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Today, I'll share four ways to use limitations to ensure you actually finish the projects you start.
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@Thomasfrank 4 года назад

Please be considerate about making jokes like, "I probably won't finish this video" because they are TOO funny and at a certain point it hurts to laugh Also connect with me on Instagram if you want more music clips and other cool stuff: instagram.com/tomfrankly/

@vennyhearts2064 4 года назад

I was just trying to procrastinate on my Case Laws notes. So I picked up my phone and I got the notification of this video. So now, I guess I'll get back to Studying. Truly effective video. THANKYOU SO MUCH SIR!

@mohsinjameel5687 4 года назад

thanks for uploading such informational videos

@lisettegarcia 4 года назад

Really dig the b-roll here: 3:26 - advances the idea as well as being visually compelling. Ty!

@Jridgen 4 года назад

I probably won't finish reading your comment.

@tamasschumann 4 года назад

Is the thumbnail a fight club reference? :D

@PriyankaDaryani 4 года назад

Time stamps: 3:00 Limitation 1: Time Limits and Deadlines - reduce the choices you make and the time you have to complete the task! The added time pressure will force you to complete the job with what you have, however it is! 4:17 Limitation 2: Scope- take on projects with a purposefully limited scope. Don’t try to be jack of all and master of none! Don’t try to do too many things or learn too many skills at the same time. Focus on one skill set at a time! 5:14 Limitation 3: Tools- again, having too many choices can create confusion and can overwhelm you. Pick a few resources you need and move forward! Brings your creativity out too... 6:46 Limitation 4: Ability to Undo- restrict yourself from trying to “undo” your mistakes. Commit to doing it right in the first take! This high-stake zone will force you to improve your skills and work with more focus as you can’t “undo” if you make a mistake!

@santhoshanand1813 4 года назад

Thank you

@clarkkent3864 4 года назад

Thank you Priyanka!

@earldelacruz3727 4 года назад

Thanks for this . It helped a lot

@citigirlcountrified1927 4 года назад

Not all heros wear capes

@Dantick09 4 года назад

Thanks! I always though this summary should be in the description

@SAVAN_J-SAJI 4 года назад

"One Today, is worth two Tomorrows" -Benjamin Franklin

@WonderfulBoness 3 года назад

What does this mean? Nvm: What you can accomplish today is more important than what you have planned for tomorrow. Today is definite, it is now. If you are able to do something today, do it.

@rebeccadavison3933 4 года назад

The concept of not being able to hit undo is sooo underrated for making progress on projects. I remember in my high school art classes I was always handing in my work late and getting too caught up trying to make my drawings perfect. One day my teacher told me that from then on I had to draw in pen, not pencil. I hated it at first because I couldn't erase my mistakes, but I quickly improved my drawings because I wasn't constantly trying to perfect minor details. Now I almost always draw in pen and I am so grateful my teacher made me adopt that technique. Perfectionism is often the enemy of success, limiting the number of times you can restart or redraft is such a useful practice! Thanks for another great video, Thomas!

@cooldragoncool3046 3 года назад

Thanks for such an advice i hope with this i can finish off my 3D projects which are stucked from long way

@tumblingrosesstudio 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing this story- so helpful and what a great teacher!!! Cheers!

@MXRX Год назад

Thank you for sharing, I think this will help!

@ayoubbabiker5770 4 года назад

"Analysis Paralysis" Problems that rhyme are the worst...

@MisterPol 4 года назад

It's a new month. No excuses to not hold yourself accountable to your goals!!

@MisterPol 4 года назад

And Thomas, you really helped me stay productive during quarantine. Thanks to you, I started a self-development channel!!

@xiaominnnful 4 года назад

July!!!

@vaughnsmith5337 4 года назад

I needed to hear this today, thank you!

