WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:08.640 Are you tired of putting things off until tomorrow? And then tomorrow's tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow's tomorrow's tomorrow? Today on this video, I'm gonna show you how to beat procrastination, 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:14.960 go from excuse maker to action taker, and get it done now. I'm gonna show you that no one 00:00:15.975 --> 00:00:22.855 has a procrastination problem. People think they have a procrastination problem, but I've never met a person in my life with a procrastination problem. 00:00:23.095 --> 00:00:23.975 Procrastination 00:00:23.975 --> 00:00:27.335 is never the problem. Procrastination is always the symptom 00:00:27.830 --> 00:00:32.870 of the problem. And in this video, I'm gonna show you why you keep putting things off. 00:00:33.190 --> 00:00:35.190 The reason people procrastinate, 00:00:35.910 --> 00:00:37.910 any of us, is because 00:00:38.070 --> 00:00:39.990 we are associating 00:00:40.310 --> 00:00:42.470 more pain than pleasure 00:00:43.295 --> 00:00:45.135 with the actual 00:00:45.535 --> 00:00:47.775 getting of this thing done. 00:00:48.415 --> 00:00:52.815 If I if I just change it and I start associating more pleasure than pain 00:00:53.055 --> 00:00:57.775 to this activity, I'll get the thing done. Now the interesting thing about it is 00:00:58.590 --> 00:00:59.550 regardless 00:00:59.550 --> 00:01:00.510 of the thing, 00:01:01.390 --> 00:01:07.550 it's like we think, well, I'm just procrastinating this thing because this is the thing that I don't like to do. No. You're procrastinating 00:01:07.630 --> 00:01:10.030 because of how you're using your mind 00:01:10.335 --> 00:01:11.055 or 00:01:11.215 --> 00:01:27.310 avoiding using your mind, but I'm gonna show you how to use your mind in such a way that procrastination will never be something you have to deal with again. You'll just get it done and you'll understand how to get it done in real time when you're tempted to procrastinate. Everybody ready? Shout, I'm ready. Ready. Okay. Here we go. So this is how it works. 00:01:28.670 --> 00:01:29.390 This 00:01:30.190 --> 00:01:30.990 is you. 00:01:32.750 --> 00:01:37.150 And by the way, not only does this work in helping you not procrastinate, 00:01:37.230 --> 00:01:54.265 it'll also work in helping you help other people when you're communicating with them not to procrastinate. It'll help you help your spouse to stop procrastinating. It'll help you help your children stop procrastinating. It'll help you if you're a teacher, help your students stop procrastinating if you understand this principle. So this is you. 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:56.720 These are the facts, 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.520 and you observe the facts. Maybe you see them, 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:04.400 maybe you hear them, 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:10.160 and when you observe the facts, the very first thing you do is you put a frame around the facts 00:02:10.635 --> 00:02:15.035 and that frame has a positive aspect and a negative aspect. 00:02:15.355 --> 00:02:18.475 Now the positive and negative aspect of the facts 00:02:19.035 --> 00:02:25.780 have to be there in order for the fact to be there. What does that even mean? What it means is there's no such thing 00:02:26.020 --> 00:02:27.460 as a purely 00:02:27.540 --> 00:02:29.060 positive fact, 00:02:29.540 --> 00:02:32.980 and there's no such thing as a purely negative fact. 00:02:33.140 --> 00:02:39.940 And so what happens when we put this frame around the fact is that frame is in the form of a focus 00:02:40.575 --> 00:02:41.695 in our head. 00:02:42.815 --> 00:02:44.575 And that focus in our head, 00:02:45.135 --> 00:02:58.260 if we're