> 00:15:09.791 That means he wants all the best for himself. 264 00:15:09.811 --> 00:15:10.671 So he's going to eat properly. 265 00:15:10.691 --> 00:15:11.512 He's going to be well rested. 266 00:15:11.532 --> 00:15:12.672 He's going to have plenty of coffee. 267 00:15:12.692 --> 00:15:13.873 He's going to have his whole team with him. 268 00:15:13.893 --> 00:15:18.535 And they're going to use all the best technology in the world to try to make rocketry as easy as possible, not as hard as possible. 269 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:27.064 So if you really don't want to clean up your apartment, turn on the jams that make you just want to like, I got to move when I hear this. 270 00:15:27.384 --> 00:15:30.586 And all of a sudden I'm scrubbing and I'm vacuuming and I'm doing all the stuff I'm supposed to be doing. 271 00:15:33.487 --> 00:15:38.930 I don't have to get really psyched to do my work work because I love typing on my laptop when I'm working on the road. 272 00:15:39.270 --> 00:15:42.072 And I love, love, love typing on my home computer monitor. 273 00:15:42.572 --> 00:15:43.692 I love doing work on that thing. 274 00:15:43.712 --> 00:15:48.875 And what I do is I put in my like cyberpunk ambient tunes and I'm like in the Matrix. 275 00:15:49.776 --> 00:15:50.056 Love it. 276 00:15:50.356 --> 00:15:52.657 And so when I'm like being lazy, I'm like, but I love my work. 277 00:15:53.338 --> 00:15:54.278 That's the ultimate unlock. 278 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.261 Competing options will mess with you. 279 00:16:00.501 --> 00:16:02.882 And you gotta, here's another tip, you gotta block them off. 280 00:16:04.002 --> 00:16:07.384 So for example, you got your phone and you got work. 281 00:16:07.684 --> 00:16:14.306 You gotta do your work, but there's all this stuff on your phone, there's all these cool icons and sort of parasocial maybe people that are DMing you things. 282 00:16:15.407 --> 00:16:15.927 It's exciting. 283 00:16:16.947 --> 00:16:18.688 Take the phone, physically put it away. 284 00:16:20.202 --> 00:16:28.004 In my deep work sessions, because I need to refer sometimes to my phone for technical notes, I will take my phone, I'll put it that way, and I'll flip it upside down. 285 00:16:28.024 --> 00:16:28.865 I don't even need to look at it. 286 00:16:31.245 --> 00:16:32.266 Turn that TV off. 287 00:16:34.126 --> 00:16:36.407 One task open is the only task you focus on. 288 00:16:36.447 --> 00:16:40.048 It's real tough to be lazy and distracted when there's nothing to distract yourself with. 289 00:16:43.830 --> 00:16:46.132 Those are big, big habits that you want to uncalkate. 290 00:16:46.252 --> 00:16:48.735 And not habits, sorry, they'll eventually become habits. 291 00:16:49.235 --> 00:16:52.479 Those, every single one of these things you can use right now to your advantage. 292 00:16:53.580 --> 00:16:57.424 And the biggest lesson from there is put everything on your side. 293 00:16:57.444 --> 00:17:01.548

Give yourself every advantage and just do the thing. 294 00:17:02.509 --> 00:17:03.670 Don't you worry about motivation. 295 00:17:04.977 --> 00:17:06.498 Sometimes it comes, sometimes it doesn't. 296 00:17:06.578 --> 00:17:07.539 It almost always comes. 297 00:17:08.219 --> 00:17:14.023 But you have something even better than motivation on your side once you overcome that initial bit of laziness, and that is momentum. 298 00:17:14.703 --> 00:17:16.164 Momentum is the ultimate crusher. 299 00:17:16.625 --> 00:17:22.088 Once you're at work and you're moving and grooving and answering calls and doing emails, someone's like, hey, I'm feeling lazy this morning. 300 00:17:22.108 --> 00:17:22.809 You're like, I was. 301 00:17:22.829 --> 00:17:24.110 How are you feeling now? 302 00:17:24.150 --> 00:17:25.390 Like, I'm feeling in the zone, baby. 303 00:17:25.671 --> 00:17:29.113 Once you're in the zone, man, pulling you out is the opposite problem. 304 00:17:29.133 --> 00:17:30.714 You let fatigue do that four hours later. 305 00:17:33.105 --> 00:17:35.947 All right, part two of this video is, okay, cool. 306 00:17:35.987 --> 00:17:36.987 Thanks for the tips, Mike. 307 00:17:37.668 --> 00:17:41.790 But what kind of habits can we build to make future starts easier? 