Multipliers: 5 Easy, High-Leverage Changes I'm Making in 2023 

Thanks. I learned the following: 1. The Fresh Start effect is a concept in psychology that refers to increased motivation and hope when starting from scratch or having a fresh start 2. "Rock bottom" is the idea that being at a low point or difficult situation can increase motivation to take action 3. The "bare minimum" is the minimum level of standards or requirements that a person has for themselves, and focusing on the bare minimum can help to achieve goals 4. Good mental health is important for overall well-being, and finding a balance between work and relaxation can help to improve mental health 5. Setting boundaries and respecting them can improve relationships and overall well-being

Year changed but Liz's obsession with black color didn't change. Loved it 🖤

Your level of self awareness is incredible I love that you found things and habits that work for you and your thought process. I wish you the best this year ❤

My current to-do list method is gamifying it. Achievements, Side Quests and Daily Challenges. Achievements are significant things I want to get done, side quests are usually easy but non-essential unique tasks, and daily challenges are simple chores that I have been struggling with. I also frame each task as if it's part of a game. Might be helpful for other people who grew up on videogames and want to take their life in a more productive direction.

Hey. I hope you aren’t feeling pressure to talk slower or calmer. My adhd-brain LOVES your super fast and information packed speach! Like, there are so many RU-vidrs I CANNOT listen to because they talk SO SLOWLY and never gets to the point. Lol! Please don’t ever change, you’re great just the way you are!

The Rock-bottom and the Draft are excellent ones. I think I was starting to realize Rock-bottom, but once again you helped making it clear. Regarding to-do lists, I also like Done Lists. I always do a lot of things on a day, just maybe not what I planned. This way I can still feel accomplished and gather information about what kind of thing I end up doing. "Was I procrastination or did I realized something was important?", "Did I hyperfocus or tackled multiple tasks?", "Does it have any connection to my sleep hours, diet, exercise or cycle?", etc. That way I can hopefully plan my days and weeks better in the future.

I've been inspired a lot by my friend who is a successful CEO/owner of multiple businesses and still somehow manages to spend most of her time with her passion/hobby. She said 'I'm bad at cleaning so I let a professional do it." I've spent SO MUCH time and energy and felt so bad for struggling with cleaning. If I had spent that time and energy on building my strengths (superhuman memory & speed of associating bits of information) I'd have money to pay someone else clean for me. Still, my parents & therapists convinced me that I needed to be the next Martha Steward because I'm a woman. Then I made a rule to not take life advice from people whose life I don't want. So my therapists can continue spending hundreds of hours a year cleaning, I'd rather be like my friend and focus on my strengths & passions.

I just love the way you make videos, it always makes me feel that we have something in common and I'm being listened too.

I'll watch this after I study, thank you for posting content like this it always give me new ideas to improve. Happy New Year! ❤️

I love it! I always build on my resolutions each year and shift my normal. Thank you for not changing drastically ❤

Love how actionable your content is. Specially like the rock bottom focus and will be applying it to my 2023 goals

Thank you so much for posting this video at the beginning of this new year! I admire how you have embraced your personality when it comes to organising your work and other life commitments, instead of trying to fit a model that doesn't work for you. Thanks to your videos I am learning to accept who I am and my way of doing things. You are totally right about the effectiveness of focusing on one's strenghts instead of weaknesses, I was told the same in a leadership workshop when talking about talent development. Wishing you a happy and fruitful 2023 🙂

this is probably the best advice i've ever heard, not only is it motivating, but it's realistic and flexible. it allows me to not be so hard on myself :") thank you 💕

I was watching one of your videos where you talked about a book called unconditional parenting so I decided to read it and it was absolutely mindset shifting thank you so much and watching your videos really inspires me to think outside of the box and feel more curious about the world

Your high energy is so motivating and awesome. Thanks for making my day! 😃

Hi, Elizabeth! I wish you a happy new year! I am a logic teacher at uni, and I absolutely love your videos. Keep up the good work. Cheers from Romania.

