 Hey guys it's Dave here again and I have another question from a subscriber and this is about procrastination. This is the channel where I seem to repeat myself quite a lot because I have talked about procrastination in a lot of my videos but I get the same kind of questions coming up from people who are having a problem with this so I'm going to jump into this question and see if maybe it can help you if you're going through something like this as well. So let's have a look at this question. The person asked me to make this video as a response, if you want a response as well just go to my website or leave a question maybe below in the comments and I'll see if I think it can help enough people but let's dive in here it says I don't know what's wrong with me. I've watched some of your videos on procrastination but I still can't seem to move when it comes time to take action. I have a severe feeling of anxiety and cannot bring myself to do what I need do what I know I should do. You mentioned that the process of procrastination leads to low self-esteem in one of your videos. Yes that's true it's well it's it's kind of like I actually think the low self-esteem causes us to procrastinate and then the procrastination leads to low self-esteem so it's kind of like a vicious cycle if you like but you're absolutely right in that. I know I'm disrespecting myself but I have come to really resent my laziness and there's that word lazy again okay if you take my course about this procrastination you'll know that there is no such thing as laziness there is coping mechanisms and procrastination is one of those so that's something to maybe think about. I hate that I am so uncooperative with myself and that's a good word there uncooperative it's like that internal conflict that we have when we are experiencing procrastination one party wants to go this way the other party wants to do this and you're left in the middle in this this struggle so it finishes off here it says sometimes I really feel a strong sense of self loathing okay so there's a lot of self-judgment going on here with this person why is the reluctance to move so strong and what can I do about it okay so the reluctance to move why is it so strong well one thing I actually haven't talked much about is the fact that your body naturally will be very reluctant to you taking action in general it's your nervous system basically has one function your brain has one function and that is to basically keep you alive so if you're in a kind of a safe environment you're away from danger you've got enough food and everything you know success as we determine it here in in the western world we'll say is not very high in terms of evolution on the priorities our brain has we don't really care if you're successful okay well just your brain just cares is can I keep this person alive to basically to reproduce really is one of the big ones but to just stay here stay on the planet right so as long as it's got you safe it's going to say why are you moving from this nice safe position that we found ourselves in okay we've managed to avoid predators we're alive where are you going why are you pursuing that goal let's just stay here so you're the first thing to do is is to stop it so harsh on yourself about this because there is this thing of learning to overcome laziness we'll call it laziness which is for they did the shortness of this video but it's to realize that your brain is actually doing its job okay that thing of not wanting to to take action not wanting to move is quite a natural thing just so be moving to maybe more grateful a grateful energy or a more gratitude about okay well simply it's not that I'm a horrible person or I'm lazy or I'm you know anything else anything derogatory it's okay my body wants me to be safe I get that I am safe and remind yourself it's safe to move it's actually okay to move that's where the anxiety is coming from there it's that thing of danger some kind of impending danger okay so stopping so critical of yourself and realize that it's it's part of your nervous system now also check out my course on my website on this it goes into a lot about your language and in terms of how you schedule things to make your goals seem a lot easier no matter what your goals are you actually didn't mention what your goals are in your in your question but it doesn't matter what your goal is all the matters is that you to achieve it it will involve taking consistent action towards it so just realize your brain is lazy your brain does not care about your success remind yourself it's safe okay I'm safe I'm safe and I'm a big fan of affirmations like that to talk to yourself in a certain way to remind yourself that okay I'm all right I'm not in any danger here and when you do that you'll notice that you'll start to shift into a more peaceful stay of mind and you'll be ready to take more action so guys thanks you so much for watching hope that question helped a few of you if you want to contact me the link is for my website is below we can do one-to-one work together if that's something that you're interested in maybe like the video subscribe and do all those things if you like my content it helps me reach more people and if you have a question again you can just leave it below or go to my website thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one take care