308 00:17:41.910 --> 00:17:51.495 Because if you can build habits that make this nasty laziness start that you have to use all these techniques to actually start, make way, way, way smaller of a speed bump, then like, man, you got it made. 309 00:17:51.515 --> 00:17:57.539 Because like now when you're lazy and you have all these habits, you're like, oh, oh, I just go to my house and I'm not lazy and I'm doing stuff. 310 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:00.180 These are big habits. 311 00:18:01.033 --> 00:18:06.956 A lot of these, most people don't know about or know about in intellectual sense, but never actually do because they just don't do. 312 00:18:08.897 --> 00:18:10.298 They have no glory to them, some of these. 313 00:18:11.099 --> 00:18:12.840 Here's the one, first one with no glory to it. 314 00:18:13.460 --> 00:18:15.161 Choose a realistic workload. 315 00:18:16.001 --> 00:18:19.203 Every free minute does not need to have you insert a job into it. 316 00:18:20.003 --> 00:18:26.107 If you're looking ahead towards your daily schedule and it seems overwhelming, maybe you're being lazy, but maybe it's just overwhelming. 317 00:18:26.127 --> 00:18:26.407 Okay. 318 00:18:27.307 --> 00:18:36.776 When I have a very constrained daily schedule of stuff that I need to be doing, but plenty of rest afterwards, so I know I'm going to have some free time, man, I'm just like, I jump out of bed in the morning. 319 00:18:37.617 --> 00:18:42.341 But when I have a day that looks like way too much for me, I'm like dreading getting out of bed. 320 00:18:44.388 --> 00:18:47.089 Realistic workloads are the only ones that you can do with a high quality. 321 00:18:47.549 --> 00:18:51.110 And sometimes life sneaks up on

you and you're going to have to do some unrealistic shit every now and again. 322 00:18:51.130 --> 00:18:58.652 But if you consistently plan for unrealistic shit, your body's going to use laziness as like hiding in a cave against this unsustainable workload you're doing. 323 00:18:58.672 --> 00:19:01.573 This is a thing I'm constantly fighting in my own life. 324 00:19:02.213 --> 00:19:02.893 Constantly. 325 00:19:05.794 --> 00:19:06.414 Here's another thing. 326 00:19:06.954 --> 00:19:10.335 Try to schedule demanding tasks when you actually have energy. 327 00:19:11.803 --> 00:19:15.346 Don't schedule cleaning your apartment at 9 p.m. on a Friday. 328 00:19:15.366 --> 00:19:16.528 What the fuck? 329 00:19:16.548 --> 00:19:17.248 That's not going to happen. 330 00:19:17.809 --> 00:19:18.469 You must be crazy. 331 00:19:19.530 --> 00:19:23.034 Schedule cleaning your apartment at 9 a.m. on a Saturday. 332 00:19:23.274 --> 00:19:28.659 After sleeping in, you wake up, you're like, Oh, it's dirty in here. 333 00:19:29.180 --> 00:19:31.001 Oh, I have tons of energy and I'm pissed. 334 00:19:31.482 --> 00:19:31.802 Boom. 335 00:19:31.862 --> 00:19:32.443 Cleaning time. 336 00:19:33.284 --> 00:19:35.546 You have a choice in when to schedule the hard stuff. 337 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:40.821 Another scheduling thing that I like to use is momentum-based scheduling. 338 00:19:41.661 --> 00:19:56.765 I put my real hard work in the first four hours of work, first four to six, whatever, two to six, and then I have some tasks that I don't really love to do but have to get checked off, emails, checking, you know, messaging apps, whatever, checking in with Teams, and I put those for right after. 339 00:19:57.145 --> 00:20:02.567 Because once I'm through my hard stuff, I feel super relieved, but I still have momentum, and then I have momentum into like the easy stuff. 340 00:20:03.167 --> 00:20:07.452 Like my train was at zero miles per hour, my momentum freight train. 341 00:20:08.133 --> 00:20:10.897 And then by hour three, it was 90 miles per hour. 342 00:20:11.498 --> 00:20:17.385 And then by hour five, when I've done all of my deep work for the day, the train is now starting to slow down from fatigue. 