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[00:01]

All right.

[00:01]

Hello and welcome to this training.

[00:04]

As you can see from the title, what we're going to be covering

[00:06]

today is the hidden power of Doing Nothing.

[00:09]

And as you can see from the overview, what we're going to be talking about

[00:12]

more specifically is first the overview itself,

[00:15]

then the clutter problem, the purge ritual, the new input,

[00:19]

the review and your action items for the day or the next few days.

[00:23]

So without further ado, let's get started and talk about the clutter problem.

[00:28]

So most people, operate

[00:31]

with a mind that's basically carrying more than it can handle.

[00:35]

The weight build slowly, and you wake up already thinking

[00:38]

about unfinished tasks, all the messages and some loose plans for the week.

[00:42]

And as the day goes on, more gets added.

[00:45]

And the next day some more.

[00:46]

And after a while, your mind starts to feel crowded.

[00:49]

And even basic decisions take more effort than they actually should.

[00:53]

And you don't.

[00:54]

You don't really always notice this buildup is actually happening,

[00:58]

but you feel the effects.

[00:59]

You lose focus more quickly.

[01:01]

You jump between tasks without finishing them.

[01:04]

You feel a mild strain that sits in the background of everything you do,

[01:08]

and is the signal that your mind is holding too much

[01:12]

when the mind stays and the state new goals

[01:14]

don't stick, you don't have the motivation to chase them.

[01:18]

New habits fade away pretty quickly,

[01:21]

and you basically try to force progress, but the system is already at capacity.

[01:26]

There's literally no room for direction in.

[01:28]

You're trying to move forward with a mind that's running out of space.

[01:32]

It's almost like your computer is full, completely full

[01:36]

in terms of its hard drive, and you try to cram more in there.

[01:39]

It's just not going to happen.

[01:41]

And at the very least, your computer is just going to be running pretty slowly.

[01:45]

So if you want to shift your internal state, you need space.

[01:49]

You don't get clarity by adding more thoughts or more pressure.

[01:52]

You get it by removing what's sitting in the way.

[01:55]

Space gives you the ability to hold one clear instruction without your attention

[01:59]

really collapsing under a bunch of different competing demands.

[02:03]

So doing nothing is really the first step towards creating that space.

[02:08]

You need to stop feeling every moment and stop reacting to every stimulus.

[02:13]

And when that noise drops,

[02:15]

you can choose what to focus on instead of being pulled around

[02:19]

so your mind can get crowded without you even really realizing it.

[02:22]

And before long, your inner world will start to feel overfilled

[02:27]

and you will keep adding new thoughts on top of all the wants and unfinished

[02:31]

ideas will start piling up, and you're basically holding on to so much

[02:35]

that you don't even notice how tightly you're actually gripping everything.

[02:38]

And after a while, that noise will become so constant

[02:41]

that it starts to feel like this is your life, like it's normal.

[02:45]

You're just thinking all the time.

[02:46]

But none of these thoughts actually go anywhere.

[02:49]

They just stack up layer after layer,

[02:51]

and they don't move you forward in any direction at all.

[02:54]

And once those layers get thick enough, even simple task

[02:58]

will start to feel harder than they actually should.

[03:01]

There's no breathing room between your thoughts.

[03:03]

Nothing fresh can actually land because there's simply no space for it.

[03:07]

There's no space for any new ideas or any

[03:10]

any way to basically move forward in your life.

[03:13]

And when your mind fills up like this, thinking becomes less

[03:16]

like a smooth process and more like trying

[03:19]

to move around in a room where furniture has been pushed too close together.

[03:23]

You're just going to basically keep bumping into things all the time,

[03:27]

and you will lose track of what you came in for, and even a simple

[03:30]

idea will start to feel like it requires a ton of effort,

[03:33]

because it has to push through everything you've you're already carrying.

[03:38]

And since you're juggling so much internally,

[03:41]

the quality of your attention will also drop, and the quality

[03:44]

of your focus and the signal in general will get weaker.

[03:47]

And that's when people start losing interest

[03:49]

in things that they used to really care about or find themselves stuck,

[03:53]

basically staring at a screen without knowing

[03:55]

what they were supposed to be doing in the first place.

[03:58]

It's just so many thoughts at the same time that you just freeze.

[04:01]

And this is also when a lot of people start to call themselves burnt out,

[04:06]

when in reality, it's just that they're holding so much in there

[04:10]

in their mind and in their thoughts that of course

[04:13]

they're going to feel burned out.

[04:14]

Of course they're going to feel like they can't move in any direction.

[04:17]

Of course they're going to feel like everything is too much.

[04:20]

So the more the clutter builds, the more your focus breaks apart into

[04:24]

very scattered pieces, and you start shifting your attention

[04:27]

before you finished anything, you open tabs that stay open for days,

[04:30]

and you write notes that you don't return to.

