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Hello, welcome to my channel and to the Atlantic Ocean.
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In today's video, I'm going to talk about how I get and stay motivated.
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So I've always been super jealous of those people who could just wake up every morning at 5am,
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go to the gym, or just keep their house clean all the time.
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I just thought that those people are so motivated.
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And I also thought that something was wrong with me.
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I just thought I was lazy or just didn't really know how to get myself motivated.
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I was always looking for some tricks or for some secrets or for some,
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I don't know, productivity app or for like a productivity journal.
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And turns out those people weren't motivated at all.
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That's just what I thought that they felt.
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Those people just did whatever they needed to do without asking themselves if they want to do it or not.
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So we've been conditioned to use expressions like,
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I'm not in the mood right now.
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I'm not feeling like it.
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I don't feel like doing this right now.
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And all these sentences are just answering the question,
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how do I feel about it in this specific moment?
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And then based on the answer,
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we decide to take action or not.
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And yes, sometimes it does make sense to ask yourself how you feel about it.
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For example, you're not going to go out with a stranger just because they asked you to,
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because you know instinctively you don't really feel good about that.
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And maybe you shouldn't have that difficult conversation
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that you need to have with that person when you're not in a good mood.
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So yes, the question how I feel about it
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and not taking action in these particular situations might save you some pain and trouble,
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but we're not talking about those situations.
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But if you know that,
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ah, my God, this bee literally left like some droplets on my hand.
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So if the action that you want to do can only bring you positive results,
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but based on how you're feeling in the moment you're saying no I'll do it later then
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that is the situation we're talking about.
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Stop asking yourself if you want to do it because you don't.
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We all have that little voice in our head that is always saying do you want to do it?
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Do you really want to do it right now?
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Do I want to get up right now?
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Do I want to clean up the kitchen?
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Do I want to go to the gym?
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Do I want to open my laptop and start working?
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The answer 99% of the time is going to be no. No,
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I don't want to do it.
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I don't want to move.
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I don't want to fold laundry.
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I don't want to make dinner.
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I don't want to work.
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So here's what I understood and started doing.
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I stopped asking myself if I want to do it and how I feel about it.
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Avoid that question at all costs because the second you ask yourself if you want to do it,
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your brain is going to try to protect you from discomfort,
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from annoyance, from boredom, and it's gonna whisper, nah, maybe later.
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And that's how procrastination begins.
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How many times have you said one of these phrases?
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I'll do it later.
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Maybe I'll do it tomorrow.
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I'm not in the mood right now.
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Let me check my phone real quick.
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I'll do it after this episode.
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I'll do it after I eat something.
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I'll do it when I feel ready.
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I need to think about it a bit more.
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I need a better system.
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It's not that urgent.
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Oh, okay, bye.
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See, your brain is wired for comfort, not effort.
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The brain's number one job is survival,
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not success and not productivity.
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So when it senses some sort of discomfort,
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it goes, warning, we don't like this,
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you shouldn't be doing this.
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And that's when it throws phrases like that at you.
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It's just trying to keep you safe and comfy.
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And when you say, I'll do it later,
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your brain gets instant relief.
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You avoid the unpleasant task in the moment and trick yourself to feel responsible because you intend to do that later.
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So it's basically half done.
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And that tiny mental loophole makes you feel good in the moment,
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but it's a lot worse long-term.
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It's like a psychological band-aid.
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Sometimes these phrases are like a defense mechanism against feeling overwhelmed.
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Sometimes I'll do it later really means this task feels too big.
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I don't even know where to start,
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so I'm just going to procrastinate it.
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So basically when the brain feels like this task is going to bring you some sort of discomfort
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and it entails some effort,
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it tries to protect you from it and chooses escape over work.
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And the thing is your brain confuses thinking with doing.
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When you say things like I'm planning it out of my head,
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I'm thinking about it, Your brain is giving you a little dopamine hit because planning feels like progress.
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And while it's good to plan and to think in advance,
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too much planning and not doing feels like fake productivity.
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You get the satisfaction of doing something without actually doing anything.
