How I Overcame My Procrastination Addiction
Summary
TLDRThe video discusses the detrimental impact of procrastination and shares personal strategies to overcome it. The speaker, once a chronic procrastinator, transformed by using failures as motivation, boosting self-confidence, and focusing on critical tasks. Drawing inspiration from successful figures, they emphasize the importance of mindset and systematic approaches. The video highlights how procrastination can severely affect mental and physical health and offers additional resources to help viewers tackle procrastination effectively.
Takeaways
- đ Procrastination is a common issue, with 95% of people admitting to it.
- đ Procrastination often leads to last-minute efforts and stress, as seen with assignments and deadlines.
- đšâđ The speaker struggled with procrastination throughout his school years, leading to poor grades and missed opportunities.
- đ Failures can be used as motivation to overcome procrastination, as the speaker did after being rejected by multiple universities.
- đ Improving self-confidence and self-esteem is crucial in combating procrastination.
- đĄ Surrounding oneself with inspirational figures and their content can boost self-belief and motivation.
- â° Prioritizing tasks and following the 'law of forced efficiency' helps manage time and focus on important tasks.
- đ Using a weekly schedule with a few critical tasks each day is more effective than an overwhelming daily to-do list.
- đ Procrastination, like unhealthy eating habits, can have long-term negative effects on mental and physical health.
- đ A significant majority of students (76%) identify procrastination as their biggest obstacle, highlighting its widespread impact.
Q & A
What is considered the single biggest threat to living an extraordinary life according to the transcript?
-Procrastination is considered the single biggest threat to living an extraordinary life.
What percentage of people admit to procrastinating according to the author of 'The Procrastination Equation'?
-About 95% of people admit to procrastinating, as stated by Piers Steel, the author of 'The Procrastination Equation'.
What was the speaker's personal struggle with procrastination?
-The speaker struggled with procrastination throughout their life, starting from a young age and continuing until they were about 20 years old, which affected their focus and academic performance.
What event in the speaker's life served as a turning point to overcome procrastination?
-The turning point for the speaker was the rejection from four out of five universities they applied to, which led to a deep sense of disappointment and depression.
What is the first strategy the speaker suggests to overcome procrastination?
-The first strategy is to use your failures as rocket fuel, turning setbacks into motivation to take action and avoid future disappointment.
How does the speaker define the relationship between self-confidence and procrastination?
-The speaker suggests that the lower one's self-confidence, the lower their motivation is likely to be, making them more prone to procrastination.
What actions did the speaker take to boost their self-confidence and self-esteem?
-The speaker surrounded themselves with greatness by reading books, listening to interviews, and watching documentaries of successful people to gradually increase their self-belief.
What is the 'Law of Forced Efficiency' as mentioned in the script?
-The 'Law of Forced Efficiency' states that there is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.
How does the speaker's weekly schedule differ from a traditional daily to-do list?
-Instead of a long daily to-do list, the speaker uses a weekly schedule focusing on the most important tasks, which can range from one to four tasks a day.
What are the potential negative effects of chronic procrastination on mental and physical health?
-Chronic procrastination can lead to chronic stress, psychological distress, low life satisfaction, symptoms of depression and anxiety, poor health behaviors, chronic illness, and even hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
What additional resources did the speaker create to help others overcome procrastination?
-The speaker created two videos titled 'How I Beat Procrastination - The Easy Way' and 'Stop Wasting Time on YouTube' to provide more strategies and address the issue of procrastination.
Outlines
đ Overcoming Procrastination: A Personal Journey
The speaker shares their personal struggle with procrastination, which they describe as the most significant barrier to an extraordinary life. They discuss the prevalence of procrastination, with 95% of people admitting to it, and recount their own experiences with it from a young age until the age of 20. The speaker then explains how a pivotal moment of university rejection led to a realization and a commitment to change. They highlight the importance of using failures as motivation and discuss the role of self-confidence and self-esteem in combating procrastination, referencing the work of author Pierce Steele. The speaker's strategy involved surrounding themselves with inspirational figures to boost their self-belief, which in turn helped them to overcome procrastination and achieve better results in both academics and personal projects.
đȘ Implementing Strategies to Boost Productivity and Self-Confidence
In this paragraph, the speaker delves into the strategies they implemented to overcome procrastination. They emphasize the importance of taking action, which led to the creation of a YouTube channel aimed at helping others in similar situations. The speaker also discusses the concept of the 'Law of Forced Efficiency,' advocating for focusing on the most important tasks rather than trying to do everything. They suggest a weekly schedule with a limited number of critical tasks to maintain productivity without becoming overwhelmed. The speaker further illustrates the destructive nature of chronic procrastination with an analogy to unhealthy eating habits, like eating junk food regularly, which can lead to severe health issues. They conclude by addressing the audience directly, acknowledging the common struggle with procrastination and offering additional resources in the form of videos to assist in overcoming this challenge.