[04:33]

You set some goals that you never look at again,

[04:37]

and each shift takes a little bit of strength and

[04:40]

actually, science has proven that any time you shift your attention

[04:43]

from one thing to the other, you lose a little bit of energy.

[04:46]

And and this is oversimplified, but that's a topic for a different day.

[04:52]

And the cumulative effect is that by the time

[04:54]

you want to do something that's actually meaningful,

[04:57]

you're already tired, and it's like you're running small errands

[05:02]

in your brain and in your mind all day long, and then you wonder

[05:05]

why you can't really focus or why you can't move forward.

[05:09]

And that mental clutter will create

[05:12]

a heaviness, essentially, that settles into your thoughts and makes

[05:15]

even the simple tasks you need to get done feel like these humongous projects.

[05:20]

And you'll notice this on days when everything feels slightly slower,

[05:23]

or when even choosing a next step feels like work, your mind essentially

[05:29]

has to sift through too much noise before it finds a direction.

[05:32]

And when it takes that long to locate,

[05:35]

a clear point of focus, you begin avoiding tasks altogether.

[05:38]

As I said, you start freezing, you start or flying it.

[05:42]

It's not flying.

[05:43]

But, basically escaping it.

[05:46]

So it's either fight, flight or freeze.

[05:48]

And it's less that you're unwilling and more that you feel weighed down

[05:52]

before you even begin.

[05:53]

And so when you're so stressed out, when there's so much

[05:57]

going on in your mind, basically the same kind of hormone,

[06:01]

shows up as, as when you're actually afraid

[06:04]

of something, as as if a tiger has shown up in front of you.

[06:07]

You're either going to fight, fight or freeze, and you're doing this to yourself.

[06:12]

Essentially, in today's world, because most of us are not not surrounded

[06:16]

by any dangerous animals that can actually, you know, attack us.

[06:22]

I don't want to say the other word, but you get the gist here.

[06:25]

So this this constant load will just drain you steadily,

[06:29]

and every open loop will take a tiny piece of your energy to hold in place.

[06:35]

And one by one, they don't necessarily seem like much.

[06:38]

But then they accumulate and that drain will start, become, becoming obvious.

[06:43]

And you'll feel it

[06:44]

when you wake up already tired or when you can't really fully concentrate

[06:47]

or focus on anything, no matter how hard you try.

[06:50]

The body responds to mental clutter the same way

[06:53]

it responds to physical clutter.

[06:55]

It tightens up.

[06:56]

Your thinking basically narrows, and you use more effort for less work.

[07:01]

And by the end of the day, you're spent without even having created

[07:04]

anything of substance, anything of value, without actually doing anything.

[07:08]

And the mind tends to collect residue from these unresolved things.

[07:12]

Decision.

[07:12]

You haven't made or a message you avoided answering,

[07:15]

an errand you've been putting off for a while.

[07:17]

Each one of those stays active

[07:19]

somewhere in the background, like an open tab in a different window.

[07:23]

And you may not be thinking about them consciously, but they still remain there,

[07:26]

and they drain basically your ram,

[07:30]

and the ram of your brain, essentially.

[07:33]

And when there are enough of these open loops, they glue themselves together

[07:37]

and they create this general sense of unease.

[07:40]

So you don't always know what you're carrying.

[07:42]

You just you just basically feel that you're carrying something.

[07:46]

And when your mind is cluttered, your perception starts bending as well.

[07:50]

You might interpret basically neutral situations

[07:53]

through a lens of of agitation and of anger.

[07:57]

You you might assume that pressure, you might assume that there's pressure

[08:01]

where none of it actually exists, and simple requests will start to feel

[08:05]

demanding and just ordinary days in general will start to feel strangely full.

[08:10]

And and generally you would feel like you can't actually take on life,

[08:15]

and a cluttered mind doesn't really perceive reality clearly.

[08:19]

It absorbs everything as additional weight,

[08:22]

has an additional load to everything that you're already carrying,

[08:26]

and after a while, this will shape the way you experience the world.

[08:29]

The external begins to basically feel heavier

[08:32]

and more dangerous that because the internal is.

[08:36]

And so the noise becomes a kind of a invisible fog.

[08:40]

And this is also what people mean when they say that they have this mental fog.

[08:45]

You can think, but the thinking isn't necessarily sharp.

[08:48]

Ideas arrive, but they don't stay long enough to develop,

[08:51]

and your intuition basically gets quiet.

[08:54]

You sense that there's something underneath the the agitation,

[08:58]

but you don't really quite reach it.

[09:00]

And it's similar to hearing someone talking through a wall in the other room,

[09:04]

their sound. But the message doesn't really land.

[09:06]

You can't really hear it, and you end up living in reaction to whatever's

[09:09]

loudest in your head instead of responding to what matters.

[09:13]

And clutter.

