 So, a couple years back I read an interesting book by the creator of the Dilbert comics, so Scott Adams. And in this book he was talking about his early years before he was a famous cartoonist. And he was talking about how he would work on these evening projects either before work or after work because he knew that his goal was to create a successful business where he could have the freedom to do what he wanted. And one of the chapters he talked about this idea called the energy metric, which is about how he knew what project or business to work on based on whatever gave him the most energy because when you have a full-time job you have extra time but what you don't have is a lot of energy. So whatever excited him the most was the project he worked on. Now in this video I'm going to share a little bit about building off of this managing your energy instead of managing your time concept because I don't believe that laziness is about motivation. Hey guys, Alex Hine here, author of the book Master of the Day. So I think the big lie number one is that first of all productivity and success are all about motivation and these I believe to be absolute lies and untruths if I can say that. So for example if you think about a lot of the world's most successful people, so you look at Muhammad Ali, one of the best boxers of all time and one of his direct quotes was I hated every minute of training but I said don't quit, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. Now what's kind of crazy is I've talked to many multi-million dollar entrepreneurs and so many successful authors and writers and poets and a lot of them don't describe their work as being like this easy thing. They describe it as being really difficult and what they do is they just show up every day and they force themselves to show up every day. Even though they like it it's not something they just naturally want to do 8 or 10 hours a day. In fact it seems like a lot of the top top top people know this and motivation is not even in their lingo anywhere. For me even with these videos like I love the feeling of having produced them and going back and watching them but there is no day trust me where I want to sit down and script a video. There is no day where I feel like I have tons of energy to sit down here and belt out 30 minutes of talking. Trust me no no day am I like yes I really want to do this. I love the feeling of having produced the work but not the feeling of doing it. And if you look at honestly I live in Portland. Every day is as cloudy as can be. Most days you're not really going to spring out of bed but you still have to show up and be an adult. So the second habit here is that what creates energy then and I think energy is both physical and it's both mental. So for example physical energy like I feel more energy when I sleep enough. I feel more energy when I work out. I feel more energy when I eat well and I don't overwork and then it's also mental or psychological. You know I've told the story of the boy that's super depressed you know because he just got dumped by his girlfriend and he was super smitten super in love with this girl. Out of the blue she dumps him and he goes from having his whole life arranged, apartments clean the dishes are done. His place just looks like hell it's nasty it's dirty he's nasty he's dirty and then out of the blue the girl calls him she's like you know what I've been thinking I think we're perfect for each other I'm sorry about that can you meet up in like two hours. And then magically the whole place gets cleaned up all the dishes are done he showers he shaves he looks great and it's like what changed you know nothing changed she just told him something and somehow he magically had energy well where did that come from. And so this to me is like the yin yang of energy there's the factors we can control we create and there's the inner stuff that creates energy. So how do you have a lot more energy throughout the day to fight off laziness and to be more motivated the way is organizing your day around the things that give you energy when your life is systematically organized around inner energy you will always have the energy you want to do the things that you want. Alright so the third habit here building off of one and two the lies of energy the fact that energy has many different aspects is to organize your life around the things that give you energy so people come to me all the time and they want life coaching advice they don't know what to do my main piece of advice now at 31 with what I've done is just organize your life around the things that feel good internally that give you that energy that excitement so that Christmas morning feeling you know the difference now in my energy where I have a job that I love it's like something I've consciously chosen where every day I do exactly what I've always wanted to do but you know compared to before all the jobs I had it's completely different like night and day before every morning was a chore every morning was slogging through crap every morning required motivation and ra ra getting myself going because it just wasn't really inspired or excited and now it's very different and the difference is that could be your work so trying to find work you really that really excites you it's the old-school Joseph Campbell follow your bliss thing and at the same time being around people that really excites you you know I've been on dates I give this example a lot because every human knows it where you probably been on a date with a person they're super sexy they're really smart it's fun you feel like you should feel the connection feel the excitement but that feeling of excitement is not there and you're like this is weird they're hot they're fun they're smart but there's no juice there's no magic there's nothing there's nothing inside coming out what happens you know conversely if you share your time or you're dating someone that really you really feel that vibe with use that word vibe in English because it's it's that just that intangible thing you can't quite describe so when you hang out with people they could be friends or they could be romantic but people that you really get that feeling of excitement from your whole life is gonna be like this explosion of excitement and along the same vein like what happens if you fill your whole life with things that excite you look just you could literally print off your calendar what is your schedule today 9 to 5 what are you doing for work what are you doing after work what are you doing in the evening think about one of the greatest days of your life so it could have been when you were on a trip with your family you're in Costa Rica looking at spotter monkeys and sloths and that was a great day and you went to bed you slept like a drunk baby because everything was amazing and it was all high energy and all high excitement now what if every day was like that even though you're not in Costa Rica and every weekend you had something fun a trip something with friends a show maybe it's just a video game you buy and you play if you systematically organize your life around your energy or another word could be your excitement this is a big thing I'm on these days it's so different in terms of internally where the laziness disappears where the motivation comes from and I think you'll be surprised to see what can actually happen when every day is organized just around excitement not productivity not any other factors not success excitement because that at the end of the day I think is what we're all looking for so I hope that video helps before you go I want you to leave a comment down there below let me know for you if you had your perfect day what would you do come there below alright guys so I hope that video helps best way to stay in touch is to grab the free personal development and weight loss challenge at modern health monk calm forward slash YouTube and you can check out the latest two videos here and over here and then you can get her done in your own life