Welcome to today's episode of the Mind Set Mentor podcast, I'm your host, Rod Dial, and if you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe, but since you never miss another podcast. So today we're going to be talking about how to stop being lazy. So if you're someone that's out there and you tend to be a little bit lazy, if you're not getting things done that you need to or if you tend to procrastinate too much, I'm going to give you my strategies on how to make sure that you stop being lazy.

So the first tip that I'm going to give you before we dive into like the actual meat and potatoes of exactly how to do it is to stop lying to yourself. You need to first admit that you are a lazy person, because all too often I see people that are lazy. They're not getting the stuff done that they need to and then ultimately what they do. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, I'm just I've got stuff going on and they make excuses for everything.

So the reason why they're not achieving the goals they want, why they don't have the life that they want, when in reality the thing they need to do is just admit that what the real issue is, is that they're lazy and they're a procrastinator and they don't have plans put in place. So the first thing you need to do is to admit to yourself to fully be transparent and say, you know what, I do have a problem with laziness.

It's the same way that if somebody is an alcoholic and they go through a 12 step program, the very first thing to do is to admit that so that they can overcome it, because once you admit it, then you can start to work through it. And that's the important thing, is to realize that the humans are inherently lazy more than anything else. If you were to just go back in in a hundred thousand years ago, two hundred thousand years ago and see our ancestors, I don't think that they were just working all day long.

If I were to make a guess, if they're in the middle of the desert and it's really hot outside and it's one hundred and one degrees, they're probably under a tree in the shade hanging out because they hunt in the morning and then they hunt in the evening. And then during the day they're just sitting around and sitting in the shade, most likely. So I think being lazy is inherently inside of humans. So for you to not be lazy is kind of going against what you actually would be doing as a typical human if you were born in a Western world like we are now with, you know, Instagram and Facebook and all of these things.

So when you realize that we are inherently lazy and you admit, OK, I am a lazy person, I have been lazy, it is my fault. It's no one else's fault. It's no one. No one outside of these faults, nothing. Externally, it's 100 percent me and you stop blaming anybody else or anything else and you take full one hundred percent responsibility, then you can start actually taking steps to overcome that laziness that you have.

So that's the first step. Make sure that you admit it yourself. Stop lying to yourself. Be 100 percent transparent. The second test that I'm going to give you is to take your goals and make sure that all of your goals are bite size.

And I don't mean take your goals and make them smaller. What I mean is take your goals and take the time frame. So if you have, for instance, let's say you want to make one hundred thousand dollars this year, and that's the goal for the year. If you look at that, you've never made one hundred thousand dollars. There's a part of you that that scares. There's a part of you that that's outside of your comfort zone and you're not really sure how you feel about it.

Like you want to make one hundred thousand. There's a party that's kind of if we're being honest, you're kind of scared shitless of making that hundred thousand because what do you have to do? How hard do you have to work? How much more time do you have to put into it? So if you're looking at the number and you're saying, OK, this is a long term goal over the next year, that's three hundred and sixty five days.

Right. That's a decent amount of time from right now. So when you look at it that way and you say, OK, I need to take these and make these more bite size, what does that mean? I need to take that hundred thousand dollars goal and I need to figure out how to take that hundred thousand or go and make it smaller, make it so it's more bite size. So let me give you an example. Let's say that you're a sales rep and your goal is make one hundred thousand dollars this year.

OK, well, now that we have the goal of one hundred thousand dollars, you've got that figured out. If you break down your numbers, which every sales rep should know their numbers, how many sales they get, depending on how many appointments that they have, how many phone calls they need to make in order to get an amount in a certain amount of appointments. And you look through and say, OK, if I'm looking at my long term goal of how much money I want to make this year, a hundred thousand dollars.

And they say, OK, over the next year, that means weekly. I need to make sure that I'm doing 100 hundred calls per week. If I just do a hundred calls per week, statistically, I should make one hundred thousand dollars this year automatically.

Doesn't that already feel better?

Because I'm not focusing on the entire year. All I'm doing is I'm focusing on this week so I know what needs to be done. OK, let's take it another step further.

If I look at that, I say, OK, if I work for five days and it's one hundred calls a day, 100 calls a week, that's 20 calls a day. I mean, I can focus on one hundred, one hundred, one hundred calls a week. Twenty calls a day. And if I just do my 20 calls a day and I only focus on just that one goal, statistically, I'll make a hundred thousand dollars.

Isn't that a lot easier? Because then you're taking something that's really far away and really big and making it really close and really small, 20 calls a day.

I can do that if I'm working for the next eight hours. What is that, like two and a half calls an hour? I get a two and a half calls in an hour. That's super easy. So take whatever goals that you're going for and make them more bite sized. And the thing about it is, because of the fact that their bite size, you're more likely to hit little tiny goals throughout the day, which motivates you to then work harder.

Right.

So if you're lazy, the reason why this is important is because if I go on and make a hundred thousand dollars this year, that's really far away.

