Go From Excuse Maker To Action Taker And Get It Done Now — Transcript

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1. 0:00Are you tired of putting things off
2. 0:01until tomorrow and then tomorrow's
3. 0:03tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow's
4. 0:04tomorrow's tomorrow? Today on this
5. 0:06video, I'm going to show you how to beat
6. 0:07procrastination. Go from excuse maker to
7. 0:10action taker and get it done. Now, I'm
8. 0:12going to show you that no one
9. 0:16has a procrastination problem. People
10. 0:18think they have a procrastination
11. 0:19problem, but I've never met a person in
12. 0:20my life with a procrastination problem.
13. 0:23Procrastination is never the problem.
14. 0:25Procrastination is always the symptom of
15. 0:28the problem. And in this video, I'm
16. 0:30going to show you why you keep putting
17. 0:32things off. The reason people
18. 0:34procrastinate,
19. 0:35any of us, is because we are associating
20. 0:40more pain than pleasure with the actual
21. 0:45getting of this thing done. If I if I
22. 0:49just change it and I start associating
23. 0:51more pleasure than pain to this
24. 0:53activity, I'll get the thing done. Now,
25. 0:56the interesting thing about it is
26. 0:58regardless of the thing, it's like we
27. 1:02think, well, I'm just procrastinating
28. 1:03this thing because this is the thing
29. 1:04that I don't like to do. No, you're
30. 1:06procrastinating because of how you're
31. 1:08using your mind or avoiding using your
32. 1:12mind. But I'm going to show you how to
33. 1:13use your mind in such a way that
34. 1:14procrastination will never be something
35. 1:16you have to deal with again. You'll just
36. 1:18get it done and you'll understand how to
37. 1:19get it done in real time when you're
38. 1:21tempted to procrastinate. Everybody
39. 1:22ready? Shout, "I'm ready."
40. 1:24>> Ready. Okay, here we go. So, this is how
41. 1:26it works.
42. 1:28This
43. 1:30is you.
44. 1:32And by the way, not only does this work
45. 1:35in helping you not procrastinate, it'll
46. 1:37also work in helping you help other
47. 1:40people when you're communicating with
48. 1:42them not to procrastinate. It'll help
49. 1:43you help your spouse to stop
50. 1:45procrastinating. It'll help you help
51. 1:47your children stop procrastinating.
52. 1:48It'll help you, if you're a teacher,
53. 1:49help your students stop procrastinating
54. 1:51if you understand this principle. So uh
55. 1:53this is you. These are the facts
56. 1:58and you observe the facts. Maybe you see
57. 2:01them,
58. 2:03maybe you hear them. And when you
59. 2:05observe the facts, the very first thing
60. 2:07you do is you put a frame around the
61. 2:09facts. And that frame has a positive
62. 2:12aspect and a negative aspect. Now the
63. 2:15positive and negative aspect of the
64. 2:17facts have to be there in order for the
65. 2:20fact to be there. What does that even
66. 2:22mean? What it means is there's no such
67. 2:25thing as a purely positive fact and
68. 2:29there's no such thing as a purely
69. 2:31negative fact. And so what happens when
70. 2:34we put this frame around the fact is
71. 2:36that frame is in the form of a focus
72. 2:40in our head.
73. 2:42And that focus in our head if we're
74. 2:45focused on the positive aspect of the
75. 2:47fact it makes us happy and or it
76. 2:49energizes us so that we can go and take
77. 2:52that action but if we focus on the
78. 2:53negative aspect of the fact it makes us
79. 2:55sad or some negative emotion so we avoid
80. 2:58uh whatever that activity is. Now, as
81. 3:00soon as I create a frame around the fact
82. 3:04and I start focusing on either the
83. 3:06positive or the negative, the first
84. 3:07thing I do is I start building a belief.
85. 3:10And it doesn't matter if the belief is
86. 3:13true. It's my belief. People think that
87. 3:16they believe things because they're
88. 3:18true. But here's the reality. People
89. 3:21think things are true because they
90. 3:22believe them. And if you can become a
91. 3:24self-aware enough to know that the
92. 3:26things that you are believing
93. 3:29are true, uh you're believing they're
94. 3:32true because you think them rather than
95. 3:34believe you think they're true because
96. 3:36you believe them. Rather than thinking
97. 3:38that you believe them because they're
98. 3:40true. Just be aware of that. And it may
99. 3:42be true,
100. 3:43but the reason you believe it is because
101. 3:45you think it's true. Are y'all tracking?
