Motivation

Sections

• Boldness
• Change
• Don’t Take Life Too Seriously
• Focus
• Goal Setting
• Inspiring Action
• Life Lessons
• Productivity
• Self-Sabotage
• Systems
• Time
• Wishful Thinking

Extra

• Freedom in Thought: How to Get Unstuck

Default Action: For changing behavior

• Use Laziness To Your Advantage - The 20 Second Rule
  • Make it easier to do good things
  • If you want to learn the guitar and cut down on watching tv, keep your guitar in your living room ready for you to play, remove the batteries from your TV remote, and keep the batteries in another room. When you get home from work and want to watch tv but realize you can’t rather than getting the batteries, you’ll likely play the guitar because it requires less effort to get started.
  • 20 second rule: Make it 20 seconds easier to do the good habit and 20 seconds harder to do the bad habit. The point is to lessen the barrier of activities you want to do more off by making it more convenient to do them. On the flip side, increase the obstacles between activities you want to stop participating in by making them more difficult to start.
  • Our surroundings are a huge contributing factor when it comes to our behavior.
  • The most difficult part of any behavior is getting started.
  • Humans are lazy and would rather do something that’s easy and convenient instead of what we actually want to do.

Motivational Videos

• Jordan Peterson’s Ultimate Advice for Students and College Grads - STOP WASTING TIME

• CaseyNeistat - NO EXCUSES.
  • No one wants to hear about other’s excuses
  • Obstructions: Things inbetween you and your dreams.
  • Excuses: Are obstructions that are the reason for abandoning your dreams. Each obstruction that is not overcome becomes an excuse.
  • Awards and things are just things. What you come to realize is that family and relationships matter more.
• CaseyNeistat - What’s Your Motivation?
  • On the left you have where you are, on the right you have goals, and in between we have work. That’s all the motivation he needs. Making progress in anything is fulfilling.

Links

• 5 Things You Need to Understand to Stop Being Lazy – Atomic Habits by James Clear
• 2 Things You Need to Understand to Stop Being Lazy – Willpower by Roy Baumeister

Journal

• 2020.06.09 Created file
• 2021-07-02 Added Links section
• 2021-10-26
  • Added link to video on Willpower