YT YouTube2Text

YouTube2Text → Transcripts → 6 Mesi Bastano per Cambiare Vita. Ecco il piano.

6 Mesi Bastano per Cambiare Vita. Ecco il piano. — Transcript

by Giuseppe Castagna · 3,818 words · 539 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

Open in transcriber Summarize with AI Download SRT/VTT

Full transcript

0:00How many times have you thought "I want
0:01to change my life"? Usually, you start
0:04thinking about this in September, in
0:05January, or the day after your birthday
0:07, and that time you decide you're
0:08really going to change. You even make a
0:10list. That morning, you wake up 20
0:12minutes early, go to the gym, and
0:13you've even decided you'll find another
0:15job. Then the moment comes when you
0:16skip that workout, and you say, "Why am
0:18I even doing this?" And you open social
0:20media. You start scrolling through
0:22stories and videos of people who made
0:23it. And all those times, if you're a
0:26bit like me, you start feeling
0:27inadequate, blaming yourself, you start
0:29saying you're not enough, that they are
0:31better than you, and you start over,
0:32finding yourself exactly back at the
0:34starting point. And the conclusion you
0:37reach is that you are the problem, that
0:39you don't have enough consistency, you
0:40don't have enough motivation, that you
0:42are not enough. But what I can tell you
0:44is that you can change your life in 6
0:46months, even if right now it seems
0:48completely impossible. And I know this
0:50because that’s what I did a few years
0:52ago. And in this video, I will show you
0:54exactly the process anyone can follow
0:55to turn their life upside down in the
0:57next 6 months. Let's begin. A couple of
0:59warnings before we start. First of all,
1:01in this video, I won't give you a
1:03series of ultra-easy tips that will
1:05change your life, but I will give you a
1:06plan. And it's a plan that will be
1:09difficult to follow because,
1:11like anything of value in life,
1:13contrary to what they show us, it is
1:14not easy. The second thing is that,
1:17before giving you the plan, I want you
1:19to understand how I got there: what was
1:21the moment that made me completely turn
1:23my life around, that made me realize
1:24that what I was doing up until then
1:26would never have worked, at least for
1:28the results I wanted to achieve. And if
1:30I am here today, it is thanks to that
1:31moment, and it happened one evening in
1:33January 2021. We were in the middle of
1:36Covid; you remember the feeling of that
1:38period too, and as for my Covid, my
1:40pandemic, aside from very heavy things
1:41that happened, as happened to many of
1:43us, unfortunately, I didn't want to
1:45admit it, but I had reached that point
1:47in my life. At the time, I was 34 years
1:50old, in that January with the exact
1:52same list from previous years. Even
1:55though my life had been completely
1:56turned upside down and I had realized
1:57that something wasn't working, I still
1:59didn't understand how to unlock my life
2:01. I had a normal, regular life; I was
2:03working as a lawyer in Alessandria, I
2:05had my own firm, things weren't going
2:06badly, but I realized that what I had
2:08at that moment wasn't what I truly
2:09aspired to. Then, during that period, I
2:11really started to read more, and I
2:13started following various creators on
2:15YouTube. The reason I am talking to you
2:17in this video today is thanks to that
2:18moment. I picked up a book, a book I
2:20had given very little chance in my life
2:22, or rather, I had just put it on a
2:23shelf, saying, "Okay, sooner or later
2:25I'll read it." And it's Atomic Habits.
2:27It’s a book I deeply love, and it’s
2:29a shitty book—I mean, it’s not even
2:31written well, translated in my opinion
2:33in a chilling way into Italian, and
2:34it's a book so basic in what it
2:36explains that you don't even want to
2:38read it, I assure you. But that book is
2:40a sort of life plan. If you read it
2:42with the idea that it is a system and
2:44not something narrative or meant to
2:46explain something to you, it lights up
2:48your existence. And there is a phrase
2:50that changed everything: I only
2:52understood it a few years later, and it
2:54sounds more or less like, "You do not
2:56rise to the level of your goals, you
2:58fall to the level of your systems." It
3:01instilled in me the idea that the
3:03problem was exactly the goals, the
3:05problem was my desires, what I wanted,
3:07that the problem was that I hoped to
3:09reach them—I hope to earn more, I
3:11hope my life goes well, I hope to find
3:13someone. The problem is that hope is
3:16not a plan; hope is simply hope. And
3:18the second thing I realized is that I
3:20was turning to the wrong people. I was