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So here's the truth.
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Whatever you want to do,
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don't ask yourself if you want to do it because you won't.
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And you're not even supposed to want to do it.
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We've been tricked to believe that motivation comes first,
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that we need to feel like it before we start doing something.
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But that is a lie.
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When I ask myself, do I want to clean the house?
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No, I don't.
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Do I want to wash the dishes after dinner?
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Absolutely not.
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Do I want to work out?
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No, I would rather sit on my couch and scroll on TikTok.
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But if I never ask this question to begin with and I just start doing that, something shifts.
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Once I start, even for two minutes,
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I realized that it's not as bad as my brain told me it would be.
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And that is the trap.
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Asking yourself if you want to do something before doing it almost guarantees that you just won't do it.
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Think about it.
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Nobody wants to get out of their bed in the morning.
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I mean, some people do,
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but most of us don't.
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But once we're up, we're fine.
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Nobody wants to go grocery shopping.
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Well, some people do.
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Most of us don't.
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But once we're there, we just get it done.
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It's fine.
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You don't want to start working on that boring project.
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But the second you start,
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you just get in the zone.
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So I realized something very important.
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Do I want to is the wrong question.
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Will I feel better after I've done that is the right question.
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Because that answer is almost always yes.
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Will I feel better if I've cleaned the kitchen?
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Yes, I love a clean kitchen.
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Will I feel better once I've worked out?
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Yes, I love how my body feels after working out.
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Will I feel better if I'd finished that task that I was avoiding for a million years?
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Absolutely yes.
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And that's the trick.
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Don't let your mood decide your actions.
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Let your future self decide it.
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And the funny thing is,
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once you stop waiting to feel like it,
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you just realize that you don't need a mood shift.
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You don't need a certain environment, certain conditions.
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You just need momentum.
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You just got to start.
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Once you start moving, your brain actually starts releasing dopamine,
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which makes you keep going.
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So motivation doesn't come before the action.
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It comes after it.
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The people who seemed motivated all the time are not motivated at all.
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They just stopped negotiating with their feelings.
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They don't ask themselves, do I want to do it?
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They just do it.
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And that's why I feel like a lot of people are afraid of the word discipline,
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me included, because that basically entails you doing things that you don't like or that you don't wanna do.
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But if you stop asking yourself if you wanna do those things,
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then discipline is not that scary anymore.
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So I don't ask myself if I want to clean the kitchen.
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I just start picking one plate at a time and then I get into my momentum.
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I play some music and I forget about the fact that I'm even doing it.
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I don't ask myself, do I want to work out right now?
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No, I just put on my shoes and go outside.
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And guess how I feel once I'm outside?
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Amazing.
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I don't ask myself if I want to work.
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I just wake up in the morning,
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make myself a coffee, open my laptop,
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open the first email, and then boom,
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I forget that I'm even working.
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I'm just in the zone.
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And once you start, it's so much easier to keep going.
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Another trick is to never think of the task as a whole
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because it's so much simpler and so much more approachable mentally and psychologically
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when you look at it as tiny little simple steps.
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If you're asking yourself, oh my God,
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do I want to finish this project right now?
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No, you don't because that seems like a lot of work
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and you probably won't be able to do it in one day and your brain's like,
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eh, no, let's just wait,
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let's think about it more.
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But if you think I just need to send this email,
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I just need to build this chart today,
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that's all, then it feels a lot more reachable.
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For example, when I look back at our immigration process to Canada,
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when we moved from Moldova to Canada as permanent residents.
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That process seems to me so difficult and complex right now
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because there were so many things we had to do and it took us more than eight months to do everything.
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So that sounds pretty scary.
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We had to get our education assessed with an official Canadian company.
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We had to take our IELTS test to prove our English proficiency,
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which we had to travel to a different country to do.
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We had to get expensive medical checkups.
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We had to get reference letters from all the employers we've ever had in all the countries we've ever worked in.
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We had to get police certificates from all those countries where we lived more than six months.
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I had to do a presentation,
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a video presentation talking about English teaching and how I would do that job in Canada.