[09:14]

That clutter flattens

[09:15]

the depth of your thinking, you lose the sense of that inner

[09:19]

spaciousness that allows for insight or creativity or even just direction.

[09:24]

And you begin to operate on the surface of things

[09:26]

because that's all there's actually room for.

[09:28]

And when everything inside you feels compressed, nothing can really expand.

[09:32]

So a cluttered mind thickens in a way that makes reflection difficult as well.

[09:37]

You're thinking all day, but you're rarely reaching a real conclusion to anything

[09:42]

you're planning constantly, but you're rarely starting

[09:45]

and or or you start, but you rarely finish.

[09:48]

And you're dreaming occasionally, but never grounding the dream.

[09:52]

And there's no room for the idea to open and unfold, because the mind keeps

[09:56]

circling around the noise instead of the signal.

[09:59]

And this creates a kind of stagnation where nothing really moves forward,

[10:04]

even though you feel like you're mentally active all the time,

[10:06]

and maybe even physically.

[10:08]

And the most concerning, part is how easily this state

[10:12]

drowns out the quiet voice inside you that usually guides your direction.

[10:16]

And as the load increases, your system just shifts

[10:18]

gradually into a low level crisis mode.

[10:22]

Essentially, you respond to small things with quick emotional spikes.

[10:25]

You get irritated faster, you lose patience sooner, your energy

[10:29]

feels thin and stretched, and there's a steady hum

[10:32]

of basically internal fatigue like a fan in the background.

[10:36]

And because this becomes familiar, you begin treating it as your baseline

[10:40]

when it's actually just a sign of cognitive excess.

[10:43]

So your sense of preference, desire and inner alignment actually

[10:47]

starts to get quieter and you stop hearing what you actually want.

[10:50]

You start defaulting to basically whatever's easiest or whatever is yelling

[10:54]

for your attention in the current moment,

[10:56]

and you have no time to actually think about the future or plan for it.

[11:00]

And when the inner signal fades, it becomes incredibly difficult to shift

[11:04]

into a new phase of life because you've lost the clarity you need to choose it.

[11:09]

And this is the moment where doing nothing begins.

[11:11]

Making sense, right?

[11:12]

Emptiness doesn't require any effort.

[11:14]

It doesn't demand any focus or productivity.

[11:17]

It removes instead of adding.

[11:19]

And when you create

[11:20]

even a little bit of that emptiness and quietness, the pressure inside

[11:23]

your mind will start to soften and your thoughts will start to settle.

[11:27]

And you see more clearly what was clutter and what was real.

[11:31]

And once the space clears, and once that space actually appears,

[11:37]

you finally have room for a new reality to really take shape.

[11:41]

And this is what we're going to be covering in the next section is basically

[11:44]

clearing out the excess so that the mind can breathe again.

[11:47]

So let's talk about the purge ritual.

[11:51]

So clearing your mind really starts in a pretty simple way.

[11:55]

You basically just sit with yourself in silence for long enough to notice

[12:00]

all the thoughts and unfinished tasks or unfinished open loops start boiling up.

[12:05]

And believe me, if you really turn off all stimuli

[12:08]

and just sit there, things will start coming to the surface

[12:12]

and you will start feeling this urgency and pressure.

[12:15]

And that's what you're looking for.

[12:17]

You want to you want that urgency and pressure to come up.

[12:20]

And why?

[12:21]

Because we're going to use it in just a bit.

[12:24]

So most people don't stop long enough to actually see that.

[12:27]

And to actually allow themselves to feel that urgency and pressure,

[12:31]

which is why it builds up so easily, and why it's

[12:35]

constantly building up in the background.

[12:37]

Once you catch it, though,

[12:38]

once you actually pay attention to it and stop yourself for a moment

[12:41]

to actually notice it, you can finally do something about it.

[12:44]

It's a slow removal of pressure.

[12:47]

You're lowering the volume in your hands

[12:48]

so that the important things can actually stand out again.

[12:51]

And I mean that in a very literal sense.

[12:54]

When you're clear, when you clear some space in your head,

[12:57]

and when you quiet down for a bit, you're thinking becomes clearer.

[13:00]

Your attention doesn't scatter as much,

[13:02]

and the weight you're carrying internally becomes far easier to manage.

[13:06]

But you need to stop for a moment to actually notice that

[13:08]

and stop adding things.

[13:10]

So just take a day.

[13:12]

It couldn't be a Sunday.

[13:13]

If you a lot of people say

[13:16]

that some of the things I say are not applicable to people working a

[13:19]

9 to 5, which obviously that's a discussion for another day.

[13:23]

But you can take any day off and just take a moment and sit down and

[13:29]

be quiet for a moment

[13:30]

and notice all the pressure and all the urgency

[13:33]

and all the unfinished open loops and tasks, then open doors

[13:37]

that you've left basically from running around

[13:40]

mentally, but also physically let them come up.