@roberthardy5171 4 года назад

What’s so special about a new month? It’s just an arbitrary number on an arbitrary day

@AtomizedMass 4 года назад

@@roberthardy5171 It depends whether you make it meaningful or not. Make it matter. Whole life is like this

@dennisdiede 4 года назад

I appreciate Thomas' basic way of teaching and respect his intellect. Smart people love more knowledge and different perspectives. Thomas is one of my favorite teachers.

@hugogirod1606 4 года назад

Thank you Thomas once again for your wise advice. I am 18 and have had cancer for 2 years now. Since the first day I knew about this, I wanted to make a youtube channel to talk about it. I never did tho, because of chemotherapy. However, now that I am in a better place, I find myself having lots of ideas but neve manage to finish them, mainly because I find myself excuses. But I think, eventhough my energy is limited, I should also add limits and deadlines to my projects so I can finish them. This comment will be a witness of my commitment to succed in that!

@Fabiandur 3 года назад

Good luck man! Sincerely. What projects have you had difficulties with?

@Yipper64 4 года назад

0:50 you are literally speaking my #1 problem in life. Anyone could come up with ideas, it takes real talent to finish things, im ready to hear what you have to say to help everyone along in that.

@bellamincooper3766 4 года назад

How to Make Yourself Finish the Projects You Start Create limitation for yourself → Good limitations reduce the number of choices that you have, which reduces analysis paralysis. Limitation 1: Time Limits and Deadlines The important thing is the project’s done. Also, it can be a good exercise for your skills. Limitation 2: Scope Take on tiny little projects to develop your skills, make them habitual and the applied them to more challenging projects in the future. Limitation 3: Tools • Reduce the number of tools you will use. • You will become more creative when you use fewer tools. Limitation 4: Ability to Undo If you want to push your creativity and ensure that you finish, try restricting your ability to undo.

@nikolassehman 4 года назад

I love seeing the production value increase with each episode! The “pick one the to improve” approach really starts to stack up!

@jotarroa 4 года назад

As a music producer, this is by far one of the best advices I’ve been advocating for and its explained marvelously. Well done 🙏🏼 Coming from both a classical and modern production background, limitation is actually a good companion if understood properly. I believe well thought out limitations on your art can creates good judgement; your judgement = your style and aesthetic.

@abbey1207 2 года назад

i love how this video takes exactly what I'm going through and puts it into words. I have so many projects that I've started and I keep revising everything before I finish them or starting over or just moving on to completely different things. It's so much weight to have so many halfway finished things that I usually end up just doing nothing at all with my time. Trying to turn it all around.

@RunningTowardSunshine 4 года назад

I love the jam study! It explains why we need to narrow our focus when it comes to tasks and at the same time it also explains why we shop at stores like Trader Joe’s with limited options.

@transcendentdrummer 4 года назад

This is exactly what I needed to see right now!!

@YashBhatter 4 года назад

Project management is like juggling three balls - time, cost and quality. My project is my RU-vid channel, and quality of content is my #1 priority. Learning from Thomas :)

@AnuragSharma-dm4bu 4 года назад

I watched your video on self-doubt and loved your content! Subbed. Respect ++

@YashBhatter 4 года назад

@@AnuragSharma-dm4bu I'm glad you found it useful! Thanks Anurag :)

@YashBhatter 4 года назад

@@MyNontraditionalLife You are inspiring! You've been posting for years altogether, I'm sure I can learn a lot from you! I'd love to get your feedback on my channel! 😊

@CameronGibsonIRL 4 года назад

This video spoke to me on so many levels. I love starting new things but the consistency and following projects through to their completion is absolutely something I'm taking more action on. Starting my own RU-vid channel has been a great exercise in discipline and applying these "limitations" . (eg a weekly deadline, a specific scope, tools AND the ability to undo - once you upload, there's no going back!) Thanks again for some great insights, Thomas!

@abdullahyahya2471 4 года назад

Man, Thank you so much. Sometimes I think I have consumed enough productivity Videos and I don't need more, but your videos are an exception. I just went through your past videos that I have liked. Each one is Gold. Your videos are actually packed with great advice. ❤❤❤

@VictorRegouin 4 года назад

I so need this video right now! I had planned to finish this new youtube video on monday already and hope to finishing it today! Thank you for the inspiration!