102. 3:48>> Okay. And so the first thing I do when I
103. 3:51f focus on the fact I focus on the fact
104. 3:53in my head then I develop in my mind I
105. 3:55develop a belief
106. 3:59and that belief also has a positive and
107. 4:02a negative. If I'm focus focused on the
108. 4:04positive aspect of the fact that belief
109. 4:06manifest in my life as faith which faith
110. 4:10without works is dead. What does that
111. 4:11mean? That means if I really believe
112. 4:12something I'm going to do something
113. 4:13about it. But if I'm focusing on the
114. 4:16negative aspect of the fact, then it's
115. 4:18going to manifest a belief called doubt.
116. 4:19Now, here's the thing most people don't
117. 4:21understand. Faith and doubt are both
118. 4:23belief. Most people think that faith is
119. 4:25belief and doubt is the absence of
120. 4:27belief. But doubt is not the absence of
121. 4:29belief. Faith is belief in the outcome I
122. 4:32desire. Doubt is belief in the outcome I
123. 4:35don't desire. And so, it's not that
124. 4:37well, a person who has faith doesn't
125. 4:39have doubt. Everybody who has faith has
126. 4:41doubt. You doubt the opposite of the
127. 4:43thing you have faith in. And everybody
128. 4:45who has doubt has faith. They have faith
129. 4:47in the thing that's opposite of what
130. 4:48they're doubting. And that's just how
131. 4:50life works. And so what we have to do is
132. 4:52we have to be we have to be aware and
133. 4:54hyper intentional about what aspect of
134. 4:58the facts we focus on because the aspect
135. 5:01of the facts we focus on cause us to
136. 5:04believe things that affect outcomes in
137. 5:08our lives. I I I really hope this I hope
138. 5:11y'all are wrapping your minds around
139. 5:12what I'm saying. And so what happens
140. 5:14people don't that that's why you have
141. 5:15you ever heard the phrase if your
142. 5:17attitude is right the facts don't matter
143. 5:19this is why
144. 5:21if your attitude is right what what kind
145. 5:22of attitude do I need to have well I
146. 5:24need to have I don't I don't I don't
147. 5:25know about you you have the kind of
148. 5:26attitude you want to have I need to have
149. 5:27the kind of attitude where I'm focused
150. 5:29on the positive aspect of the facts as
151. 5:32often as possible unless focusing on the
152. 5:34positive aspect of the fact is going to
153. 5:36put my life or health or family or
154. 5:39finances or something that's important
155. 5:41to me in jeopardy.
156. 5:42If if focusing on the positive aspect of
157. 5:45the fact does not somehow put me in
158. 5:47jeopardy, how could focusing on a
159. 5:48positive aspect of the fact? Let's say
160. 5:50um somebody's breaking in my house and I
161. 5:52think, oh, they're just breaking in my
162. 5:54house cuz they want to come say hi,
163. 5:56right? I'm focused on that's that's a
164. 5:59that's a an erroneous belief that could
165. 6:00cause me harm, right? And I'm focused on
166. 6:02the positive aspect of the fact. Now, is
167. 6:04it possible that somebody could be
168. 6:05breaking into my house because they want
169. 6:06to come say it? I mean, that possibility
170. 6:08exists, but what's the likelihood? Not
171. 6:10likely. Are y'all tracking? Okay. So,
172. 6:13when I focus on the positive aspect of
173. 6:16the fact and I manifest a belief called
174. 6:17faith
175. 6:19or I focus on a negative aspect of the
176. 6:21fact and manifest a belief called doubt,
177. 6:24what happens is this belief travels down
178. 6:27into my heart and it produces a
179. 6:32feeling
180. 6:34in my heart.
181. 6:36Did you know
182. 6:38that feelings are the fuel of action?
