How to STOP being lazy and wasting your life

You know what's worse than trying hard and failing? Failing when you did not try hard enough, and even worse when you are a smart person. I am so tired of you not understanding the immense potential inside of yourself to literally achieve your dream grades, dream achievements, and your A-plus life. I've coached enough students and even adults who are 10 years older than me who tell me how they regret being lazy, especially in school. I regret everything. And let's face it, it's not hard work that will kill you. It's regret. Hey team, it's Amy. If you're lazy, you probably don't want to listen to a laundry list of advice, so I've narrowed down the top most effective tips that were magic for me being able to become valedictorian while maintaining eight hours of sleep. These also helped me get a 4.0 GPA in chemical engineering at Caltech while playing varsity basketball. To exit our lazy era most efficiently, we must first understand what really is being lazy. Merriam-Webster says, this is when you're disinclined to activity or exertion. In other words, you just don't feel like putting in effort to achieve something. So that task you're supposed to be doing right now instead of watching this great YouTube video, as part of yin yang, the action you should be doing can't change much. If you have to write an essay, you can't change the task into writing a poem. Thus, what we can leverage as part of this yin yang is the mindset because the resistance you feel is all in your head. So the key is to make your exertion more attractive through these four tips. Stay to the end of this video to find out the most important first step you should do. Time to lock in. Let's go. Imagine you mess up, laying on your bed, bumming around. How many times do you talk down on yourself? Ugh, I'm being so bad. I'm so lazy. I can't get up. I suck. Do you think it's going to accomplish anything other than making yourself feel worse and even lazier? Instead, what consistently worked for me was to coach myself in a friendly way by having a positive attitude. Think glass half full. Acknowledging the little wins you already had today. Feel grateful that you even get to do this daunting task and focus on what you'll gain from your effort and not what you will lose. Because often we're not really losing anything when we do the task. We're just losing slumping on the couch and scrolling on our phone, I guess. The mind is an incredibly powerful thing and don't just take my word for it. I attended an Apple event where Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos, who is an expert on happiness, revealed that to stop being lazy, you have to acknowledge common humanity. This means that instead of thinking there's something wrong with you and beating yourself up, you admit that you are just being human, same as everyone else. This chakra deals with willpower and is blocked by shame. Feeling lazy or unmotivated is something that every single person experiences, even the most successful people in the world. When you put yourself in the same category of humans as those you admire, you will realize that you can achieve amazing things too. This will boost your confidence and it will become easier to be inclined to do the activity and put in effort. Some of you comment how hopeless your situation feels, but your way of thinking is exactly why it's harder and harder. You need to inject in yourself a little bit of hope. That's why at the start of this video, I said you need to get off your lazy butt because you have too much potential to rot there. If you don't like what's going on, get off of your butts and find somebody to take care of these problems. I didn't say you have to stop being lazy because you suck, so you shouldn't talk to yourself like that either. Aw man, I hope someone doesn't clip that one part. You have to stop being lazy because you suck. Having a habit of thinking glass half full will take you so far in life and not just combat laziness. But to make this effective, you have to take one important step first, which will be revealed at the end of the video. When I have to do chores like washing the dishes, I will put on Sabrina Carpenter's short and sweet album or BTS's top hits. Replicating or incorporating something you enjoy into the work will get you excited. I use this in my own work and school all the time. If I had to memorize stuff, I turn it into a game using flashcard generators and online quiz platforms because as an athlete, something I already enjoy is competitions and games. And one of the coolest platforms that can help you enjoy studying from math to psychology to AP biology is Thea. They literally have a matching game so you can have fun memorizing. This is my third time partnering with Thea because they help you get the A in such an awesome way. You can enter any of your classes. I'm putting AP calc. Thea makes studying more engaging with smart study where AI adjusts the difficulty of the questions based on your progress. There are detailed answer explanations and you can always go back to look at your past practice. Like I said in my overrated study tips video, an underrated tip is to do mock tests. This is one of the best ways to guarantee a top grade and prevent test anxiety. Thea makes it so easy to generate a test, customize to the amount of time you have and your difficulty level. Study tip, not all terms are created equal. When you're studying terms, make sure to distinguish between those that simply have a definition versus big picture concepts that connect with other terms. You should spend more effort on the latter. Thea uses AI to distinguish between definitional versus concept-based information so you can learn even more effectively with smart study and test features. I appreciate how much Thea cares about students. They're constantly rolling out new updates to improve your learning experience. Just as I'm thankful for your feedback to me, feel free to submit any user feedback you have to Thea on the platform. Now's the perfect time to try Thea to get you fired up for studying so try it with the link in my description. Like I said in tip one about common humanity, I also get really lazy and I don't want to get up and do anything but I have an arsenal of useful chains of thought. This is where when I think through these chains without fail, I get up and I start