343 00:20:17.505 --> 00:20:21.130 But it's still going 50 miles an hour, and it takes miles to stop that train. 344 00:20:21.530 --> 00:20:23.571 And so I just like don't push the train anymore. 345 00:20:23.591 --> 00:20:24.411 I just go, go, go, go. 346 00:20:24.451 --> 00:20:27.433 It just like crushes through obstacles and slows down every now and again. 347 00:20:27.813 --> 00:20:33.175 But each obstacle is like check DM apps, check emails, give marketing those quick picture assets they ask for. 348 00:20:33.615 --> 00:20:37.937 Record a quick selfie video because Jorge, my social media manager, asked for it last night. 349 00:20:39.818 --> 00:20:42.419 And as soon as I record that last social media video, the train stops. 350 00:20:43.266 --> 00:20:44.767 And I'm like, ah, I'm done. 351 00:20:45.388 --> 00:20:46.308 Hey, I got everything done. 352 00:20:46.428 --> 00:20:51.692 Because I scheduled that stuff that's easy but needs to be checkboxed for at the end of the momentum of the train. 353 00:20:51.792 --> 00:20:52.873 I could have made a big mistake. 354 00:20:53.453 --> 00:20:57.416 I could have used the train momentum to sit down and watch TV. 355 00:20:57.456 --> 00:20:58.997 And I'm still kind of, oof. 356 00:20:59.138 --> 00:21:00.198 Okay, I'll watch TV. 357 00:21:00.238 --> 00:21:01.819 Man, these are really interesting programs. 358 00:21:01.860 --> 00:21:03.220 And I'm still kind of on edge. 359 00:21:03.481 --> 00:21:04.902 But then I get fatigued enough. 360 00:21:04.922 --> 00:21:05.302 Yeah. 361 00:21:05.362 --> 00:21:09.265 And then I'm like, oh, now that I've watched TV for an hour, I can start doing my other tasks. 362 00:21:09.425 --> 00:21:10.346 No, no, no. 363 00:21:10.406 --> 00:21:11.887 Because then you lost the momentum. 364 00:21:11.907 --> 00:21:12.468 You're a train. 365 00:21:12.488 --> 00:21:13.789 The train velocity is zero. 366 00:21:14.149 --> 00:21:16.331 You're like, oh, these tasks, I'll just do it tomorrow. 367 00:21:16.371 --> 00:21:17.532 And then you're off to some bad shit. 368 00:21:18.112 --> 00:21:23.737 So scheduling easier tasks after generating momentum from harder tasks is a big, big unlock. 369 00:21:23.817 --> 00:21:27.400 I use it constantly to massive, massive benefit. 370 00:21:27.800 --> 00:21:29.061 And there's actually two ways to do this. 371 00:21:29.622 --> 00:21:37.668 You can take your easier tasks and do a couple of them as a warm-up to the big task, which we've discussed before in our video about deep work, or you can put them after as a cool-down. 372 00:21:37.889 --> 00:21:39.330 Either way, it works great. 373 00:21:41.572 --> 00:21:47.737 Another tip for these habits is to attach starting the work to a reliable cue. 374 00:21:49.118 --> 00:21:51.900 After dinner, I clear my plate and I open my document. 375 00:21:52.220 --> 00:21:53.962 Dinner is done, what's my plate doing? 376 00:21:54.162 --> 00:21:54.903 I clear my plate. 377 00:21:55.777 --> 00:22:06.847 One thing I do is I almost never leave my healthy junk food, my protein donut wrappers, my David Barr wrappers, and my food containers. 378 00:22:08.088 --> 00:22:12.472 I almost never fall – I'll constantly fall asleep on the couch having them out. 379 00:22:12.992 --> 00:22:17.456 But then when I wake up two hours later in a stupor and start to transfer myself to my bedroom – 380 00:22:18.337 --> 00:22:23.640 I almost always go, all right, and I pick up my plate and I put it underwater in the sink. 381 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:26.321 And then I take my trash and I throw it in the trash. 382 00:22:26.561 --> 00:22:30.844 So I look back on the whole couch situation and I'm like, oh, super clean couch. 383 00:22:31.685 --> 00:22:36.827 Tomorrow morning, I'm going to wake up