183. 6:44Did you hear what I just said? Feelings
184. 6:46are the fuel of action. What does that
185. 6:47even mean? That means human beings are
186. 6:50singularly motivated. People do what
187. 6:54they do for one reason and one reason
188. 6:56only, and that is because we feel like
189. 6:59it.
190. 7:01See, I woke up this morning at 5:00 when
191. 7:03my alarm went off. I actually woke up a
192. 7:04little before my alarm went off. Seven
193. 7:05minutes before my alarm went off, but
194. 7:08I'm getting up at 5 anyway. I'm
195. 7:09certainly not going to get up seven
196. 7:10minutes early. And when my alarm clock
197. 7:13went off, I did not push snooze. Why
198. 7:16didn't I push snooze? Because I knew I
199. 7:17had a limited amount of time to work out
200. 7:21and then take a shower and get dressed
201. 7:24and get here so that I could go live
202. 7:26today on YouTube. I had a limited amount
203. 7:28of time and and and so but I could have
204. 7:31gone back to bed and skipped working
205. 7:32out. But then that takes my objective
206. 7:36that I'm working on to be able to hit my
207. 7:39driver 300 yards, right? It pushes it
208. 7:42further and further into the future. Or
209. 7:44maybe it pushes it so far into the
210. 7:46future that I'll never get it done. So
211. 7:48I'm getting up and I'm working out and
212. 7:50this body is going to serve me. It is
213. 7:52not the boss. I'm the boss. And so I got
214. 7:55up. And so why did I get up? because I
215. 7:59felt like the feeling that I had that if
216. 8:02I get up and go work out, I'm going to
217. 8:05eventually be able to hit 300 yard
218. 8:07drives,
219. 8:11right? I'll be able to hit my drives 300
220. 8:13yards. But if I don't get up, I'll keep
221. 8:16dribbling it out there. 200 200 200.
222. 8:21Yeah, but I'm You're 64. You shouldn't
223. 8:23want to Okay, you do what you going to
224. 8:25do when you 64. By the time I'm 65, I'm
225. 8:27going be hitting my drive 300 yard.
226. 8:30Okay? So, I get a feeling in my heart.
227. 8:32Now, the feeling in my heart is going to
228. 8:35be determined by the focus in my head
229. 8:37whether it's causing me to manifest
230. 8:39faith or doubt. If while I'm focused on
231. 8:43the as aspect of positive aspect of the
232. 8:46fact I manufacture a belief called
233. 8:48faith, then that faith is going to cause
234. 8:50me to have a feeling called
235. 8:52anticipation.
236. 8:53Anticipation
237. 8:56is the it's it's the energy I get when
238. 9:01the outcome I expect is desirable to me.
239. 9:03Like if we could master
240. 9:06building
241. 9:08internal anticipation
242. 9:12intentionally,
243. 9:14it would change our lives forever.
244. 9:18And and by the way, most people have
245. 9:19almost no practice.
246. 9:22Most of the anticipation that we get,
247. 9:24someone outside of us creates it. Like
248. 9:26Apple is very good at creating
249. 9:28anticipation for the new iPhone.
250. 9:31But what if you were as good at creating
251. 9:33anticipation for getting in shape or for
252. 9:36creating wealth for your family or for
253. 9:39whatever getting a promotion at your
254. 9:40job? What if you could have what if you
255. 9:42could build intentionally build as much
256. 9:44pro uh intentionality or uh anticipation
257. 9:48intentionally for that as you allow
258. 9:52businesses and corporations to build for
259. 9:53you? Like when you wake up and you pick
260. 9:55up your phone and you start looking at
261. 9:56Tik Tok or you start looking at Facebook
262. 9:58or you start looking at Instagram or you
263. 9:59start looking at YouTube. What if you
264. 10:01could build anticipation for things that
265. 10:04move the needle in your life like
266. 10:06they've built anticipation in you for
267. 10:08things that don't move the needle in
268. 10:09your life? Okay, y'all track it. And so,
269. 10:13so anticipation is like that feeling you
270. 10:15get on Christmas Eve when you know what
271. 10:16you're getting and you're a little kid
272. 10:17and your parents send you to bed early
273. 10:19and you can't you can't sleep. Why can't
274. 10:20you sleep? Because you're being
275. 10:22energized by your expectation of a
276. 10:26magnificent future in less than 12
277. 10:28hours,
278. 10:30>> right? Anticipation energizes us. But if
279. 10:33we're focus focused on a negative aspect
280. 10:35of the fact, then
281. 10:37the feeling in our heart that we're
282. 10:40going to manifest doubt and the feeling
283. 10:41in our heart is not going to be
284. 10:42anticipation. It's going to be anxiety.