[13:44]

And once you've done that,

[13:46]

the way you start clearing that space, the way you actually move in

[13:50]

to move forward and move in a direction is writing things down.

[13:55]

It's pretty simple.

[13:56]

And yes, it feels almost too simple, but it works every time.

[14:00]

And I think everybody could do this.

[14:03]

So you're taking whatever's

[14:05]

been looping in your head and giving it a physical place to sit.

[14:09]

No structure, no filtering or censoring, just a clean unload.

[14:13]

Basically a mental dump, essentially.

[14:15]

So a brain dump.

[14:17]

So you'll see that if you start doing this,

[14:20]

your thoughts will stop bouncing around once they land on paper.

[14:24]

And once you actually have to write them down as you're thanking them.

[14:28]

And it's surprising how much tension

[14:29]

will start to disappear when you're not holding everything in your working memory.

[14:33]

You can see what you're dealing with rather

[14:35]

than carrying it by instinct and memory.

[14:37]

And when you write down everything without trying to fix anything,

[14:42]

you get a clearer picture of what's actually running in the background,

[14:45]

and some of it will look trivial once you see it, written out.

[14:49]

Some of it will remind you

[14:50]

that you've been dragging certain tasks for way too long.

[14:53]

Either way, the pressure will drop and there's a moment

[14:57]

where you will feel your mind not pressing forward so hard.

[15:02]

And once you start doing it, you almost physically feel the mental

[15:05]

unload or mental load, finally easing up.

[15:09]

Right?

[15:09]

And I personally try, I personally try to have as little

[15:12]

as possible in my memory.

[15:15]

I try, I don't want to remember things.

[15:18]

I don't want to have to remember things.

[15:20]

So everything is written down either in notion or in my reminders app on my phone.

[15:25]

Which actually also reminds me to put everything from there in notion.

[15:29]

So anytime I actually put down something in the reminders app off my phone,

[15:33]

I also set a reminder to put those things in my notion, especially if they're not

[15:38]

some smaller, smaller tasks that I can get done in five minutes. So

[15:43]

once you have a centralized place for all of these thoughts and

[15:46]

and all of these random tasks in your head, and you actually start

[15:50]

actively putting

[15:51]

and organizing everything in there, you'll be free from overthinking,

[15:55]

and you'll be free from the the overthinking that

[15:58]

you have subjected yourself to for so long.

[16:01]

And I'm not saying you should use notion or anything like that for that matter.

[16:05]

It has worked great for me, but you can use whatever basically works for you.

[16:08]

The system you use is not that that important or

[16:12]

or how you organize the things, as long as you organize them

[16:16]

and put them in somewhere that works for you, essentially.

[16:19]

And what I'm saying is

[16:20]

that you can really figure out ways to move your life forward.

[16:24]

You can actually really think about the future and plan for the future.

[16:28]

If if, if your brain is constantly busy with remembering trivial

[16:32]

tasks and errands that you haven't done from three weeks ago,

[16:37]

it's just you're just constantly in and catching up mode.

[16:41]

Essentially, you'll never be able to really look to the future plan

[16:44]

for the future, and actually take action for your future self now because you're

[16:50]

constantly catching up with with tasks and things you're doing from the past.

[16:54]

Because you're constantly trying to remember everything.

[16:57]

Now, after the writing itself, silence works as a second

[17:02]

clearing tool, so even a few minutes of it can reset your mind.

[17:06]

You step away from the noise, away from your screens,

[17:09]

away from, things that basically ask for your attention.

[17:12]

And honestly, it will feel very odd at first.

[17:15]

You're most likely used to constant input, and I'm not blaming you for it.

[17:20]

Most people

[17:22]

are and are addicted to constant input.

[17:25]

It's it's a way to escape as well.

[17:28]

We have to remember that.

[17:30]

So once you sit in silence for a bit,

[17:33]

you will notice the internal pace slowing down,

[17:35]

and you're not being pulled in every direction

[17:38]

because you're you're sitting in that quiet and you've

[17:41]

unloaded everything in your head, and now you're just sitting there

[17:45]

and you're what you're doing is basically

[17:47]

you're giving your brain the first real break it's had all day.

[17:51]

Or maybe all month, for that matter.

[17:55]

And in that silence, your thoughts will start spreading out

[17:57]

instead of clumping together.

[17:59]

And you don't have to make them really do anything.

[18:02]

They settle on their own.

[18:03]

Once the constant stimulus stops.

[18:06]

Once you stop constantly putting things in your brain,

[18:10]

it's it's a very simple effect, but it matters.

[18:13]

You can think straight or you can see what's useful.

[18:15]

You can see what's just noise.

[18:17]

You can see what's not useful, what you need to just leave behind.

[18:22]

And even

[18:22]

better, you can see what you don't actually have to finish.

[18:25]

And it feels less and less like wrestling with your mind,

[18:28]

and more like working with a system that finally has some room to breathe.

