At times when I have "done nothing" I look back and realize just how much happened. At times when I have tried hard to "get my life in order" and schedule everything, I look back and realize, nothing has really happened. I should definitely put my energy in doing things, no planning them. That said, i _love_ planning. So there is a conflict there.
@@57thorns The thing is: why do we love planning? If it's because it makes us feel we're getting stuff done without doing them, then it's a problem. But if it's because we need to write stuff down in order to get it out of our heads or because we want to figure out whether or when we actually have time to actually do stuff, then I don't think it's such a big problem.
@@critical-chris I believe you just described the difference between planning and scheduling. (If we want to make that distinction.) We need plans to figure out what we want to do, and in what order (approximately at least). It is when that plan turns into a schedule, our "planning" is just another word for procrastination. Do we need schedules? Yes, when _other_ people are involved. We need to figure out at what time we can see each other for that beer (or barn building or board game night). But do you really need a schedule for when to read a book or clean your windows? If you are 100% honest with yourself? No, scheduling to do the windows tomorrow is the same as saying "i won't do them today", except, when you don't do the windows tomorrow either, you feel bad about yourself for failing.
I feel so so so relieved to hear you say : "I am a procrastinator". This makes me feel that I don't have to hate myself for the fact that i am a procrastinator too. I think the part that keeps procrastination alive is feeling like we are horrible people because of it.
Never become too addicted to one type of "procrastination" (which is basically a pastime). If you are into sports thenalso start reading some books so that your hobby changes and you don't get addicted. Do everything lightly, become jack of all trades. Then you won't feel guilty.
It's crazy how much I can relate to you on this one. I'm a massive scheduler too and end up looking at my own to do's like it was somebody else's after a few days. 😄
I always thought that being consistent meant being consistent every single day but now I realized because of you that you have to "zoom out" and look over the span of weeks and months not days, minutes, and seconds. Thank you this was very enlightening and very useful!
As a fellow tight scheduler who never gets everything done, I currently combat it by giving myself a score /10 everyday and the way I look at it, if I average 7/10 over time then I’ll live a “first class” life. I like your strategy aswell! Great video 👏🏿
Elizabeth, you should know that I enjoy watching your videos. I don't even understand how time passes! May success and luck always be with you in your life :) Hope to see you one day !
I have the same issues and found that a change of mindset and being okay with not fitting into this boxes we create for ourselves is one of the best things I could do for myself and my productivity. Thank you, this video really resonated with me :)
Omg this is what I just needed i tend to overplan make 30000 plans as if my futur self is a robot and when I start falling behind on my work I start to feel terrible , u just change my perspective omg
I can totally relate this to myself. Even sometimes, I spend way more time scheduling Apple Calendar and Notion, instead of the original task. Because simply they bring more joy to me. Amazing content Elizabeth!
I suffer tremendously from feeling like I have to hit a certain amount of work everyday. It's a curse. I'm gonna give this a try. Zooming out to look on my long term progress should work just as good if not better. Great video as always Liz!
Very true, this is what I evangelize. The actual signs of success is when you compare your last year's YOU to yourself now. Keep inspiring. More Love to you ❤️
@@elizabethfilips Btw try adding my music to your playlist when you are procrastinating nearby your window ☺️ You can search as Transient Bliss or Euphoria by my name Sanath Kumar Naibhi
I really do love her. I love the way in which she presents herself, I love her hair, I love how inteligent she is and how passionate she is. I truly aspire to be like her
I relate to the struggles presented, so much! Down to the overly motivated attempt to break down tasks and plan, followed by the guilt of not following it. I appreciate the ideas you gave!
First of all I love you, I finally feel like I am not crazy. I get soo much done but yet I am never consistent. I thought something was wrong with me you showed me otherwise. Thank you so much for your content
Great video Elizabeth! I am having a go at bullet journaling for the whole of March. I had literally never heard of it before, but recently someone asked me if I did it. I decided to look it up and one thing led to another and now I'm committed to at least 31 days of it! This may be a case of Overexcitable-Connor planning something that Lazy-Connor finds himself unable to do, who knows!