3:23looking at people who were too far
3:25ahead of me, while there were a lot of
3:27people who had been through it before
3:28me at that moment and who were just a
3:30few little steps further along the path
3:32, not in explaining existence to me,
3:33but in understanding how to live life.
3:36And so, a world truly opened up for me
3:38there, because I realized that if
3:39someone was a few steps ahead of me, if
3:41they had managed to take that little
3:43piece of the road before me, I could
3:44copy them and do it too. And the best
3:46news in the world and of this whole
3:48video is that you don't have to invent
3:50anything; you just need to see how the
3:52people you observe and follow every day
3:53made it happen. So what I want you to
3:55take away from this story, which is
3:57what I took away from that book and
3:58which will explain how to truly change
4:00your life in the next 6 months, is that
4:02a goal tells you where you want to go,
4:04while a system tells you what you need
4:06to do tomorrow morning at 7:00. For 20
4:08years I only had the goal part and I
4:09wondered why it wasn't enough, but then
4:11I understood. The real question,
4:13however, is another one and it's the
4:14one I asked myself that evening. Why 6
4:16months? Why not a year, as we all say,
4:19or 3 months, or a month, or two weeks?
4:21Simply because the year is the wrong
4:23measure for getting things done, and
4:25the Americans understood this
4:27economically. We Italians are terrible
4:29at it because you start something in
4:31January and December seems like a very
4:32distant thing. December doesn't exist,
4:35you don't see it, and then you get to
4:36the end of October, November, and you
4:38say, "Damn, I'm behind, I have to do
4:39something," and we all rush to do
4:41something in that December. But in the
4:42meantime, we have wasted 11 months
4:44before that moment. The point is that
4:46if you don't see something, if you
4:48don't see the end, you can't feel it as
4:50real. The maximum distance we can look
4:52ahead as human beings psychologically
4:54is 12 weeks, which is exactly 3 months,
4:57and 6 months is two 12-week cycles. And
5:00one thing I understood is that the
5:01books and videos that changed something
5:03in me weren't the ones that hyped me up
5:04and gave me a blast, but were those
5:06that gave me a system to follow, that
5:08told me how I could set up my Sunday,
5:09Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and the
5:11weeks to come. So, if you also think
5:13these are the things you need,
5:14subscribe to the channel, so you let me
5:15know that this is the right path and
5:17that we can do it together. So, let's
5:19look at these five systems that will
5:20revolutionize your life in the next 6
5:22months, and the first one is not what
5:24you think; it’s not about money,
5:25it’s not about health, but it’s
5:27about the most important thing we have,
5:29which is time. And you have to start
5:31with time, because if you don't fix the
5:33way you organize your days, even if it
5:35feels like you have no time, you can't
5:36make room for all the other things
5:38you'll need to change your life. And so
5:41if you don't do this now in March, the
5:42following Monday, your birthday, or in
5:44September, you will be right back at
5:46square one. I already know what you're
5:48thinking, because I would think it too:
5:49oh, but I've already used tons of
5:51planners, I have tons of apps, tons of
5:53systems to organize things, but then in
5:54the end, after a little while, I can't
5:56use them anymore. And the reason is
5:58that we use planners or calendars in
6:00the wrong way. We put things in
6:02calendars and to-do lists that we think
6:04we want to do, not what we actually do.
6:08And so, after a week or two, more or
6:10less, planners and to-do lists become a
6:12list of reprimands against ourselves
6:14for the things that, for some reason,
6:16we weren't able to do or follow through
6:18on. So the first thing to do, the same
6:21one I did first, and it was truly
6:23counterintuitive, is not to write
6:24anything for a whole week; don't mark
6:26down the things you want to do, but
6:28mark down the things you do during the
6:30week. Write only what really happened
6:33in an analytical and detailed way, from
6:35when you wake up to when you go to
6:36sleep. It’s a truly crazy use of a
6:39planner, or rather, it might seem crazy
6:40, but then when you look at it at the
6:42end of the week, you discover two
6:43things. The first is where you actually
6:46spent your hours of time, and the
6:48second is that what you told yourself
6:50about your life 99%does not exist. We
6:52are truly poor as human beings at
6:54evaluating our lives and the commitment