focused on the positive aspect of the fact, it makes us happy and or it energizes us so that we can go and take that action. But if we focus on the negative aspect of the fact, it makes us sad or some negative emotion so we avoid 00:02:58.740 --> 00:03:01.300 whatever that activity is. Now as soon as I 00:03:01.940 --> 00:03:02.820 create 00:03:03.460 --> 00:03:10.180 a frame around the fact and I start focusing on either the positive or the negative, the first thing I do is I start building a belief 00:03:10.875 --> 00:03:12.315 And it doesn't matter 00:03:12.635 --> 00:03:15.275 if the belief is true. It's my belief. 00:03:15.515 --> 00:03:20.395 People think that they believe things because they're true, but here's the reality. 00:03:20.635 --> 00:03:22.875 People think things are true because they believe them. 00:03:23.540 --> 00:03:28.340 If you can become self aware enough to know that the things that you are believing 00:03:29.140 --> 00:03:30.100 are true, 00:03:30.980 --> 00:03:34.660 you're believing they're true because you think them rather than 00:03:35.700 --> 00:03:42.895 think they're true because you believe them rather than thinking that you believe them because they're true. Just be aware of that. And it may be true, 00:03:43.935 --> 00:03:48.175 but the reason you believe it is because you think it's true. Are you all tracking? Okay. 00:03:48.495 --> 00:03:49.215 And so 00:03:49.695 --> 00:03:57.140 the first thing I do when I focus on the fact, I focus on the fact in my head, then I develop in my mind, I develop a belief. 00:03:59.060 --> 00:04:00.180 And that belief 00:04:00.900 --> 00:04:08.500 also has a positive and a negative. If I'm focused on focused on the positive aspect of the fact, that belief manifests in my life as faith, 00:04:09.075 --> 00:04:14.435 which faith without works is dead. What does that mean? That means if I really believe something, I'm gonna do something about it. 00:04:15.155 --> 00:04:29.720 But if I'm focused on the negative aspect of the fact, then it's gonna manifest a belief called doubt. Now here's the thing most people don't understand. Faith and doubt are both belief. Most people think that faith is belief and doubt is the absence of belief, but doubt is not the absence of belief. 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:33.000 Faith is belief in the outcome I desire. 00:04:33.400 --> 00:04:40.005 Doubt is belief in the outcome I don't desire. And so it's not that, well, a person who has faith doesn't have doubt. 00:04:40.325 --> 00:04:44.405 Everybody who has faith has doubt. You doubt the opposite of the thing you have faith in. 00:04:44.885 --> 00:04:56.590 And everybody who has doubt has faith. They have faith in the thing that's opposite of what they're doubting. And that's just how life works. And so what we have to do is we have to be we have to be aware and hyper intentional about what 00:04:56.670 --> 00:04:57.630 aspect 00:04:58.110 --> 00:04:59.310 of the facts 00:04:59.390 --> 00:05:00.510 we focus on. 00:05:00.830 --> 00:05:05.710 Because the aspect of the facts we focus on cause us to believe things 00:05:06.295 --> 00:05:07.415 that affect 00:05:07.655 --> 00:05:08.455 outcomes 00:05:08.455 --> 00:05:09.495 in our lives. 00:05:10.055 --> 00:05:18.935 I I I really hope this I hope you are wrapping your minds around what I'm saying. And so what happens, people don't that that's why you've have you ever heard the phrase, if your attitude is right, the facts don't matter? 00:05:19.335 --> 00:05:20.055 This is why. 00:05:21.200 --> 00:05:28.880 If your attitude is right, what what kind of attitude do I need to have? Well, I need to have I don't I don't I don't know about you. You have the kind of attitude you want have. I need to have the kind of attitude 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:42.295 where I'm focused on the positive aspect of the facts as often as possible unless focusing on the positive aspect of the fact is going to put my life or health or family or financial or something that's important to me in jeopardy. 