The time, focus, and energy you spend on 2 hours of video games is the same time, focus, and energy you could spend becoming the person you keep saying you want to be.
Same input. Completely different output.
Nobody's saying never play games. But if you're unhappy with where you are, your body, your work, your relationships, and you're still choosing 2 hours of escape every night, that's not a rest decision. That's a priority decision.
The gap between who you are and who you want to be isn't closed by motivation. It's closed by hours. And you have them. You're just spending them somewhere else.
Most methods of making money online actually work.
Drop shipping works. Affiliate marketing works. Kindle publishing works. YouTube works.
I'm not saying that to hype you up. I'm saying it because it's true, and because understanding it changes how you approach the whole thing.
When I first started trying stuff online I thought the problem was the method. I tried things, they didn't work, I moved on. Tried the next thing. Same result. I kept thinking I was one method away from it clicking.
I wasn't. The methods were fine. What nobody told me was what they actually required.
Not just money. Time. Skills I didn't have yet. A learning curve that looked nothing like the sales page. Months of nothing before anything started to move.
The pitch shows you the result. It leaves out the road.
That's not always a lie. Sometimes the person selling it genuinely made it work. But they made it work after figuring out the hard parts, and they're not selling you that part because that part doesn't convert.
So if you've tried something and it didn't work, the question worth asking isn't "does this method work." It's "what does this method actually require from me, and was I prepared to give that."
Usually the answer is no. Not because you're not capable. Because nobody told you what to prepare for.
If you just #nofap relapsed, this video is for you.
Most guys feel the shame, tell themselves they'll try harder, and repeat the same cycle. But a relapse isn't just a failure. It's data. And if you know how to read it, you can use it to make sure it doesn't keep happening.
Watch it, take notes, apply it.
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Around 8 months ago I started consistently posting on my youtube channel.
After years of trying and failing different endeavours, I came to one conclusion: MARKETING was where I was losing.
You can have the best product or service in the world. If nobody knows about it, nobody buys it.
So I started youtube. To build a personal brand and use it as a funnel toward the genuine solutions I have for people struggling with modern day addictions (porn, gaming, scrolling, etc).
In 8 months:
- 3763 subscribers
- 1 viral video at 275k views
- 100 monthly paying app subscribers
There are people who have gotten WAY better results in LESS time. But I don't care. These are MY results from my own journey.
I wanted to quit after week 1 because I didn't get any views. Then month 1 because it didn't seem to work. Then at 3 months because I couldn't go past 1000 views per video. Then again last week where my videos have been tanking.
With each period of wanting to give up, I pushed through and learned something that took me further.
I'm looking forward to the lessons I'll get this time.
Have you ever gone to the gym, even when you really didn't feel like it, and regretted going?
I haven't. Not once.
Even when my brain was telling me I was too tired, that it's okay to rest, that ten minutes of stretching at home would be enough for today.
Even after all that, I still went. And I never regretted it.
Which means my brain was lying to me every single time it tried to convince me that going wasn't the right call.
Makes one wonder what else our brains be lying about.
I once published a youtube video I didn't think much of. As of today, it has almost 300k views.
I've also made videos where I spent a whole week planning, filming, editing, and they got 200 views.
The moral of the story is that effort doesn't always lead to results... right away.
Sometimes there are hidden developments in the things we pursue.
From that video I spent a week on, I didn't gain new subscribers, get new leads, or make any money.
But what I did get was more knowledge, and the confidence that comes from showing up regardless of results.
The gym session where nothing felt good? You still built muscle.
The conversation that went nowhere? You still practiced showing up.
The business you shut down? You still learned something nobody can teach you in a classroom.
Most people quit because they're measuring the wrong thing, too early.
The results you can see are only half the story. The other half is happening underneath, whether you notice it or not.
Keep going.
Working towards a goal is rarely sexy.
Some days you feel aligned, clear, ready to go.
Other days you wake up underslept, stomach off, back hurting for no reason, wondering why the energy just isn't there.
That's because motivation is a FEELING. And like every other feeling, it comes and goes.
Discipline is something else entirely.
It's doing what needs to be done regardless of how you feel.
Your brain isn't judging you. It's just optimizing for what you repeat.
Watch corn to decompress and it builds the pathway back to corn every time stress hits. Scroll first thing in the morning and it starts reaching for the phone before you're awake. Procrastinate when something feels hard and avoidance becomes the default response to anything uncomfortable.
But the same mechanism works in reverse. Read every morning and your brain reaches for the book. Train when you don't feel like it and your brain stops negotiating. Do the hard task first and starting becomes easier than avoiding.
The mechanism is identical. The outcome is completely different.
Things you can do instead of grabbing your phone the second you are bored.
- Breathe
- Smile, even if thereβs no reason
- Call your mom and dad
- Look at the sky and just MARVEL at the beauty
- Let your mind detach from the world for a second instead of filling it with endless input designed to hook you, overwhelm you, overstimulate you, and pull you away from the present moment
If you spend 20 minutes every morning scrolling upon waking up, that's 10 hours of scrolling a month.
(And that's just your morning session...)
10 hours of random input your brain won't remember, slowly rewiring you to need more of it.
Swap it for reading. Same 20 minutes. That's 10 to 20 pages a day, 300 to 600 pages a month. A book or two that could actually change something.
Now zoom out to one year.
120 hours of scrolling. Or 12 to 24 books.
Same time. Completely different brain a year from now.
I started writing.
Every video I make starts as an idea I've been sitting with. From now on I'm writing those ideas out in full.
First post: your brain is running programs you didn't choose.
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One can endure any suffering if it has meaning; but meaninglessness is unbearable.
Robert A. Johnson. Owning Your Own Shadow - Robert A. Johnson (p. 45). (Function).