[18:32]

And the next step is actually reducing how much stimulation you take

[18:35]

in each day by default.

[18:37]

So once you've unloaded everything, once you've sat in silence, once you basically

[18:42]

prioritize things and organize things and seeing what actually you know,

[18:47]

what actually matters and what doesn't and what can be left behind,

[18:50]

then the next step is really reducing how much stimulation

[18:54]

you take in each day by default, so that it doesn't repeat again.

[18:57]

So most people don't realize how much they're actually consuming until they try

[19:00]

cutting back every random, scroll or errand adds mental load.

[19:06]

And when there are dozens of those moments that are stacked together,

[19:10]

your mind ends up stretched thin, right?

[19:12]

So reducing stimulation is incredibly effective

[19:15]

because you're essentially lowering the baseline noise level

[19:18]

so that your mind can actually function without straining all the time.

[19:22]

So there's a few ways you can do that.

[19:24]

And the first one is taking a short digital fast,

[19:28]

or a digital detox is how some people call it,

[19:32]

and it does more than most people expect.

[19:34]

And I'm not saying you need a long break of a week or something like that.

[19:38]

Just a few hours every day without any social media

[19:43]

or constant notifications is really already enough to create

[19:46]

a noticeable change, and you're no longer reacting every few minutes.

[19:50]

And because of that, because you're taking a break

[19:52]

and your attention will learn to or you will learn to keep your attention

[19:57]

in one place, you will learn to not be checking your phone every five minutes.

[20:00]

And better yet, never turn these notifications back on.

[20:03]

You're not going to really miss out on anything important.

[20:07]

And if somebody really wants to talk to you, they can always call you.

[20:11]

Remember that at the end of the day, we have phones for a reason.

[20:14]

People can just call you if something's this is really urgent.

[20:18]

So after a brief fast,

[20:20]

you might notice that your mind feels less crowded

[20:23]

and your thoughts don't push against each other the way they did before,

[20:27]

and there's enough space for them to actually form without pressure,

[20:30]

without urgency, and that pressure of needing to do stuff.

[20:35]

And another way to do this is through a content diet.

[20:38]

Now, I do this by the phone at this point, and it works by basically

[20:42]

limiting your input to a small set of intentional sources.

[20:46]

So you're intentionally choosing specific people,

[20:50]

and specific topics and specific formats and everything else gets cut.

[20:55]

So this will create a controlled information environment basically

[20:58]

where your mind only absorbs what supports your current direction.

[21:02]

And you can start by listing 3 to 5 creators or sources

[21:06]

whose work consistently aligns with where you're headed.

[21:09]

Right?

[21:10]

And these should be people who help you think more clearly.

[21:13]

Not people who simply entertain or distract you.

[21:15]

So of course, there is a moment in time,

[21:19]

for entertainment, however, that should not be,

[21:24]

clumped together with,

[21:25]

with with the content that you're consuming to help you in

[21:30]

moving forward in your direction.

[21:33]

So once you have your list, commit to consuming

[21:35]

only from those sources for the next few weeks or a week.

[21:38]

And you can also try setting clear boundaries around

[21:41]

the type of content itself.

[21:43]

So if you're focusing on building a skill, try to consume only instructional

[21:48]

or applied content.

[21:49]

And if you're working on on mindset, stick to philosophy

[21:52]

or reflective writing or philosophy books.

[21:55]

If you've spent the last few years consuming random content,

[21:58]

your mind will really benefit from some concentrated input that points

[22:02]

in one direction, and you'll also master subjects way faster that way.

[22:07]

If you, for example, set this month as a philosophy month

[22:11]

and all you do is literally read philosophy books and watch philosophy

[22:16]

related content, whether that's videos or documentaries or whatever.

[22:22]

You're going to master that?

[22:23]

Well, you're not necessarily going to master the subject of philosophy itself,

[22:27]

but you're going to be way further than most people are on the subject.

[22:30]

And I'm not going to lie, the restraint will most likely feel

[22:34]

very uncomfortable at first.

[22:36]

Because you you're you're used to watching basically anything

[22:40]

that grabs your attention and now you're not doing it anymore.

[22:43]

One thing you could also try is just literally watching just lectures,

[22:47]

for a month straight.

[22:48]

And this will

[22:50]

lectures and books only.

[22:52]

And this will require your mindset.

[22:54]

Now it's going to feel uncomfortable because it's it's basically

[22:58]

like a nutritional diet.

[22:59]

But for the content you actually consume, not for the food you consume.

[23:04]

So you'll feel the pull to check other channels or explore unrelated topics.

[23:09]

And that is really part of the clutter you're trying to remove.

[23:13]

Each time you resist it.

[23:14]

You're training your attention to stay narrow and strong,

[23:18]

and the discomfort will fade quickly.

