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  1. 0:00I haven't had an ounce of motivation in
  2. 0:03months. Not just to do productive things
  3. 0:05that are going to allow me to better
  4. 0:07myself and achieve my goals, but even to
  5. 0:09do the things that most people consider
  6. 0:11to be fun. Haven't wanted to watch TV.
  7. 0:14Haven't wanted to go anywhere. Haven't
  8. 0:16wanted to eat at restaurants, whatever
  9. 0:18the case may be. And I damn sure haven't
  10. 0:20felt like getting up early, going to the
  11. 0:23gym, working, or any of that. And that
  12. 0:27lack of motivation that everybody
  13. 0:29complains about is exactly what it is
  14. 0:31that has allowed me to continue waking
  15. 0:34up early, going to the gym, working, and
  16. 0:37doing all other sorts of things that I
  17. 0:39don't feel like doing. Even wrote a
  18. 0:41book. You should get that. It's amazing.
  19. 0:43But back to my point, it is this lack of
  20. 0:46motivation that has allowed me to do all
  21. 0:48of these things. Because if everything
  22. 0:51that I'm doing sucks regardless, if I
  23. 0:54don't feel like doing anything, if I
  24. 0:56don't feel like being productive or
  25. 0:57having fun, why not be productive? And
  26. 1:00this is the mistake that people make in
  27. 1:02thinking that they are supposed to feel
  28. 1:04good while they do everything. That's
  29. 1:06absolute nonsense. People complain about
  30. 1:09their depression and how they feel awful
  31. 1:12and how life seems pointless and they
  32. 1:14don't enjoy doing anything. But if you
  33. 1:16don't enjoy doing anything, why not do
  34. 1:19the things that are going to better
  35. 1:20yourself? If you hate everything that
  36. 1:23you have going on anyway, why not do the
  37. 1:25more difficult thing? It's all going to
  38. 1:27suck. Whether you're watching a movie or
  39. 1:30building a business, it's going to suck.
  40. 1:32Whether you are playing video games or
  41. 1:35going to the gym, so why not do the
  42. 1:37thing that will better yourself? It is
  43. 1:39those negative feelings towards life
  44. 1:43that will allow you to make the best out
  45. 1:45of life because then you're not faced
  46. 1:47with the option of having fun or being
  47. 1:49productive. All of it sucks. So, you
  48. 1:51might as well build yourself because
  49. 1:52eventually you will stop feeling
  50. 1:54terrible. And when you stop feeling
  51. 1:56terrible, then you will have built up a
  52. 1:58bunch of stuff that you could be proud
  53. 1:59of and that will make you feel a bunch
  54. 2:01better than if you have just wasted
  55. 2:03days, weeks, months, or even years just
  56. 2:06sleeping in, playing video games, and
  57. 2:07eating a bunch of nonsense. All bad
  58. 2:10feelings are temporary. They are all all
  59. 2:12fleeting. Much like the weather, it is
  60. 2:14not going to rain for forever, and you
  61. 2:16are not going to be sad forever. So,
  62. 2:19while you're sad, do the things that are
  63. 2:21going to make you feel good when you're
  64. 2:23not sad. be productive, build on things,
  65. 2:28work on advancing your life and building
  66. 2:29your bank account and building your body
  67. 2:31and improving your mindset. And it is
  68. 2:34also these things that are going to help
  69. 2:35those bad feelings go away for good in
  70. 2:38or at least as much for good as they
  71. 2:41possibly can. It's impossible to feel
  72. 2:43good forever. But it is the productivity
  73. 2:45that is going to get rid of the feeling
  74. 2:47of pointlessness in your life. If you're
  75. 2:49depressed, it's because you are doing
  76. 2:50depressing things. It is because you are
  77. 2:52living a depressing life. is because you
  78. 2:54are not doing the things that you are
  79. 2:55supposed to do. So the more that you do
  80. 2:57these things, the more that you will
  81. 3:00stop feeling terrible because you will
  82. 3:02start becoming the person that you are
  83. 3:04supposed to be and these feelings will
  84. 3:06go away. This applies to all things. But
  85. 3:09people use these things that they come
  86. 3:11up with or that they have that they're
  87. 3:13dealing with for the dumbest stuff.