Mindmap
Keywords
đĄProcrastination
đĄMotivation
đĄSelf-confidence
đĄFailure
đĄStrategies
đĄLaw of Forced Efficiency
đĄProductivity
đĄRole Models
đĄChronic Procrastination
đĄSelf-fulfilling Prophecy
Highlights
Procrastination is identified as a major barrier to living an extraordinary life.
According to Pierce Steele, 95% of people admit to procrastinating.
The speaker shares a personal journey of being a chronic procrastinator until age 20.
Implementing daily strategies for a year helped the speaker overcome procrastination.
Using failures as motivation is highlighted as a powerful way to combat procrastination.
A major setback in university applications fueled the speaker's determination to avoid disappointment.
Boosting self-confidence and self-esteem is crucial in overcoming procrastination.
The speaker surrounded themselves with inspiring figures like Warren Buffett and Michael Jordan.
Gradually increasing self-belief led to improved grades, better health, and successful ventures.
The law of forced efficiency: thereâs always enough time to do the most important thing.
A weekly schedule with a few critical tasks each day is more effective than a long daily to-do list.
Overwhelm from too many tasks can lead to increased procrastination.
Procrastination, like junk food, can have significant negative impacts if it becomes habitual.
Chronic procrastination is linked to mental and physical health issues such as stress, depression, and heart disease.
A community poll revealed that 76% of students view procrastination as their biggest obstacle.
Transcripts
procrastination the single biggest
threat to living an extraordinary life
the action of delaying or postponing
something in fact according to pierce
steele author of the procrastination
equation about 95 of people admit to
procrastinating and i reckon the other
five percent are lying you see it's
something that virtually all of us
suffer from when you know you have to
write an assignment but you turn on
netflix instead and you repeatedly keep
putting it off until the night before
it's due and it's only then with the
deadline looming the next day you muster
up just enough motivation to start
writing and this was pretty much my
entire life from as young as i can
remember up until i was about 20 years
old i was the world's worst
procrastinator every time i needed to
sit down to study there was just a
hundred other things that i'd rather be
doing and if i got so far as to sit down
at my desk and open up my textbooks i
usually just couldn't focus for any more
than 15 minutes at a time however about
seven years ago i finally overcame my
procrastination problem i implemented a
handful of strategies that
systematically every single day for
about a year chipped away at my
procrastination and i went from getting
degraded at school to getting a grade
simply because i taught myself how to
strategically overcome procrastination
and so those systematic strategies that
i implemented had such a powerful effect
on me i'm gonna go through them step by
step very shortly but first i think it's
really important to understand why
procrastination is so destructive
because for me most of my life
procrastination was a problem but i
didn't really see it as a problem
therefore i didn't really do anything to
fix it so as a direct result of my
procrastination i achieved pretty
average grades and that's been generous
but so what right the very definition of
average means that most other students
were getting roughly the same grades as
me so it wasn't really a problem until
it was you see i completed my final
exams at high school and so i applied to
five universities a couple of weeks
later i received a letter in the post
with the decision of those five
universities but four out of five of
them rejected me and the university that
did accept me honestly i just used them
to fill up the fifth slot because we had
to apply for at least five and right
there it hit me like a ton of bricks
just an overwhelming feeling of
disappointment and depression suddenly i
realized that my last nine years of
studying had come down to this to
rejection and that leads me onto my
first and in my opinion the most
powerful way to overcome procrastination
use your failures as rocket fuel i
didn't realize that this at the time but
that sinking feeling in my stomach from
opening my university decision letter in
the few months after that of really not
knowing what to do with my life it was
all a blessing i felt incredibly
defeated i guess so i used that feeling
to muster up enough motivation to never
allow myself to fall into that situation
again i made a conscious decision to
start taking massive action in my life
to avoid living a life of disappointment
so that one setback that one failure it
generated so much motivation within me
that i started this very youtube channel
about four and a half years ago i just
wanted to help as many other people in
the same situation as me and so that's
when i created my first ever youtube
video titled don't even think about
procrastinating it took me three weeks
to edit that three minute video because
i'd never done any kind of video editing
before and it's weird to think that if i
didn't have that one setback this
youtube channel probably wouldn't have
been created so the second strategy that
i implemented to overcome my
procrastination addiction was that i
took concrete steps to boost my
self-confidence and self-esteem and i
didn't really understand this before but
our beliefs and what we think about
ourselves are a huge determining factor
on how prone we are to procrastination
and pierce steele author of the
procrastination equation explains it