not interested in cleaning, but I don't have to because I already cleaned. 384 00:22:37.567 --> 00:22:43.670 So the reliable cue is wake up in stupor, see garbage in front, clear the garbage right away. 385 00:22:44.170 --> 00:22:49.272 Now that it's a habit for me, it's the easiest thing in the world because it's like I just literally have to physically take my stuff. 386 00:22:49.792 --> 00:22:51.493 I don't even have to make a trip back to the couch. 387 00:22:51.933 --> 00:23:00.737 I either get up and go to my bedroom or I get up to go to my bedroom, grab stuff with me, put one thing in the dishes, one thing in the garbage, and just continue the same trip. 388 00:23:01.790 --> 00:23:03.711 But because I've been practicing it, it's a habit. 389 00:23:04.071 --> 00:23:05.871 It just occurs totally naturally to me to do. 390 00:23:06.151 --> 00:23:06.531 It's easy. 391 00:23:09.872 --> 00:23:18.055 You can also do a thing that if the obstacle gives you a big pushback, you can switch to something easier. 392 00:23:19.015 --> 00:23:22.156 And then do the tough thing either later or not at all, but you got something done. 393 00:23:23.375 --> 00:23:29.877 So I'll have scripts for a few different kinds of videos in various stages of completion in my workflow. 394 00:23:30.737 --> 00:23:36.799 And I could be like, ooh, do I wanna start the script which requires like two hours of deep research and really thinking it through? 395 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:44.861 Or I have this other script where I'm super passionate about the subject, I'm already the domain expert in it and I can just bullet point it no problem and 20 minutes later I'll be done with it. 396 00:23:45.462 --> 00:23:46.782 Well, you'll see how I feel. 397 00:23:47.423 --> 00:23:52.185 You know, if I'm tempted to skip the hard stuff, I'll just do the small version, I'll do the easy thing. 398 00:23:52.645 --> 00:23:53.866 And then I've gotten something done. 399 00:23:54.586 --> 00:24:05.170 And a lot of times after you get the easy thing done, you're warmed up, you got momentum, your train is rolling, and you're like, fuck it, let's do the hard stuff first, or not, but if you feel damn good after you start moving, you're like, hey, I'll do the hard stuff first. 400 00:24:05.570 --> 00:24:06.651 Either way, you have a win. 401 00:24:06.931 --> 00:24:12.473 The alternative is just have the hard stuff and not even, I'm not ever doing the easier stuff, a man does the hard stuff. 402 00:24:12.493 --> 00:24:16.655 And you're looking at the hard stuff, and you're like, oh my God, just seems impossible. 403 00:24:16.715 --> 00:24:17.996 Well, don't worry, start with something easier. 404 00:24:19.277 --> 00:24:22.379 If your brain gives you a big obstacle, just duck and go the other way. 405 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:28.823 The size of the speed bump for doing the easier video script for me is like tiny. 406 00:24:29.644 --> 00:24:31.645 The size of the big script, big speed bump. 407 00:24:31.705 -->

00:24:34.167 Sometimes I got it, sometimes I don't. 408 00:24:34.247 --> 00:24:35.048 Either way, I'm doing some. 409 00:24:38.310 --> 00:24:40.572 If you get reliably trapped by your couch, 410 00:24:41.979 --> 00:24:47.943 One big tip I have for habits is to schedule couch time and not couch time and stick to that schedule. 411 00:24:48.183 --> 00:24:53.046 I have couch time reserved for only two times in my life. 412 00:24:53.806 --> 00:24:56.708 Time one is in the evening on work days when I've done my work. 413 00:24:57.248 --> 00:25:00.390 I literally do not sit on my couch almost ever. 414 00:25:01.291 --> 00:25:05.235 Except if I'm on a call and my legs get tired walking around my apartment and I have to sit down somewhere. 415 00:25:05.395 --> 00:25:06.476 Sometimes I'll sit on the couch. 416 00:25:06.496 --> 00:25:07.457 But even that I don't prefer. 417 00:25:07.477 --> 00:25:09.839 Because the couch is a very enshrined place for me. 418 00:25:09.879 --> 00:25:10.740 It's chill times only. 419 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:13.122 The other time I sit on my couch is on weekends. 420 00:25:13.642 --> 00:25:16.265 When I'm like doing a whole lot of nothing except sitting on my couch. 421 00:25:17.397 --> 00:25:19.339 I do not sit on my couch in the middle of the day. 422 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:21.781 I do not watch TV in the middle of the day. 423 00:25:22.462 --> 00:25:30.589 If you ever hang out with me for a whole day, you'll be like, this weirdo only watches TV for like an hour at night and then several hours during the weekends. 