I struggled to excel in school. Doctors didn’t realize I had a sleep disorder as a child that was diagnosed by me at age 40. OSA made learning with (undiagnosed) ADD much harder. Someone should publish a book based on your videos, and use it to help teachers teach ADDers how to learn. Every single thing you talk about is so real, from the parents, to self worth, to watching or reading things over again to pick up different nuances, to being uncomfortable when asked if some arrangement is ok with you, to reading multiple books at the same time. Even reading about things you’re interested in from a variety of sources is remarkably similar to what I do. As an MD, you will find that if you aren’t afraid to be authentic with your patients, you will pick up on things in their history that most MDs miss. Trust your intuition and gut instincts. Keep an open mind, because we don’t know what we don’t know. The only advice I would offer is speak slowly to your patients so they can absorb your pearls of wisdom. The world is full of wondrous things that you are able to express through your art.

I loved this video! I especially loved the focus on strengths rather than weaknesses. It relates a lot to my goals for myself this year. This year, I'm planning to practice a lot more positivity and give myself compassion. I'm very much a high achiever and have a type A personality, but I have been through a lot and now have PTSD. I am trying to adjust my expectations of myself, let go of timelines, and learn to give myself praise when I am performing under that completely unrealistic expectation.

‘At the mercy of my environment’ - very greatly put together. And I totally agree, have been there (who am i kidding, still am).

Elizabeth you never fail to shift my mindset and improve my day to day with your insights! Your videos are like good books I can rewatch a few months later and take away something new! I have ADHD and though I do take medication I find many points across every video from your channel to be much more useful to me than all the other channels I have watched so thanks!

Elizabeth you always come with such great and innovative advice!!! I personally love the idea of the don't do list, this is actually super motivating almost as a challenge to yourself ❤❤❤

The idea of a "Not To Do List" sounds fantastic!! Omg, it just makes so much sense, yet so simple, lol. Thank you!

When things seem to get harder, it just means you become more adult which is totally fine. I feel this way too :) I believe in you! I'm sure you'll make everything to the top :) Happy New year, dear Elizabeth! May all your dreams come true! 😊

Helpful and specific as always. Your work is a treasure. Happy New Year and thanks a TON for putting this out there.

YAY Finally!! the only video I've been waiting for from the start of this year. As always you deliver the best content. You feel like my elder sister to me. Thank you for putting in the effort that you do!💓💓

I love the concepts of using rock-bottom motivation (and raising your minimum standards iteratively over time) and of using "drafts" as placeholders so I can feel like I wrapped up a problem in a little bow that let's my mind move on and focus on other things. Excellent video. Subbed. One thing I couldn't help but notice was that all four questions you chose as examples of thoughts you might have that demand answers were "should" questions: (1) Where should I live? (2) What should I study? (3) What should my relationship with this person be? (4) What career should I have? Something I realized about myself, in case you and others are at all similar, is that I benefit greatly from eliminating "should" questions from my lexicon -- the act of forcing myself to reframe them is so incredibly helpful. I see two related problems with "should": (1) it can be used as a whip to self flagellate because there's a possible implied premise that I am doing things "wrong" right now and there's a "one right way" to be living and doing things, and (2) "should" tends to obscure rationales, reasons, and choices -- if I say "I should do the dishes", that obscures that (a) I may have other higher priorities and don't *have* to do the dishes right now (meaning I may not have hit "rock bottom" yet 😉) and (b) that if i were to do the dishes, it's not out of some abstract sense of obligation wrapped up in a "should" but rather because doing the dishes sets me up much better to cook my next meal. I guess that also goes to this new concept I am toying with that just like an external (notetaking) system can act as a "second brain", the rest of my environment can act as a "second body" -- an extension of my bodily health. So my ability to meet my food needs depends not only on my body being healthy but also on my environment being "healthy" in how it's set up to meet my basic needs. I too struggle with keeping habits, even ones that go to a base need on Maslow's hierarchy, and I have found that shifting how I think about my immediate environment as more like an extension of my body has increased my motivation and also helped me focus on what's crucially important for functionality and worry less about prioritizing maintaining things in my environment that are purely aesthetic. Loved the concepts in your video. Curious if you or anyone find these other concepts helpful.