  88. 3:15People feel depressed and they lay in
  89. 3:16bed all day doing nothing. But they also
  90. 3:18do not enjoy laying in bed all day. The
  91. 3:21logic of I hate doing everything so I'm
  92. 3:24going to do nothing even though doing
  93. 3:26nothing is also something I do not enjoy
  94. 3:28is the logic of a stupid person. If you
  95. 3:30hate doing everything then do the things
  96. 3:33that are better for you. Whatever the
  97. 3:35case may be whatever bad thing it bad
  98. 3:36thing it is that you feel that you are
  99. 3:38going through you can make it into a
  100. 3:39good thing. You can make it into a
  101. 3:40positive. You can make it into something
  102. 3:42to build yourself up. People whine about
  103. 3:44their trauma and their bad life
  104. 3:46experiences, but whoever is responsible
  105. 3:48for those bad childhood experiences,
  106. 3:51assuming it's not you, which it probably
  107. 3:54is, but that's fine. Let's assume you
  108. 3:55had a terrible childhood. Say your
  109. 3:57parents beat you. They have done you a
  110. 3:59favor because you can sit there and
  111. 4:02bring up those old memories. Oh,
  112. 4:04remember when my parents used to beat
  113. 4:05me? You know what that is? Much worse
  114. 4:07than going to the gym. So, when you
  115. 4:09don't feel like going to the gym,
  116. 4:10remember all of the bad stuff that
  117. 4:12you've been through. Remember getting
  118. 4:13beaten by your parents or molested by
  119. 4:15your uncle or whatever other nonsense it
  120. 4:17is that you are still crying about
  121. 4:20because comparatively none of the stuff
  122. 4:22that you need to do that's going to give
  123. 4:23you the life that you want is as
  124. 4:25difficult as that. I would imagine that
  125. 4:27being molested as a child is much more
  126. 4:29difficult than working when you don't
  127. 4:30feel like working. I would imagine that
  128. 4:32getting beaten by your parents every day
  129. 4:34is much more difficult than going and
  130. 4:35lifting some weights when you don't feel
  131. 4:37like lifting weights. The people who
  132. 4:39have wronged you have given you the gift
  133. 4:42of context because now you have a thing
  134. 4:45to compare all of your experiences to.
  135. 4:48You have a thing to compare all of the
  136. 4:50things that you don't feel like doing
  137. 4:52to. It is much easier to get out of bed
  138. 4:54in the morning than it is to deal with
  139. 4:56getting your heart broken. It is much
  140. 4:58easier to work on some project that's
  141. 5:00going to make you some money than it is
  142. 5:03to be
  143. 5:05abandoned when you were young or live in
  144. 5:08the foster home or whatever other
  145. 5:10whatever other nonsense it is. Take
  146. 5:12whatever experience it is that you have
  147. 5:13had and compare them to now. And that
  148. 5:16will give you again the context of
  149. 5:18knowing that what you have going on now
  150. 5:20is not actually that difficult. It is
  151. 5:23not that bad. So, if you can survive all
  152. 5:25of this other difficult stuff, then you
  153. 5:27can survive doing what it is that you
  154. 5:28need to do now. And these are the things
  155. 5:30that are going to put you in a position
  156. 5:32where you aren't even focused on your
  157. 5:35past anymore. Because if you had a good
  158. 5:36present, why would you care about your
  159. 5:38past? You're only dwelling on things
  160. 5:40that's happening that have happened
  161. 5:42because you have nothing happening right
  162. 5:44now. But when you replace all of this
  163. 5:46current nothingness with positivity and
  164. 5:48growth and building, then all of that
  165. 5:50other stuff doesn't seem so bad anymore.
  166. 5:52People talk about their quote unquote
  167. 5:55insomnia, which I am fully under the
  168. 5:57belief that that is entirely a choice.
  169. 5:59But let's say you do have insomnia.