[23:20]

Once your mind actually adjusts to the reduced inputs over a few weeks,

[23:24]

you'll not want to necessarily check these videos as much,

[23:29]

so the next step here is also physical clearing, clearing

[23:33]

or clearing your environment around you or where you spend the most time.

[23:39]

Now if if

[23:41]

you're going to an office, I mean, clear your office, clear your desk.

[23:45]

At least you can always clear. Clean that up.

[23:48]

If you, work from home, then clean up the room you're working from.

[23:53]

Clean up everything. In fact, in your home.

[23:55]

Just try to clear everything around you so that everything is clean and tidy.

[24:00]

Because at the end of the day, a clean desk, a cleaned out corner,

[24:04]

I cleaned out room or even just an organized bag.

[24:09]

Like, literally organizing your gym bag, for example, changes

[24:12]

how your mind operates.

[24:14]

You're really reducing the number of things that are asking for your attention.

[24:19]

And it doesn't fix everything, but it definitely removes a layer of friction

[24:23]

that you didn't realize was there right,

[24:26]

that you didn't necessarily realize is crowding.

[24:29]

You're crowding your mind and crowding your thoughts,

[24:32]

and you get a cleaner visual field and in a way, a cleaner internal

[24:36]

one as well, because the lightness that follows feels very steady.

[24:39]

Once you clean out a room, once you clear out your your your space

[24:43]

in general, your desk,

[24:44]

whatever it is, you'll feel this, you'll feel this lightness.

[24:49]

And it's a it's a steady feeling.

[24:51]

Essentially, your attention feels less pulled.

[24:54]

You can look at one thing

[24:55]

without your mind drifting towards everything else in the room.

[24:58]

And this kind of environmental clearing will help you

[25:01]

far more than most people assume.

[25:03]

Now, next up are your emotions and

[25:08]

this is one

[25:08]

one subject that I don't think a lot of people talk about,

[25:12]

but emotional residue also needs clearing.

[25:15]

Now. A lot of people live with with in a

[25:20]

they have a life where they have enclosed open

[25:22]

loops with, with people around them, with the relationships they have.

[25:27]

They have these open loops, always in the background, things that they didn't

[25:31]

discuss, the things that conversations that they started and never finished

[25:35]

is the leftover tension from things you haven't dealt with.

[25:39]

And it might be irritation from a conversation or some kind of a worry.

[25:43]

You didn't want to examine all these small emotional

[25:46]

weights, sit in the mind and take up real space.

[25:49]

This is why actually a lot of people want closure after a relationship ends.

[25:54]

If they didn't get the closure.

[25:56]

Is because that weight stays in their mind

[26:00]

and it obviously prevents them from moving forward.

[26:04]

Now, I'm not saying you have to analyze every emotion deeply.

[26:06]

In fact, quite the opposite, I would say.

[26:09]

But you should give them a brief moment of acknowledgment,

[26:12]

so that they stop circling back. Right.

[26:15]

This doesn't mean indulging the emotion.

[26:17]

As I said, you're simply noticing it

[26:19]

without really pushing it away, without suppressing it.

[26:22]

It's just a short moment of honesty, and it looks pretty simple.

[26:25]

For example, if you feel angry literally mentally

[26:29]

in your thoughts, admit to yourself that you feel angry.

[26:32]

If you feel sad, literally just admit to yourself in your thoughts.

[26:36]

You don't have to share it with anyone,

[26:38]

but just admit to yourself that you feel sad and once you see it.

[26:41]

Or in other words, once you notice the emotion, the emotion

[26:45]

usually loses its intensity because you've given it some space, right?

[26:49]

It you can imagine it almost as as something that wants to be heard.

[26:54]

The moment

[26:55]

you hear, the moment you acknowledge that it's trying to say something to you,

[27:00]

it feels heard.

[27:01]

And that's it. It quiets down, right?

[27:03]

It no longer holds the same grip because you're not resisting it anymore.

[27:06]

You're not trying to suppress it.

[27:08]

You're not trying to push it away.

[27:10]

And the internal resistance

[27:11]

will start to drop, and you'll get back a bit of clarity that you did.

[27:15]

You you didn't even realize you had lost because of it.

[27:19]

And after that purge, the change can be pretty noticeable.

[27:22]

Your thinking will get clear,

[27:24]

your attention is more stable, the noise in your mind will drop

[27:28]

far enough for you to actually be able to be aware and hear your thoughts again.

[27:33]

And this is the environment.

[27:35]

This is the environment where new ideas can actually

[27:38]

take root and new patterns can actually form.

[27:41]

And that emptiness is useful only if you fill it with something deliberate.

[27:45]

So the next section will focus on how to choose that single input.

[27:50]

Because it will become the anchor for the reality you build next.

[27:56]

Right?

[27:56]

So let's talk about the new input.

[27:58]

Now, once you've cleared enough space, your mind becomes much easier

[28:01]

to work with.

