#95 Overcoming Procrastination for Enhanced Focus and Productivity

🔍 Unlock Your Potential: Overcoming Procrastination and Increasing Focus 🚀

Procrastination and lack of focus can hold you back from reaching your full potential. Whether it's work, school, or personal projects, these challenges can hinder your growth. Discover effective strategies and resources to conquer procrastination and sharpen your focus.

🔔 In this video, we'll cover:

🕒 Procrastination: Causes and Consequences

• Understand why we procrastinate and how it affects your productivity and well-being.
• Learn about proven solutions, including Time Management Techniques, Setting SMART Goals, and the power of Mindfulness and Meditation.

💡 Increasing Focus: Challenges and Benefits

• Explore the obstacles that disrupt your focus, from digital distractions to stress.
• Find out how to reclaim your concentration with Digital Detox and Time Blocking, Adequate Sleep and Nutrition, and the potential benefits of Cognitive Enhancements and Nootropics.

✅ Conclusion

• Discover how you can take control of your life by implementing these solutions and seeking support when needed.
• Boost your productivity, achieve your goals, and live a more fulfilling life.

Don't let procrastination and lack of focus hold you back any longer. Start your journey toward enhanced productivity and success. Watch the full video and take your first step towards a more focused and accomplished you! 🔥🚀 #Focus #Productivity #OvercomingProcrastination

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Bro yo, I kind of want to get some things done, but I have a difficulty. You procrastinating it could be is that where you Think about it and or don't think about it on purpose and don't do anything?

Speaker 3: 0:12

Yeah, yeah, procrastination is what we'll talk about today. It comes from different areas. Sometimes it's because you don't want to do the task Sure, you just hate it. Yeah, sometimes you fear failure. Yeah, definitely Unknown. Yeah, the unknown fear of confrontation, confrontation, yeah. Putting off that conversation, yep, with your co-worker, yeah, yeah so procrastination Usually isn't someone's just lazy, no, there's usually some underlying Peace, even if it's subconscious that's preventing avoid.

Speaker 1: 0:50

You're avoiding it yeah typically for a reason. Yeah, so if we understand that, put some practical things in play.

Speaker 3: 0:57

I.

Speaker 1: 0:59

Dig that we'll stop procrastinating, yeah. I think we should Stop procrastinating and finish the Centro. Let's do it, let's dig in again. Bro, I'm Jonathan Noel and I'm Brian.

Speaker 3: 1:30

Well, this is the focus cast where we help you remove distractions, increase focus To live a life with intentions.

Speaker 1: 1:37

Very nice, I know it is nice. I heard this quote, yeah, from a podcast, so now I'm gonna say it on our podcast. Sweet, what is it? The treasure you seek is in the cave you're afraid to go in. Yes it's time to quit procrastinating. That's right. Go in that Scary dark cave. Yes yes.

Speaker 3: 1:57

So procrastination is often rooted in various underlying causes fear of failure, lack of motivation or just pure poor time management skills. Obviously, that can lead to misdeadlines, increased stress and, you know, it just might be the one thing that's preventing you from accomplishing the next step towards your goal or dream, yeah, or desired life.

Speaker 1: 2:25

It's hard to have a life with the things you want without doing anything.

Speaker 3: 2:32

Yes, it's hard to have the things you want if you don't do the things you need because I can't materialize Things out of thin air.

Speaker 1: 2:43

Yeah, so it's not the matrix where we can plug in the code. You know, it's like we need guns, yeah, lots of guns, and the racks show up. That's a gun.

Speaker 3: 2:52

So procrastination is pretty interesting. It's psychological, it's physical, it's all these things right. Yeah, you know, sometimes procrastination is in the same vein as lazy, but I just disagree with that. I think there's Procrastination, like we said in the intro, is, I think, a lot of times conscious or just subconscious preventing, delaying Something that you don't want. You know, we talked about the imposter syndrome on one episode and you know, sometimes our fear of success Because we feel like an imposter leads us to procrastinate in delivery of certain things. Yeah, our fear of failure. If we do complete this, someone's gonna be there to tell us it's not good enough.

Speaker 3: 3:35

Yeah or we're not good enough.

Speaker 1: 3:37

Or it could be just you know, at the end of the day, you don't actually care about it. Yeah, you know someone. You're living out Maybe someone else's dream. Yes you know you're doing. You're doing what someone else wants you to do and not what you really want to do internally. Yeah so you just kind of look at.