424 00:25:31.130 --> 00:25:36.615 He doesn't turn on his TV in the morning ever or in the afternoon ever and before work is done ever. 425 00:25:36.815 --> 00:25:39.557 I do not schedule my TV watching between anything. 426 00:25:40.338 --> 00:25:49.380 And if the couch and the TV reliably trap you or your phone reliably traps you, you change the sequence to be like, first, I do all my stuff and then I do my relaxing. 427 00:25:50.140 --> 00:25:52.640 Because if you have that habit, my God, it's the ultimate unlock. 428 00:25:52.660 --> 00:25:58.641 Like to me, when I'm like in the morning on Saturday, I'm like, all right, what to do, what to do, what to do. 429 00:25:59.521 --> 00:26:00.682 Finished most of my work for the week. 430 00:26:00.722 --> 00:26:01.342 I got to relax. 431 00:26:01.362 --> 00:26:02.002 I'm really fatigued. 432 00:26:02.602 --> 00:26:09.083 There's a couple of things I'd like to get done, but I sure just could take weed right now and cash out. 433 00:26:11.671 --> 00:26:12.472 what do I typically do? 434 00:26:12.512 --> 00:26:13.433 What's my habit like? 435 00:26:13.533 --> 00:26:15.736 Oh, my habit is get work done for a few hours. 436 00:26:15.756 --> 00:26:16.878 Like I literally have a habit. 437 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:26.831 Like if you told me, hey dude, you know, this big thing happened at work, tons of money for the company, you got patted on the back, you get three days off, 438

00:26:28.390 --> 00:26:29.351 Three days totally off. 439 00:26:29.971 --> 00:26:32.613 Do you want to hang out and just wake and bake every single day? 440 00:26:32.733 --> 00:26:33.774 I would be like, absolutely not. 441 00:26:33.954 --> 00:26:34.835 I do not wake and bake. 442 00:26:35.435 --> 00:26:36.656 I don't know if I've ever done it. 443 00:26:37.456 --> 00:26:37.917 Maybe never. 444 00:26:38.977 --> 00:26:40.859 When I wake up, I'm not trying to get high. 445 00:26:41.379 --> 00:26:43.281 I got to do something. 446 00:26:43.301 --> 00:26:44.401 I got to get something done. 447 00:26:44.421 --> 00:26:46.723 It could be very minimal, but it's got to be something. 448 00:26:47.704 --> 00:26:52.647 Usually like two to four hours of work and or training and or something. 449 00:26:52.667 --> 00:26:53.348 And then I can chill. 450 00:26:54.809 --> 00:26:56.490 And that's just a habit. 451 00:26:56.842 --> 00:26:57.443 That I've built up. 452 00:26:58.003 --> 00:27:00.166 And so if you're like, hey, do you want to just get high right out of bed? 453 00:27:00.186 --> 00:27:01.508 I'm like, no. 454 00:27:01.668 --> 00:27:02.449 And why? 455 00:27:02.629 --> 00:27:04.492 Like, well, there's no compelling reason really. 456 00:27:04.512 --> 00:27:08.196 It's just not what I do. 457 00:27:09.017 --> 00:27:10.840 And because I have that habit, I get my shit done. 458 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:11.961 And then I get to relax. 459 00:27:12.121 --> 00:27:13.423 And laziness is not a big problem. 460 00:27:15.765 --> 00:27:27.408 An enormous habit you can take in your fight against getting really, really carried away with laziness is preparing the runway ahead of time, especially when you have momentum like the day before. 461 00:27:27.628 --> 00:27:30.949 For example, you can pack your gym bag the day before. 462 00:27:31.149 --> 00:27:33.530 You can make your shake and put it in the fridge the day before. 463 00:27:33.930 --> 00:27:38.591 You can get the document with bullet points ready the night before so they wake up in the morning and work on the document. 464 00:27:38.611 --> 00:27:41.712 It's already ready for you and you know exactly where to click and where to go. 465 00:27:43.848 --> 00:27:44.929 That's huge. 466 00:27:45.849 --> 00:27:47.510 I do this a lot in my life. 467 00:27:48.371 --> 00:27:54.454 I have a variety of routines that prepare me for what I'm doing next or tomorrow, a bunch. 468 00:27:55.895 --> 00:28:03.380 And I use them constantly, and it's huge because it makes your experience of life kind of frictionless and seamless. 