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How to Motivate Yourself When You Have No Drive
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- How do I deal with myself or how do you deal with yourself when you don't feel like doing anything?
- Um and so I I like to use this very extreme example of like if I wanted to motivate people to take off all their clothes, what I would do is I would lock the doors to where they were and then I'll continue to crank up the heat and I'll remove water.
- And when you do that, eventually people would disrobe because it's so hot, right?
- And so if you want to motivate yourself, you need to create the conditions where motivation uh happen, which means you have to make the right choice the easiest choice that uh of the choices available to you.
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0:00How do I deal with myself or how do you deal with yourself when you don't feel like doing anything? Like no drive to achieve anything. Can you teach somebody ambition? Um ambition is a very uh vague word, but I think what we're really going for is like can you create a condition that increases motivation? And I think the answer to that is absolutely. Um and so I I like to use this very extreme example of like if I wanted to motivate people to take off all their clothes, what I would do is I would lock the doors to where they were and then I'll continue to crank up the heat and I'll remove water. And when you do that, eventually people would disrobe because it's so hot, right? And so you just do that long enough and eventually you will motivate the behavior that you want. And so if you want to motivate yourself, you need to create the conditions where motivation uh happen, which means you have to make the right choice the easiest choice that uh of the choices available to you. And so um breaking that down is okay, are the people that I surround myself with people that are taking the actions that I want?
0:53Are the things that I have in my physical environment the things that are conducive uh to taking the actions that I want? Like if I have a Netflix subscription, if I know that um I have a tendency to watch that, then I will cancel that subscription, right? Um if I have apps on my phone that tend to distract me, I'll invest in, you know, one of the many products that make it more difficult to get an app that distracts, right? because if you like you it's not that you lack focus, it's that that you were focusing on the wrong things, because focus is always present. We are literally always focusing on something. It's just that you need to remove everything else besides the thing you need to do so that the only thing you have to do is the only thing you can do, right? Jerry Seinfeld was famous for um writing his jokes for 2 hours every single day and the way that he did it was that he has a room that has nothing in it and a desk and a yellow pad. And he gave himself the rule that he doesn't have to write, but he can't do anything else, right? And so if by removing distractions, if you're in a room with that's all white with nothing and a black dot, the most interesting thing in that room is the black dot. And so you need to make work the most interesting thing in your environment. And ideally surround yourself with people who are doing better than you, who reinforce work-related activity. If you like this video and you're a business owner who wants to break through your current revenue ceiling, I distilled every lesson from scaling 10 businesses past 10 million and three businesses past 100 million into a completely free scaling roadmap that I've used to go from zero to one, zero to 10, and zero to 100 plus. And so you can click here and you can check it out. Again, absolutely free. And since you're a business owner, I appreciate you and enjoy.