the zurkie show - stop trying so hard

Episode Date: December 16, 2024

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You want to talk to somebody? You don't need to have a script. It's just, hey, my name is Jeff. My name Jeff. I was the person that every new year I would whip out my journal, nay, name my pen, and write down 20 things that I wanted to complete by the end of the year. 11 months would pass. It would be December. I would open that same journal and realize I had done nothing. But I was so motivated to lock in. Yeah. But I also had 20 things to do. and I didn't do the first one, so I thought, well, maybe I'll do the second.

And then I didn't do the second. And I was like, well, maybe I'll do none. Keep it simple. My coach used to always say that when we would play soccer. Because I would be doing a Rinaldo chop. I would be going left when I was supposed to go right because I wanted to do a crossover. And then I wanted to send a messy-like pass, a DeBroin-level pass. And he's like, Zerky.

Keep it simple. What are you doing? It's one pass. Back to the goalie. That's it. Oftentimes we complicate things that could be so simple. And a lot of it is our own wrongdoing. We think that we need to overcomplicate things because that's the way that we're going to get to our goals. When it's cap. Not true. You want to start making content.

You want to start making videos. Awesome goal for this next year. Maybe you want to make videos about lacrosse. Maybe you want to make videos about your own personal life. Whatever it is, you should do it like yesterday. But you're going to start this new year. That's cool. You think, okay, I got to learn how to shoot on a camera.

I got to learn how to edit. I got to learn how to post it. No. Keep it simple. Learn how to talk in front of the camera. First thing, everyone has a phone. Set up your phone. The app into it.

Do you feel comfortable? If yes, continue. If no, maybe it's not for you. Maybe you want to just be behind the scenes. You want to learn how to edit. Download an editing software. Tap in. Keep it simple.

The more complicated we make things, the less motivated we get to actually try them. If something is within our grasp and we know we can learn it pretty easily, it's a little bit challenging, but we know we can learn it. We're more keen to putting our energy into actually learning it.

When something is so crazy, it seems like an astrophysics equation. You don't even want to start. You're done before you even started, but. So keep it simple. You want to talk to somebody. You don't need to have a script. It's just, hey, my name is Jeff.

My name Jeff. How are you doing today? I saw you were wearing a death puncture. I love death punk. What's up? Oh, I love Def Punk too. My favorite song is Get Lucky. Keep it simple.

By making the easy pass, like my coach said, you don't need to overcomplicate the simple things. Because the simple things are already pretty difficult. You need to show up day in, day out, and do it every single day, every other day. You need to get in a flow where you're doing it. That's what it's about. And you won't do that time.

and time again, if it isn't simple, if your gym routine every time that you go is four hours and you don't like spending four hours in the gym, guess what you're not going to do? Go to the gym. Now if it's an hour and a half and you're hitting some cardio and you're hitting calves that never seem to grow, all right, we can work with that. That's hashtag simple. Rosen lasagna, medium power, 15 minutes. Sounds like, Ojo time.

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Please sit and enjoy. Please sit and sip. Play, post, taste, view, and enjoy. Via Rail, love the way. You kept it simple. Congratulations, you'll be more motivated to go back and back. We are lazy creatures. Humans are lazy.

It comes stock with the human experience being lazy. So don't feel bad that you're lazy. It's normal. What is it that gets you out of bed? For me, easy. I keep it simple. coffee gets me out of bed. Every time I wake up, instead of doom scrolling,

I go up, make a cup of coffee. I'm already like feeling myself. I'm feeling myself. And I pour the coffee in, put some almond milk in there, and we're ready to go. Day has started. You don't need an over-complicated morning routine.

I'm going to wake up and do a cold plunge. You want to do a cold plunge into this? Be my guest. That ain't my morning routine. Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh. There are levels. You learning one thing new, you'll realize you don't know 99 other things. It's an opportunity to learn more.

Trying out one new thing will open the door to learning so many more other things. But the only way that you start learning that first thing is keeping it simple, bro. Don't start thinking, well, I need to buy. X, Y, and Z. No, you don't. If you want to be a filmmaker, you have one of the best tools at your disposal. Guess what?

You're watching this video on it. Whether that's a phone, whether that's a laptop, whether that's an iPod Touch from 2008, probably can't make films like that. But these are powerful tools that you can use with software that's probably free. You want to make a podcast? Cool.

Tap in, make a podcast. but I don't have a good microphone. You know those headphones that come stock with your phone? Use that. You gotta start somewhere. Before I use these, just use what I had on my phone.

Because I kept it simple. And then when you master one thing, you can go on to the next and the next and the next. But I promise you, you keep it simple, good things will happen. Zerky Show. It's a wet one today in Austin, Texas. But it's beautiful.

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