@alfonshomac 4 года назад

I design "Missions" In Notion. Designing a mission has three definitional elements: 1. Recon: The world as it is explained in a way that makes it obvious that it is a problem. 2. Success Criteria: The world as I want it explained in a way that is achievable. 3. Optimization: Design the collection of tasks S.T. the world translates from Recon to Success Criteria. sometimes you can do 3 by "Reverse induction". You start with your goal and then figure out what's step N-1. Each mission has a view to my master task database filtering by elements having itself as a mission. I add tasks from there. This way, I rarely ask the question "Why was I doing this?" and it feels like an RPG in which I level myself up each time I accomplish a mission. I can also give badass codenames which is fun.

@tearstoneactual9773 4 года назад

S.T.? N-1?

@LunarLightReal 4 года назад

Why don't make a video about it and explain it in detail. If you really make a video about this then msg me, I would really like watch it

@alfonshomac 4 года назад

@@tearstoneactual9773 Sorry haha that's Mathspeak. S.T. : "Such that" N-1 means something like "Second to last". If I line up N things, give me the one before N. Say the state of the world is B but I don't know this and so I don't even know where to even start planning. What I do know is that I want to get to state F. I can tell that E is before F and so I write the action that achieves the following transition in "worlds". E -> F ( "->" is the actual task you design) Now I just need to know how to get to E... and I still don't know where I am but I know that D is before E and so I write: D -> E -> F D gives away C and once I recognize C as being just one task away from the world as it is right now, I've found myself by "Backwards Induction", which is a game theory idea you can search more about if you want, it's pretty interesting.

@tearstoneactual9773 4 года назад

@@alfonshomac - It's just walking yourself backward from where you want to be, to where you currently are.

@alfonshomac 4 года назад

@@tearstoneactual9773 that's the simplest way I'd put it but beware claiming competence prematurely. Inverse induction is as simple as that in the same sense that Differential Calculus is just about how one quantity changes with respect to another using fancy subtraction and Integral Calculus is just about how things accumulate using fancy addition.

@DeniseVlogs 4 года назад

"How to Finish What You Start" Me: *clicks save to watch later*

@marksilla8276 4 года назад

Are you reading my mind? I've been suffering from this of late.

@themagnificentshithawks1400 3 года назад

bro, you are seriously saving my LIFE with this video. thank you from the bottom of my heart

@richardstanmeyer 4 года назад

I've never thought of the 4th Limit in the manner that Thomas described, very insightful. Thank you Thomas!!

@caproductivity8463 4 года назад

Bro I’ve recently learned how to apply consistency in m everyday life and that helped me with my channel but more importantly with my mental health and it’s because of people like you, Matt and Ali abdaal that I was able to make this change 🙏🏿

@bindiya_ganatra 4 года назад

So needed this video today! Thanks Thomas Frank!!!!!

@NarangaravZorigt 4 года назад

Thomas your video quality is just fire every time like dayum. You're one of the youtubers that inspired me to start my own channel. Thank you for all that you do.

@panorama_mastering 4 года назад

As someone in the music industry I very much connected with this video. Analysis paralysis is a huge creative block a lot of artists get stuck in. Perfection is the enemy of progress!

@hamadkadventures5358 4 года назад

I am the same. I have so many ideas and projects going but find it so hard to finish. Thank you for the video :)

@transcendentdrummer 4 года назад

Limitations are sooo good for creativity! I was struggling coming up with melodies with my full sized midi keyboard and then I had a rush of ideas when I switched to my 25 key midi keyboard!!

