Overcome Inaction by Focusing on the Payoff, Not the Effort

I just watched the video that changed the way I think,

so I'm gonna share it for

myself and other people because I know it's gonna be helpful.

But I watched this video of Jay Clemens, I'll like put the picture right here, and

essentially he said that thinking about the effort

and hard work required to

do a task instead of thinking about the payoff is what keeps us stuck in

inaction and laziness.

I'll say it again. Thinking about the effort instead of the

payoff is

what's keeping us stuck. And so to give an example,

instead of thinking about the

delicious meal that you could be eating, you're thinking about the work required to

get up and go to the kitchen, cook the meal,

or go out to the restaurant and order

and come back home. And so we end up not doing anything at

all.

We're over-weighting the costs and we're under-weighting the benefits,

and it's

keeping us at this lower level of potential.

And oftentimes when we do the task, we realize that the benefits

are better than

the cost. They outweigh the cost. And not only that, the benefits

are often better

than we had ever imagined the benefits to be.

Like when I started posting, the only tangible result

that I had imagined out of

this was getting maybe one thousand followers and enough money to buy DaVinci

Resolve Pro. What ended up happening is I have eighty thousand Instagram

followers.

I have a giant community around

me that supports me and sends me such amazing

messages every day, and I have friends

that support me in my wins.

They don't sabotage me. They don't make me feel small, and

I feel so truly lucky to be alive, which makes me

realize I've literally

shifted realities with this one decision to post.

Stop looking at these things like they're obligations and punishments and start

looking at them as opportunities to catapult yourself into your dream life.

You need to understand that because I will not have you stay

stuck.

If you are thinking about trying something

but you're like, "Oh God, it's gonna be

so much work, I don't even

know if it's worth it," it's worth it.

It's worth it and if you're in a task right

now and you're like, "This is really

difficult and I don't know if I can keep doing this," I promise you

that there is a

light at the tunnel and the light is gonna be like not even just like,

I don't

know, like a flashlight. It's gonna be like a humongous ball of

sun that makes you realize that discipline is a small

price to pay for your dream.

Anyways, I hope you guys have a nice day

and I'll see you tomorrow.