But if I go, I only need to make two and a half calls this hour. Then what happens, I make two and a half calls this hour, three calls this hour, and I go, holy crap in my head, and it actually makes me feel better because I have little teeny tiny checkpoint's that I'm hitting.

And each time I hit a checkpoint, what happens?

I gain confidence and what I gain confidence. And I feel like I'm moving and progressing towards the goal that I want to go for and the life that I want to create.

It actually gives me more drive and more motivation towards that goal, which is more more than likely going to make me less lazy.

So take all of your goals, all of your big goals, and just make them smaller, figure out a way to choke them down a little bit. It's easiest way to do it.

If you sit down and eat a meal, you don't eat the entire meal. You eat the meal one bite at a time. So stop worrying about the entire meal and just worry about each and every bite, each and every day that you have.

So that's number two is to take your goals and make them smaller, because then you're going to hit more checkpoints, which is going to then make you excited to keep working harder towards your goal. Step number three is to figure out what your wayas if you don't if you're if you're too lazy, the reason why is because you just really don't care enough about your goals. But if you can figure out exactly what you want and why you want it, it makes it much easier to go for it.

So let me give you a very drastic example. But it's my favorite example because it shows everybody they can do whatever they want.

So one of my favorite things to do, and I'm giving a speech and I start to talk about this is I'll go into a group of people and say, hey, everybody here, what is the actual percentage chance that you're going to make a million dollars in the next 12 months?

Legally, what's the chance that you make a million dollars in the next 12 months? Legally, who's going to who has over a five percent chance?

And I raise my hand and nobody ever raises her hand who has a one percent chance of making a million dollars legally in the next 12 months?

And like a couple people raise her hand and then I say, who thinks that there's a zero percent chance of you making a million dollars over the next 12 months legally and everybody raise their hand?

They think there's almost everybody thinks there's a zero percent chance.

And I OK, I'm going to take that exact same goal and I'm going to shift it around a little bit and see if we can shift the way that you believe in yourself.

OK, so I'm going to say, what's the percentage chance of you making a million dollars this year legally? And if you don't, everybody that you love is killed. I raised my hand and say, who's who? What's the percentage chance? One hundred percent, hundred percent. Hundred percent. A thousand percent. Ten thousand percent.

Everybody goes from zero percent chance to one hundred percent chance. Now, why is that? The goal didn't change.

The time frame didn't change. What changed is they actually give a damn about the goal. That's what changed.

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There's a Y behind the goal if everybody that you love gets killed, there's no such thing as laziness, right? You'll wake up early, you won't make excuses. You'll get everything that you need to get done. And you won't you probably won't even look at Instagram or Facebook throughout the entire year. There would be no way that you're lazy over the next year. If everyone that you loves life depends on it. For you to make a million dollars legally, you would figure out a way.

So what does that show you, you're not just lazy, you're lazy because you don't love what you're doing, you lazy because you're not fully tied into exactly what it is that you're trying to create. It's not that.

It's not possible. It's 100 percent possible. It's a hundred percent possible for everybody listening to me right now somehow to figure out a way to make a million dollars in the next year. But the problem is, it's not that you don't have enough time is that you just don't care enough. And that's the main issue. So how do you make yourself care more? You've got to have a really, really, really strong way. So you figure out what your goals are and you figure out what your life is.

Laziness doesn't exist anymore. You'll get up in work when your Y is strong enough to figure out why it is that you're working towards what you're working.

So that's the third thing, is to find your way behind all of your goals. That'll get you pursue laziness. Number four is to remove the distractions.

Here's the thing that I know. When you're being lazy, I guarantee you're not just sitting on your couch and just staring up at your ceiling the entire time.

Right. What are you doing? You're keeping yourself busy in some sort of way.

If I were to guess 99 percent of the people business, when you're being lazy, you're probably either watching something on TV or you're on your phone.

I don't think there's anything else that people are really doing besides that you're not just staring up at the clouds and watching the clouds pass by and that's your quote unquote laziness. What's happening is you're figuring out another way to distract yourself so that you don't do the thing that actually needs to be done.

So if you can remove that distraction, then you're more likely to just go ahead and go. I will. Shit. I got nothing else to do. I might as well go ahead and do it.

So what's a big way to do this? Take your phone and put it in the other room. If you've got something important to do, if you have something needs to get done, take your phone and put it in the other room, turn off all of your notifications on your phone. For some of you guys, that scares you, turn off all of your notifications, take your frickin apple watch off. That's the biggest I have an Apple Watch.

The only time I ever worried is our where is what I work out because I just don't even want to have all of those distractions. So turn your Apple Watch distractions off, turn your phone off, distractions off. The only way like for me, I'll be completely honest. The only way that you can get a hold of me on my phone is if you call me if you send me a text message, my phone doesn't light up, nothing lights up.