Honestly I feel like you're so similar to me it's unbelievable. The only difference is that you're able to embrace your nature and teaching me how to do it as well 😭🥺😍
I have the similar problem of first procrastinating and then working in bursts to completing things before deadline. The main problem was to do some things consistently without procrastinating. This video provides some valuable insights. I am excited to try some of them. Thanks for a new perspective.
this is such an awesome approach!! "follow my fun" I love this! I have to note this somewhere and keep reminding myself to have fun! :) thank you so much for this, a fire video as always
I absolutely love your view!!! I'm a med student & felt like the fact I don't stick to a consistent schedule day in day out and actually hate routines that I'm a failure.. but your view is so so much better❤️ I always get everything done, just in a more sporadic way!
Wowwwwww ! The way you see things , how you present your perspective ..i love it ! I hated myself that i Procastinated on a lot of things , well it maks life more better to live so nothing wrong about it if it's controlled and not done too much
Hearing this explained helps my ADHD a lot. I only recently realized that if I "zoom out" I'm actually doing a lot of things, and I am consistent over time. I just hate having consecutive days look the same. This is why I enjoy being a student more than having a job.
Woww....I must say this is THE MOST RELATABLE Procrastination related video I've EVER seen....I can relate to you 100% Will surely be following this advice of being consistent on a larger time scale Thanks!❤️
WOW THANK YOU! This is something I've been telling people around me for over 4 years now, and it seems like everyone agrees on the concept, but actually wouldn't dare to implement in their own life... When I tell someone it will take me 5 full days to write a 15 page report - people would think I'm crazy... But then they end up doing just that - just with the extra blame and now being behind schedule because they overcommitted themselves to too many things... Hope more people find value in this scheduling technique.
I like your perspective on this. Definitely going to say "I'm just operating on a longer timescale than you, dude" next time someone criticises my idleness!
omg i think we're the same person when i first found your channel i thought "wow she has such a similar mindset to me i'm so glad i finally found someone like this on youtube" and with every new video of yours i watch that feeling gets stronger thank you for these videos!!
wow this is exactly what I do even though I've never watched this video before. Scheduling things never works. I try to be super flexible with what I want to do. I write down all the tasks I want to get done eventually, but I prioritise day by day what I want to focus on for each area of my life. So despite having off days where I don't do a thing for a while, I am able to keep track of it all because I have written it down and know exactly what I need to do next to progress the project.
I love that you touched upon the idea that what we DO in life is meant to make life BETTER, which is sometimes, NOTHING. Very Zen. Clarity of purpose in tasks, feeds into the motivation towards said tasks, which feeds the intrinsic desire to do the task, which often leads to more clarity towards other tasks. [wink]
The way I see it is if I'm going to be exercising my whole life there is really no need to get in a fuss over missing a day or two. Though generalizing this idea to other areas of life is still on going.
Oh my goodness! You literally just described me! So excited about the planning, procrastinate through the actual process! thanks for this video! very helpful!
This is great! I have recently discovered the same thing of not over scheduling myself because then I’d be behind and never be able to catch up, and therefore I would feel even worse because I was just always behind. Glad I’m not the only one! Haha :)
Same thing. I seem to be always free, in contrast to my mates who always seems to be rushing into things and busy schedules.. I take it slow and steady, taking alot of different things together, arranging them in bouts of times based on my mood and inspiration and yes by the end of months or years when I look back I actually have done quite alot more than others. Thanks for clearing that up.
The kind of view Liz has from her window is enough to make me sit and procrastinate at least 1 lifetime. Can't blame her. It gives me a BBC Sherlock intro feel.....!!!! 😎
I’m currently at college and have a uni place ready for this September, just got to get the grades to get in. I’ve struggled a lot during lockdown with getting things done but seeing you makes my day and your videos help me to get through my course. Thanks so much for being the motivation!
Everyone knows about these things still we don't do anything about it because we have ignorance..but sometimes we really need a good perspective to break that ignorant barrier and then we realise... what the hell r we doing..but at that time we had already lost our precious time but that does not mean the end...that one spark of that click inside our conscience burn down that ignorant barrier which is the main causes of procrastination....this is what your videos does...thanks for the content...keep sparking
I'm sure also there are some tasks you do which require focussed attention and some you can do more passively -such as watching videos. And on more relaxed days you can do more of the passive tasks and therefore still get a lot done. That's how it is for me anyway.