[28:03]

And there's less noise, there's fewer stray thoughts

[28:05]

pulling at you and a stronger sense of internal quiet.

[28:09]

And this is where a single clear instruction makes a real difference.

[28:13]

So the mind likes direction, and when you give it one simple command,

[28:17]

it tends to shape everything around that command without much resistance.

[28:21]

And the key here is really choosing something specific enough to guide you,

[28:25]

but simple enough that it doesn't create new clutter, right?

[28:29]

A clean mind can hold one idea with surprising strengths,

[28:31]

but if you give it a complex kind of goal, then it will most likely go back to

[28:38]

trying to escape and trying to basically suppress it

[28:41]

or or not focus on that,

[28:42]

because it's just it's just more, more than it can actually handle in the moment.

[28:47]

So you start by actually choosing one thing or one

[28:51]

thought that actually matters.

[28:53]

And it doesn't need to have layers of meaning.

[28:55]

It doesn't need to be complex.

[28:57]

Just a simple directive will keep your attention steady through the day.

[29:00]

And it can be a phrase.

[29:01]

It can be a goal for the day.

[29:04]

It could be a mantra.

[29:05]

It could be just a maxim, or a principle you want to operate from.

[29:10]

This single idea becomes your anchor, right?

[29:12]

And because you've reduced the internal noise,

[29:15]

the anchor sits in your awareness without you having to force it.

[29:18]

There.

[29:19]

And to do this, you just ask yourself what direction

[29:21]

you want to lean towards right now or today.

[29:24]

And when the idea of yours clean and uncomplicated, that's a good sign.

[29:27]

If you feel some kind of tension or confusion around it, it's

[29:30]

probably too complex, so a simple directive tends to hold best.

[29:35]

Now one example is a domino go

[29:37]

and a domino go is the one outcome that, if you achieve it right now

[29:42]

or today, knocks down several other goals at once,

[29:45]

or at least makes the others a bit irrelevant.

[29:47]

And so is the priority

[29:50]

that essentially carries the most weight.

[29:52]

It gives your mind one clear target instead of

[29:56]

spreading your attention across many small ones.

[29:59]

So once you've chosen your idea, you basically reinforce it

[30:02]

by bringing it back into focus at steady intervals,

[30:05]

and you return to the idea whenever you get distracted.

[30:08]

You can do this either casually by every time you notice it,

[30:13]

by being slightly more aware of the moment

[30:17]

because the mind at the end of the day

[30:19]

learns through simple, consistent reminders,

[30:21]

and because all that mental clutter is gone.

[30:23]

Those reminders will now work a lot better, or a straightforward

[30:27]

way to just take control of this process and not leave it up to your awareness,

[30:31]

is to just write down your current dominant goal three times a day.

[30:35]

Morning, noon, and evening.

[30:37]

Now, it doesn't take long, but you're basically training your mind

[30:40]

to hold one direction and the writing will act as a reset each time.

[30:46]

So in the morning, you write down your dominant goal.

[30:49]

It sets the tone for the day.

[30:51]

At noon, you write down your dominant goal.

[30:53]

It basically brings you back on track.

[30:55]

When the day starts to, it starts to pull you

[30:57]

in different directions, and in the evening you close the loop.

[31:01]

Essentially, you just remind yourself of the

[31:03]

dominant goal you're working towards right now.

[31:06]

Now, after a short period

[31:07]

of of repetition, the idea will begin holding its own place.

[31:11]

You won't have to necessarily hold it in your thoughts all the time,

[31:15]

or write it down all the time.

[31:17]

It's still beneficial if you do so, but you'll notice it's

[31:19]

showing up in your thoughts without any effort on your side,

[31:22]

and you start making choices

[31:23]

that essentially line up with it without having to think too hard.

[31:27]

And the idea will become a filter your mind uses automatically.

[31:31]

It's a pretty quiet shift, yet it changes

[31:33]

the way you move through your day and through your weeks or months.

[31:37]

You're no longer reminding yourself of the direction it's just constantly there.

[31:41]

The mind has accepted it as the baseline.

[31:43]

This is what it's working towards.

[31:45]

And you can do this with anyone.

[31:46]

Once you achieve the dominant goal, obviously you can set another one

[31:50]

and do the same thing,

[31:51]

and with enough repetition, the idea will start to settle deeper.

[31:56]

It stops feeling like something external.

[31:57]

You're trying to remember it becomes part of your internal language,

[32:01]

and the mind starts shaping your habits and attention around it.

[32:05]

Right.

[32:05]

And this integration happens when the idea is simple enough and repeated enough.

[32:10]

So you'll notice you don't hesitate or procrastinate

[32:13]

as much, and you'll get distracted less often.

[32:16]

And you will act in ways

[32:17]

that match the idea or the goal before you even think about it.

[32:21]

And the mind prefers consistency and frequency.

[32:25]

It doesn't always prefer intensity, right?