@JacoArias 4 года назад

Awesome video Thomas! Thank you for all the advice! Your videos inspired me to create my own RU-vid channel. Un abrazo desde Colombia!🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴

@melanatedmillennial Месяц назад

Thank you. I have this analysis paralysis problem and looked for solutions on RU-vid. Your video came up. I know I’m creative and talented but I get easily overwhelmed by the process of what I’m trying to accomplish

@ellensundestrand1326 4 года назад

I've had that same problem. Tons of ideas, many songs started, but very few finished. Last December I challenged myself to do a song a week this year. It's been going very well and fighting both my perfectionism and fear of rejection. I'm still playing catch-up on it due to a health-related hiatus, but my mindset shift is really coming along. It's been very helpful.

@felix.dragoi 4 года назад

7 years later, this channel is still as helpful and practical. ✔️

@amarachiestherchukwu6952 4 года назад

I realized i suffer from analysis paralysis recently and this just gave more tips to battle it. I found it helpful thank you

@_aceazka 4 года назад

honestly this kind of topic came out just in time I need it, thank you so much Thomas, great insights and amazing video as alway

@callmesasha.n Год назад

Really great advice! thanks for sharing.

@jeremywest6603 2 года назад

Incredibly well done video. Great information and succinct in its delivery.

@Lucas_S91 4 года назад

I like what you said about limitations regarding musical instruments. I'm a bass player and I have several basses. One of them is a Fender Precision, another one is an active Ibanez 5-string. I usually grab the Fender when I want to play. The fact that it is quite limited in its options makes it more appealling to me. Just a volume- and a tone knob, one pick-up and flatwound strings. While the Ibanez has a lot more knobs, two pick-ups and 5 strings. Limitations inspire creativity.

@jassimkoya 4 года назад

I so needed this. Thanks a ton, mate!

@arvinsim 4 года назад

Totally can relate with this one. I am learning music production and the start is usually intense and inspired. It's hard to power through a point where you feel that you cannot develop the song anymore.

@aditiofficial_965 3 года назад

Actually this video helped me out alot...this was only my biggest problem which @Thomas Frank sir just solved in a go...the diversity in the choices i had made my mind puzzled all the time and i couldn't stick to a point confidentely i already did.....thank you so much sir....

@MariaMoussa 4 года назад

Thomas I don't know if you read all your comments or not but I felt the urge to tell you how valuable of a person you are. There's a difference between a world where you exist and a world where you don't. You make this world a better place. I hope you know that. Sending my love from Lebanon - Middle East.

@savannahsosa4294 4 года назад

Thanks for always releasing this when I need it

@CaspiaNadapdap 4 года назад

Thank you for this video! I've been needing something like this for a project I'm working on right now

@lucijavidergar7425 4 года назад

I have finshed a lot of my songs with a help of a friend. He helped me a a lot with just being there and adding some ideas here and there, with composing, chords, lyrics, and the process was quite fun. We also finshed the songs sooo quickly! So ANOTHER TIP would be to find someone who will keep you accountable for some time!! Then you'll get the hang of it and will manage on your own :) however, I'm going to start a band with my other friend now, and I'm sure that will also be quite fun. You know - the people who want to go far, go together.

@SamMartinPeakPerformance 4 года назад

Yes! Accountability partners is by far one of the most key things to ensure you keep on track to your goals

@Thomasfrank 4 года назад

That's a great additional tip!

@72Reshu 4 года назад

That's really encouraging, it's what I've been doing as well since writing things by myself can get lonely, or repetetive...

@neilirani7127 4 года назад

Thank u for making these videos it has helped me in many ways I am thankful.🙂❤️❤️ Lots of love from me ❤️

@metalinvador 3 года назад

The video that I needed to watch, thank you!

@OmerHBabiker 4 года назад

Thank you so much for this suggestions 🌷

@Shadow0fGames 4 года назад

I finished this video in 10 hours, always coming back and watching a little because i got distracted all the time... (a wonderful video by the way Thomas, I'm thankful for your effort, you bring such a calming and hopeful feeling to me about my future)

@stacybeasley9450 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this video. This is a major problem for me. I created notes from your video and plan to put those in action. Writing this book I am writing is important to me and I have to finish it. Thank you for these tips.