469 00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:06.181 Like, time to go work out. 470 00:28:06.301 --> 00:28:07.061 What do I need to do? 471 00:28:07.281 --> 00:28:07.642 Nothing. 472 00:28:07.842 --> 00:28:09.182 I have clothes on my body. 473 00:28:10.063 --> 00:28:11.263 I have a shake in the fridge. 474 00:28:11.323 --> 00:28:12.724 I take the shake out of the fridge. 475 00:28:12.764 --> 00:28:16.086 I walk to my car and all of my workout gear is in my trunk. 476 00:28:16.446 --> 00:28:17.366 That's just where it lives. 477 00:28:19.347 --> 00:28:22.248 I took some time to put it there, but then just where it is. 478 00:28:23.329 --> 00:28:26.070 Whereas if I have to get all the shit together, blah, blah, blah. 479 00:28:26.090 --> 00:28:27.691 Oh my God, dude, I'm not going to work out. 480 00:28:27.751 --> 00:28:28.091 Fuck that. 481 00:28:31.413 --> 00:28:31.713 Huge. 482 00:28:35.187 --> 00:28:41.472 And the big thing with habits isn't just the sequence of you doing things. 483 00:28:42.573 --> 00:28:44.534 It's the sequence and the setting. 484 00:28:46.116 --> 00:28:52.160 If you're starting work or getting out of laziness in a consistent context, you get used to being consistent in that context. 485 00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:57.945 For example, you're on your couch and you have to go call your parents because you said you're going to call them. 486 00:28:57.965 --> 00:28:58.605 You're a good person. 487 00:28:58.625 --> 00:29:00.267 You talk to your parents like you're supposed to. 488 00:29:01.088 --> 00:29:13.971 And if every time that you're in that context, you're on the couch in one part of the couch that you really like to sit on and you're physically there and the phone's on the other side of the couch and you have to get up and get your phone and start walking around and talking to your parents, you just like know that problem really well. 489 00:29:14.131 --> 00:29:15.031 And you've done it a bunch. 490 00:29:15.671 --> 00:29:18.552 So it's not like, oh, man, I don't even know how I'm going to get to my phone. 491 00:29:18.592 --> 00:29:20.452 It's like I put my feet on the floor. 492 00:29:20.512 --> 00:29:21.353 I physically get up. 493 00:29:21.773 --> 00:29:24.253 I reach for my phone and I just call my parents. 494 00:29:24.333 --> 00:29:27.334 And then everything else is downstream of them picking up and you talking to them. 495 00:29:28.867 --> 00:29:31.431 Most of my life is groundhog days. 496 00:29:31.911 --> 00:29:35.116 Most of my days look very much similar, super similar. 497 00:29:35.136 --> 00:29:36.938 My Monday through Thursday look almost identical. 498 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:40.063 My Friday has its own very similar structure, slightly modified. 499 00:29:40.363 --> 00:29:41.645 And my weekends have their own structure. 500 00:29:43.028 --> 00:29:48.310 I'm, I'm a real big structure person and unfortunately, fortunately, how do I say this? 501 00:29:48.530 --> 00:29:54.473 A part of my job is to travel around the country and the world and do various things like meeting people. 502 00:29:55.373 --> 00:29:58.795 And that strains the shit out of my autism because I don't like to be thrown off my swag. 503 00:29:59.445 --> 00:30:05.770 When I'm in my element and I'm in my environment, my laziness is almost never a problem because I know exactly what leads to what. 504 00:30:05.830 --> 00:30:10.573 I know exactly how to get myself out

of laziness in those physical and time constraints. 505 00:30:10.673 --> 00:30:19.019 Saturday morning at 12, morning, Saturday afternoon at 12, I know exactly where I'm going to be and how I'm going to overcome laziness because I've done it like hundreds of times. 506 00:30:19.580 --> 00:30:19.980 Big deal. 507 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:25.204 If you can turn your life a little bit more of a machine situation, you're going to port from one station to the next. 508 00:30:25.524 --> 00:30:26.325 Your life is like – 509 00:30:27.045 --> 00:30:30.346 getting, uh, it's like living in a conveyor belt at a factory. 510 00:30:30.387 --> 00:30:31.767 Like next thing is bottling. 