This reminds me of Barbara Sher's book "Refuse to choose" ("How to use all your interests, passions, and hobbies to create the life and career of your dreams") in which she describes different possible types of schedules, some of which look like yours.
Amazing 👌 Been watching lots of vids from productivity gurus (including Ali's) to get ideas/inspiration, and this one just hit home for me.. I ❤ it. Great content. I'm following my fun from now on :)
“The Lazy Principle” looks like the solution I’ve been looking for.. Honestly, the productive mind wants what it wants but the lazy self can’t just keep up.. LOL
I've held my hand up to my smile like that before too, once in a while it still happens, it's lovely regardless... Thanks for the stop scene, I totally found myself holding my head up.
I work in SW development, and we use Scrum to plan work. At least, there is a theoretical framework almost everyone pretends to use. The problem is: The idea with Scrum is that you prioritize tasks. You estimate not how long time they should take, but how complex they are. You try to figure out how much can be done in the next three weeks, very well knowing that not every day is equal, and not every task takes how much time you think it will take. But in the end, it is used for scheduling (how long. not how complex/hard) and the planning does not work. You take on productivity might very well work very well for work, especially other areas where creativity is important.
She is so relatable.. I am curious how often you get those bursts of inspiration that you can work for 20 hrs straight on a project. I get such hypermotivated too but much less times than I wish it did happen.
Love it! I’m trying to embrace my procrastination these days, I’d also be super interested to hear how you consistently keep up with uploading twice a week and where that fits in with your long term plan, is RU-vid something you think you’d have to keep doing even if you didn’t feel like it, or would you just come back around to it when you feel like it? Plus would you say scripting, filming and editing is a single project you’d do in a day?
Scripting is a slow burn for me - when I do do it (so i'll come back to it again and again) but I'm still working on it, most of my videos aren't scripted as well as I'd like at the moment! Filming and editing is one project, so I'll write off 10/15h to get a video done in a day. I think I'd stop youtube for a while if it wasn't fun (Kharma medic does this so well in taking breaks when he needs them), I think it would be quickly apparent I'm not enjoying what I'm doing and I don't think it would be worth it really, I always have medicine as my serious/real-life thing haha
Yesterday I sent you a message on Instagram asking for book recommendations about toxic productivity... now you release this video! *Surgical precision, doctor.* 😂😊⭐
My comment disappeared?? Anyway, watched the vid! BANGER as always. A few questions: what if u don’t have time for doing “what u feel like”. For example exams or an unfinished assignment. How do u deal with those? Also, what do u think I should do, if I’m the type of person to tell myself that I should enjoy this moment now because that energy will come but it won’t come (I don’t know how I eventually get around to doing the work)? Sorry for the long comment, amazing editing, awesome audio quality, and overall a splendid video good job :)
Thank you - not sure if I have the answers to that! I don't usually have unfinished assignments - I sit down and do the whole thing at once when I can, I'm much more comfortable when it's over and done. I don't think enjoying the moment and doing work are two opposite things, at least not in my case. I would try (where possible) to maximise the type of work I find enjoyable - this is why I feel so so privileged - I absolutely love medicine, RU-vid, art, my job - so doing them doesn't feel like not-enjoying-the-moment. When I do really want to take a break, I just do it - in my case it always happens that I feel like working later 😅 I'm so so sorry if that wasn't helpful
@@elizabethfilips hmmm, that makes sense I guess. As a middle schooler, there are things I really enjoy doing, and others I absolutely despise. I’m just trying to find a way to be able to enjoy it and the correct way to take a break or “procrastinate” and be able to get back to do the work and finish it before the deadline. Also, what if it’s too big to finish in a sitting? Anyway, thanks for the reply :)
Por fin encontré un video con el que identificó, me sentía mal por ser alguien que disfruta procrastinar, pero gracias a este video encontré una nueva perspectiva y estilo de vida que se adapta a mi.
Thank you! This was a very unique way of looking at planning. And I could strongly relate to that part when you said that you will have periods when you won't/don't feel like doing anything and other times where your motivation is through the roof and you not only get a lot of stuff done but you get it done super efficiently. PS: You've just got a new fan all the way from Bangladesh :D
