 In this video, I'm going to talk about why procrastination relies on self-deception and lying. Guys, welcome to the video and I have a question here from someone who looked at one of my earlier videos and I'm going to just jump straight into it and hopefully it'll help you if you're having procrastination if that's an issue that you're going or dealing with in your life. So let's jump in here. It says, in one of your other videos, you talked about building momentum and choosing a time to start work. So there's a lot to the procrastination video, of course. The link for it is below, but a lot of it is how to schedule it properly, but eventually when you have everything correct and how you schedule your work, you will have to pick a start time to begin, right? So yeah, an important step is just actually identifying when am I actually going to start today? When am I going to start doing some work? For a lot of people, this is a problem. I agree with a lot of the things you said. I know I should pick a time to start my work, but I can't seem to do this. So there's a block here, okay? I question whether I'm picking the right time. I don't feel like picking a time to start. I sit there in paralysis. Why can't I make up my mind what is going on? Okay, so there's a really interesting point here about procrastination. It is lying to ourselves, okay? So this thing of I'm going to start then and then not following through, okay? And then, but more than that, it's this indecision. It's this indecision of will I want I not even been able to make up my mind as to when I should start doing some work, okay? And it usually is work, right? Procrastination is usually around stuff we kind of put in the long finger and don't really enjoy doing all that much. So, but there's this thing of indecision. I can't make up my mind when to start. I know I should start, don't feel like starting. When will I start? And then never deciding, okay? And this goes on and on and on. You can go on for hours, you can go on for days, weeks, months, even years, okay? With bigger life decisions. So what's really going on here? Okay, so when you're sitting there and you have this desire to do some work and you're not making a clear decision, what's really going on is you think that you're failing to decide. You're failing to choose. The truth is you've already made your choice, okay? You've already made your choice. What choice did you make? Your choice was to accept paralysis, okay? You've decided to not choose. That's a choice, okay? I'm getting a little bit philosophical here, but it's true, okay? All I do in the procrastination course is I try fundamentally to remove this indecision and to remove this paralysis and this self-torment that is so prevalent in procrastination, okay? Beating myself up, feeling guilty, saying I'm going to do something, not doing it, feeling guilty afterwards, right? That's procrastination. That's the one thing I want to remove from your life in this course and in these videos. So you can do two things and there's one thing you can't do. You can either work, you can either consciously choose not to work, but you can't live in the middle in paralysis and when you're in paralysis, when you're there, you've chosen to be there, right? So what I'm saying is pick a start time to work and the important thing is not whether you show up and do it. The important thing is that you just pick, okay, pick a start time and then watch whether or not you show up, okay? Just bring self-awareness to, I'm making promises to myself, am I following through in them? Which is why I tell people don't make too many promises to yourself and don't make big promises, just make one achievable promise and then hold yourself accountable, right? Look, did I follow through? Did I show up when I say I would be there? So take away from today's video is it's about lying to ourselves and it's about telling ourselves I'm in paralysis, I can't make a decision. You're already choosing, okay? When you choose not to choose, that's a choice, okay? So I hope that helps. All I'm saying is don't tolerate paralysis and accept that you've made a choice for it and then just choose differently, okay? Choose okay. It doesn't matter. I'm not going to try and identify the perfect time to start work. I'm just going to pick a time. I'm going to give myself whatever time I need, half an hour, an hour, pick a time. And then that's my start time. And then I'll just notice whether or not I show up. Okay, so I hope that helps guys. As usual, you can check out the course below. And also if you want to talk to me one-to-one, the link is there as well. I do Skype coaching for a multitude of issues and not just procrastination. Hope you enjoyed the video. Please like, subscribe. It helps me reach more people and I will see you in the next video.