00:05:42.695 --> 00:05:50.455 If if focusing on the positive aspect of the fact does not somehow put me in jeopardy, how could focusing on positive aspect of the fact? Let's say, 00:05:51.175 --> 00:05:55.550 breaking in my house. I think, oh, they're just breaking in my house because they wanna come say hi. 00:05:55.870 --> 00:05:56.510 Right? 00:05:57.150 --> 00:06:10.745 I'm focused on that's that's a that's a an erroneous belief that could cause me harm. Right? And I'm focusing on the positive aspect of the fact. Now is it possible that somebody could be breaking into my house because they wanna come say it? I mean, that possibility exists, but what's the likelihood? Not likely. 00:06:11.065 --> 00:06:12.985 Are y'all tracking? Okay. So 00:06:13.305 --> 00:06:13.865 when 00:06:14.185 --> 00:06:18.025 I focus on the positive aspect of the fact, I manifest a belief called faith 00:06:19.430 --> 00:06:23.510 or I focus on negative aspect of the fact and manifest a belief called doubt, 00:06:23.990 --> 00:06:28.950 what happens is this belief travels down into my heart 00:06:29.270 --> 00:06:30.550 and it produces 00:06:30.710 --> 00:06:31.430 a 00:06:32.150 --> 00:06:32.550 feeling 00:06:34.135 --> 00:06:35.255 in my heart. 00:06:36.055 --> 00:06:37.175 Did you know 00:06:38.215 --> 00:06:39.575 that feelings 00:06:39.575 --> 00:06:41.815 are the fuel of action? 00:06:44.295 --> 00:06:51.440 Did you hear what I just said? Feelings are the fuel of action. What does that even mean? That means human beings are singularly motivated. 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:52.720 People 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:53.520 do 00:06:53.760 --> 00:06:57.440 what they do for one reason and one reason only, 00:06:57.760 --> 00:06:59.680 and that is because we feel like it. 00:07:01.055 --> 00:07:07.295 See, I woke up this morning at 05:00 when my alarm went off. I actually woke up a little before my alarm went off, seven minutes before my alarm went off, 00:07:07.855 --> 00:07:11.775 but I'm getting up at five anyway. I'm certainly not gonna get up seven minutes early. 00:07:12.575 --> 00:07:20.720 And when my alarm clock went off, I did not push snooze. Why didn't I push snooze? Because I knew I had a limited amount of time to work out 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:34.265 and then take a shower and get dressed and get here so that I could go live today on YouTube. I had a limited amount of time And and and so but I could have gone back to bed and skipped working out. But then 00:07:34.585 --> 00:07:40.505 that takes my objective that I'm working on to be able to hit my driver 300 yards. 00:07:41.065 --> 00:07:43.545 Right? It pushes it further and further into the future 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:53.960 or maybe it pushes it so far into the future that I'll never get it done. So I'm getting up and I'm working out and this body is gonna serve me. It is not the boss. I'm the boss. 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:55.480 And so I got up. 00:07:56.655 --> 00:08:04.095 And so why did I get up? Because I felt like the feeling that I had that if I get up and go work out, 00:08:04.815 --> 00:08:08.175 I'm going to eventually be able to hit 300 yard drives. 00:08:11.690 --> 00:08:14.010 Right? I'll be able to hit my drives 300 yards. 00:08:14.650 --> 00:08:18.010 But if I don't get up, I'll keep dribbling out there 200. 00:08:18.090 --> 00:08:19.450 200. 200. 00:08:21.290 --> 00:08:26.515 Yeah. But I'm you're 64. You shouldn't wanna okay. You do what you're gonna do when you're 64. 