The battle
the battle is actually in your head.
You're not gonna hear noises, you're not gonna hear gunfire,
you're not gonna hear any explosions.
It's not that kind of battle. What's in your head is
weakness and laziness,
and they're not attacking. They're sneaking around.
They're poisoning the strength in your brain.
You are putting things off because in the short term
it's easier, it's more comfortable,
it's more pleasureful to be distracted or to indulge yourself doing something else
than it is to sit down and do the actual work to create the outputs that matter
when they are needed. And I know what it's like to tell yourself
I'm gonna start on Monday. And then for the next 5 days,
you gorge yourself. Or you're extra lazy
or you treat yourself extra much because you know you're gonna do it this time,
and this time I'm serious and this time I'm for real,
and I'm gonna get it done! Except you're not.
And you know you're not. And if you really wanted to change
and if you really wanna make a change and you really wanna be different
and you really want it to be this time, start f*cking now.
I don't care if it's 9 o'clock at night,
do something productive towards what it is you're trying to become.
Because I can tell you right now, for sure, that the people who tell themselves
I'm going to start Monday, never f*cking start Monday.
All you have to do to kill procrastination
is just start. You just go
and procrastination dies. So don't wonder how you overcome procrastination,
it's easy. All you do to overcome procrastination
is go. Stop waiting
for something to move you and move yourself. Every day move yourself.
In the morning move yourself, in the afternoon move yourself,
at night move yourself. Be very intentional
and very deliberate about moving yourself.
You control your feelings, don't nobody else control your feelings.
So when you tell me I ain't feeling it no more, it don't got nothing to do with
something external, it's something internal that
you ain't pushing no more. You push you.
You gotta move you. Every single day.
If you get to a point in your day and you down and out,
if you get to a point in your day and you exhausted,
you get to a point in your day and you not feeling it,
you can stop right there and change the mood. Nothing controls you.
You control your feelings. You control your mood.
Don't nobody control your mood. You saw something that threw you off,
well see something that throw you back on. The only way
to get out of the mental trap is to stop f*cking thinking
and actually start doing it. Because all the research shows
that if we can push you to get started on something,
you'll likely keep going. Little things you're putting off,
do it. And do it right now.
When you make a decision to do something, you flip your brain onto the frequency
that you have to be on to do it. You don't have to know how to do it,
you only have to know you're going to do it.
just commit that you wake up
and every single damn day, you push yourself to
take one small action forward. There's always gonna be a reason to wait,
there's always gonna be something that is inconvenient for you to work through,
there's always gonna be a busy schedule, it's always gonna be that way.
You have to f*cking work through it. There's always gonna be a reason for you to
do what it takes now if you want it bad enough.
But a lot of you motherf*ckers just don't want it.
Unless you're committed 100% you just aren't gonna make it.
The processes of success are always inconvenient in the beginning.
They don't stay that way. If you stick with it,
if you give it time, if you work through the inconveniences,
they become habit. They are done with passive effort,
passive thought, it's just something automatic.
And if you can create automatic actions
that are positive in your life, you're gonna create automatic winning.