285. 10:44Anxiety is the thief of our dreams. This
286. 10:46is why Jesus said be anxious over
287. 10:48nothing. He said be careful for nothing.
288. 10:50I mean he said he said have no he said
289. 10:53have no take no thought for tomorrow.
290. 10:54That means don't be anxious about
291. 10:56tomorrow. Why did he say that? Here's
292. 10:58what he's saying. Jesus is saying, "Stop
293. 11:00wasting today's energy worrying about
294. 11:02tomorrow's problem."
295. 11:06And every time you feel yourself having
296. 11:09anxiety over something, by the way,
297. 11:11anxiety, let me show you what anxiety
298. 11:12feels like. Your hands sweat, your heart
299. 11:15palpitates, your breathing gets shallow,
300. 11:19your mind races,
301. 11:21and you're so exhausted you can't do
302. 11:23anything but sit down.
303. 11:26That's what anxiety is. Anticipation is
304. 11:30the energy I get when the outcome I
305. 11:31expect is desirable with me. But and but
306. 11:34anxiety is wasting present energy.
307. 11:38What is it? Wasting my present energy on
308. 11:41a future outcome that's undesirable to
309. 11:43me. See, most people mislabel anxiety as
310. 11:47fear.
311. 11:49And if they if they didn't get the
312. 11:50diagnosis right, they can't find a cure.
313. 11:53They mislabel anxiety as fear. They say,
314. 11:55"Well, I have a fear of failure."
315. 11:56There's no such thing. I have a fear of
316. 11:58success. There's no such thing as that.
317. 11:59I have a fear of rejection. There's no
318. 12:01such thing. You say, "Oh, no. Yes, there
319. 12:02is. I have it." No, you don't. See, fear
320. 12:05is caution over a real and present
321. 12:07danger.
322. 12:10So, last night,
323. 12:12I went to my house to check out
324. 12:15the progress that these contractors are
325. 12:17making because I just got back in town
326. 12:19yesterday. And when I came out of my
327. 12:21house
328. 12:24and came out to get in my car, I'm
329. 12:25looking around and I had a little bit of
330. 12:28hyper awareness, fear.
331. 12:32Why? Because my son-in-law had just
332. 12:35filmed a bobcat outside his house
333. 12:40and I didn't have my gun on me. Oh, I
334. 12:43probably shouldn't have said that on
335. 12:45YouTube.
336. 12:47And and I I thought about it like what
337. 12:49if a bobcat I mean it's so dark back
338. 12:51there. A bobcat could see me but I can't
339. 12:52see him. Right. And then I saw a bobcat.
340. 12:55I got came in here one morning. I walked
341. 12:56out my office. There's a bobcat at the
342. 12:58door of one of those offices right down
343. 12:59the street. Right down in the parking
344. 13:01lot. And so so
345. 13:04I I I came outside. I don't have my gun.
346. 13:08Okay. So So I had fear but it was really
347. 13:12anxiety because there was no Bobcat
348. 13:13there.
349. 13:18Now, if I hit my ball too close to an
350. 13:19alligator and I go up and I didn't see
351. 13:21the alligator because I'm so focused on
352. 13:22golf, I didn't see the big green
353. 13:24monsterlike alligator and all of a
354. 13:26sudden I noticed I'm right. That's not
355. 13:29anxiety. That's fear. Why? Because
356. 13:30there's a real and present danger.
357. 13:34Fear is caution over a real and present
358. 13:36danger. Anxiety is caution over a future
359. 13:38imagined danger. So, I'm imagining a
360. 13:41danger in the future so vividly that it
361. 13:44causes a physical reaction in my body.