511 00:30:31.807 --> 00:30:32.667 Next thing is labeling. 512 00:30:32.728 --> 00:30:33.528 Next thing is sorting. 513 00:30:33.568 --> 00:30:38.250 Next thing is you're in a box and you're being shipped off to Kansas where they consume ketchup, just like that. 514 00:30:38.490 --> 00:30:44.373 You brush, you wake up, you know, you get up off the couch, you walk over, you brush your teeth, you wash your face, you take a dump. 515 00:30:44.573 --> 00:30:47.994 You don't wash your hands cause you're an animal and you start preparing food for your family. 516 00:30:49.235 --> 00:30:50.075 Think about that whole thing. 517 00:30:52.446 --> 00:30:56.549 Next, you want to give your effort a clear finish line. 518 00:30:56.849 --> 00:31:02.013 Starting work when the question mark, question mark, question mark is what you're going to be done is like kind of intimidating. 519 00:31:03.494 --> 00:31:08.437 Give yourself a clear finish line, even if you have to break up the work into tasks that takes multiple days and multiple attempts. 520 00:31:09.118 --> 00:31:10.579 So, you know, I'm going to start this thing. 521 00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:15.142 My laziness tells me not to, but I know this thing has an end point. 522 00:31:16.838 --> 00:31:24.863 It's like when the Fellowship of the Ring people in Lord of the Rings started walking towards Mordor or whatever, they knew they had an exact thing they were going to be doing. 523 00:31:25.583 --> 00:31:27.605 Destroy the ring and the fires of Mordor. 524 00:31:28.846 --> 00:31:29.206 That's it. 525 00:31:30.807 --> 00:31:31.807 We know when this is done. 526 00:31:32.088 --> 00:31:33.288 And so it's easy to get motivated. 527 00:31:33.348 --> 00:31:36.430 But when you don't know when something's going to be done, that's really tough. 528 00:31:36.630 --> 00:31:41.393 Open-ended wars, two countries just clashing for maybe a year, maybe five years. 529 00:31:41.513 --> 00:31:42.154 That's tough. 530 00:31:42.954 --> 00:31:45.156 So if you give yourself a clear, clear finish line... 531 00:31:45.950 --> 00:31:47.970 could be like, oh, this isn't going to be that bad. 532 00:31:48.091 --> 00:31:49.751 I know when the thing is going to be over. 533 00:31:50.491 --> 00:31:53.232 I have to get up off my ass and do the thing, but I know it ends. 534 00:31:53.292 --> 00:31:55.872 It's not like a forever thing because that can be way too intimidating. 535 00:31:58.113 --> 00:32:01.574 When you're done, I recommend not just finishing. 536 00:32:03.014 --> 00:32:08.415 Finish in a way that is satisfying to you, which can mean noticing the progress. 537 00:32:08.895 --> 00:32:09.436 All right. 538 00:32:10.396 --> 00:32:14.777 Being thankful for the planned downtime after, like, all right, I did the thing and now I get 539 00:32:15.977 --> 00:32:17.758 It's going to reinforce that loop in your head. 540 00:32:17.798 --> 00:32:24.241 It's going to make you motivated more and more in the future to finish your tasks, even to begin your tasks, because you know you get that mental payoff. 541 00:32:24.722 --> 00:32:28.584 I love having to-do lists, and I love checking off the to-do list on my phone. 542 00:32:29.044 --> 00:32:30.325 Click, and then it's done. 543 00:32:30.745 --> 00:32:32.085 Oh, it's a fetish. 544 00:32:33.326 --> 00:32:40.610 Because completion is satisfying, it reinforces starting and doing and completing the longer you do it. 545 00:32:42.808 --> 00:32:50.213 If you skip a session, if you let laziness win, do not do the punishment marathon of talking shit to yourself in your head. 546 00:32:50.753 --> 00:32:51.874 Just be like, all right, I'm going to be lazy. 547 00:32:51.994 --> 00:32:52.534 No big deal. 548 00:32:52.954 --> 00:32:55.496 At the next opportunity, I'm going to resume and I'm going to do the thing. 549 00:32:56.436 --> 00:33:02.760 It is unlikely that with one or two or 15 falls off the wagon, you're going to learn to be lazy and unlearn all your good habits. 