Speaker 3: 3:56

I love that. That's a good point. So you found yourself living someone else's dream and you're just like why do I even exist?

Speaker 1: 4:03

I don't want to do. You might end up procrastinating. Yeah, if you did.

Speaker 3: 4:08

But then, even in those scenarios, it's like if you were told in life the only way you'll provide value is to be this one thing. Then you procrastinate Working towards being someone else because you're afraid you won't be accepted.

Speaker 1: 4:19

Just getting pretty, uh, psychological, yeah, pretty intense. So what is a solution?

Speaker 3: 4:28

So some practical tips, yeah.

Speaker 1: 4:30

What do we got? First one would be time management yeah. That makes sense yeah. Let's say, outside of not trying to force yourself to do something you hate, you actually want to do it, yes, but you're procrastinating. Yeah, maybe you can work on some time management. Effective time management is crucial for overcoming procrastination. Yeah, get that. It increases focus. You can utilize techniques like the palmadoro technique, which we did a whole episode on.

Speaker 3: 4:57

Yeah, the reason I love the palmadoro technique is it's kind of natural in our workflow but it's taking micro breaks.

Speaker 1: 5:04

Yes.

Speaker 3: 5:05

It's sprint working versus trying to marathon run until you're absolutely dead. Yeah, you know it's. It's really by, you know, taking those big tasks, breaking them down. Yeah. You know working for 30 minutes, taking a five minute break. 30 minutes, five minute break. Yeah, and then you get a little reset, get a little reset and re recharge and then go back into that, and so you're pacing yourself, right?

Speaker 1: 5:27

What about time blocking?

Speaker 3: 5:29

Yeah, time blocking is critical. I'm a big time blocker, so that just means like on my calendar, I have a four hour time block or a three hour time block on my calendar for the morning and the tasks that I need to complete if it's three or if it's 30, just depending on the size of the task I'll list them out in that calendar. Invite, that's great.

Speaker 1: 5:50

And I blocked that time. You know what I think if it doesn't make it on the calendar, it probably isn't going to happen In my life. That's like 99% accurate, because even something as small as like or something random like hey, I want to research a new water filter. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 6:07

Okay, there's a billion filters. There's yada, yada yada. If you time block an hour to just sit there deliberately figure out the fuck, what the fuck you want? Yeah, you can get it done, yeah. Yeah so this goes as big as like life goals, all the way down to really small things.

Speaker 3: 6:21

Yeah, I like to time block intentional family time. Yeah, so you know it's going to happen Like during this time I am going to be 100% focused on my kids and whatever they want from me.

Speaker 1: 6:34

And then if someone calls you and says, hey, Brian, you want to do this, Can you do this? You look at your thing you say, no, this is for my family.

Speaker 3: 6:40

Yeah, because then I could just sit there on Instagram or watch some stupid show or get lost and like organize the closet. And you know who didn't get my prioritize time Family, family. I dig it.

Speaker 1: 6:54

So what else we got here?

Speaker 3: 6:56

We got setting smart goals. So what is a smart goal? It is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound, and here's why these are great. I love smart goals. This is pretty big in a corporate context. If you work for a company, you're probably very familiar with smart goals. So obviously specific you know if you have a lofty goal it's kind of like abstract. It's pretty hard to accomplish something if it's not specific for sure. Measurable I love the statement measure what matters.

Speaker 1: 7:24

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 7:24

In an organization. People will say you know, I'm a consultant and I'll just be like you know what's important and this is important. This is important. This is really important. Okay, cool. How do you measure that and where's the data?

Speaker 1: 7:36

We don't measure it Well how do you know it's important?

Speaker 3: 7:39

Hey, how do you and how do you know you're making progress? You know? Is it a gut feeling Like, yeah, we have to measure some things that are important, because just measuring it will increase efficiency, period. I yeah, and even though it takes time to document and measure, it will increase efficiency and then achievable right, if you set a goal like I'm gonna become a billionaire, Like if you're a 999 millionaire, 100 millionaire, that might be achievable.

Speaker 1: 8:11

But if you're just waiting for assets to grow 280,000 air negative.

