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As a fucking lazy person, I can say that saying the word motivation doesn't do shit. Lazy people need DISCIPLINE. Motivation gets shit started, but discipline gets shit done.
Cuzeg Spiked Cuzeg Spiked Dude this is exactly my problem. I do great at school, so al my test scores are by all means pretty good but I do literally jack sh*t at home. So my parent are sometimes shocked that I get good grades because I do nothing but watch movies/series and the occasional party. So sometimes I just tell my parent to force/tell/yell me to make my homework. So yeah I'm lazy AF and your comment fits me to a T.
well, y'all guys are lucky, I do poorly at school and at home I literally do nothing and BTW when I have an assignment, I always do it like at 2am of the limit day
When you mentioned that your future self is lazier, you changed my life because you just helped me realize what procrastination is. Thank you so much for this video👏
you told me the whole it's not a priority thing. I tried it. " I'm not dealing with my future life right now, so it's not a priority." it sat well with me...
I'm watching this instead of doing my English homework, because I don't see the sense in it when I can learn useful english in this video. But maybe I should do my homework because of my bad grammar
Amanda Meck assuming you don't live with others, just do stuff at 2AM and change your sleep schedule a bit to make it feel like 2am is like 10pm so u can acctually do it without sleeping
I say to my self: "Excuses will always be there for you, but opportunity won't and if you want to make things happen, you have to stick to the plan and focus on execution."
i remember several years ago i was talking to my room mate, i was like "bleh i dont want to go to work..." he said, "Why?" "Because its work i dont want to do it..." He said, " Well its something your going to have to do everyday for a very long time, so if you wake up with that attitude everyday. its just going to make it harder..." that moment was a real eye opener and ultimately changed my entire demeanor for many things.
I don't know why I love this so much, maybe because it's so fucking ironic, when I literally think that. And I'm trying to cheat myself into thinking it was a rational thought, and definitly a good idea
Me: Homework is not priority so I'm not gonna do it Me: yey this works *NEXT DAY:* Teacher: why didn't you do your homework Me: trying to fight my laziness *Teacher gives detention* Me: always knew it's not gonna work
How stop being lazy: To-do lists! Make a habit of things. Go to bed early to have enough tine in the day. If its important and the thing your doing isnt. DO IT
ryushuu try making your lists shorter! get rid of all the ones that are not as important and try not to make the objectives too big or vague. Lists stress me out also but making them shorter seem to help me a little :D
What works for me isn't to-do lists per se, it's action lists. There was a big think about it, but basically, you break down your goal into the smallest *actionable* pieces, and you just do the first one as soon as possible. Then make a note of how hard it was (spoiler, it'll be easy af). This gives a confidence boost to do the next smallest chunk. The philosophy is that by the next time you're down on the ol' motivation scale, you'll see how far you've gotten by just pinging the problem away, so you're more likely to keep going. Even just a little bit. It's a lot LIKE a to-do list, because it's a list of things to do, but to-do lists aren't well balanced usually. If you break it down to its smallest pieces, everything seems easier. But you do you.
My grandpa told me something that summed up your entire 3 minute video in a sentence. "Do things quickly and promptly while they're fresh in your mind"
Jackson Woods i have like alot like i gotta practice parkour i really need to learn wrestling i really want to draw manga right now and i also want to just lie down and watch videos and do it tomorrow
Telling yourself "it isn't a priority" instead of "I'll do it later" is the best advise of this video and the best advise I've heard in a really long time, thank you!
MonkeyTurtle100 omg thank you so much, i googled it, and I JUST READ THE BEST ARTICLE IVE EVER READ. Thank you, it really is really good and changed my mindset, and perspective, i loved it, thank you for commenting that, i never wouldve read that life changing article if it wasnt for you, thank you again.
Yes. That was pretty grand. The line that struck me the most was "misery is comfortable". Cause that's kinda bizarre. Why wouldn't we evolve to want to do what makes us happy? Maybe happiness isn't important in that regard. Or maybe the way our minds work was fine in the stone age and less fine in modern society.
Volbla Yeah I think there's a lot of truth about that. Society evolves much faster than our biology and we aren't really adapted for modern life (particularly western life). You might find this paper interesting, it's about depression as a disease of modernity www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3330161/
Thanks for this video. I know I've been trying to overcome my laziness and procrastination for the past few weeks since I'm now applying colleges and finishing my senior year of high school. I hadn't really thought of it that way; I've just ended up reminding myself about how good it'll feel to have it done vs the stress and anxiety of not getting it done. It's helped my work ethic a lot!
when I just lay around being lazy, I feel bored, and sometimes even frustrated. but whenever I get motivated, oh my, I feel like life is really colorful, I mean i could get to realize that there are many things out there to do. a really fantastic feeling!
RJeditor s once did my science project the night before and stayed up till 12am I had to get up at 3am to get ready for school cause my school was 2hrs away
Morgan Alexander ehhhh I don't do my homework and I get scollded and I'm just like I DON'T WANNNNNNA MY BED IS MY PRIORITY AND NOTHIN ELSE *goes to bed and sleeps*
Systems beat motivation. Make things a habit to do, rather than a chore. Don't be frightened by the enormity of the task and procrastinate because the goal seems far off and unattainable. Start a system - write a few hundred words a day, just play that language podcast while commuting, 8pm is always homework time. Sometimes it's okay if you don't progress much, but *slow progress is always better than no progress*. You might not notice but as you get through your systems day by day, you are that much closer to the goal you thought was unattainable, and before you know it, you're there.
I agree with you. I'm not sure why I am the way that I am but looking at things in a different light helps. Also, breaking up the big task helps me start. Once I start, I end up doing more than I planed. I end up feeling so accomplished when I'm done. But the next big thing I have to do isn't easily done knowing I will feel accomplished. Then I feel bad. Then I don't move. Then I feel worse. Then I sleep excessively. lol it's crazy when I am aware of it and realizing how much I cripple myslef but in the same breath its overwhelming and scary. I hate feeling like its more than just being lazy and then also being sad that I'm just lazy. So, focussing on managing my task is easier than trying to manage myself.
I never thought of having motivation as a skill you develop and learn, that does help me for not feeling bad if my motivation level isn't as high as I would want it
What helped me was deciding that I will have no 0 days. A zero day is a day where I do nothing that would count as progress towards a goal. This started out fairly difficult, with many days late at night doing some small task which barely counted, but after a couple of weeks I found it getting easier; now I spend far more time being productive, asking myself if the instant gratification is worth putting off my future goals.
I needed this. For 2 years i went to the gym to weight lift 5-6 times a week consistently then COVID and a tough college semester hit and I’ve lost all motivation to weight lift. It is extremely disappointing.
I am watching this in hopes to get motivated but so true!!! "We lie best when we lie to ourselves" I was gonna go dance tomorrow but I guess I'll do it today! Hope I do it!
