You're stuck.

You tell yourself you don't want to do anything but deep down—you know that's a lie.

Maybe you'd rather lie down in bed all day—scroll endlessly and chase quick pleasure and that's exactly the problem.

Most people choose comfort over suffering. We often want to avoid what's hard and we don't like anything that makes us uncomfortable.

I know because I'm guilty of this as well.

Even though I write here everyday and get things done—I still contemplate whether I want to do it or not.

That's the way our mind works.

The negative cycle that keeps dragging you down. Every time your mind screams to pick pleasure over effort—you train your mind to become comfortable in comfort. This means when you go against your brain—it's hard to do so because it's been so used to not going against it.

• "This won't work"

• "I have to find out the best way first"

• "I need big results or this doesn't work"

This is your 3 year old brain talking. This untrained mindset also chained me for years.

It keeps feeding you excuses—keeping you small and untrained.

I work around 6-8 hours a day alone for my online business.

I write for around 1-2 hours for my newsletter. 3 hours for promoting my newsletter as well as writing reddit posts. Making images, templates etc..

I write for 1 hour for a client plus some time for management. I have my creativity time block where I enhance and dissect my ideas for my newsletter.

Anyways you get the point. I have to deal with a lot of stuff that sooner or later will make me burn out.

But how do I avoid that? I get daily screaming from my brain not doing the work.

Typing for 3-4 hours a day hurts my hands lol. My nerves are sometimes bulging—I'll get abs in my hands if I keep this up.

But 2 years ago I was far from being this disciplined.

I used to scroll for hours in Facebook—I'd watch anime, cartoons and a lot of other things.

I especially liked anime's that had a nice art style. Like Jojo's bizarre adventure and Dr. Stone.

When I was in that state—my brain told me it was too hard to change—that I'd fail anyway. Well I had enough.

I've been spending my time playing video games and anime all day but I was the worst both mentally and physically.

Tricking my brain wasn't easy. It was close to delusion and hope that wasn't real.

I stopped whining about how tough life was and decided to treat my brain like a toddler.

I set a goal that was worth suffering for—lose 20 kg. I was overweight so I didn't like the way my body looked and feel. I had enough of how bad I felt.

If you don't know what it's like to be overweight and being bullied by how fat you are—it's hell.

2 years later I've been the most healthiest I am. I know you don't know who I am nor I show my face—but I don't lie when it comes to my results.

I even broke my ankle from jogging to much because I wanted to lose weight fast.

Am I bragging? - Yes

And am I motivating you to do the same? - Yes

How did I attained such discipline over my mind? It was simple.

2 Mindset Mistakes Most People Are Unaware Of

1) Personal Bias.

Whether you admit this or not—you are susceptible to bias. A lot of people hate being told the truth—they dislike feeling bad.

The same goes for you—if you want to overcome this mentality and get your mind to follow hard stuff—you must listen to other people who've done it before.

You thinking and asking if this is going to work or this won't work—"who does he think he is" will hold you back.

Too many people believe they know everything, because of that they don't learn.

They stay stuck—the same mindset and actions till they die.

I don't want that for you. The way you take advice and work on it—is the make or break factor.

It's the same reason why many dumb people think they're smart.

Every time you reject an idea and think it's worthless to try—you rob yourself of future potential growth. You cannot think methods created by other people is useless.

You have to at least try for 2 weeks to see if it works or not.

2) Pleasure Seeking Attitude

No matter how much you reject it—you are wired to seek instant gratification. The reason why so many people are plague with laziness and procrastination - is because our brain likes easy stuff.

The way your brain craves dopamine is to seek the fastest way to pleasure—whether it may be games, addictions, doom scrolling or anything that makes your brain stimulated.

Dopamine spikes when you have a thought of doing instant pleasure.

That's why—when you're working hard or need to focus and suddenly you have thoughts of wanting to scroll—the urge gets stronger because dopamine is rising.

Expectation is what makes you crave instant gratification. Your mind becomes convinced it'll become more happier when you do pleasurable activities even though it will hurt you as the damage adds up.

Hard tasks require effort and time—so your lizard brain wants to avoid all those suffering and favors the short term pleasure first.

You have to be aware of this mindset because it's coded in your brain. You won't be able to take this away and it's always there.

The key is control and management.

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4 Steps To Force Your Brain To Shut Up and Take Action

1) Regulate Your Negative Emotions

We are humans and life is stressful.

