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(had to split this into 2 parts)

PART 1

So you're struggling with taking forever to make decisions, and then probably second guessing yourself whenever you do make a choice.

Boy have I been there. My family used to want to murder me for how long I would take to pick a movie to rent at Blockbuster when I was a kid.

And I carried that trait with me for a long time. I was the kind of person who would read EVERY Amazon review of every thing I wanted to buy and then cross reference ten different websites just trying to pick out a freaking rice cooker.

Another thing you mentioned is how you kick yourself for not spending your free time working on your passion projects but then when that time comes, you just waste it away on video games, Netflix, Youtube, Reddit, etc.

Been there too! Love it! Hate it! Hate myself! Love the shows!

So what can you do?

I'm going to throw a lot of information at you at once here. What I want you to do is take each section and work on it for 2 weeks before moving onto the next one. TRUST ME. Taking thing slow is so much better than trying to fix everything at once. Imagine if you had just written 1 page a day for the past year. You'd have a damn book. But are you going to stop what you're doing right now and write 1 page? No. Why not? Because you haven't created that habit yet. You're thinking "big fucking deal, one page. One page gets me nowhere". TRUE. But one page a day 365 days in a row gets you Harry Potter.

(insert image of that guy tapping his head with that "Uh huh, ain't I smart" face)

So remember, take this slow. Work on each thing for 2 weeks before moving on.

FIRST, the set up. Go to Amazon and invest in this $15 dry erase board. Got a little extra money? Then buy a 4 foot by 3 foot board. It'll make things easier. (But if you're not buying the one I'm linking to then you only have 5 minutes to find a board and buy it. Start a timer now)

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This board is going to be your tracking system. You're gonna draw a calendar on there and you'll number the days (starting with today or whenever you get the board) and you're going to start making a check on the days when you complete your habit. At the end of each 14 day challenge you'll just write down how many out of 14 you got.

Each cycle (2 weeks) you'll try to do better and better. So if the first cycle you get 4 out of 14 checks, next cycle try to get 8 out of 14 (Here's a little secret, you'll probably be hitting 14 out of 14 by the end of the month.)

Simple as that. Now lets begin with the tasks. I'm just gonna target each thing you mentioned in your comment. Feel free to take what I saw and cater it to your needs because you know you better than I do.

PART 1: STOP AGONIZING OVER DECISIONS: Ever hear of analysis paralysis? Google that shit. You got it. Choices suck. We have way too many choices in our world today. It fucking wrecks us. Too many mates to choose from, too many apples to choose, too many movies, too many shoes, too many shampoos!

Here is what is going on in your head: You are afraid of making a bad choice and then regretting it. Okay, that's a fair thing to be afraid of. BUUUUUUT you have made a critical error in your logic. How many choices a day are you making that are going to TOTALLY ruin your life if you make the wrong choice. Not very many. Those kinds of choices don't come along very often, pretty much never (unless you decide to drive a motorcycle through a corn field backwards while naked with a pound of C4 strapped to your head and a bottle of prune juice in your stomach).

But you're treating all of these decisions in your life like they're important. How many of these tough decisions that you've had to make in the past year do you even remember? Probably not very many.

So what can you do?

First, understand this. And I mean REALLY understand it. Most of your choices don't really matter. Maybe you go to this restaurant, maybe you go to that one. Doesn't really matter does it. Maybe you get these shoes, maybe you get these. Who cares. Maybe you go to this party, maybe you go to that party. Stop wasting your time WORRYING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF YOUR CHOICE and just make the choice. Literally set a timer on your phone for like 2 minutes and make a choice by then.

Trust your gut. Your intestines have neurons in them just like your brain and so your gut actually does a little bit of thinking (no joke, its' weird) and so when people say "go with your gut" that's not just a saying. Your instincts are a lot better than you think.

Just practice for a few weeks making fast choices. BOOM! Just do it. Bam! Do it and no turning back. I recently went through this when I was deciding on a pair of boots to buy. Did I want to buy these or these? These have this kind of leather but these have this. These have this color but this one has this. Will this look good with jeans? Can I wear these at a party? WHO GIVES A FUCK. They're boots. Buy the fucking boots and wear them and if you don't like them then buy another pair. Fuck all the wasting time thinking about it.

SO HERE'S YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Every day I want you to practice making a fast decision and then just going with it. Don't think about what could have been. Just go with it. A good way to practice is by deciding what you're going to eat for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Just make a fast choice.

If you happen to get to a tougher decision, pull out your phone and set a time for 2 minutes. Make your choice by then and then decide to live with it for the rest of your life.

Do this for 2 weeks.



TWO WEEKS LATER


Okay, onto number two.

PART 2 - You mention wanting to get shit done but then not getting shit done and playing video games, but then feeling guilty for playing the video games.

What is happening here is a tale as old as time. You know it as well as I do. SO I'm just gonna get to how to fix it.

It's all about scheduling. You have to schedule when you're going to work and when you're going to play. And then work when it's time to work and play when it's time to play.

Do you know how fucking great it feels to have time scheduled to do whatever the hell you want with absolutely no guilt? Because you know that you've done what you needed to do and now is LITERAL TIME TO PLAY.

It's fantastic.

So how do you do it?

Just start blocking on 1 hour a day to do the thing you want to do (writing, programming, dancing, whatever it is). Then block out 1 hour a day to play. Easy as that.

Get your shit done first (in the morning if you can) and then schedule 1 hour later to do WHATEVER YOU WANT. But make sure that during that 1 hour you don't let any thoughts of guilt or anything creep in.

Do this for two weeks. Write down on a sheet of paper a weekly schedule but only schedule those 2 hours. The rest are for whatever. BUT KEEP THOSE 2 HOURS SACRED AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT (in the advance course you would eventually get to a point where you're doing 4 hours a day of your deep career work and then the rest of the day you can schedule whatever the hell you want. Your brain can really only SUPER FOCUS for about 4 good hours. After that it's kinda frazzled so you might as well let it rest and absorb fun and games and movies and books and sexy people)


TWO WEEKS LATER

Part 3: Write!

Now we're gonna have some fun. This one is super simple. For the next two weeks this will be your morning routine. You'll wake up, get out of bed, pee, brush your teeth, sit down at a table and drink some water/coffee. And then you'll set a timer and you will write by hand for 10 minutes. That's it! That's all you gotta do! BUT the thing is, you have to write non stop. DO NOT STOP WRITING. Do it for ten minutes. What are you gonna write about? Whatever the fuck you want. The goal here isn't to write anything good, the goal here is just to write and to get your brain unblocked and flowing onto the page. Watch this, I'm about to do 60 seconds of writing like how I would do in the morning. Setting my timer....aaaaand go:

Oaky so I'm writing. I'm sitting here at my desk and I'm about to go home but I"m gonna go by the store on the way home and get some more eggs and so asparagus and I'm gonna make some more of those egg muffin things. I hope the new muffin tray came in from amazon today. I fucked that last one up. lesson learned. man i hope that annilaliton is still playing at the arc light. really need too let hat in theaters. That shit looks like good. Well, i haven't actually seen what it looks like but i hear it's amazing. love alex garland

and that's it. See all the typos? Yup, no going back to fix shit. Just write.

(If you want to get advanced, this technique is from the book "The Artists Way" and it's fucking genius. Your life is going to change, no joke. This is a good way to start a journal b/c you can just kind of free write about what you did yesterday and what you'll do today)

DO THIS FOR 2 WEEKS