 Oh, don't you ever forget, Procrastination is the killer of all your hopes and dreams. Whatever you have been imagining and hoping for, it sits on the altar of action versus Procrastination. Procrastination is the killer of all hopes and dreams. What most people think is the killer of hopes and dreams is where they were born, their IQ, what they look like, how tall they are. Men have their own set of insecurities. Women have their own set. Men are concerned with looking young. Men are concerned with looking strong, looking powerful, but these aren't anything to worry about. All men are concerned about skin colors, a big thing now in my ethnicity and this and oh I was born here and I'm, oh capitalism is destroying me here and this and that and all our taxes, that's nothing. This is an irrelevant point in the game. The game is decided on the playing field of those who procrastinate and those who don't. Now some people have more natural genius, natural IQ and so they have to work a little bit less hard, but at the end of the day it's like the inventor said, you know he was the wealthiest man in the world when he died, Edison and he said, you know, what he did was 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration is not just hard work, its perseverance is never giving up, it's never procrastinating, it's when the past is easier here he went that way. It's the two paths in the road, the wide Jesus Christ said, the path that's wide and most people go on in the path that's narrow. Trost wrote the story, you know, the poem of the two paths that meet in the woods and he took the path less trod upon and he made all the difference in his life. What is that path? What is the narrow path? Procrastinators, you won't have to get all fancy, look I built big businesses, I built small businesses, I did a million bucks a year, a medium sized business that did 10 to 100 and large ones that did more than 100 million a year, way more. You know what I've learned through it all, it's all the same game, it's at slightly different scale, let me give you a practical example. There's people who see an idea, they have an idea, something comes to mind. I had an idea that, you know, I remember when my first ideas was an online education course and I didn't see anybody doing it for business, there was this guy Mike Chang, he had six-pack abs, this is like 2013-2014 and he would just YouTube ads. Before every video I'd watch, this guy was his Asian dude with no shirt on and he had a six-pack and he's like, oh I got six-pack shortcuts, watch my video and then buy my course and I'll teach you how I got a six-pack and I was thinking, hmm, this is interesting. Now luckily by that point in my life I had overcome procrastination, it used to be a bigger issue. So when I was 19 I went to work with a farmer named Joel Salton and he basically whipped it out of me, not literally. So by the time I saw that YouTube ad, Mike Chang, six-pack shortcuts, I wasn't done with procrastination. I got on an airplane, I found out he was speaking at a little conference in, what was the name of it? It was in Utah, one of these guys had bought this mountain, all these entrepreneurs that bought this mountain, let's forget the name right now, I'll remember in a second you can Google it. And I went there and Mike Chang was there and I just started talking to him and I sat through, you know, I didn't procrastinate, I was like, how do you do it? What's your formula? I became friends with him and then lo and behold, a year later, I launched Mike here in my garage, which was a YouTube ad campaign pre-roll. That thing was making 50 to 100 grand a day net because I didn't procrastinate. The idea and the opportunity in my mind was pursued. See the opposite of procrastination is pursued. People think the opposite of procrastination is always, you know, is never putting things off. That's not what it is because it took me a year to launch Mike here in my garage. It wasn't an instant process, but I immediately pursued the idea. So the opposite of procrastination is people who pursue, who persevere. We keep the three Ps. The good P is pursuit slash perseverance. It takes longer than you think, you know, I've told people for years, you can get anything you want in life, but it'll take one or two years longer than your original plan. And that takes pursuit and perseverance. So I remember, and by the way, all the things I regret in life or the ones that I thought about without pursuing, an example of that was like, I remember there was a point in my life where I was like, I want to do Brazilian jiu-jitsu. And I started studying Brazilian jiu-jitsu and I was like, and there's nothing wrong with studying, but studying is not the pursuit. It was, I was in my own head and I was like, Googling it and like, oh, is jiu-jitsu better than taekwondo or Muay Thai or this? And I started, I was like, you know, you see people, they get informed on discord or whatever. They're all Reddit and they're like all argue. That's not the pursuit. That doesn't count. That's still in the realm of procrastination. That doesn't mean you never research, but research as you pursue. So finally I got off my ass. I was like, wait a second. I want to do jiu-jitsu. Let me just test it. And I tried out karate and I tried out judo. I did judo. And I was like 12. I started judo. So I launched experiments and I remember going to a Gracie studio in Raleigh, North Carolina. And I'm like, this is pretty interesting. I mean, I've been doing Brazilian jiu-jitsu for many, many, many years. And being stuck in research mode too long is deadly. The reason I'm recording this whole rant, because I get people following me. And even though I love books, here's a new book I was just reading. I just went to Barnes & Noble and the guy said, I always ask the Barnes & Noble person, what's the most books you've ever seen? He's like, you bought the most. He said, you don't even work there for three months. He's like, you bought the most. But the reason I do that is I research while I'm on the go. Some people procrastinate research. They read and procrastinate. The book becomes the obstacle. You know, there's a book called the obstacle is the way. Sometimes the book is the obstacle because you're not always pursuing, also pursuing. To me, books are research and research is like steroids. So let's just use this analogy. A lot of dudes want to have muscles. It's a pretty common thing. Average man wants upper body mass. The average man is about 75% strong. The average woman has only about 25% of the strength of the strongest man. I mean, okay, an upper body. Men are tremendously compete in the upper body in the physical realm in the last 10,000 years. It's a good book on this called the story of the human body by Lieberman. And so men idolize large upper body mass. Okay, so let's say a dude, you're watching this and you want a big arm, you want a big chest, whatever, you want to be able to bench. Some dudes will get stuck in research mode, not realizing that research. And I was like, okay, which gym is the best? And you know, do you do free weights? Do you do this? He said, I see people do all what's the rep range. I bought bodybuilding.com. So my dad was a pro bodybuilder too. It's like people are sitting here researching, but they're really procrastinating. Now, if you pursue and you go to the gym, you launch an experiment. You don't worry about if you pick the best gym. And it doesn't matter if you go to CrossFit first or you do upper body work or if you do, you know, there's people just doing rings. Now people going to the beach, they're doing rings. They can get shredded that way. So a person doesn't worry about getting it perfectly right. They're just like, I'm going to pursue some upper body strength and just pursue it. And then books and research becomes like steroids of the mind. I say that in a good way, steroids of the mind. Like they, it, it exaggerates, it accentuates, it creates a compound effect to the results you will get. So when you research without pursuing something, you're procrastinating. If you research on the go as you pursue it, people won't always tie. I want to make money. Oh, you want to make a million bucks? We're sitting in a chair right now. Write out 20 things that don't make you money. E-com selling courses. By the way, E-com is physical or digital. Doing a marketing agency, doing an E-com agency, becoming a copywriter, affiliate marketing, building apps, becoming a coder, becoming good at AI, being a virtual COO or like working on upwork, doing virtual work. You see, write out eight things, just pursue one. And then on the go, you're reading, you're buying courses, you're researching, but as you take action and then that becomes the steroids that makes you get an exaggerated and amazing compound effect, an exponential result. The opposite and the failed. And I see this a lot of times people subscribe to 50 channels, trying to learn how to make their first million, 50 gurus, but they have never pursued seriously. Remember, it's two piece, pursue with perseverance. I can't tell you how many people give up. You know, I saw Donald Trump say something, you know, people have mixed feelings on Donald Trump, but sometimes he says smart stuff, you know, not always like anybody's immortal. He's immortal, not immortal. And something I thought I said that makes sense, which is like, you know, I see many people that would have succeeded, but they just give up pursue and persevere and do research, books, reading, buy courses, go to seminars on the way. Makes sense. Anyway, good luck on your pursuit.