@hils4228 4 года назад

Loved this video! Well done!

@sherrybradshaw5099 2 года назад

Thank you, this is very helpful.

@mindfuldeclutteringorganizingl 2 года назад

So true that we get analysis paralysis with too many choice. Love that jam study!

@nileshgadiya 3 года назад

Thank you so much.. You are doing an amazing work.

@sprocketblvd6758 4 года назад

Thanks for another great video Thomas! Love what you do

@devotedsouls3760 4 года назад

This is exactly what I needed!

@PrincessPumpernickel 4 года назад

I love your videos since I've been watching your videos my tests score have been higher and I've been passing subjects thanks dude your awesome.

@diegopayan6731 4 года назад

Thanks for sharing such valuable information Thomas!!! Truly thankful

@chandiragunasena5964 4 года назад

Many thanks Thomas. Much needed video to help with my research.

@sumahuma6054 4 года назад

Soooo helpful. As always.

@ishu5434 4 года назад

Thank you for this video

@faithfulgal3003 4 года назад

Awesome podcast I needed to hear this! Much Love ❤️

@kozinoart Год назад

Finishing personal l projects has been such a challenge! Thank you for this

@CassieWinter 3 года назад

Yesssss. Intentional limitations are so important!

@ValerieOkorie 4 года назад

Thank you so much Tom....you help me to grow everyday....your the best.

@pedrofigueirinha5325 4 года назад

Loved the message. Loved the video edit, smooth transitions. Keep it up!

@niyamacharya7320 4 года назад

Thank you so much Thomas!

@khateebahmed9523 4 года назад

Thank you Thomas for the lit content

@tomisin 4 года назад

I needed this video

@hiveimprovements3009 4 года назад

Nice tips ! tnx

@jastalks4812 4 года назад

This is helpful... I am stucked finishing my video project... Thanks a lot

@Rootiii1 3 года назад

Great advice.

@djem_music4765 3 года назад

Dude. THANK YOU! I have A.D.D and even though that my medicine is helping me, It’s not enough. Getting tings done as a musician has always been so hard for me. I have a deadline in a week. And I keep procrastinating. But this is great advice. Again THANK YOU. I try it out, and give an update.

@ivanov.roma2002 4 года назад

Thank you for interesting and useful video👍😊

@thehappyalgorithm7707 4 года назад

Awesome video 👌 definitely agree a lot of options can lead you to failure to complete your projects

@najrenchelf2751 4 года назад

I don‘t remember who said this but: sometimes done is better than perfect. Hope y‘all are doing well! 🤗 Update: I just remembered - Legal Eagle said that!

@AtomizedMass 4 года назад

Couldn't agree more, thank you

@mannybarnes2053 4 года назад

Heard this on one of Peter Mckinnon's videos :)

@UnboxingJobs 4 года назад

Thank you, appreciate the reminder!

@feeshac1974 4 года назад

Basically every prof ive had has said this to me at some point as a chronic procrastinator/perfectionist 😅

@scaramouche768 4 года назад

"Something is better than nothing" -my teacher :)

@MaksDopler Год назад

Thanks for the video

@jonklopez 4 года назад

Thanks for all the great tips

@Wellgraf 4 года назад

Amazing tips Thomas! Just checked out you Notion Production template too, insanely good work there! Thank you!

@connorhebert6780 4 года назад

The man does it all.

@octobomb 4 года назад

your videos are inspiring!

@bamlaktadesse4880 3 года назад

I was so overwhelmed yesterday that I stop working on my projects, this helps me alot

@CCV334 4 года назад

Hi Thomas, I Found this video very insightful. As a long time viewer of the channel, It's really inspiring seeing you grow as a creator. The evolution of your communication, storytelling skills, and editing has come a long way (shout out to your team as well). The concept of breaking projects down into smaller completed parts really stuck out to me. As a programmer, I would much rather have a repository of completed small projects than one of uncompleted large ones. P.S. Hopefully I'll finish some of my song ideas as well haha.