The only time it lights up is when I get a phone call, not when I get an email now and I get a Facebook message. Not when I get an Instagram message, not when I get somebody that likes one of my photos. Nothing.

No way would I ever have notifications get in the way of what I'm truly trying to do.

So turn off all of your notifications on your phone next, turn off all of your notifications on your computer.

Your computer should have all of your notifications off as well. I don't want to know every time someone sends me an e-mail, I check my email once every two to three days. I don't want to know. There's no way, because that's going to pull me from everything that I'm trying to do, you know what I mean? So I don't want to focus on that. There's no way that I want to focus on those things.

So I'm going to remove as many distractions as I possibly can. How do I remove as many distractions? I possibly can turn off my frickin notifications, put my phone in the other room, let everyone know that you're about to go do something. So like, for instance, when I'm planning my episodes, I plan this episode. Earlier today, I tell my girlfriend, hey, I'm going to go play in some episodes. I planned three episodes in a row.

What do I do? I take my phone, I put it in the other room, I get on to my computer. That has no distractions on it. I put my headphones in, I tell my girlfriend, hey, I'm going to go and start start planning some episodes. She knows to leave me alone for the next two hours because that's what's going to get me focused, because if I break my focus, it makes it easier for me to go back to doing nothing.

So I'm trying to get myself into the zone so I can literally go, OK, I'm in the zone now. I'm going to stop being lazy. Now I'm going to do exactly what needs to be done.

So just stop freaking turn.

Turn your Netflix off, delete your Netflix account, delete your Facebook account, delete your Instagram, delete all of those things and see if you're still lazy because you're not going have shit to do is the truth, right? Like if you get rid of Instagram, Facebook, whatever else there is, Twitter and, you know, Snapchat, some people I think still use Snapchat and, you know, take talk. And now there's this new thing called clubhouse.

You delete all of those and you delete your Netflix and Hulu and all of those things.

If you're being lazy, the only thing you're doing is you're sitting outside watching the grass grow. So if you're being lazy, you're probably distracting yourself in another way. So what are those distractions?

Write them down with a pen and paper and get rid of those freaking distractions.

So that's number five. I remember four and then number five. The last one is my favorite thing is just the Pomodoro technique. The Pomodoro technique says I'm going to work for twenty five minutes and then take five minutes off. You can do anything for twenty five minutes, write anything. You can figure out a way to just work for twenty five minutes. So you say, all right, screw it, I'm being lazy. I can notice that I'm being lazy.

I'm admitting to myself that I'm being lazy. I need to get this thing done. All right. So what am I going to do. I'm going to get my computer and what am I going to do next to my computer. I don't have a pen and paper and I'm going to write down whatever it is that pops up into my head because I've got one task, only one task I can do for next.

Twenty five minutes I'm going to put my headphones in. I'm going to listen to you know, I always listen to music on YouTube. I look up a focus binary upbeat song. It's like three hours long and I just put it on. So therefore there's no music, there's music, there's no sound that could come into my ears. ET suffragists, this music, I'm in control of the sounds that are coming in. And then there's no words inside of the song as well.

There's no words inside the song. There's nothing to distract me. And I can start thinking about the lyrics like I do. So I don't have that to distract me.

And I go, OK, the only thing that I can do for the next 25 minutes is this one task.

And if you give your brain no other options, you'll realize that your brain can get hyper focused. And if you are sitting there and a great idea comes into your head, instead of going and putting that somewhere, all you have to do is take your pen and paper and write that on the journal that's next to you. And you focus on just one thing for twenty five minutes. You'll be surprised how much you can get done being hyperfocus with no distractions, with no notifications coming in, with no external sounds, how much you can get done in literally just twenty five minutes.

It's kind of crazy, you're way more efficient than you actually realize one, those twenty five minutes is, you know, there's twenty five minutes, you take a five minute break. That's it.

Super simple. Take a five minute break and you could go on Instagram, you can go to the bathroom, you can go stare at clouds passing in the sky. Do whatever you want for those five minutes. You're completely done working for those five minutes. And then what do you do? You go back in and you do another twenty five minutes and you only have one task to work for. It's really not that hard. Being lazy is a really easy thing to pull yourself out of.

You just have to be aware, you have to admit it and you have to make a plan and you have to have a really strong why.

So all you have to do is this, number one, you've got to admit to yourself, number two, you've got to take your goals that might seem really big and might kind of scare you a little bit and just make them bite. Size number three, you've got to figure out why you are doing what you're doing. And if your wife is strong enough, you're going to figure out a way to get it done.

Number four, you're going to remove all of the distractions, all of the notifications, all the things that get in your way and revive you. Do the Pomodoro technique where you work for twenty five minutes and you take five minutes off. And if you do that, it will pull you out of your laziness so that you can start to get shit done.

Because I'm telling you this, if you don't do anything and you're too lazy, your life is not going to be what you want it to be. So let's build the life that you want. Follow these steps, pull your ass out of laziness and get to work. So that's what I got for you for today's episode.

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