doing what I'm supposed to do. I think about how in high school to help prepare me for math competitions, my dad would take huge stacks of math problems and during his work time when he was supposed to be chilling and taking a break, he would be solving those problems so he can explain to me later that day. The amount of care and effort that he put into me and my success makes me feel like, oh my gosh, I need to put in that same effort too. My parents didn't do these because it felt like a burden or a sacrifice. They wanted to do it for my future and wellbeing. Thinking through these makes me want to get up and put in the work too. A really common great chain of thought that other people have talked about is to remember that somewhere out there in the world is someone with worse circumstances than you working their butt off. Even better, if you can connect this with a concrete example, I remember last year when I visited China, Sean took me to get a massage and this massage parlor was full of people who were blind and this girl who was massaging me was my age but she couldn't see and she talked about having dreams to go to the US but she could never make that possible and she was chatting with the other masseuses and they were talking about how they couldn't afford a $2 bowl of ramen downstairs. Yeah, I think that got a little darker than I intended but you know, it helps. You gotta work hard to do justice to those out there who have less than you and who are still working hard because if they can do it, you can too. If you need more examples of amazing chains of thought that will actually get you to stop scrolling specifically, then you can check out this video. And the three amazing chains of thought discussed in this video will get you to stop being lazy. I have stood at the bedside of maybe thousands of people as they took their last breath. What people say in their final moments is pretty important. They don't mess around. When people are dying in their last words, nobody has ever said, Pastor Rick, bring me my trophies. I wanna look at them one more time. Or even bring me my college graduation certificate. I wanna look at it one more time. When people are dying and they know their time is short, what they want in the room is not things or trophies or achievement. What they want is the people they love. Eventually, we all eventually figure out that it's all about love. It's all about relationships. I just pray you'll figure it out a whole lot sooner. Picture yourself on your dead bed, dead bed. Picture yourself on your deathbed. What matters? What will you wish you could have done for your loved ones? Would you wish you could have spent more quality time with them? Maybe that could have been achieved had you only value your time. Not only that, but if you realized that your time is also time you could have allocated to be with them. Will you wish you were more present and less distracted and in your head about how hard life is? That's why it's important to remember your why. Your deepest driving force for doing something. This is a constant desire, a fire burning inside of you. No, straight A's is not deep enough. Ranking top 10 is not important enough. Winning that state championship is not a good enough reason. What got me through? People, family, love. I want to be able to give back to my parents who gave so much to me. I also want to be able to provide for my future family. I want to set myself up so I can spend tons of quality time with my future kids and watch them grow up and go through each of their life milestones and support their great life in any way I can. I also want to be part of a movement of helping this younger generation make a better world for you and for me. Where we have the right values. So you being here, thank you so much. You are part of this movement too. I want bright-eyed students all around the world to realize that they can make their life really what they want. That's what gets me to wake myself up at 4 a.m to finish a video when there's no one telling me to. No one is out there giving me a deadline or a consequence. It's just me and my fire. When you use any of tip 1, 3, or 4, you will automatically be making the task more enjoyable even if the action itself didn't change at all. That's because the dread is all in your head. That was good. Kind of. I have too low of a bar for myself. That's the importance of the right mindset as part of the yin-yang equation. Mindset and action are like yin-yang where an increase in one will boost the other. Having a good mindset will make the right action easier and the right action will make an even better mindset. This is a positive feedback loop but you have to kick off the positive feedback loop from somewhere, either the mindset or the action. However, laziness is in your head so focus on the mindset, not the action because when you're lazy, your action is non-existent. Okay, good job. Pat on the back. If those earlier things were too deep for you, I'll end on a couple of quick hacks that don't require as much immediate thought. If all else fails, twist your laziness to work for you and be too lazy to be stressed. If you're lying on the couch, tell yourself time will pass anyway. I'm older today than I was yesterday so I might as well be further today than I was yesterday. Okay, here we go. Finally, the important step to take first when you are lazy. Take a beat. When you're lazy, literally don't do anything and stop for a moment to think and reorient your brain. Put the screen down and stare at the ceiling even. If you're still non-stop mindless scrolling, that inertia is gonna make it nearly impossible for any of those tips to work because how can you rewire your brain if it's lost? Yay, I didn't name which mindset today was the golden mindset. So I'd like you to choose which mindset is your golden mindset that you will focus on honing first. Let me know your favorite mindset in the comments along with a sparkle emoji. Remember to try learning efficiently with Thea with the link in my description. I love you all so much. Note that I can't see you at the top if you don't keep climbing. You got this, okay? Peace. T minus five minutes, four minutes now. Should I attack my email, Sean? I've been having a pit in my stomach for like the past three minutes. I see it. Update, update. Status, update. Uh-oh, uh-oh. I'm gonna click view update.