perfectly he wrote beliefs are powerful
because they form or directly affect
expectancy as you become less optimistic
or less confident in your ability to
achieve your motivation also ebbs the
more uncertain you are of success the
harder it is to keep focused so the
lower your self-confidence the lower
your motivation is likely to be
therefore the more you'll be prone to
procrastination and that's exactly what
i experienced for most of my life i had
a huge procrastination problem because i
didn't believe i was capable of really
achieving anything worthwhile so what
was the point what's the point on
studying for a grades if i didn't
believe i was even capable of achieving
them right it would be a waste of time
or at least that's where my mindset was
at the time poor self-perception then
becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy by
expecting to fail we make failure a
certainty because we never dig in and
make an intensive effort so what i did
to counteract that was i surrounded
myself with greatness the people that
inspired me the all-time great warren
buffett will smith michael jordan the
kind of legends in their industry i
started to read their books i started to
listen to their interviews to watch
documentaries i would consume as much
content as i possibly could from the
greatest people on the planet and over
the period of several months my own
self-belief started to rise gradually
because i thought if those people can
achieve phenomenal worldwide success
then surely i can get an a on my next
exam right or i can edit this short
three-minute video for youtube or i can
start going to the gym and get a little
bit healthier and so i just started
doing stuff and i put myself out there
and i did things that i wouldn't have
even dreamed of just a few months
earlier but it was paying off my grades
started to increase people began to
watch my youtube videos i slowly became
stronger and fitter and all these
successes just kept on fueling my
motivation and there was a very strong
negative correlation between my
motivation and procrastination so as my
motivation increased my procrastination
decreased to the point where i could go
throughout my entire day without
procrastinating at all there is one
thing though that i learned very quickly
and that was that i needed to obey the
law of forced efficiency the law of fast
efficiency states that there is never
enough time to do everything but there's
always enough time to do the most
important thing and this is incredibly
important to understand when it comes to
procrastination so one of the most
powerful strategies that i've
implemented this year when it comes to
being productive is that instead of
having a massive long daily to-do list i
just have a weekly schedule with the
most important task anywhere from one
task a day to four tasks a day so
whatever happens that day as long as i
complete those tasks then it's been a
pretty good day because i think the
average person today is just far too
busy where they're overwhelming
themselves with tasks that just aren't
that important and the job
responsibilities just keep piling up the
ideal scenario of getting caught up on
your projects is just not realistic a
more achievable goal is to stay on top
of your most critical tasks because the
busier you get the more overwhelmed you
become and the easier procrastination
can then creep in because
procrastination is a very kind of slow
moving enemy and an analogy that i think
really illustrates the destructive
nature of procrastination is eating junk
food so if you go to mcdonald's and buy
a big mac and fries once every month
it's probably not going to cause much
damage it's not particularly healthy but
once a month there's no significant
damage to your health however if you go
to mcdonald's once a week every week
okay that's when the health concerns
might start to begin but then you become
truly addicted and you start eating at
mcdonald's four days a week for the
duration of your lifetime then the
health risks really start to rack up so
you're now at significant risk of
obesity of cancer suffering heart
disease strokes diabetes depression all
of these illnesses that can
significantly decrease the quality of
your life in the same way if you
procrastinate every now and then then
it's probably not going to be a problem
but if your procrastination becomes a
habitual addiction like it was with me
then you can easily find yourself
incredibly unhappy as charlotte liberman
wrote in the new york times over time
chronic procrastination has not only
productivity costs but measurably
destructive effects on our mental and
physical health including chronic stress
general psychological distress and low
life satisfaction symptoms of depression
and anxiety poor health behaviors
chronic illness and even hypertension
and cardiovascular disease so a couple
of months ago i created a poll in the
community tab section of this channel
asking what is the biggest obstacle you
face as a student and a staggering 76
percent of you said that procrastination
was your biggest obstacle and i can say
pretty confidently that virtually every
single person watching this video right
now is struggling in some form or
another with procrastination so to help
you out i made two videos for you the
first one how i beat procrastination the
easy way where i go through a few more
strategies that implemented to overcome
procrastination that i haven't mentioned
in this video and if you're
procrastinating right now by watching
this then you should check out my video
called stop wasting time on youtube so
whichever video you choose i'll see you
over there
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