Without management of negative emotions you will keep struggling to maintain your balance and sanity.

If you can remember the times where you acted out and didn't do what you meant to say or do—that was because you hit your limit.

You see everyone has a limited stress tolerance. When you hit the limit you will burst out and hurt the people around you.

That's why you need personal hobbies and habits that allows you to destress.

When you lower your stress—you lower cortisol which is the culprit to making your self-decision making skills dull and rusty.

The benefits of managing your negative emotions

• Lowers Stress Hormone Levels- Cortisol undermines your memory making you lose self-control and value judgement. Do practices like deep breathing and mindfulness to make sure your mind doesn't become too negative. And then proceed to reframe negative experiences as a learning lesson instead of a setback. Because cortisol spikes up more when you focus on the negative—being calm allows you to think clearly and make better decisions.

• Prevents Ego-Depletion- Struggling with intense negative emotions destroys your finite self-control “budget.” By naming and reframing emotions early like “I’m nervous” → “I’m energized" , you reduce the ongoing internal battle, saving your will power for hard things instead.

• Reduces Avoidance and Procrastination- Procrastination often comes from pressure. The more you experience anxiety and doubt the more your brain will shift to indulging in easy distractions. To avoid this you need to start small. Like the 2 minute rule in Atomic Habits—you don't need to actually go and do the hard stuff right here and now. Expecting yourself to do the hard stuff at once—is what's causing you problems. Instead—find a way to start and let the momentum keep you going. You are more 5x more likely to finish something when you start.

2) Treat Your Brain Like Toddler

This one sounds silly but if you're undisciplined and have never made any significant progress in life—this is for you.

Listen—when your brain whines—it whines like a toddler. It cries when it doesn't get something it wants—and tumbles around like an annoying prick.

Well babies are cute don't get me wrong.

But when your brain whines it's not cute. You get the point. Fighting over your brain is pointless.

It keeps getting worse as if you're brain is someone else entirely. It drags you to deeper depths of problems and hell.

Remember the letter where I talked about depression>

It's all in stages.

And to fight your brain to do hard things—you got to treat it like a baby. Someone else entirely and not your identity.

I wanted to talk about ego and dissonance but none of you would understand right now. So I'll explain it in this way first.

Treating your brain like a toddler is simple. You know when babies make demands they don't know anything better right? You wouldn't give a knife to a toddler right? You wouldn't let them do something that will make them hurt themselves right?

Treat your brain like one. Every time it rejects a good idea that will lead to a better result—you will say "Silly baby, were doing this anyway''.

You will dismiss thoughts that aren't useful. This takes time and practice but with effort—you should be able to understand what I mean.

The key is to separate your mind from your thoughts. Give yourself a different identity that's not you. You should be able to differentiate yourself to your mind and to your actions.

Sure you own your mind but you cannot control it fully. It is folly to think the human brain can be tamed.

You can only manage and regulate. Even monks have a hard time when cravings come.

3) Two Minute Rule Commitment.

Well here's the most popular advice most people don't follow.

The reason I'm telling you to follow this rule is simple. To build exposure and momentum.

What carries a person far isn't only consistency and discipline—but momentum and results.

You see—you might not be motivated now but when you act on doing something—more motivation will come.

People mistake motivation comes first—no—motivation comes when you act. The more you act the more motivation will come. The motivation that comes will then serve as discipline. When motivation wears off the discipline you built will carry you—like second nature to your body.

When you've been practicing something for a long time with consistency—you will do it like it's natural.

Discipline works the same way. It's routine. When I have to take a rest even though it's not my rest day—I feel somethings wrong. I'm so used to working hard that resting feels alien to me.

Which is something I have to keep in mind. Because even if my hands hurt I still type every morning.

Well—heed this lesson:

This is how the discipline muscle is built. You start small, work your way up gradually and allow yourself to grow—no matter how small and little.

Action Step:

• Starting today you will regulate your negative emotions. You will find out the cause and understand the reason why those negative emotions persist the first place.

• Starting right now and here do one thing following the 2 minute rule. You don't have to do something grand—anything you can do by following the 2 minute rule.

• Take out a sticky note and write "Treat your brain like a toddler" and put it somewhere where you can easily see it—as a reminder than when your brain whines—you listen but you don't follow it.

I hope this letter was useful.

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