Speaker 3: 8:17

That might be a little lofty, right, yeah. So you want it to be achievable, something that can be achieved within a specific amount of time, right. And then a big part of the achievableness is is the psychology behind setting smart goals, Because when you accomplish a goal, your brain, you get that release of dopamine. Yeah, and you feel great and you feel great and it motivates you and give you the mental energy and focus to continue accomplishing parts of that goal.

Speaker 1: 8:48

Yeah, I think what feels better, saying I want to be a billionaire, never, never having any small goals to accomplish and you never get there, or having a bunch of tiny ones, but you don't become a billionaire, but you accomplish the shillow to small ones on the way. Yeah, yeah. One you feel like a fucking failure, yeah, and never get there. And one you feel amazing, even if you get there or not. Who cares? Who cares?

Speaker 3: 9:12

Yeah, I like that. I like that too. And last one is time bound. So you know, obviously having a specific time, it goes back to time blocking, right, If you set a time, most likely. I'm sure there's been a study on this I didn't pull it up and I just thought of it, but I would assume that even if you don't hit the deadline date, goals with time bound dates get accomplished faster, Even if they don't get done on time. Then those with no time bound Got to be.

Speaker 1: 9:46

Got to be, you know it, even with us, when you tell me all right, we need a song by the end of tomorrow. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 9:56

For one of our YouTube or one of our channels or something we're making. I can just make it. If I have the timeframe, I just make it work and if not, it's very close. At least it's like the meat and potatoes there. You know, I just got to. You know, make the sauce, right. But yeah, or I could just say I'm going to make a song, you know, and then like two weeks later, hey, how's that song coming along? Well, you know.

Speaker 1: 10:19

I like these keyboard sounds. So, having some kind of timeframe. It just changes the way you approach everything, yeah.

Speaker 3: 10:29

Everything, everything. And if you have a time goal, at the end of the time you either completed it a hundred percent or not. Yeah.

Speaker 3: 10:38

So, instead of busting your own chops for not completing it a hundred percent, what you do is you look at what you did accomplish. Well, I accomplished 87% of this goal. So then it's like man, wow, I got 87% of this done, so I'm just going to bust out this last 10% and keep rolling. So you still want to celebrate what you accomplished within that timeframe because, again, that releases the dopamine. You get excited and you get the focus and the energy to just bust it through the finish line.

Speaker 1: 11:07

And sometimes it's almost a game. It's like we just got back from a trip yesterday. Yeah. And I was like I have something I feel like doing later. I'm going to unpack my shit. I gave myself a timeframe but it became a game. So it was like, well, how fast can I do it? Nice, I was like I only gave myself an hour to get a certain amount of things done.

Speaker 3: 11:25

Nice.

Speaker 1: 11:26

And then it only took like 20 minutes, boom. So I turned it into a game. Now there's been other times where I got back from a camping trip and I'm like I'm so tired, you're just laying your bed. Two hours goes by, you haven't done shit. Yeah.

Speaker 3: 11:39

And it takes you four hours to unload yeah, and that 40 minutes after you were done. I bet that was some nice relaxation. It was the greatest feeling ever Versus laying there for an hour thinking about how you need to unpack that's not the greatest feeling ever so anyway, putting time, putting your time, bound goals. Yeah, putting a timeframe on.

Speaker 1: 11:59

It definitely is a helpful one.

Speaker 3: 12:02

So last solution, bro, what is it?

Speaker 1: 12:04

Yeah, this one mindfulness and meditation. Yeah. This makes sense Totally, for everything in life. Yeah. Practicing mindfulness and meditation can improve focus and reduce procrastination by training the mind to stay present and reduce distractions. Yeah. This is just like when I unloaded the car it was not distracted at all. Boom Got it done, cause I was focused.

Speaker 3: 12:28

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 12:28

I had a goal in mind.

Speaker 3: 12:30

I think it's funny. We talk about mindfulness and meditation just about every episode because it is so beneficial. I like this in this very specific context because when we think about time management, task management, energy management, it's like, oh, I need to organize myself to maximize all of my time, and then we say, well, you also just need to stop and meditate for 30 minutes, and it seems counterintuitive. But planning the work is sometimes as critical as the work itself. Yeah, because I've seen in a work context where you give a directive and then a bunch of people just go off and do a bunch of work and they come back and none of it's right. Yeah.