362. 13:46Now, that's anxiety. Are y'all tracking?
363. 13:49Okay, cool. So, when I focus on the ne
364. 13:53positive aspect of the fact builds
365. 13:54faith, feeling of anticipation, negative
366. 13:57aspect of the fact builds doubt,
367. 13:59anxiety, and what which feeling I have
368. 14:02is going to determine. So the focus in
369. 14:04my head creates a feeling in my heart
370. 14:07and the feeling in my heart
371. 14:10produces a function
372. 14:13in my hands. What's the function in my
373. 14:15hands? Well, it depends. If I have
374. 14:17anxiety, the function in my hands is I
375. 14:20mean I'm sorry. If I have anticipation,
376. 14:21the function in my hand is called power.
377. 14:23I now have the power to act. This is how
378. 14:25you overcome procrastination. You
379. 14:28instead of envisioning it it not
380. 14:30working, you envision it working. And if
381. 14:32you can't envision it working, like if
382. 14:33you're but I tried to envision it
383. 14:34working, I couldn't do it. Sit down and
384. 14:37write out every positive thing that's
385. 14:40going to happen in your life when it
386. 14:42happens and then read it out loud. And I
387. 14:45know this works because the I'm telling
388. 14:48myself a different story. And I realize
389. 14:51that when I have anxiety, the reason I'm
390. 14:53having it is because I'm seeing
391. 14:54something negative in my mind's eye. But
392. 14:57if I write something down intentionally
393. 14:59and I read it out loud, I'm saying
394. 15:02something positive in my ears. And doubt
395. 15:05is created in the eyes and faith is
396. 15:07created in the ears.
397. 15:11That's why it says David encouraged
398. 15:13himself in the Lord. Are y'all tracking?
399. 15:16And so when I have anticipation, I have
400. 15:20power to act. I'm not procrastinating
401. 15:22anymore. When I have anxiety, the
402. 15:24function in my hand is called
403. 15:25powerlessness. I I don't have the power
404. 15:28to take action.
405. 15:30And that powerlessness causes me to say,
406. 15:33I'll do it later when I have more power
407. 15:36and I have more anticipation and I have
408. 15:38more faith because I'm going to be
409. 15:40focused on a positive aspect of the fact
410. 15:41and I don't even know that I'm doing
411. 15:42that. All of those things I am doing
412. 15:45unconsciously.
413. 15:48But what if I start doing all of these
414. 15:51things consciously? If well, here's what
415. 15:53happens. If I'm a writer, I'll never
416. 15:56have writer's block again. Because
417. 15:58writer's block is actually expecting the
418. 16:01book not to sell. If you knew you're
419. 16:02going to sell a million copies next
420. 16:04week, you get the book done yesterday.
421. 16:08Well, I'm procrastinating. I'm
422. 16:10procrastinating doing my sales
423. 16:12presentation. You're not I have a
424. 16:13procrastination problem when it comes to
425. 16:15my sales. No, you don't. What you have
426. 16:16is an expectation problem and you're
427. 16:19expecting people not to buy and you
428. 16:21desire them to buy. So, one of the
429. 16:22things that I did to free myself from
430. 16:23that is I stopped desiring people to
431. 16:25buy. And I just became aware if I talk
432. 16:27to enough people and I do a presentation
433. 16:29in front of enough people, some of them
434. 16:30will buy. And so, I now don't have to
435. 16:32hope somebody buys. I know someone will
436. 16:34because the law of averages makes it so.
437. 16:37Even if I have a terrible presentation,
438. 16:38if I do enough presentations, somebody's
439. 16:40going to buy. I know. I've seen plenty
440. 16:42of pre terrible presentations that made
441. 16:44sales. Yes.
442. 16:45>> And so all I'm saying is stop putting
443. 16:48off your future until tomorrow because
444. 16:51the reality is there's no such thing as
445. 16:54tomorrow.
446. 16:56It's always today.
447. 17:01And so to overcome procrastination, I
448. 17:03become hyper intentional about my focus.
449. 17:07And then for me, it becomes now o'clock.
450. 17:09And I go from excuse maker to action
451. 17:11taker. and I get it done now. Thanks for
452. 17:14watching.