[32:28]

Because you can intensely repeat the same thing for a week, but whenever.

[32:33]

And this is the same when we're talking about the gym.

[32:36]

You can't be super consistent.

[32:39]

You can't workout every day,

[32:43]

or frequent and

[32:45]

at the same time have the highest intensity possible.

[32:50]

So you can't necessarily make,

[32:53]

do PR every day on the same muscle group.

[32:56]

Right?

[32:56]

The same the same way with your brain or with your mind.

[33:01]

The mind prefers consistency and frequency rather than repeating

[33:05]

something for a week, as much as possible and then forgetting about it.

[33:09]

So when you give it one direction and you remind of it basically here

[33:13]

and there over a longer period of time, it will hold that direction

[33:17]

without much effort.

[33:19]

And as the idea stabilizes, you'll feel less internal noise around it.

[33:23]

You check it less.

[33:24]

You don't need to write it down as much.

[33:26]

You correct yourself less, it becomes a fixed point in your awareness,

[33:30]

and it becomes almost like what breath is during meditation.

[33:34]

So it's it becomes basically a focus point

[33:37]

to bring you back to the here and now, right?

[33:40]

Just like you focus on your breath when you meditate,

[33:44]

every time your thoughts

[33:45]

start scattering, you just refocus on your breath.

[33:50]

And once the idea is embedded, you will start to act on it

[33:53]

consistently, without without necessarily putting in more effort than usual.

[33:57]

One action in line with the idea is just enough to start really creating

[34:02]

a visible change.

[34:03]

And a clear mind is really a multiplier.

[34:06]

It amplifies the force of a simple action, and each aligned

[34:09]

step reinforces the internal signal and makes the next one easier.

[34:14]

And each time you act in line with the idea,

[34:17]

you anchor a deeper in the mind connects the internal instruction

[34:20]

with the real action, with the external action,

[34:23]

and it treats the idea as a working part of your identity

[34:26]

rather than some kind of a loose intention.

[34:29]

And this will create a loop where your thoughts and when and actions

[34:34]

start to feed each other and your intentions too.

[34:37]

And that's also when confidence increases, because what you think,

[34:41]

what you intend to do and what you do are all in line.

[34:44]

And with that comes progress.

[34:46]

The idea starts shaping what you notice, what you choose and what you ignore,

[34:51]

and you catch opportunities

[34:52]

that match it, and you skip distractions that pull away from it.

[34:56]

And this is what focus is, is keeping an idea or a goal in your head

[35:02]

and reminding yourself of it and acting on it for long enough.

[35:07]

And that way your mind isn't overloaded.

[35:11]

It's focusing on the one thing,

[35:14]

and it has the space and the clarity to follow one direction

[35:17]

and follow it well and actually achieve

[35:20]

and your achieve way more this way.

[35:23]

A lot of people think that

[35:24]

if they just set 20 goals, they're going to achieve them all

[35:27]

and all of that, and they can work on 20 goals at the same, it doesn't work.

[35:30]

Guys.

[35:31]

Just focus on one thing completed, go to the next thing.

[35:36]

Essentially just mono tasking.

[35:40]

Now, once the idea holds, the vacuum you created

[35:43]

becomes a tool instead of a temporary state,

[35:46]

and you're working with a mind that's now clear, it's steady and it's responsive,

[35:51]

and you've given it one clean signal and you've reinforced it through repetition,

[35:56]

and now you've grounded it through action afterwards.

[35:59]

So with that being said, let's go over the review.

[36:02]

We talked about the overview.

[36:03]

We went over the clutter problem, the purge ritual, the new input,

[36:08]

the review, and finally your action items for the day or the next few days.

[36:11]

First, set a five minute timer today and unload every loose thought

[36:15]

and every loose task onto paper, every open loop.

[36:19]

And don't organize it.

[36:20]

Don't fix anything.

[36:21]

At first, you're just reducing that internal load

[36:24]

so that your mind has room to work again and then identify a domain, a goal.

[36:28]

Fix the one outcome that would make the rest of your responsibilities lighter,

[36:32]

and then write it down three times today, morning, noon, and evening.

[36:36]

Or if it's too late.

[36:37]

If you're watching this in the evening, then just start from tomorrow.

[36:41]

Or start now.

[36:42]

Basically, just write the evening one and let the domino go.

[36:46]

Guide one small action before the day and nothing large,

[36:49]

just one step that aligns with the direction you chose.

[36:53]

And this will anchor the new input.

[36:55]

And it will also begin to shift the environment around you.

[36:58]

With that being said, I hope you found this video valuable.

[37:01]

If you did, let me know in the comments.

[37:02]

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[37:03]

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[37:07]

especially if you're an entrepreneur, creator or professional,

[37:10]

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[37:13]

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[37:17]

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[37:21]

Once again, thank you for being here and I'm gonna see you in the next one.

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