Speaker 3: 13:13

And you know it's like totally, totally outside of, or they just work and then they start they're just not working efficiently because no one stopped and said, okay, cool, we know what to do. How should we do this? Yeah, and when you sit down and you really think through how you're going to approach this goal, why is this goal important? How are we going to work together? What resources do we have? Yeah, who are we going to pull from for certain things that we're not sure about? You know all that kind of stuff. If you sit there and you set a smart goal to start a business, that's a pretty big goal, but let's just say, like to get to some type of product launch, and you got a couple goals associated with that, well, if you sit down and really think through, okay, of getting this product to market, what am I really good at you?

Speaker 3: 14:02

know I'm really good at marketing, but I'm really terrible at, let's say, legal you know, yeah, well, outsource that, yeah, cool.

Speaker 3: 14:12

Well, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go out and get a couple quotes from different attorneys to help me set up this from a legal standpoint, and so then you're just kind of thinking through how you're going to approach this work. I can be as big as starting a product to business. It can be as small as I got to organize the garage. Well, how am I going to organize the garage? Am I going to get new bins? You know, what kind of bin set up do I want?

Speaker 1: 14:37

Am I going to put all the shit in the front yard and then be like, oh wait, I should go buy bins, and then go to the store with all your stuff in front and then it starts to rain and then your stress is fucked.

Speaker 3: 14:45

Exactly, you didn't check the radar. You didn't check the radar and a storm comes through and you have to throw it all back in the garage and it's even less organized because you had to throw it in in a hurry.

Speaker 3: 14:54

Yeah, or you decide that you're going to clean the garage. You shove it all in some closet and then the next time you need one thing guess what? It's at the bottom of your stack. So you got to pull it all out to get to it and you're right back where you started from. So instead of like, how do I organize this in a way that it makes the next time I use this garage more efficient and effective? So that's why I think mindfulness and meditation and approaching how we want to work, it's like the podcast.

Speaker 1: 15:22

It's just staying like slowing down, yeah, so you can kind of see the pieces a little better.

Speaker 3: 15:27

I think for us the first hundred episodes has been how do we make it as easy as possible to do the technical portions of the podcast so then we can spend more energy on from episode 101 to 200. How do we grow an audience? How do we monetize? But the first year has just been what gear do we use? How do we use this gear? Yeah, I don't want to be a full-time editor. No, absolutely not. How do we reduce that as much as possible through systems and processes so we can spend more time doing the reason we started doing this shit anyway? You know so anyway, all right, so that's procrastination Sweet.

Speaker 1: 16:09

Well, so you've worked on not procrastinating and you want to get things done more efficiently, so you might want to increase your focus. Yeah it's kind of in our positive benefit.

Speaker 3: 16:23

Yeah, ever do some procrastination, this increase in focus. So lack of focus can result from various factors a lot of distraction, stress, information overload, but, but, but, but, um, improved focus can lead to better productivity, enhanced creativity and reduce errors. So if we reduce procrastination and we figure out how to increase focus, we're going to be a lean, mean mother truck and machine. That's right, go crushing machine. Didn't cuss on that one. We're growing up bro. So solution one bro how do we? How do we increase focus?

Speaker 1: 17:01

Hmm, digital detox yeah. We've talked about that one, quite a bit Time blocking. We kind of already talked about it, but yeah digital detox, obviously, is reducing digital distractions by implementing a detox and employing time blocking techniques to help individuals regain focus.

Speaker 3: 17:20

Yeah, On time blocking, I think we talked about that on the episode that we redid. Um. So I don't think we've talked about time blocking yet, Um yeah, so quick story relevant to this last night.

Speaker 1: 17:36

I'm sitting there focusing on something I'm trying to learn. Yeah. And I just want to take a five minute break. What did I? What did I do, bro? Hopped on Instagram, boom, 40 minutes goes by and I'm like fuck, um, this is me not doing the Pomodoro technique, where you have a true five minute break. Yeah. This is me improperly using technology. I was using technology to learn? Yeah, and I was doing great. I was laser focused. I just wanted a fiver yeah, and I let it become a 40 year.

Speaker 3: 18:07

I mean, what's really interesting is, um, it's a good thing to bring up because these um, you know I'm I'm reading a book I can't wait to. I'm sure a lot of episodes are going to come out of this book, but the hacking of the American mind and the dopamine releases that happen, the little micro dopamine releases that happen when we engage in social um, are so addictive, yeah, and so you just have to know if you're going in. It's going to be really hard to get out.

