Practice #72 - Achieve Your Goals, By Doing NOTHING!

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Yes, you read that title right, but there is a caveat.

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Of course you have to take action to actually achieve your goals, but let's say your goal

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is this direction, but you're moving absolutely the opposite direction.

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Well, you're not going to achieve your goal.

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So action is not actually going to help you achieve your goal.

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So doing nothing actually helps you figure out if you're actually going the right direction

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because for most of us our goals are actually seemingly impossible or we don't actually know

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the path to get there.

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We don't actually know if this tactic is better than that tactic or if this strategy is better

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than that strategy.

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So one thing that I've done in the past that I am doing right now also has helped me tremendous

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honestly, and I think it'll help you.

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So listen up.

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Literally all I do is just sit in my room.

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I've stripped everything from my room except for a journal and my mind.

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That's pretty much it.

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That's all there is in my room.

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It's literally nothing, not even a bed.

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I just have like a mat.

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So I just sit in my room and I just think and then if something pops up, that's really

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important, I write it down and I have the lights off.

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I just, I don't know why, I just like it better with the lights off.

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I can like be more immersed in my thoughts I think.

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And I'm not really trying to have a particular goal or anything.

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If I do have a particular goal on like the direction that I want to go, I usually go

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on a walk.

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So I go on an hour long walk in nature, like around trees and stuff.

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And I make sure that I choose like a park.

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So I don't have to like cross sidewalks because when you're in like civilization and you have

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to like cross the street, you're using like now, like you're using critical thinking.

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So you're not going to actually be completely immersed in your thoughts and it's not going

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to be as effective.

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There's one day where I pretty much was kind of lost.

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I didn't really know what was going on.

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I have been doing the same thing for weeks and I didn't know if it was actually going

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to help me.

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And so I literally just sat in my room and literally just stared at my wall and I sat

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there for like 40 minutes.

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And what I did was just that.

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And then I was just deep in my thoughts and then eventually something popped up like I

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had an epiphany.

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I didn't like force it or anything.

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I just like went in there with no expectations because I do this twice a day, every day.

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So the thing that I was doing for two weeks without much results, it took two weeks of

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sitting in my room twice a day.

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So probably like an hour every day of just thinking plus an hour long walk.

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So it's not like straight away.

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And if you're more conscious about it and more like intentional about thinking in your

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mind like about what you want to figure out, then it may go faster.

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But I was just kind of passively doing it.

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And then I was able to change directions.

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For example, I did this when I realized that I had to stop editing.

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Like I was spending way too much time editing my videos because I would post one video every

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week and it would be like completely edited, which was basically me using all of my time,

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all my work hours, all my deep work hours on editing.

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So I was increasing my editing skills.

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But the actual thing that was important was my recording skills and that was not getting

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better.

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I was only recording once a week when in reality I actually had to be recording way more.

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So that's what I did.

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I'm doing like five practice videos every single day and this is one of them.

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So sitting on a wall, literally doing nothing has helped me get closer to my goals than

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most other things that I've done.