6:56of our time. And here you discover why
6:58the other planners and other systems
7:00didn't work before, because you were
7:02trying to plan without knowing your
7:03life, without understanding where you
7:05could steal some time, and where
7:06instead you couldn't move it. The
7:08second week is for planning, and to do
7:10that, you start with the blocks that
7:12you cannot change: work, taking the
7:14kids to school, sleeping. And then you
7:17insert three first, very simple blocks:
7:19one for your mind, one for your body,
7:20and one for the project that will
7:22change your life. You start simple, 3
7:24hours a week, and those become your
7:26blocks, the non-negotiable ones, the
7:27ones where you don't say, "I'll move it
7:29again"; if it gets skipped for two
7:31weeks in a row, you don't change the
7:32block, you simply change the time,
7:34because you won't just "find" the time.
7:37There is no warehouse of time you can
7:38draw from somewhere, "look, the time
7:39warehouse, I'll go get myself a few
7:40more hours," no, the time is what it is
7:41. So if you want to do something
7:44important in your life, you necessarily
7:45have to take time away from something
7:46else. You absolutely must start
7:48choosing what you do in your life and
7:50what you really want. And what you will
7:52do on the last Sunday of the month is
7:54look at how many times you stuck to
7:55those blocks, and from there,
7:56understand how your life is evolving.
7:58By the end of that first month,
7:59you’ll have a number that tells you
8:01more about yourself than you’ve
8:02understood in previous years, I assure
8:04you. And when you start using this
8:06block-based life planning system, after
8:08a few weeks, you'll find that you know
8:10where your time goes, and another
8:12question will start to come to mind:
8:13where the hell does my money go? And
8:17this always happens; it happened to me
8:18too, because we can complain, or be the
8:20type who says, "No, no, money doesn't
8:21interest me." But in reality, money is
8:24part of our life and is a fundamental,
8:26central element for having freedom in
8:28our lives. And I tell you this because
8:30I know exactly what it means to have no
8:32money. I know what it means to scrape
8:34together coins or break open the piggy
8:36bank, because I really did have a piggy
8:38bank to buy groceries for Christmas.
8:41And I’m not telling you this to get
8:42praise or sympathy—I couldn't care
8:44less about that—I’m telling you
8:45this to explain why this is the part of
8:47this video that is closest to my heart.
8:49In fact, money doesn't buy happiness,
8:51but it buys something much more
8:52important: it buys time, the very thing
8:53we were talking about before. Because
8:55those who are truly wealthy don’t buy
8:57a Ferrari or a Rolex; they buy the
8:58possibility to choose. They have the
9:01possibility to decide whether to work
9:02or not, whether to go somewhere or not;
9:04they have the possibility to pay
9:05someone to do something, the
9:06possibility to travel with their family
9:08, to choose their own life. So they
9:10have more options than everyone else.
9:12Therefore, saying that money doesn't
9:14bring happiness is total nonsense. And
9:16to manage my money and understand where
9:17it goes, to build the life I want and
9:19achieve my goals, I use a very simple
9:21system. I divide all my income, all my
9:23money, according to a formula called
9:2515-65-20. 65%of what I earn is
9:28earmarked for my daily expenses: the
9:30mortgage, bills, groceries, everything
9:33I need to live. 20%goes to investments;
9:36there are no two ways about it, every
9:38month what comes in, 20%goes straight
9:40into an investment. And 15%is a buffer;
9:43I can use it for luxury expenses, as
9:45they say, to do whatever the hell I
9:47want, to put it more simply, or it can
9:49end up being invested, or end up
9:51somewhere else. In short, 15%is the
9:53buffer between what I earn and what I
9:55know I’ll set aside because I want to
9:56be a financially responsible person.
9:59The point, however, isn’t the numbers
10:01or how much you earn, but the decision
10:02you make to change your financial life.
10:05It’s an agreement you make with
10:06yourself, and you stick to it forever.
10:08And personally, the first thing I did
10:09was eliminate my debts. I can't stand
10:12debt, especially because most of the
10:14debts we take on are for things that
10:16aren't worth the money—like a car, a
10:18phone, or a vacation. Generally, the
10:21first thing to do when you decide to
10:23change your financial life is to pay
10:24off all high-interest debt as quickly
10:26as possible. The only debt I consider
10:29reasonable, if done intelligently, is a