Speaker 1: 18:39

I think that's what it is. Yeah, if you just tell yourself right before do I want to get stuck? Yeah, do I have time to get stuck in Instagram? Yeah, and if you don't, maybe it'll help you not do it. Yeah. Maybe, yeah, maybe, but you know, and I was doing good and eventually I went back to work. Yeah, you know so, but yes, my fiverr turned into like a 40 minute thing.

Speaker 3: 19:05

Well, it goes back to the efficiency of time blocking right To increase focus, giving yourself a specific amount of time to accomplish a specific set of things, yeah, and then, if there is, if it's a long time blocking, you have a five minute break. It's being intentional about a true five minute break. Yeah. A walk a stretch. That's exactly what I should have done Take the dog out or whatever. If you have a pet, yeah, can't believe that you just use a pet example.

Speaker 3: 19:26

Walk your fish, yeah, walk your feed your fish, you know whatever. Yeah, just be intentional about that, even though you load a laundry.

Speaker 1: 19:34

I mean that's better than Instagram. You're still. You're getting stuff done while you're taking a break. That's a really good point.

Speaker 3: 19:39

If you work from home or if you're accomplishing something at home and involves a screen and your five minute break is, yeah, laundry, put on some dishes, then you're just you're feeling so accomplished by the end of that Shit. Reward yourself with four hours of fear porn.

Speaker 1: 19:57

So then, you are worried about the government coming to pick you up in the middle of the night just because a bunch of Instagram posts about the end of the world.

Speaker 3: 20:05

All right. Solution number two, bro Adequate, adequate, adequate, adequate, yeah. Adequate sleep and nutrition, yeah.

Speaker 1: 20:15

No no.

Speaker 3: 20:16

I got it, I got it.

Speaker 1: 20:18

I just said it wrong. Hit it again, set it up again.

Speaker 3: 20:23

So solution number two to increase in focus.

Speaker 1: 20:26

Adequate sleep and nutrition. Yeah. So getting enough sleep, revolutionary thought here and maintaining balance that I can significantly impact cognitive function and attention span. So here's what I'm going to. Here's the comment I have for this bullet point. Yeah, Because it's pretty like obvious right.

Speaker 1: 20:45

Yeah, but a lot of people just want to slap a bandaid on. Yeah, they want to drink more caffeine. Yeah, they want to take some fucking super pill they found on from an Instagram story. You know some guys like take this Ashwagandha mega blend and you can focus like never before. Yeah, and they still think they can get three hours of sleep. Yeah, party all night and be fucking super human. Yeah, you, just, you can't ignore the basics. Yeah, let's be real.

Speaker 1: 21:13

Yeah, it doesn't matter what compounds you take or how much caffeine you drink. You still got to get some sleep. Yeah. Right, sleep is fundamental. It's fundamental, it's foundational. Yeah, you can't put a bandaid on not sleeping.

Speaker 3: 21:28

Yeah, I think we've talked about sleep a lot as much as we've talked about meditation, and it's funny, both of them relate to resting the mind, but even this. So we just got back from a three day trip for context yesterday, and on this three day trip we did a 20 plus mountain biking ride through some pretty gnarly, physically very demanding trails. This is the first two night trip I've ever been on in my life where I slept about eight hours both nights.

Speaker 1: 22:08

Because you were worn out.

Speaker 3: 22:09

I was worn out, but it was because we were intentional.

Speaker 1: 22:13

And we were intentional.

Speaker 3: 22:15

We got back. We didn't drink a lot of alcohol. Yeah, we drank some chamomile and peppermint tea Yep. We took magnesium Yep, we sat around the fire and literally I intentionally talked about my best naps in my life and my mind was at ease. I had my sleeping situation set up yeah, but it was comfortable. I had my noise machine on in my tent Yep, so I didn't hear the murderers coming to kill me.

Speaker 1: 22:45

Yeah, but you didn't get to hear the coyotes. Yeah, it's OK.

Speaker 3: 22:50

That would have woke me up, but the ride. Usually I never sleep. On the first night I slept really well and I had really good energy. So even that mental clarity, but also that physical ability, I felt great the next day.

Speaker 1: 23:08

I really did not want to do a 30 mile ride on a terrible night sleep. Yeah.

Speaker 3: 23:13

And I'm starting to see that now that we're riding more and more and I'm like, OK, how does my body function, how does it work? And I'm learning that if I don't sleep really well before a long ride, I'm just crushed. Major difference in my physical ability to maintain through a long ride after a good night sleep.