You are so freaking into the point each time. Thank you!

Wow. Thanks for this❤

I honestly cannot say enough how helpful your videos have been for me personally. I've been on your channel for a time and have taken in quite a lot, especially in regards to becoming a better reader and I've noticed huge differences. Your insights are phenomenal.

Absolutely can relate to the importance of knowing who you are and what you want, hearing your true self. That helps me solve negative emotions

Thanks teacher 🙏💙

Thumbs up !! Thank you so much for this much needed motivation at the beginning of the year

Love your last point especially. It was liberating when I started thinking about projects as prototypes, or drafts as you said.

I love the idea of a don't do list. Thank you for all the effort you put into your videos. I hope you continue making videos as long as you are able to.

thank you for making contents that actually helps us! again, thank you :)

That "fresh start" effect might just be the key to finally cleaning up my house. Might just need to start a "don't do" list to avoid procrastivity, too. Thank you very much for sharing!

i like the term high-leverage changes..priorities are key. great video, once again, thank youuu

Thank you again woman. These gems reframed my limits, again.

Thanks! I’m happy to start consuming your content , you are adorable when you talk💗💗💗💗💗

Thank you Liz 🖤

You're awesome! I love you're videos

Your editing is amazingly beautiful

Really loved the last advice on creating drafts in your head to solve anxiety inducing problems, as I am badly affected by my environment and care too much about what others feel, say and think, in a way that disrupts me from studying or doing even normal tasks..... thank you Elizabeth! And wishing you a great year ahead.... 🥰

I love your channel, Elizabeth, you make so many awesome points! I would like to apply these to my life but I can tell there’s something stopping me from applying self improvement in my life, I’m not entirely sure what. It feels like too much effort or my environment isn’t right, but I will keep trying! Also I just got my hair dyed the other day and I realise it’s quite close to yours, I was worried the auburn would look weird on me but I actually like it, though still getting used to it!

Thanks, dear. I love you lecturers

Wise suggestions with tangible solutions / results ❤✌️

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="426">7:06</a> i felt like tearing up Omg love u so much u don't know how much u inspired me and give me Hope and motivation

Happy new year Liz. Watching this video, it struck me that I've never heard you consider meditation or related "staying in the moment" exercises in your videos. As a person who has many issues mentioned in this vid -- having a better sense of self, not reacting to situations, focusing on the present rather than being anxious about the future; I found meditation helpful on several occasions. Oftentimes we know the answers, but we are engulfed in the chaos of our overstimulated selves.

Very solid advice. As a fellow ADHDer, and a therapist, we've arrived to much of the same conclusions. Also I love Dr Kirk he's the best ;)

Thank you so much!!!!!!

Good to see you back.

master clip video to the point heart EM field my

The draft technique is something I discovered for myself last year. I would be compulsively obsessed with something, letting my mind be consumed by it until I came to some sort of conclusion with it, which was very, very counterproductive. I read this parenting article about dealing with kids with tantrums, and it said if you can’t fulfil your child’s unreasonable request, then give it to them by drawing it on a paper, or writing it on a paper. Surprisingly it works on kids. I don’t have kids but I ended up doing this, and the sense of completion it gave me was so… satisfying. I love that I don’t need to fixate anymore.

Thank you for making these videos! They are giving me new perspectives on mental heath, productivity and motivation. It’s making me question the things that I have followed are probably not the best for me, rather than feeling bad about myself for not achieving better. ❤

We know ourselves best. We increase in stages. All I need do is the next part. That moves me ahead. That's all I need, this moving ahead. We like you, Elizabeth. Thank you.