10:32mortgage to buy a home or debt used to
10:34invest and generate more money.
10:37Otherwise, debt is just a trap where we
10:39end up paying much more than things are
10:41actually worth. You can have all the
10:43money in the world and all the time you
10:45want, but it’s completely useless if
10:46you get home in the evening feeling
10:48like trash, a rag thrown on the sofa—
10:49an old rag, as my grandmother would say
10:51. To feel good and not like an old rag,
10:54you don’t need strange diets, gyms,
10:56or special workouts; you don’t need
10:59to perform alchemy, because health is
11:01based solely on three pillars:
11:03nutrition, sleep, and physical exercise
11:05. So, everything else is just marketing
11:08, and for nutrition, what I changed in
11:10my life was my approach; I didn't
11:12follow a fad diet, a guru, or anything
11:14specific. I started to be more aware of
11:17what I was eating. I got informed, I
11:19went to a nutritionist who explained
11:20the difference between fats,
11:22carbohydrates, and proteins, and I
11:23started drinking more, meaning I
11:25hydrated more. I always had a water
11:27bottle nearby, I cut out
11:28ultra-processed foods, and I reduced
11:30alcohol to almost nothing. I only drink
11:32wine on occasion, I’ve limited sugar
11:34and caffeine, and every meal I have is
11:36composed of protein, fats, and
11:38carbohydrates. And the thing that
11:39allowed me to maintain this routine is
11:41the system. I meal prep on Sunday
11:43evenings, and most importantly, I only
11:45keep good food in the house because if
11:46you don't have junk food, you end up
11:48not eating it. It’s like when you
11:50quit smoking: you don’t keep
11:51cigarettes in the house, so you can’t
11:52smoke. Then there is sleep, which is
11:54the thing we all absolutely
11:55underestimate, myself included, but
11:56it’s the thing that influences
11:58everything else the most. It affects
12:00your mood, your health, and your
12:01productivity during the day, and as you
12:03get older, it becomes much harder to
12:05have healthy sleep. And here, the thing
12:07that has influenced me most wasn't so
12:09much the number of hours, but what I
12:11suggest is finding a set bedtime,
12:13keeping a maximum variation of 30
12:15minutes for falling asleep and waking
12:17up. Even on the weekend, it doesn't
12:19work like it did when we were teenagers
12:21, when we could sleep for like 16 hours
12:22and make up for the seven days we
12:23hadn't slept. And then there is
12:25physical exercise. You can't expect to
12:27have a happy life, you can't expect to
12:29change your life if you can't handle it
12:30physically. And here too, there's no
12:32need to become a triathlete. You can
12:34start with three workouts a week, nice
12:36and easy, nothing fancy, or just some
12:37simple cardio. And know that there are
12:39plenty of days when I look at my gym
12:41bag, or look at the slot on the
12:43calendar that says "workout" and I
12:44don't feel like it; but I assure you,
12:46the moment you put it in your schedule,
12:48you go just to keep the commitment to
12:49yourself. And that is the reason why
12:51you need to organize your time in
12:52blocks. Then there is the fourth thing,
12:54the fourth system that everyone leaves
12:56aside, but it is the one that keeps all
12:57the others standing and it is not
12:59motivation. It is something extremely
13:01more boring, because, in fact,
13:02motivation doesn't exist and. That
13:04system is your mind, it's the way you
13:06think, and to fix it, 20 minutes of
13:07reading a day is enough. You just need
13:10to buy a Kindle; I know you like paper
13:11books, I like paper books too, I have
13:13them everywhere, but the Kindle changes
13:15your reading life and you just need to
13:16start reading for 20 minutes a day.
13:19Those 20 minutes that I used to waste
13:20in the bathroom on my phone, I now use
13:22to read obviously, or that time you
13:23spend on the train, subway, or bus—I
13:24won't say in the car because you have
13:26to drive. And 20 minutes is more or
13:28less 10 pages a day. And 10 pages for
13:31180 days makes 1800 pages. Eight books,
13:33eight more books in your life, eight
13:35books that could give you a lead, a
13:36stimulus, an idea without changing
13:38anything in your routine. And reading
13:39is the thing that has influenced my
13:41existence the most. If I am here
13:42talking to you today, it's because I
13:43started reading again a few years ago,
13:45and it truly changed my life. And what
13:47if reading is the first half? The
13:48second half of this system for our mind
13:50is writing. And no, I am not telling
13:53you to become a novelist, but I am
13:54simply telling you to write three lines
