the zurkie show - are you sure you want to do it?

Episode Date: December 11, 2024

the winter arc came and went. and we didn't reach any of our "goals." here's why that's ok.

It's not realistic. It's all forced. Sun is down. Freezing cold. That's how you already know. Winters here. Speaking of winter, a lot of us went on a winter arc. And we failed.

I'm not even going to be like, oh, and we read 10 pages every morning and we locked and, no, we totally didn't do any of that. You know why? Because I didn't do any of that. And I was like, winter arc. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, that sounds great. I'm going to go on the winter arc and I'm going to, oh my gosh, I'm going to, oh, force it.

A lot of the things that we think we want, that we think are our goals aren't even what we really want. They are a melody of the influences we've heard online. Now, it's different to get inspired by something. You watch a video and it's of someone running a triathlon and you say, Hey, I want to do that. That looks great. sick dude that's freaking awesome but there's a difference between getting inspired and then hearing someone say something and be like huh well he said that i should want that so i guess i do now this is

kind of ironic because that's literally what i do and to that i say you should one million percent be listening to a bunch of different perspectives i am just one i am just unksed that is all I am. But there are hundreds of thousands of people with different perspectives, different backgrounds, different lives to take from, to understand, to learn from. But a lot of us, including me, are very susceptible to someone telling us to wake up at 5.30 a.m., to go run for two miles, then go to the gym, then eat 20 egg whites, because that's what we should. should be doing in our 20s. Rosen lasagna, medium power, 15 minutes. Sounds like Ojo time. Let's play.

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No, I don't want to be doing that. No, I like to wake up early every morning. It's great. I love seeing the sunrise. It's awesome. But running two miles every day? No, I don't want to do that. I would love to run playing soccer.

I love soccer. It's my favorite sport. Give me a 1V1 any day. sprinting, of course, I'll do it. Give me playing center defensive mid any day over a long run. I will do it in a heartbeat. That's because I want to do that. It's what I like.

And I don't force it. Now, in order to know if you're forcing something, you have to know what you like. And for a lot of us, we don't know what that is. We've kind of gone through life, listening to what other people have told us we should like and should do. And maybe we've come to a crossroads where we're like, Like, dude, I don't even know what is, I don't know.

I don't know what I like. And so you should try. You should try a bunch of different things. That's for certain. But for those of us who know. And we're just hearing people tell us like, bro, like, you should, no, don't, why are you spending time animating? Stop it. You should, like, lock in on crypto.

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Book your seat at westjet.com. or call your travel agent, WestJet, where your story takes off. Don't force it. Don't force it. I have this problem where I equate being the best version of myself to being a machine. Wake up. Drink egg whites. Work on video for 10 hours straight.

It's not realistic. It's not. It's all forced. And you need discipline and consistency. Don't get me wrong. You need that if you want to succeed at something. But if you're forcing it and it feels just like you're throwing yourself at it and just nothing like it's not hitting.

Stop! It's time to go back to the drawing board. The best things that you're able to stay consistent with and stay locked in on are the things that you find some kind of joy in. And maybe it's changing something in order for everything else to flourish. Maybe you're not meant to wake up at 5.30 in the morning. Maybe that's not you. Maybe the best time for you to wake up is 8 a.m. and you're going to be 20 times more productive. Maybe the best thing for you isn't actually starting a business. It's working for somebody and learning

about business before you decide to do your own thing. Maybe the best thing for you is to put the phone down and go for a walk. Maybe the best thing for you is to pick up the phone and start calling some numbers and making some cold calls. I don't know what it is. But if it feels like you're forcing yourself every time to do it, no, no, no, don't force it. It ain't for you. It just ain't for you. I'm going to end this video on a little caveat for my own personal life. All of my life, I thought that I wanted to play soccer at a professional level, football. I wanted to play with Christian Polisick on the men's national team. I wanted to be the defense. of center mid. I would feed him balls. He would go and dribble half the team and score. It would be

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I didn't find the joy in it, the way that they did. They were willing to stay after practice and just play for hours, for hours. I was like, I'm ready to go home and eat dinner. What are you guys doing? I didn't want it. And it felt forced. So, don't force it.

Ask yourself that this is something you really want to do, or is this something that someone has told you you should do? And maybe you're going to be like me. You're going to think you want to do it. And that's great, and you should try it. But the minute it feels like it's just, like, I have to push this boulder and I just don't feel any enjoyment from doing this. It's time to change course.

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