This concept of drafting is so useful! Thanks!

Sensational approach

love this!

thank you on the vidoe!

Great video ever! Seriously it's amazing so So Amazing 👋

Good English very fast, but very clear. Thank Elizabeth a bunch. Have a great weekend 👍

Always helpful tips Liz. Tnx For sharing Have a Blast New Year

This was a long form “coming to terms with ADHD” video. Great stuff!

You have changed the way i used to think thank you so much for that Elizabeth

Excellent info. I've been coming to some of the same conclusions. Great corroboration.

Incredibly inspiring video and some important food for thought... ✨ Thank you for always being so transparent and authentic in what you do. Your videos help me learn something about myself every day ! Wish you the best this year 💙

I'm inspired by that to-do/don't-do list idea. That sounds like it's exactly what I need.

Happy 2023! Let's go

Thank u for amazing info

You absolutely resonate with my chaotic systems! Thanks for giving such insightful ideas and validating my questionable ways where the world is just running after consistency and hustle culture.

I love the 5th point. 👌

You always inspire me. You are my idol

The way you explained was AMAZING! These visual notes really helped to understand compared to if you were just talking. Stay safe and away from toxic people. I feel toxic people can ruin a good life very quickly. Get rid of them like you would clutter. You are beautiful and the decor in your room is top notch. Well done!!!

Definitely made my day

hey, Elizabeth, i am a master degree student in computer science, i am from india. you always motivating me to do something new . thank you so much for your motivating and very informative videos.. keep it up, and welcome to india 🇮🇳

This video it's a fresh start for 2023 🤩

I love the visual-ness of your video😍

I really liked your last segment on drafting and using those ideas to help your future self instead of trying to overwhelm yourself during the present. Thanks

just hearing u makes me wanna study, damn u r so motivating, tysm keep uploading , my medical exam is coming up, i resonate w u ty

I liked thisvery much. Thank you ❤️

I really love the rock bottom method. It goes well with a simplicity mindset. The focus on strength leads to a strong comparative advantage in whatever work you do. The drafting helps you think long term instead of short term. Great ideas Dr. Filips!

Happy new year, Liz! Very insightful content as always so thank you for this. Hope you can do a collab again with Ali and Sheen. :)

I just love you. Such a brilliant young lady you are. An old soul! 😍 You are so inspiring, radiant and glowing with happiness, kindness & joy! 😊 I wish you so many great things in 2023 🥂🍾! If more people were like you I can't image how wondeful this world would be! Thank you so much for sharing your methods, knowledge and wisdom with us! ❤😘🤗

Withnessing Elizabeth talk is a pleasure.

Nice Elizabeth thanks love you😊

love you!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="630">10:30</a> for those who couldn't quite catch that doctor's name: it's Kirk Honda.

Thank you for helping me feel like I'm not broken.

Thanks for your tips 💯💯❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍😍😍😍

I loved the first thing! 😍

Good video Liz! :)

Great video! The way you talk is really easy for me to follow with my ADHD brain. Some of these I've been doing, the others I might have to try. I definitely find that drafting helps me get thoughts out of my brain without giving me the crippling anxiety of sharing them.

Thank you for your insights. Especially this idea of drafts resonated with me. As a perfectionist, I can barely grasp the concept of a draft; at least subconscously, I often feel that there could be more and that the current result is not good enough. Your decision to treat your solutions is therefore an easy way to mitigate the always-lacking feeling of finality. I'll try this. Thank you and have a good year 2023.

i just learned about the fresh start effect when thinking about setting my new years resolutions!

Happy new year 💝

Hey! Elizabeth wishing you a happy new year and your videos are too too too helpful to me in my life you are my inspiration and I wish you reach 700K Subscribers very very soon!💕💫🎉🎊

You are a genius

Great video!!

“Investing in misery to reach being average.” This rang far too true 😂

Love n light xoxo