13:55about your life every evening. I
13:58started a few years ago with a book
13:59called One a Day, actually a small
14:01diary that allows you to write one line
14:03a day that you can review over 5 years,
14:04so on every page, you have 5 years of
14:06your life. Then, a few years later, I
14:08moved to an app called Day One. It’s
14:11an incredible app and the most useful
14:12thing you can do in your existence
14:14because you can understand how your
14:15mind thinks during certain periods, you
14:17can go back to see what you talked
14:18about before, and you can also remember
14:20what you’ve done in your life, which
14:22is really cool. And this allows you to
14:24do a sort of psychological self-therapy
14:26every time you pick it back up. And the
14:28last of these systems is the only one
14:30that doesn't depend on you,
14:31unfortunately, but personally, it’s
14:33also the one that changed my life the
14:34most and influenced me, making me the
14:36person I am today. And this system is
14:38social networks, or rather, it concerns
14:41people. We all say it's social media's
14:43fault. We all say we waste a lot of
14:44time on Instagram, on TikTok, on
14:46YouTube, or on any kind of social media
14:48that is full of nonsense, people doing
14:50dances. The truth is that we are simply
14:52lazy, because these systems are indeed
14:54made to keep us glued, they are
14:56engineered to keep us scrolling, to
14:58keep capturing our attention. But if
15:01you remove all these distractions and
15:02all this nonsense that we love so much,
15:04obviously, what remains is the most
15:06incredible thing there is. You can
15:09learn from the real experience of
15:10billions of people who have certainly
15:12had your problem before you, and it
15:13allowed me to overcome a huge block.
15:16Because, unfortunately, we don't choose
15:18where we are born (or fortunately,
15:19sometimes), and therefore we are often
15:21surrounded by people who don't
15:23stimulate us, by people who don't have
15:25our same ambitions, who can't teach us
15:27anything, and who, unfortunately,
15:28negatively influence our life. Social
15:30networks allow us to overcome this. So
15:32what I tell you is to start following
15:34people who inspire you, start following
15:35people who are a small step ahead of
15:37you. What I’ve done over the last few
15:39years is what I do today, and it’s
15:41what truly influenced my existence,
15:42allowing me to change it in 6 months.
15:44Don't worry, don't be afraid. The worst
15:47thing that can happen is they don't
15:48reply, maybe because they're jerks,
15:49maybe they don't feel like it, or maybe
15:50they don't have the time. But you
15:52should write to these people; everyone
15:54replied to me. Maybe one out of 10
15:56didn't answer, and I found people to
15:58truly engage with, through whom I
16:00experienced incredible personal growth.
16:02I’ve gained much more from strangers
16:04I saw on social media than from people
16:06I’ve known my whole life. And now the
16:08most important thing in this entire
16:10video, in this whole system for
16:11changing your life: after 3 months,
16:13draw a line, take those five areas we
16:15talked about and draw a simple line
16:16asking, "Okay, where have I reached,
16:18how can I improve them?" Because this
16:20is what will guide you in the following
16:22three months, which will lead you to
16:24say, "Damn, who was I 6 months ago?"
16:26And despite social media, we still have
16:28to deal with people. And if you want to
16:30know how I changed my relationship with
16:32others and started to truly make them
16:33respect me, I’ll show you in this
16:34video on the right. I truly wish you
16:36the best and send you a hug.

About this transcript

This page contains the full transcript of 6 Mesi Bastano per Cambiare Vita. Ecco il piano. by Giuseppe Castagna, generated from the public captions YouTube serves with the video. The transcript has 3,818 words across 539 segments, with the original timestamps preserved so you can click any line to jump to that moment in the embedded player.

What you can do with it

Use the transcript to take notes, quote the speaker, build a study guide, generate a summary with ChatGPT or Claude via the YouTube Summary tool, or export it as a timed subtitle file with YouTube to SRT. You can also re-open it in the transcriber to translate the transcript into 100+ languages.

Free YouTube transcript tool

YouTube2Text is a free YouTube transcript generator — no signup, no daily limit. Paste any YouTube link and get the full transcript instantly, with timestamps, click-to-jump, translation to 100+ languages, AI prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and exports to TXT, SRT, VTT, or Markdown.