Speaker 1: 23:36

So we sound like old guys right now. Yeah. But when you're in your early 20s, you don't think sleep matters yet. Yeah. Because I remember I was partying. Yeah, stay up, drink, smoke, bongs, yada, yada. Still go up to work. Get up to go to work at 6 in the morning, yep, and you're not great, but you made it work. Yeah, you know, you made it through. Yeah. But by the time you're getting older, it's just become so not worth it.

Speaker 3: 24:04

Well it slaps you in the face. It slaps you right in the face Hard, and here's what's interesting. So I'm going to say some of this wrong, because I just consumed this knowledge yesterday while I was driving back. But in the hacking of the American mind, the guy is actually a endocrineologist specialist. Anyway, he studies the chemicals a lot and he's talking about how certain neurons and certain portions of the brain they don't regrow Right Once they're dead. They're dead Now the brain is malleable.

Speaker 1: 24:38

Right, you can squash that myth.

Speaker 3: 24:40

Yeah, you can create new neural pathways.

Speaker 1: 24:42

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 24:43

But, as far as to the best of our knowledge, what he was saying is the amount of neurons that you have in certain portions of your brain never grow. What you have when you're born is what you have. And he said the reason we get smarter and the reason is different is because the gray matter in our brains develop more.

Speaker 3: 25:03

So that's the evolution of the brain, but as far as certain neurons. So lack of sleep is one of the main contributors of the deterioration or the depletion of those neurons, oh for sure. So even through your 20s, when you're partying and you're staying up late every single night and you get up and you go to work and then, whatever you're partying, going to school, all that stuff, and though you may feel fine what you're doing, that's why, by the time you turn 35 or 40, it slaps you in the face. Yeah, you get burnout, you get burnout, and that's because I got burnout sooner than that. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 25:40

So then I had brain fog for 10 years, yeah.

Speaker 3: 25:44

So sleep is good and obviously nutrition, all of this stuff we know.

Speaker 1: 25:48

Right, it's obvious and we're going to keep talking about it and it probably people might get tired of it or might just seem kind of dumb. Yeah. But a lot of us, a lot of people don't take it serious.

Speaker 3: 26:00

Well, it's simple.

Speaker 1: 26:01

They just don't take it serious.

Speaker 3: 26:02

Yeah, and honestly for me personally, I've never been more conscious about things I consume and my sleep patterns and all that kind of stuff than this past year of us talking about it every single week?

Speaker 1: 26:15

Yeah, so you know what? Just keep freaking talking about it? Yeah, because I sleep like a baby. Yeah, I sleep better now than I have in a long time. Magnesium-3 and 8 has been a big tool for me. All right. Last but not least, cognitive enhancements and new tropics.

Speaker 3: 26:33

Oh yeah. Oh snap bro. I like, of course. It says in the research, consider exploring the safe use.

Speaker 1: 26:40

Right, not crystal meth and fetamine.

Speaker 3: 26:43

Yeah, but again, this is things like chaga, lion's mane, some of these components, mushroom coffee yeah, a lot of these blends and there's so much of this out now. I mean Caffeine, yeah, caffeine, I mean A lot of it is just looking at trying different things, being aware, being once you're looking at opportunity, once you get the basics down, you're going for walks, you're doing some movement. Yeah, the best night of sleep you can within your current situation and environment, yeah, if you've got a newborn.

Speaker 1: 27:18

it is what it is. Yeah, so you know what's funny when you start taking compounds like whatever lion's mane, altheanine or tyrosine or whatever, you're taking ashwagandha, yada, yada, yada. Yeah. Insert whatever you want. If your baseline sleep is trash, you probably aren't going to feel much right, right. So you're like this is stupid, it doesn't work. I am so. That's why the sleep is important, because when you have that baseline, you can take the new tropics and it can enhance your cognitive function the way it's intended to.

Speaker 3: 27:53

Yeah, I like that example, it's like in karate, right yeah, like if you just show up, you should have to do a roundhouse kick.

Speaker 1: 28:02

You tear your freaking tendon out of your inner thigh.

Speaker 3: 28:05

And then you're crawling to the car and you ain't doing shit. But you've got to learn the basics, you've got to stretch. Yeah, you've got to learn to stretch, but once you stretch, then you can do all these crazy fun movements and you see massive gains, Exactly. So again back to the new tropics. Like being then really dialing in on taking cold showers and your exercise routines. Yeah, so so many of us. Oh, go ahead.