00:08:26.835 --> 00:08:29.475 By the time I'm 65, I'm be hitting my drive 300 yard. 00:08:30.035 --> 00:08:36.115 Okay. So I get a feeling in my heart. Now the feeling in my heart is going to be determined 00:08:36.115 --> 00:08:41.155 by the focus in my head whether it's causing me to manifest faith 00:08:40.470 --> 00:08:41.750 or doubt. If 00:08:42.470 --> 00:08:44.710 while I'm focused on the aspect 00:08:45.030 --> 00:08:52.870 of positive aspect of the fact, I manufacture a belief called faith, then that faith is gonna cause me to have a feeling called anticipation. 00:08:54.895 --> 00:08:56.175 Anticipation 00:08:56.575 --> 00:08:57.295 is 00:08:57.535 --> 00:09:00.255 the it's it's the energy I get 00:09:00.815 --> 00:09:05.775 when the outcome I expect is desirable to me. Like, if we could master 00:09:06.750 --> 00:09:07.630 building 00:09:08.670 --> 00:09:10.510 internal anticipation 00:09:12.510 --> 00:09:13.630 intentionally, 00:09:14.190 --> 00:09:15.550 it would change our lives forever. 00:09:17.885 --> 00:09:21.565 And and by the way, most people have almost no practice. 00:09:22.445 --> 00:09:29.565 Most of the anticipation that we get, someone outside of us creates it. Like Apple is very good at creating anticipation for the new iPhone. 00:09:31.790 --> 00:09:38.510 But what if you were as good at creating anticipation for getting in shape or for creating wealth for your family or 00:09:38.750 --> 00:09:46.030 for whatever, getting a promotion at your job? What if you could have what if you could build intentionally build as much for intentionality 00:09:46.375 --> 00:09:47.095 or 00:09:47.175 --> 00:09:51.095 anticipation intentionally for that as you allow 00:09:52.135 --> 00:10:00.535 businesses and corporations to build for you? Like, when you wake up and you pick up your phone and you start looking at TikTok or you start looking at Facebook or you start looking at Instagram or you start looking at YouTube? 00:10:01.100 --> 00:10:03.340 What if you could build anticipation 00:10:03.340 --> 00:10:05.420 for things that move the needle in your life 00:10:06.140 --> 00:10:12.460 like they've built anticipation in you for things that don't move the needle in your life? Okay. Y'all tracking. And so 00:10:13.095 --> 00:10:23.495 so anticipation is like that feeling you get on Christmas Eve when you know what you're getting and you're a little kid and your parents send you to bed early and you can't you can't sleep. Why can't you sleep? Because you're being energized 00:10:23.575 --> 00:10:25.335 by your expectation 00:10:25.575 --> 00:10:26.935 of a magnificent 00:10:26.935 --> 00:10:30.550 future in less than twelve hours. Right? 00:10:30.950 --> 00:10:32.790 Anticipation energizes us, 00:10:33.270 --> 00:10:36.230 but if we're focusing on focusing on a negative aspect of the fact, 00:10:36.470 --> 00:10:37.110 then 00:10:37.830 --> 00:10:43.270 the feeling in our heart that we're gonna manifest out and the feeling in our heart is not gonna be anticipation. It's gonna be anxiety. 00:10:44.025 --> 00:10:49.705 Anxiety is the thief of our dreams. This is why Jesus said, be anxious over nothing. He said, be careful for nothing. 00:10:50.265 --> 00:10:52.025 I mean, he said he said, have no 00:10:52.745 --> 00:11:03.410 he said, have no take no thought for tomorrow. That means don't be anxious about tomorrow. Why did he say that? Here's what he's saying. Jesus is saying, stop wasting today's energy worrying about tomorrow's problem. 00:11:06.530 --> 00:11:08.530 And every time you feel yourself 00:11:08.930 --> 00:11:14.395 having anxiety over something by the way, anxiety let me show you what anxiety feels like. Your hands sweat. 00:11:15.195 --> 00:11:16.395 Your heart palpitations. 00:11:16.635 --> 00:11:17.995 Your breathing gets yellow. 00:11:19.035 --> 00:11:20.315 Your mind races. 