you hard
you know what's worse than trying hard
and try
and failing failing when you did not try
hard are
hard enough and even worse when you are
a not
a smart person I am so tired of you not
understanding potential
understanding the immense potential
inside achieve
inside of yourself to literally achieve
your and
your dream grades dream achievements and
your enough
your A+ life I've coached enough
students 10
students and even adults who are 10
years they
years older than me who tell me how they
regret I
regret being lazy especially in school I
regret it's
regret everything and let's face it it's
not it's
not hard work that will kill you it's
regret lazy
regret a team it's Amy if you're lazy
you a
you probably don't want to listen to a
laundry narrowed
laundry list of advice so I've narrowed
down that
down the top most effective tips that
were become
were magic for me being able to become
valorian of
valorian while maintaining a hours of
sleep GPA
sleep these also helped me get a 4.0 GPA
in while
in chemical engineering at Caltech while
playing our
playing varsity basketball to exit our
lazy first
lazy era most efficiently we must first
understand lazy
understand what really is being lazy
Miriam you're
Miriam Webster says this is when you're
disinclined in
disinclined to activity or exertion in
other like
other words you just don't feel like
putting something
putting in effort to achieve something
so doing
so that task you're supposed to be doing
right great
right now instead of watching this great
YouTube the
YouTube video as part of ying yang the
action change
action you should be doing can't change
much you
much if you have to write an essay you
can't a
can't change the task into writing a
poem part
poem thus what we can leverage as part
of because
of this ying yang is the mindset because
the your
the resistance you feel is all in your
head exertion
head so the key is to make your exertion
more tips
more attractive through these four tips
stay find
stay to the end of this video to find
out you
out the most important First Step you
should go
should do time to lock in let's go
imagine bed
imagine you mess up laying on your bed
bumming you
bumming around how many times do you
talk so
talk down on yourself uh I'm being so
bad do
bad I'm so lazy I can't get up I suck do
you accomplish
you think it's going to accomplish
anything feel
anything other than making yourself feel
worse lazier
instead me
instead what consistently worked for me
was by
was to coach myself in a friendly way by
having glass
having a positive attitude think glass
half wins
half full acknowledging the little wins
you that
you already had today feel grateful that
you task
you even get to do this daunting task
and your
and focus on what you'll gain from your
effort lose
effort and not what you will lose
because losing
because often we're not really losing
anything just
anything when we do the task we're just
losing and
losing slumping on the couch and
scrolling mind
scrolling on our phone I guess the mind
is and
is an incredibly powerful thing and
don't I
don't just take my word for it I
attended Yale
attended an Apple event where Yale
Professor an
Professor Dr Lorie Santos who is an
expert to
expert on happiness revealed that to
stop acknowledge
stop being lazy you have to acknowledge
common instead
common Humanity this means that instead
of with
of thinking there's something wrong with
you admit
you and beating yourself up you admit
that as
that you are just being human same as
everyone with
everyone else this chakra deals with
real shame
real power and is blocked by shame
feeling something
feeling lazy or unmotivated is something
that experiences
that every single person experiences
even in
even the most most successful people in
the the
the world when you put yourself in the
same you
same category of humans as those you
admire can
admire you will realize that you can
achieve will
achieve amazing things too this will
boost become
boost your confidence and it will become
easier activity
easier to be inclined to do the activity
and comment
and put in effort some of you comment
how but
how hopeless your situation feels but
your it's
your way of thinking is exactly why it's
harder in
harder and harder you need to inject in
yourself why
yourself a little bit of hope that's why
at you
at the start of this video I said you
need because
need to get off your lazy butt because
you there
you have too much potential to rot there
if get
if you don't like what's going on get
off take
off of your butts and find somebody take
care you
care of these problems I didn't say you
have suck
have to stop being lazy because you suck
so like
so you shouldn't talk to yourself like
that doesn't
that either a man I hope someone doesn't
clip stop
clip that one part you have to stop
being you
being lazy because you
suck glass
suck having a habit of thinking glass
have life
have full will take you so far in life
and make
and not just combat laziness but to make
this one
this effective you have to take one
important be
important step first which will be
revealed I
revealed at the end of the video when I
have the
have to do chores like washing the
dishes Carpenter's
dishes I will put on Sabrina Carpenter's
short hits
short and sweet album or bts's top hits
replicating something
replicating or incorporating something
you you
you enjoy into the work will get you
excited in
excited I use this in my own work in
school memorize
school all the time if I had to memorize
stuff flash
stuff I turn it into a game using flash
card quiz
card generators and online quiz
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something I already enjoy is
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tip get
tip one about common Humanity I also get
really up
really lazy and I don't want to get up
and of
and do anything but I have an arsenal of
useful where
useful chains of thought this is where
when chains
when I think through these chains
without doing
without fail I get up and I start doing
what about
what I'm supposed to do I think about
how me
how in high school to help prepare me
for take
for math competitions my dad would take
huge during
huge stacks of math problems and during
his be
his work time when he was supposed to be
chilling be
chilling and taking a break he would be
solving explain
solving those problems so he can explain
to care
to me later that day the amount of care
and My
and effort that he put into me and my My
Success I
Success makes me feel like oh my gosh I
need my
need to put in that same effort too my
parents felt
parents didn't do these because it felt
like wanted
like a burden or a sacrifice they wanted
to well-being
to do it for my future and well-being
thinking to
thinking through these makes me want to
get really
get up and put in the work too a really
common other
common great Chain of Thought that other
people remember
people have talked about is to remember
