There's nobody,
nobody in the world has lied to me more than me.
How many times you tell yourself
it's going to be different this year?
How many times have you started the diets?
And, "Oh, this is my year."
"I'm going to start this year strong."
"I'm going to the gym. I'm going to eat right. "
Two weeks later. What'd you, do you lie to yourself?
My experience is with people
that were probably running at about
51 percent of our capacity.
Something, maybe you can think about this yourselves.
I often ask undergraduates
how many hours a day you waste?
Or how many hours a week you waste.
And the classic answer is
something like four to six hours a day.
Inefficient studying.
Watching things on YouTube,
that not only do you not want to watch,
that you don't even care about,
that make you feel horrible
about watching after you're done.
That's probably four hours right there.
You think, well that's 20, 25 hours a week
it's a hundred hours a month.
That's two and a half full work weeks.
It's half a year of work weeks per year.
And if your time is worth 20 dollars an hour,
which is a radical underestimate,
it's probably more like 50,
if you think about it in terms of deferred wages.
If you're wasting 20 hours a week,
you're wasting 50,000 dollars a year.
And you are doing that right now.
And it's because your young,
wasting 50,000 dollars a year is a way bigger catastrophe
than it would be for me to waste it,
because I'm not going to last nearly as long.
And so if your life isn't everything it could be,
you could ask yourself,
what would happen if you just stopped wasting
the opportunities that are in front of you?
It's our intention.
Our intention is everything.
Nothing happens on this planet without it
not one single thing
has ever been accomplished without intention.
Your imagination is able to do all that you ask
in proportion to the degree of your attention.
So what kind of attention do you place on your desires?
I tell you this,
This success was just the joy ride.
There would be far more successful people.
There's a reason that not many people achieve
what they want to do and
live the lives they really want to do,
because it requires
you know,
hard work is one thing, but it requires like,
It requires you to conquer yourself.
You are the only one stopping yourself
from doing whatever the hell it is that you want to do.
There will always be excuses.
You can always point fingers at someone else and say
Say someone else has it better.
At the end of the day,
it's you who chooses to watch TV
to watch YouTube, to browse Facebook.
When you know you should be doing something else,
close those browsers.
Turn the TV off.
Go do something that you normally wouldn't
Start leading an unusual life.
Don't fall into your patterns,
your lazy habits.
You've got to keep breaking the pattern, the routines,
keeping things on the edge,
changing your surroundings.
Always kind of like figuring out
How to resist that urge
to just like settle down and sit your ass down.
Or lay down on the couch.
Just mindlessly watched Netflix.
You're not a procrastinator.
You have a habit of procrastinating,
big difference, because if it's a habit,
I can teach you to use science to break it.
You see, all habits have three parts.
There's a trigger.
And in the case of procrastination,
the triggers always stress.
Then there's a pattern you repeat.
And in the case of procrastination,
it is to avoid doing something.
And then there's a reward.
You get a little stress relief.
The only way to break a habit, you guys
is not to deal with the triggers.
You're never going to get rid of the stress in your life,
but you can 100% change your pattern of avoiding work.
So next time that you're in a situation
where you feel yourself hesitate,
you spent way too much time checking out
the highlights from last night's scores.
What you're going to do is you're going to go,
"I must be stressed out about something."
Acknowledge the stress,
then go five, four, three, two, one.
I want you to count yourself because
I want you to interrupt the habit that's stored here,
and I want you to awaken your prefrontal cortex.
Then I want you to just work, just for five minutes.
The reason why I want you to only work for five minutes
is because your problem isn't working.
It's the habit of avoiding.
I just need you to start and here's the other cool thing.
We know, based on research that
if we can get you to start,
80% of you are going to keep going.