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I heard this secret that successful people make decisions very quickly.
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I heard this secret that successful people make decisions very quickly.
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They say it's to create momentum,
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build confidence, and preserve all that precious energy we spend on overthinking.
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As a person with a backlog of to-do list tasks and a bad habit of overthinking,
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I think it's time I tried this out for myself.
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So this is the TV room.
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I've wanted to DIY this room for a long time now.
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It's where we watch movies and kind of hang out,
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but it has looked the same for the past three years.
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And when I first moved in,
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I kind of just made it good enough.
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But other than that, I'm not attached and I think that let me just zhuzh it up.
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Okay.
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This is the plan.
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As you can see, it's the same living room.
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It's several different ways.
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We're going for calm, maybe a bit of Nancy Meyers in there.
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Just a cozy space.
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But the thing that I want to do the most is to add wall buildings.
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I did the trim in my office myself.
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At least I'm not completely new to DIY.
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But at the same time, I'm a little nervous.
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Because if I want to complete everything on my 20s bucket list.
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Then I will basically need to get this done within less than a week.
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So that's great.
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I love that.
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Save on some time.
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We're going to clean this room up now empty every time
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i want to start a new project i take forever to get things going
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weighing out my options and making sure i'm fully prepared to start mentally physically
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and emotionally i did my calculations
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and we're gonna need a lot of wood of course it's good to think things through in most cases
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but i think i do it a little too much my
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parents on the other hand are the opposite i'll mention an idea i'm just starting to think about
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and by the end of the day they'll already have started working on it.
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I want to channel that energy.
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Less overthinking, more doing.
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This is what happens when it does not fit in the car.
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And that is how you cut in the Home Depot parking lot.
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Alright, so I pretty much got all my supplies.
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I have level, I have wood that we got from the Home Depot,
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and I also got this,
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this is No More Nails.
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And oh god, wait, how do you even use this?
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Yeah, I'm just gonna start...
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I'm just gonna start.
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Oh my gosh.
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The most important thing is that we're going to be able to make the wrong one.
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Often the biggest reason we overthink our decisions is because we're afraid to make the wrong one.
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But I think all it does is delay the inevitable.
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Guys, I fucked up!
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It's literally a fail.
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At some point you still have to choose,
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and by then you've only wasted time that could have been spent adjusting.
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I'm the y- You keep looking It stays black Yeah,
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I said I'm the y- But it don't fit In theory,
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we know having a lot of options is a good thing.
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We can customize our lives exactly how we want,
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but in reality, too many options can get overwhelming.
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Born it like a man,
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born it like a brain Stories no one ever listened This is what you came from Instead of feeling excited by possibility,
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we end up with choice paralysis,
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trying to weigh out all the options against one another.
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That's when the overthinking starts, and nothing gets done.
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Okay, day two.
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Um, day two of the DIY.
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Oh my gosh.
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Well, a couple of updates.
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The first one is that this is taking way longer than I thought it would.
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I was able to put up some wall moldings yesterday
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and ended up working late into the night to try and get some progress done.
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I did make a couple of mistakes.
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I still have to do another wall and a half
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and then I have to prime them and then I also have to paint this whole room.
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Even when I think that something will take X amount of time,
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it literally takes like every single time and takes more than that.
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What am I doing wrong?
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I always thought people who moved fast were just extremely confident,
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they know it all, and wondered if they just got a memo that I didn't.
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When we overthink, we think we're doing ourselves a favor,
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minimizing mistakes and feeling as prepared as we possibly can.
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We take our time, think it through,
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and still, somehow, we could choose wrong.
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But I realize it's more about being able to just run with it,
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Adapting, pivoting, learning as you go,
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and trusting you'll figure things out,
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whatever the outcome will be.
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Sometimes I can feel like this cycle,
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where I'm going as fast as I can and it's still not enough.
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It's frustrating, but those are the moments that teach you how to adjust,
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how to move smarter instead of just faster.
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Over time, those small, quick choices compound into momentum,
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and that's the difference between staying stuck and growth.
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Alright, so this is what we're working with.
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So, you can just actually go and start right here.
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Rank gets deeper Soon enough I'm gonna meet my reaper Is this all we get?
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A couple cheap laughs in a deep regret Baby,
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you are just a little thing I'm lost to Telling of the pain I've caused you Giving it to someone brand new
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Okay, our progress, all the moldings are up on the wall Now,
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we just have to paint.
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We're finally painting today.
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We're done with all these moldings.
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The most time consuming thing was priming and caulking everything and just the prep.
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The prep in general just takes so long.
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We're finally ready to paint.
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And let's just get it done.
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Koryu has arrived.
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We're getting put to work.
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We'll start with this.
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It's too cold.
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It's great.
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Thanks.
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Oh yes.
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Hold on.
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Cause I'm just alone, I'm just the one thing I've ever wanted After many quick decisions this week,
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I can confidently say successful people might just be onto something With the self-imposed timeline,
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I didn't even have time to question anything It was just one thing after another
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But I'll also say it takes a hundred times more effort The truth is,
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decisions aren't permanent, but we'll take something from it and change course if we need to.
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And the best thing about deciding quickly is that you can figure all of that out faster too.
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Okay guys, we did it.
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I literally can't believe we did this transformation.
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Near the end, I barely documented,
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I was just trying to finish it.
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The stairs literally sent me into psychosis,
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but we got through it.
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Aria and my parents helped me out
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and I literally could not have done this in the time frame that I did without them.
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So shout out to them because I would have still been working on this right now.
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I was able to use majority of the furniture I already had or swap in some pieces.
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The only thing that changed was the couch.
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I know the green couch is iconic,
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but it honestly was not comfortable.
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Purely aesthetics.
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So now this feels more like a room you want to watch movies in.
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There's still a lot of things that I want to add like curate more artwork on the walls
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Maybe even some wallpaper who knows?
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I'm proud how it turned out and Yeah That was nuts
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Honestly for wanting to do this for the past two and a half years and getting it done
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Within less than two weeks.
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I'm kind of impressed.
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I don't know how to feel about that,
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but I am impressed nonetheless first task done
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So glad that's done, right?
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Right?
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Like I was saying, you deserve a break.
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Okay, we've worked hard, you worked hard,
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you did the thing, just take a break, right?
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What's this?
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Oh no. No, no. No. We're not.
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No. Absolutely not.
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Nel video "If you're feeling stuck, watch this", l'autore esplora la psicologia dietro il processo decisionale, sottolineando come le persone di successo tendano a prendere decisioni rapidamente per costruire slancio e fiducia. Con una forte inclinazione all'overthinking, l'autore decide di affrontare una sfida personale: migliorare un angolo della sua casa per renderlo più accogliente. Questa trasformazione diventa il simbolo di un approccio più pratico alla vita, dove si passa dall'idea all'azione, senza farsi sopraffare dall'ansia di fare scelte sbagliate.
Le 5 Frasi Chiave per la Comunicazione Quotidiana
- "When I want to start a new project, I take forever." - Un riflesso comune del pensare troppo.
- "Less overthinking, more doing." - Un mantra motivazionale per incoraggiare l'azione.
- "I think that all it does is delay the inevitable." - Riferendosi ai risultati che arrivano comunque.
- "I did my calculations and we're gonna need a lot of wood." - Un esempio di pianificazione pratica.
- "The most important thing is that we're going to be able to make the wrong one." - Accettare che gli errori fanno parte del processo.
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