00:11:21.515 --> 00:11:24.075 And you're so exhausted, you can't do anything but sit down. 00:11:26.850 --> 00:11:28.930 That's what anxiety is. 00:11:29.250 --> 00:11:35.090 Anticipation is the energy I get when the outcome I expect is desirable to me. But and but anxiety 00:11:35.330 --> 00:11:37.170 is wasting present energy. 00:11:38.205 --> 00:11:46.285 What is it? Wasting my present energy on a future outcome that's undesirable to me. See, most people mislabel 00:11:46.365 --> 00:11:48.045 anxiety as fear. 00:11:49.325 --> 00:11:57.700 If they they didn't get the diagnosis right, they can't find a cure. They mislabel anxiety as fear. They say, well, I have a fear of failure. There's no such thing. 00:11:58.100 --> 00:12:04.340 I have a fear of success. There's no such thing as that. I have fear of rejection. There's no such thing. Say, oh, no. Yes, sir. I have it. No. You don't. 00:12:04.660 --> 00:12:07.860 See, fear is caution over a real and present danger. 00:12:09.035 --> 00:12:09.915 So 00:12:10.875 --> 00:12:11.915 last night, 00:12:12.955 --> 00:12:14.875 I went to my house to check out 00:12:15.755 --> 00:12:19.515 the progress that these contractors are making because I just got back in town yesterday. 00:12:20.330 --> 00:12:22.410 And when I came out of my house 00:12:24.090 --> 00:12:27.690 and came out to get in my car, I'm looking around, and I had a little bit of 00:12:28.490 --> 00:12:29.690 hyperawareness, 00:12:30.010 --> 00:12:30.570 fear. 00:12:32.170 --> 00:12:33.770 Why? Because 00:12:33.770 --> 00:12:36.655 my son-in-law had just filmed 00:12:36.895 --> 00:12:38.975 a bobcat outside his house, 00:12:40.735 --> 00:12:42.255 and I didn't have my gun on me. 00:12:43.055 --> 00:12:45.455 Oh, I probably shouldn't have said that on YouTube. 00:12:46.175 --> 00:12:46.895 And 00:12:48.015 --> 00:13:03.115 and I I thought about it. Like, what if a bob I mean, it's so dark back there. A bobcat could see me, but I can't see him. Right? And then I saw a bobcat. I got came in here one morning. I walked out my office. There's a bobcat at the door of one of those offices right down the street, right down in the parking lot. And so so 00:13:03.435 --> 00:13:05.435 so I I 00:13:05.675 --> 00:13:07.915 came outside and I don't have my gun. 00:13:08.155 --> 00:13:08.795 Okay. 00:13:09.195 --> 00:13:11.035 So so I had fear, 00:13:11.355 --> 00:13:13.915 but it was really anxiety because there was no bobcat there. 00:13:17.990 --> 00:13:26.150 Now if I hit my ball too close to an alligator and I go up and I didn't see the alligator because I'm so focused on golf, I didn't see the big green monster like alligator 00:13:26.310 --> 00:13:34.695 and all of a sudden I noticed I'm like, ugh. Right? That's not anxiety. That's fear. Why? Because there's a real and present danger. Fear 00:13:34.695 --> 00:13:40.615 is caution over a real and present danger. Anxiety is caution over a future imagined danger. So I'm imagining 00:13:41.175 --> 00:13:47.780 a danger in the future so vividly that it causes a physical reaction in my body now. That's 00:13:47.780 --> 00:13:48.500 anxiety. 00:13:48.740 --> 00:13:50.660 Are y'all tracking? Okay. Cool. 00:13:51.380 --> 00:13:59.935 So when I focus on the negative positive aspect of the fact, builds faith, feeling of anticipation, negative aspect of the fact builds doubt, anxiety, 00:14:00.255 --> 00:14:03.855 and what which feeling I have is going to determine 00:14:03.935 --> 00:14:08.735 so the focus in my head creates a feeling in my heart and the feeling in my heart 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.080 produces a function 00:14:13.520 --> 00:14:19.760 in my hands. What's the function in my hands? Well, it depends. If I have anxiety, the function in my hands is 00:14:20.160 --> 00:14:23.360 I mean, I'm sorry. If I have anticipation, the function in my hand is called power. 