that is
that somewhere out there in the world is
someone than
someone with worse circumstances than
you better
you working their butt off even better
if conrete
if you can connect this with a conrete
example I
example I remember last year when I
visited a
visited China Sean took me to get a
massage full
massage and this massage parlor was full
of girl
of people who were blind and this girl
who she
who was massaging me was my age but she
couldn't having
couldn't see and she talked about having
dreams could
dreams to go to the US but she could
never was
never make that possible and she was
chatting and
chatting with the other masseuses and
they they
they were talking about how they
couldn't ramen
couldn't afford a $2 bowl of ramen
downstairs a
downstairs yeah I think that got a
little you
little darker than I intended but you
know do
know it helps you got to work hard to do
justice less
justice to those out there who have less
than hard
than you and who are still working hard
because if
because if they can do it you can too if
you chains
you need more examples of amazing chains
of to
of thought that will actually get you to
stop can
stop scrolling specifically then you can
check three
check out this video and the three
amazing in
amazing chains of thought discussed in
this being
this video will get you to stop being
lazy of
lazy I have stood at the bedside of
maybe took
maybe thousands of people as they took
their in
their last breath what people say in
their pretty
their final moments um is pretty
important when
important they don't mess around when
people words
people are dying in their last words
nobody Rick
nobody has ever said uh Pastor Rick
bring at
bring me my trophies I want to look at
them more
them one more
time college
time or even bring me my college
graduation at
graduation certificate I want to look at
it dying
it one more time when people are dying
and what
and they know their time is short what
they or
they want in the room is not things or
trophies want
trophies or achievement what they want
of they
of the people they
love figure
love eventually we all eventually figure
out all
out that it's all about love it's all
about you'll
about relationships I just pray you'll
figure lot
figure it out a whole lot
sooner bed
sooner picture yourself on your dead bed
dead your
dead bed picture yourself on your
deathbed wish
deathbed what matters what will you wish
you ones
you could have done for your loved ones
would more
would you wish you could have spent more
quality could
quality time with them maybe that could
have value
have been achieved had you only value
your you
your time not only that but if you
realized you
realized that your time is also time you
could them
could have allocated to be with them
will and
will you wish you were more present and
less about
less distracted and in your head about
how it's
how hard life is that's why it's
important your
important to remember your why your
deepest doing
deepest driving force for doing
something a
something this is a constant desire a
fire A
fire burning inside of you no straight A
is not
is not deep enough ranking top 10 is not
important state
important enough winning that state
championship reason
championship is not a good enough reason
what I
what got me through people family love I
want my
want to be able to give back to my
parents also
parents who gave so much to me I also
want future
want to be able to provide for my future
family can
family I want to set myself up so I can
spend my
spend tons of quality time with my
future and
future kids and watch them grow up and
go milestones
go through each of their life milestones
and way
and support their great life in any way
I a
I can I also want to be part of a
movement younger
movement of helping this younger
generation you
generation make a better world for you
and for
me you
me where we have the right values so you
being are
being here thank you so much you are
part want
part of this movement too I want
bright-eyed the
bright-eyed students all around the
world make
world to realize that they can make
their that's
their life really what they want that's
what 4:00
what gets me to wake myself up at 4:00
a.m. no
a.m. to finish a video when there's no
one there
one telling me to no one is out there
giving consequence
giving me a deadline or a consequence
it's use
it's just me and my fire when you use
any will
any of tip 1 3 or four you will
automatically more
automatically be making the task more
enjoyable itself
enjoyable even if the action itself
didn't the
didn't change at all that's because the
dread good
dread is all in your head that was good
kind for
kind of I have too low of a bar for
myself the
myself that's the importance of the
right ying-yang
right mindset as part of the ying-yang
equation like
equation mindset and action are like
yingyang will
yingyang where an increase in one will
boost mindset
boost the other having a good mindset
will and
will make the right action easier and
the even
the right action will make an even
better positive
better mindset this is a positive
feedback off
feedback loop but you have to kick off
the from
the positive feedback loop from
somewhere the
somewhere either the mindset or the
action head
action however laziness is in your head
so action
so focus on the mindset not the action
because is
because when you're lazy your action is
non-existent the
non-existent okay good job pat on the
back too
back if those earlier things were too
deep of
deep for you I'll end on a couple of
quick much
quick hacks that don't require as much
immediate fails
immediate thought if if all else fails
twist and
twist your laziness to work for you and
be you're
be too lazy to be stressed if you're
lying time
lying on the couch tell yourself time
will I
will pass anyway I'm older today than I
was be
was yesterday so I might as well be
further okay
further today than I was yesterday okay
here to
here we go finally the important step to
take beat
take first when you are lazy take a beat
when do
when you're lazy literally don't do
anything think
anything and stop for a moment to think
and screen
and reorient your brain put the screen
down if
down and stare at the ceiling even if
you're scrolling
you're still non-stop mindless scrolling
that nearly
that inertia is going to make it nearly
impossible work
impossible for any of those tips to work
because if
because how can you rewire your brain if
it's which
it's lost yay I didn't name which
mindset so
mindset today was the golden mindset so
I'd is
I'd like you to choose which mindset is
your focus
your golden mindset that you will focus
on your
on honing first let me know your
favorite along
favorite mindset in the comments along
with try
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much the
much note that I can't see you at the
Top got
Top If you don't keep climbing you got
this okay
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