Defeating Procrastination & Finding Your Million-Dollar Why | Rob Dial EP 929

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0:45Get your tickets. I can't wait to see you there. Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

1:00What do you think causes people to stay in procrastination mode for long periods of time? What is that reason they stay in procrastination? Yeah. So when I look at procrastinating, I remember I was talking with one of my salespeople and we were talking about this lady and he's like, well, I was like, so what was her problem when you had the sales call? And the problem, he said, was she procrastinates too much. and i said that's not the problem and what's the problem and he's like what do you mean and i was like the problem is not procrastination the problem is a symptom of a cause it's and so it's like it's it's like for instance it's the downstream effect of something else procrastination is is always almost always the downstream effect of identity or fear and that's really what it comes down to is the reason why you're procrastinating is because you either don't think that you can do it or you're procrastinating because you're afraid of something else that's coming in the future.

1:51If I were to be able to like, if we had a light switch on the side, like a little switch on the side of our head and we could turn off like our amygdala of like the thing that creates fears in our brain and we're just say, okay, I have no fear. I can just take action. Everybody would have the life that they want to. They wouldn't be, nobody would procrastinate. Right. And so it really comes down to that. That's the first thing is, is the fears and identity. And the other thing is the reason why somebody is doing something. And so like one of my things when I used to give a lot of talks, I used to love doing this, is I would say, you know, you go into a company and everyone makes like 40, 50, 75 ,000 hours a year, a hundred thousand hours a year.

2:25And I would sit in front of people and I would say, everybody here, what is the percent? This is very drastic. I know everybody who's listening, but this is very drastic for you to be able to hear. Right. I would say, Hey, what's the percentage chance of you making a million dollars in the next 12 months? And everyone would be like 0%, 0%. I would say, I would say legally too. Right, right, right. A million dollars legally, like not go sell drugs, but a million dollars legally in the next 12 months. And people would be like 0%, 0%, 1%, 2%. There'd always be like one person who really believes himself.

2:51They're like 5%. And I said, okay, let me change it up just a little bit. What's the percentage chance of you making a million dollars this year? And if you don't, everyone that you love dies. Everybody goes a thousand percent, a hundred percent, a hundred percent, a hundred percent. And I said, hold on then. The timeframe didn't change. The goal didn't change. What changed is that you actually care. You actually have a why behind it. And I would say, would you ever, if your children's life, if your wife's life, your mother's life depended on it, would you procrastinate? No, you wouldn't. You would just do what needs to be done because the fear of losing them is greater than the fear of being judged or the fear of failure.

3:33And so I think that procrastination is never the problem. it's always the downstream effect of something else which is either they don't have a why that's strong enough their identity is holding them back from thinking they can't be a person that can achieve it or they have too many fears that are just holding them back from taking it i think you got to have the why that's strong enough is the is the main thing because you know whether it's a million dollars or a hundred thousand or whatever the number is you know do you first off do you want that thing bad enough and why do you want it if it's the million dollars as the example why do you need that and why can't you be happy with where you're at or you know whatever it might be and do you need that to impress people or is it because you have a greater purpose you want to use that money for right because you want to build a company you want to empower people you want to donate it so you have to understand why you want something and be clear that it's not just serving ego but it's serving something greater than you i think that's when the river opens up yep and it widens and all the boulders go away when you say i want this thing for me but also so I can serve or empower others.

4:32For sure. Then it's like the Mississippi, you know, it's like, it's wide. This is the biggest river there is. And, um, but when it's only for you, I feel like later down the line, you're going to hit a dam. Of course you are. You might attract what you want, but then eventually get blocked up because it's all about you as opposed to about others, including you. And you can, you can make money when it's all about you. Yes. Many people do it. Doesn't mean you're gonna be happy. Right. That's usually the problem, right? Because you get to a point, I mean, how many, this is what I really think about all the time is that how many successful people, and it's so sad, get to being ridiculously successful and then commit suicide?

5:08Like there's many that have done it. And so, you know, there could be mental health issues to that. But I think a lot of them think when I get to the top of the mountain, then I'll finally be happy. But it's always about like, it's not the top of the mountain. It's not the destination that's going to make you happy. It's about finding your happiness in the journey to get you to where you want to be. And if someone's like, I want to make money for me, you can definitely do it. There's definitely people in this world that do that. But what I found that was really surprising to me is that some of the most successful people I know are the most giving people I know.

5:37And it's almost as if God of the universe has been like, hey, I trust you because I've seen that you're a good steward of this money. You're a good steward of what I've been giving to you. I'm gonna give you more of it.

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