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We had to save up a certain amount of money to have it
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and to prove that we can sustain ourselves for three months
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while being there anyway so many more things
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that I don't even remember at this point
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because it was um how long ago was that 2018 seven years ago
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so the whole process seems very complicated right even each task seems quite complicated however
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if you take that each task
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and you divide it into even smaller tasks then it becomes very easy for example to say
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that I needed my education assessed by an official Canadian institution
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seems like oh my god I don't want to do it this already seems too complicated
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and your brain's like no you don't even need to immigrate anymore
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but if you divide it into okay you just take your diplomas you scan them
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and you send them as an email number two you go
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to your university you get some sort of extract paper that they needed and you wait for it for a few days.
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Okay, that's also possible and pretty accessible.
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Then you take what you got from the university,
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you take your original diplomas and the scans and whatever other papers they needed,
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you put them in an envelope and you mail them to this specific physical address in Canada.
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You just have to mail something.
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That seems pretty accessible, right?
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Then you wait for a month,
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which is kind of nerve wracking,
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but you're not doing anything.
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It's not hard.
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You're just waiting.
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And then in a month or so you get a reply
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or you get the mail back with your diplomas and your assessment inside that envelope and you are good to go.
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So yeah, when you say,
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oh, you need to get your education assessed by a Canadian institution,
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you're like, oh my God,
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I have no idea how to do that.
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But then you start looking into it,
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you break it down into smaller tasks.
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It all of a sudden becomes very possible and pretty easy to do.
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Same thing when people decide to start learning English.
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They go from zero and they're like,
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oh my God, I am listening to this person talk,
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I am nowhere near that level that probably takes years and years of practice and studying.
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And it does.
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But the problem is that you're thinking about it all at once.
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You're imagining that the effort that it takes to do in a few years,
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you have to do in a day or in a week.
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No, today you just watch a video.
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Tomorrow you just write some vocabulary down and you practice it.
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The following day you do some pronunciation drills.
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The day after that you do some reading and some retelling.
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You do your best.
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So every day is a small task that takes you closer and closer to your goal.
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And you're going to feel more motivated to do this one
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tongue twister today rather than always thinking I need to learn English today
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because you're not going to just learn English one day
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and your brain perceives that as a super complex task and it makes you feel unmotivated.
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But when you show up just for five minutes,
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your brain goes, whoa, we're making some progress.
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Dopamine hit.
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And that feeling becomes motivation.
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So you do something, you get motivated to do the next thing, right?
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But you cannot wait for the motivation to be the first ever catalyst in order for you to take your first action.
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Does that make sense?
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So stop asking yourself if you want to study today
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because the answer is going to be no. Just build tiny little habits.
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For example, for English learners,
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make English part of your lifestyle.
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You have to understand that from now on until the end of your days,
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you're going to have English in your life.
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Watch a video, listen to a song, do a tongue twister.
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Learn a word, learn an expression.
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No one is looking for perfection.
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We just need a tiny little bit of action.
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Second habit, celebrate your small wins and stop focusing on how much you haven't achieved yet.
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You finished a 10 minute lesson.
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Amazing.
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You showed up.
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You did a tongue twister.
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Great.
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You learned a new word.
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Great job.
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Progress is progress.
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And the third thing I recommend is speak from day one.
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Don't wait to speak until you're fluent because fluency comes from,
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you guessed it, speaking.
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Even if you make mistakes,
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actually, especially if you make mistakes,
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motivation isn't a feeling that you're waiting for.
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It's something that you create.
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So do one tiny thing at a time and see how motivation starts following you.
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So the next time your brain goes,
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do I want to do it?
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Stop it.
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Interrupt that thought.
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Don't even let it finish the question.
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Just start that thing.
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Just do it.
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10 minutes later, the motivation will follow.
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And that's how you get stuff done.
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Not with motivation, not with energy,
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but just by refusing to ask yourself that one tricky question,
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do I want to do it?
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So if you guys enjoyed watching this video,
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so if you want to come to the next one,
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Thank you so much for watching.
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Kisses!
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