00:14:23.680 --> 00:14:26.855 I now have the power to act. This is how you overcome procrastination. 00:14:27.095 --> 00:14:36.775 You instead of envisioning it it not working, you envision it working. And if you can't envision it working, like if you're but I tried to envision it working, I couldn't do it. Sit down 00:14:37.060 --> 00:14:38.260 and write out 00:14:38.580 --> 00:14:42.820 every positive thing that's going to happen in your life when it happens, 00:14:43.300 --> 00:14:44.660 and then read it out loud. 00:14:45.460 --> 00:14:47.540 And I know this works because the 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:50.980 I'm telling myself a different story, and I realize 00:14:51.575 --> 00:15:01.095 that when I have anxiety, the reason I'm having it is because I'm seeing something negative in my mind's eye. But if I write something down intentionally and I read it out loud, 00:15:01.335 --> 00:15:02.855 I'm saying something 00:15:03.255 --> 00:15:04.855 positive 00:15:04.110 --> 00:15:09.070 in my ears and doubt is created in the eyes and faith is created in the ears. 00:15:11.470 --> 00:15:14.830 That's why it says David encouraged himself in the Lord. 00:15:15.550 --> 00:15:16.350 Are y'all tracking? 00:15:16.795 --> 00:15:19.675 And so when I have anticipation, 00:15:19.675 --> 00:15:24.235 I have power to act, I'm not procrastinating anymore. When I have anxiety, 00:15:24.555 --> 00:15:28.235 the function in my hand is called powerlessness. I know I don't have the power 00:15:28.555 --> 00:15:29.355 to take action, 00:15:30.520 --> 00:15:32.120 and that powerlessness 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:38.200 causes me to say I'll do it later when I have more power, and I have more anticipation, 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:45.080 and I have more faith because I'm gonna be focused on a positive aspect of the fact, and I don't even know that I'm doing that. All of those things I am doing 00:15:45.445 --> 00:15:47.045 unconsciously. 00:15:48.325 --> 00:15:52.405 But what if I start doing all of these things consciously? 00:15:52.965 --> 00:15:55.525 If well, here's what happens. If I'm a writer, 00:15:55.845 --> 00:15:59.845 I'll never have writer's block again because writer's block is actually 00:16:00.400 --> 00:16:06.560 expecting the book not to sell. If you knew you're gonna sell a million copies next week, you get the book done yesterday. Well, 00:16:09.040 --> 00:16:18.615 I'm procrastinating I'm procrastinating doing my sales presentation. You're not I have a procrastination problem when it comes to my sales no. You What you have is an expectation problem, 00:16:19.015 --> 00:16:25.815 and you're expecting people not to buy, and you desire them to buy. So one of the things that I did to free myself from that is I stopped desiring people to buy, 00:16:26.375 --> 00:16:45.595 and I just became aware if I talk to enough people and I do a presentation in front of enough people, some of them will buy. And so I now don't have to hope somebody buys. I know someone will because the law of averages makes it so. Even if I have a terrible presentation, if I do enough presentation, somebody's gonna buy. I know. I've seen plenty of press terrible presentations that made sales. And 00:16:45.835 --> 00:16:47.675 so all I'm saying is 00:16:47.915 --> 00:16:55.435 stop putting off your future until tomorrow because the reality is there's no such thing as tomorrow. 00:16:56.555 --> 00:16:57.755 It's always 00:16:57.915 --> 00:16:58.395 today. 00:17:00.980 --> 00:17:03.460 And so to overcome procrastination, 00:17:03.620 --> 00:17:06.420 I become hyper intentional about my focus. 00:17:07.220 --> 00:17:12.260 And then for me, it becomes now o'clock and I go from excuse maker to action taker, 00:17:12.740 --> 00:17:15.060 and I get it done now. Thanks for watching.