550 00:33:02.800 --> 00:33:06.823 Every now and again, you just accept that I'm just going to do a small thing or no thing at all. 551 00:33:07.063 --> 00:33:07.363 Cool. 552 00:33:07.783 --> 00:33:08.884 But as soon as you accept it, 553 00:33:10.542 --> 00:33:10.922 You're done. 554 00:33:11.963 --> 00:33:13.064 Sometimes they need an extra day. 555 00:33:13.084 --> 00:33:15.866 I'm like, okay, I'll finish my work early and I will do marijuana. 556 00:33:16.246 --> 00:33:19.669 And then I'm like lining up the drink and I'm like, I'm a piece of shit drug addict. 557 00:33:19.949 --> 00:33:22.611 And this is how my legacy begins to unwind. 558 00:33:24.172 --> 00:33:24.753 I'm that guy. 559 00:33:25.153 --> 00:33:28.776 I'm like headed down a terrible spiral of drug dependency. 560 00:33:29.496 --> 00:33:31.958 And then I'm like, what are you talking about? 561 00:33:33.627 --> 00:33:39.069 You're just using an awesome, almost completely harmless drug to help yourself chill. 562 00:33:39.289 --> 00:33:40.109 Did you earn it? 563 00:33:40.309 --> 00:33:41.590 Yes, in the literal sense. 564 00:33:42.050 --> 00:33:42.910 Do you deserve it? 565 00:33:43.110 --> 00:33:45.431 Yes, I think I do, according to my own logic. 566 00:33:45.991 --> 00:33:47.632 Is it hurting anyone that you're taking this? 567 00:33:47.872

--> 00:33:48.872 No, that's ridiculous. 568 00:33:48.972 --> 00:33:50.973 Is it hurting you in the long term or short term? 569 00:33:51.113 --> 00:33:52.634 No, it's helping me actually. 570 00:33:53.274 --> 00:33:54.774 So what the fuck is wrong with you? 571 00:33:54.874 --> 00:33:59.036 I feel guilty about not continuing to work in perpetuity until I bleed out of my eyes and die. 572 00:33:59.456 --> 00:34:00.616 Oh, that's not mental illness, Mike. 573 00:34:00.636 --> 00:34:01.296 Good job, buddy. 574 00:34:01.637 --> 00:34:02.557 Oh, oh, sure is. 575 00:34:03.681 --> 00:34:03.962 gulp. 576 00:34:04.605 --> 00:34:07.919 And as soon as I gulp the weed, I don't got time to be feeling guilty about being on weed. 577 00:34:08.645 --> 00:34:11.807 As soon as I decide to sit on the couch and be lazy, I don't got time for guilt. 578 00:34:12.008 --> 00:34:12.708 You got two things to do. 579 00:34:12.728 --> 00:34:15.270 You're either working or you're relaxing guilt-free. 580 00:34:15.470 --> 00:34:18.472 You're either working or you're relaxing guilt-free. 581 00:34:19.173 --> 00:34:28.520 Relaxing with guilt is the gigantic waste of your time and soul that you can damn near ever think of because it accomplishes nothing. 582 00:34:28.580 --> 00:34:31.582 It ruins your relaxation time and you ain't doing anything, pimp. 583 00:34:32.163 --> 00:34:35.785 Remember, machines either work or they recover to work again. 584 00:34:36.506 --> 00:34:39.430 If you're not doing one of those because guilt's getting in the way, you're doing it wrong. 585 00:34:42.333 --> 00:34:46.538 If something in this process repeatedly trips you up, try to find ways to adjust it. 586 00:34:47.319 --> 00:34:51.244 What you want, guys, the speed bump of laziness not to go away. 587 00:34:52.058 --> 00:34:52.739 It's unrealistic. 588 00:34:53.099 --> 00:34:57.742 You want it to get really small, and you want to have five things to deploy against it. 589 00:34:58.483 --> 00:35:08.151 All those habits, consistency, the right setting, the right checkboxes, so that your habits are so much taller than the speed bump, you just ride right over, and it's like, you're always going to feel it. 590 00:35:08.791 --> 00:35:16.777 That first step off the couch is always going to feel kind of like shit when you don't feel like doing it, but it could literally be five seconds of feeling. 591 00:35:17.578 --> 00:35:22.581 And then five seconds of, and then three hours of like, oh yeah, I'm working. 592 00:35:23.402 --> 00:35:28.925 And then six hours, because it's a weekend of amazing relaxation because you earned it. 593 00:35:30.526 --> 00:35:31.187 Let me know what you think. 594 00:35:31.847 --> 00:35:41.494 And let me know again if there's other vices or temptations or behavioral patterns like laziness that you're dealing with that are really messing with you and you want to know how to like make them easier. 595 00:35:41.834 --> 00:35:42.374 Maybe I'll help. 596 00:35:43.475 --> 00:35:43.975 See you next time.