Speaker 1: 28:30

Oh, I was going to say Now that I feel like I've caught up from sleep I'm in my 30s from all the partying. I feel caught up. Now I can take when I drink caffeine. It works again. I drink typically tea, which is fine, yeah, if I want the boost, you know, I get some coffee going Mm-hmm. I feel a difference and I can use it as a tool now.

Speaker 1: 28:53

Yeah instead of as a crutch. Yes, there's a difference between a tool and a crutch. Yeah, I'm not leaning on caffeine just to exist as a person.

Speaker 3: 29:03

Well, it's funny you say that right, because here's what I learned again in this book. This book's blowing my mind, obviously, but the dopamine receptors Actually desensitize.

Speaker 3: 29:14

That's why, like your first hit of cocaine, they call it like the first high. You never get that first high again because the dopamine receptors Desensitize themselves to that very specific signal and you never get what you got from that first time. So as we drink more and more caffeine, we get desensitized to it, our actual dopamine receptors become desensitized and it takes more and more and more. That's why it's like you know, one little piece of cake is not enough and then, before you know it, you're eating an entire cake. Yeah.

Speaker 3: 29:46

So to your point, we got a. It takes time to reset those dopamine receptors to where. Then if you are, you know, really tired and you have a half a cup of coffee, you're like, I feel it.

Speaker 1: 30:00

Yeah, it feels great.

Speaker 3: 30:01

But then if you drink that again, and again, and again, every day multiple times a, day. Yeah, so it's keeping those receptors balanced to where when we need these things. But then there's there's things that do not Desensitize the dopamine. They're actually good for you. It's like caffeine is considered a drug. So there's there are things like mushrooms and Healthy nutrition that, yeah, we don't get desensitized to those things. Those things just feed us and make us stronger and grow, and healthier and focus.

Speaker 1: 30:31

You don't get desensitized from eating vegetables out of your garden. Yeah, no, you don't. That never stops being amazing.

Speaker 3: 30:37

Yeah, but food sugar, like Like all the all the bad things, sugar Process fats, all those kind of things are toxins to the body. So the body has natural ways to to desensitize to them or reject those things Versus things that are. So it's funny We've talked about in a couple episodes where a lot of people the reason they need that donut is it's because we talked about this in vibration episode. We're operating at such a low vibration that these you know, potato chips, doritos.

Speaker 1: 31:12

I don't know actually launch that one, but Maybe, but I can't remember whatever gets you to zero.

Speaker 3: 31:17

Yeah, because you're actually operating at negative. Yeah you're so low. Yeah, that's pulling you bad things pull you up and it makes you feel better, but you're never really making it past.

Speaker 1: 31:27

It's like the fear porn.

Speaker 3: 31:28

Yes. Yeah, and so once we're, we get good sleep and Moderate, consistent exercise. Yeah then we're actually functioning above zero. So then some of these things that we're incorporating push us even higher. Five, six, seven Sure. And so I think the point that you brought up, that if you're not sleeping and you're drinking a lot, well, you may take a a new tropic and be like this, not really doing anything for me, yeah, why would it you?

Speaker 3: 31:59

I would it, you know, being rejected by the body because there's so much toxins and poisons going into your body. Yeah but once you're at that two and three, then you can incorporate some of these things that just lift you up.

Speaker 1: 32:12

I think it's good stuff. Sweet bro, man, you crushed that.

Speaker 3: 32:18

Well, the book that I read yesterday really helped for all this, but I'll say this it's hard to shame yourself out of procrastination and shame yourself into increasing focus. Yeah don't beat yourself up.

Speaker 1: 32:34

Yeah, making yourself feel like dog shit Doesn't really help you Really with much, does it?

Speaker 3: 32:40

No, so that's why just take some of these steps, incorporate some of these things and just just celebrate the small wins and then just keep snack stacking those small wins.

Speaker 1: 32:51

Yeah, we're just watching the video. The guy was like, hey, if you are procrastinating flossing your teeth, yeah, just tell yourself you're gonna floss one tooth, one tooth, and then, once you put it in there, are you just gonna stop? No, no, so pick a very small place to start.

Speaker 3: 33:10

Yeah, and just see where it takes you and just start. That's right, boom sweet. That's it.