 Hey guys, I'm making a video and it is about laziness or understanding laziness Now we are entirely confused about this Everybody on YouTube seemingly is obsessed with personal productivity trying to do more Personal development very good But in my opinion we are completely misguided for the most part in why it happens and actually how to be successful in being more productive We're going about it entirely the wrong way now. We think laziness is an inherent character flaw So really the problem with that approach is we're talking about procrastination understanding laziness If you're seeing it as just an inherent character flaw that puts out any Inquiry or investigation as to actually what is the cause of this a Character flaw is medieval. It's primitive. It's dumb It's not insightful in any way. So let's get real about personal productivity and What's actually going on? You're not lazy There are steps you can take. It's a very very simple thing to fix to become more proactive and more productive You just need to know what the right tools are now I'm going to talk in this video today about the myth of laziness and What's actually going on now? One of the ways we can understand this is We are actually trained to be lazy and it's a an unantended consequence of our education School teaches us to be lazy. Think about it before school. Did you have a problem with laziness? Not really you didn't procrastinate on anything. You just did what you wanted to do. Okay now school teaches us to be lazy in that it it ties in work or objectives or goals with self-discipline and Discomfort or pain or misery? Okay, that's the association that we get through our education Now the if you want to learn a lot more about this There's a few things you can do one of the the best books that I've ever read on this is by dr. Neo theory. It's called a now habit Fantastic book. I've also written a book you can get it on my website and it's completely free you can just download the PDF and And That is geared more towards people who are in college or university because that's where some of the biggest problems with procrastination are experienced by people Something else you can do is I've actually made a complete video course Outlying exactly why you have this problem in your life and the simple Easy achievable way to put it behind you because it is as I said very very easy to do School teaches us that work isn't supposed to be fun and It also teaches us things like school, you know work is Only your best is good enough you're going for an a well if you don't get any you get a b And that's really subpar. Okay. That's another subtle message. We get from education Another way we procrastinate we have this aim for perfection Okay, so we put off doing a thing because we know that a huge amount of effort is going to be needed in order to Finish it or do it the way it should be done The way we should be thinking about it is I just do it I do it badly and then at least it's finished now. I can improve on that from there But this thing of searching for perfection is learned. We don't have that one with kids We just have a we do things we make horrible mistakes and then we do it again That's the way we're naturally supposed to approach goals and personal productivity now, but the biggest thing by far and all of this is phone the pure tannical approach to personal productivity that if you're not struggling if it's not hard work If it's if you're not pushing yourself to your absolute limits all the time Then somehow you're not doing enough That is a recipe for laziness because if you will proactively So consciously maybe rebel against that sweet new fiora does in his book and I do my online course is that out loud outline ways that you can actually start to implement and Bring in more fun and relaxation into your life it is Transformative when you realize that work doesn't come after fun Or sorry fun doesn't come after work work and phone are Far more balanced than that. In fact, you actually get the perception that Phone is my top priority. I cannot Put fun off. I can't keep procrastinating about fun When we schedule proactively phone into our life Relaxation whatever it is I need Embracing as I've called in other videos embracing our inner slob sometimes just watching a movie or doing whatever it is We actually really want to do but proactively consciously and deliberately Planning it and not allowing ourselves to procrastinate on that thing Then we move away from the passive procrastination, which is really procrastination as we come to know it and experience it It's this passively procrastinating doing things. I you know on paper, which are enjoyable But really when I'm doing them, I'm not enjoying them because I'm beating myself up for not being proactive and Productive doing something that I should need to do what should do so It's about reversing our priorities Do not let another day go by in your life without setting aside something to look forward to Something that you really want to do and then you enjoy doing and then having windows of opportunity in your day other periods When yeah, I can work there if I want to but I'm not going to sacrifice my phone for that, you know you can see the The entire different approach to thinking about personal productivity Personal productivity is not about struggle. It's not supposed to be hard. In fact, it's supposed to be ridiculously easy That's how you become consistent. That's how you become relaxed and you enjoy Whatever it is you're doing and you actually achieve what you're going to do so Couple of resources new furious book my free book on my website and my video course as well I highly recommend them Laziness is a myth It was actually Learned when you were in school Now you're an adult. Hopefully you watching this maybe you're in school still But you don't have to keep those lessons the puritanical old school. No pain no gain is Self-destructive it doesn't work leads to burnout needs to resentment Life is not supposed to be like that guys Life is supposed to be enjoyable and we're supposed to enjoy our goals. We're supposed to enjoy it and it's supposed to feel Easy, you know, it's a little challenge it brings us to the edge of our discomfort, but in an enjoyable way and never with the Condition that if I don't do it, I can't have fun in my life one comes first so bear the mind guys, I hope that helps and if you'd like more of these videos I Talk about personal productivity self-development spiritual awareness really and Because it's all the same thing. It's all about learning to be more compassionate to ourselves and Treating ourselves the way we would treat a really good friend So if you do like these videos consider subscribing to this channel. It helps me a lot you can hit the notifications button do all those things that youtubers tell you to do and Thanks for watching and I'll see you again in the next video. Take care for now. Bye