  170. 6:01Instead of laying awake in bed all night
  171. 6:03like a dumbass, being mad that you can't
  172. 6:05go to sleep and being upset that you're
  173. 6:08going to be tired the next day, go do
  174. 6:10some push-ups. Go to the gym. Go do some
  175. 6:13work. Go read a book. Do something
  176. 6:16that's going to enhance your life
  177. 6:18experiences. You can't go to sleep
  178. 6:21anyway. So why lay there and be mad
  179. 6:23about it? Those are the actions of an
  180. 6:25idiot. And idiots never get to where it
  181. 6:27is that they would like to go because
  182. 6:28they are too stupid to identify and
  183. 6:30follow the path. If you do have
  184. 6:33insomnia, then God has given you extra
  185. 6:37time. Because what does everybody say? I
  186. 6:39am too busy to do a thing. But if you
  187. 6:42have a whole entire 8 hours or four of
  188. 6:45the eight hours, however long it is that
  189. 6:46you can't sleep, you have bonus time
  190. 6:48that everyone else does not have when
  191. 6:51you can figure out a way to do all of
  192. 6:53these things. And you can get much
  193. 6:55farther ahead than you would if you were
  194. 6:57just laying there being mad about not
  195. 6:59going to sleep or popping some pills or
  196. 7:01drinking or uh smoking some weed or
  197. 7:04whatever other nonsense it is that
  198. 7:05people do to cope with what is not a
  199. 7:08problem. Things are only problems if you
  200. 7:10decide to call them problems. And that
  201. 7:14is where everyone messes up is they call
  202. 7:17all of these things problems rather than
  203. 7:19figuring out how it is that they can
  204. 7:21work for them. If you have anxiety,
  205. 7:26great, amazing. Rather than just trying
  206. 7:27to pop pills and make the feeling go
  207. 7:29away, then listen to what your anxiety
  208. 7:31is telling you and then go work on that
  209. 7:33area and then you won't have anxiety
  210. 7:35about that thing anymore. This is a
  211. 7:36little indicator in your brain saying,
  212. 7:38"Hey, level up in this area of life.
  213. 7:40Level up this skill set. You could do
  214. 7:41this better. You could do that better."
  215. 7:43Whatever the case may be. This is a
  216. 7:45little road map. It's like the if you
  217. 7:46play video games, the little
  218. 7:49character creation slider thingies where
  219. 7:52you got like your attributes or
  220. 7:53whatever. I haven't played video game in
  221. 7:54mad long. I don't know how they work
  222. 7:56right now, but I'm assuming that it's
  223. 7:58still similar to that or at least once
  224. 7:59upon a time it was. But these are little
  225. 8:01indicators saying, "Hey, bring up these
  226. 8:03things." That is exactly what your
  227. 8:04anxiety is. It is not something to
  228. 8:05complain about. It is something to use.
  229. 8:08All of these things are something to
  230. 8:10use. Because at the end of the day, you
  231. 8:13do not need to feel good in order to get
  232. 8:15anything done. Weight weighs what weight
  233. 8:18weighs, whether you were sad or happy
  234. 8:20while you were lifting it. So, go lift
  235. 8:22it. Go get it done. And once you put
  236. 8:24yourself into a better situation, you
  237. 8:26will understand that anything can be
  238. 8:29used to your advantage. And none of
  239. 8:31these things that were pro that were
  240. 8:32once problems will seem like they are
  241. 8:34still problems anymore because you will
  242. 8:36have solved them rather than whining
  243. 8:38about them like everybody else does. So
  244. 8:40whatever it is that you are going
  245. 8:41through, figure out how can I use this
  246. 8:43to my benefit. There is always an answer
  247. 8:45to that. Just like I said in the very
  248. 8:47beginning, I was motivated to do
  249. 8:48absolutely nothing. Nothing fun, nothing
  250. 8:51productive. So I did productive things
  251. 8:53because I didn't want to do any of it
  252. 8:55anyway. If I'm sad or unhappy or
  253. 8:57whatever the case may be while I'm doing
  254. 8:59all things, why would I not do things
  255. 9:01that are a net positive? Why would I
  256. 9:03waste time if I'm just as unhappy
  257. 9:06wasting time as using the time
  258. 9:08productively, which is what stupid
  259. 9:10people do? Once again, I am not a stupid
  260. 9:12person. So, next time you are going
  261. 9:14through things, you are feeling
  262. 9:15something, feeling some sort of way, ask
  263. 9:17yourself, am I a stupid person?

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