the zurkie show - the longer you wait, the harder it gets

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

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And the truth with procrastination is you can get away with it. If I had to choose one thing I think I'm in the goat conversation for, it would be procrastination. I procrastinated everything in my life to a point where I didn't even know what it was like to not procrastinate. I'm kind of unlearning a lot of those bad habits now. But man, if I had an exam that was due at the end of the semester and the teacher was telling me you got to study for it like yesterday, what do you think I was doing the night before? I was cramming the entire thing in. I procrastinated because I knew I could get away with it

until it started to affect my life super deeply. And some of us are finding ourselves in this hole right now. Maybe we're about to return to school. Maybe we're about to return to a job in this new year. And we don't want to procrastinate anymore. We want to be on top of things. There's one thing that has helped me without faith. that now I actually look forward to and I tell myself as a way to get things done.

And maybe this can help you. What is the next step? What is the next step in the operation? What is the next step? Usually the next step in getting something done is the simplest one. It's opening up the laptop that you have your assignment on. It's going and facing the email that you were supposed to write. a week ago, right, and just saying, hi, Marissa, maybe it's as simple as looking through something

to have a briefing of, okay, this is what I got to do, this is what needs to get done. But we overcomplicate it. We make our tasks and the things that we need to get done so much worse than they have to be. We make them into this monster in our minds. And once the monster starts to develop, we then let it compound over time until it becomes a problem because we've delayed ourselves from making something happen, from making any kind of progress. What is the next step? Simplify it. And I know that that's easy to say when some of us, for example, have exams that we were supposed to study for the entire semester and now we are

seven days out of the exam. It's a rough place to be in. Or is it? You have seven days. What is the next step? Maybe the next step is super simple. Maybe it's just telling yourself, okay, today is Sunday. My exam is on Friday. Gives me some time. I'm going to use Monday as a day to plan out what I need to do. I'm going to use Tuesday as the first day of action.

I'm going to just dive in. Wednesday and Thursday, I'll have the momentum from Tuesday to continue studying. Thursday, I'm going to already feel way more confident about it. Friday, I can review it with some friends. you made all of that progress by asking yourself what the next step was. But a lot of us don't ask that question and instead we just let it linger. Nah, I'll worry about it tomorrow. That's a future Zerkees problem.

But future Zirky is then wanting to punch you in the face and be like, what? Why? We had the whole weekend, bro. We did nothing. We could have totally did some studying. What is the next step? getting things done does not have to be difficult. It can be pretty simple.

And I know that sometimes you get to a point of no return. I've been there. I've had certain projects that I really should have started earlier, that I really regret not giving my all. But at the end of the day, you can't change what has already happened. You have to face it. So if that means that you messed up and your project's not going to be as good, maybe the idea that you had in your brain wasn't good enough at the moment,

you want to execute it and you're having troubles doing that, you've got to come to terms with it. Amazon presents Jeff versus Taco Truck Salsa, whether it's Verde, Roja, or the orange one. For Jeff, trying any salsa is like playing Russian roulette with a flamethrower. Luckily, Jeff saved with Amazon and stocked up on antacids, ginger tea, and milk. Habaniero,

More like Habinier, yes. Save the everyday with Amazon. You got to look at it and be like, okay, I can't achieve what I wanted. Maybe I can't get an A on this exam, but what can I do? I can definitely pass it. So if you know you can pass it, what is the next step? What do you have to do next? And I'll even do it in my day-to-day life.

I will know that I have a hangout and I will know that I have something I want to do beforehand, like wash the dishes. and I will delay washing the dishes because I think that there are too many dishes. Like, it's 15 minutes of work. Put on, like, some techno music, some daft punk, it's like seven minutes of work. But still, we make this monster in our mind that this is something we cannot tackle right away. And most times it isn't. It isn't. But that's where breaking it up into steps helps you.

when you simplify it as to what is the play by play what is the first thing i got to do then the second thing and the third thing you have an idea of how to get it done if you don't do that you're just kind of tackling this arbitrary idea of what this task is i have to study for the exam well but studying could mean eight hours it could mean four not when you plan it out not when you give yourself a system you give yourself a plan of how you're going to do you do it do it. It's the same thing with working out. Jeez, I have struggled to get in shape for the last four years, man. And it's because I overcomplicate it. And because of that, I just begin to procrastinate over and over and over again to a point where I just end up yo-yoing back to the same

point every time. I am in the place where I'm unhappy with how I look. I'm not healthy. I'm not sleeping good, what is the next step of the operation? What is my next step? I don't think about it. The one thing that is for certain is if you keep delaying something, if you keep procrastinating, it just won't get done. And you will be in an even worse position down the line. If you are catching yourself now and you're noticing a pattern of procrastination,

I'm going to spoil what happens if you don't change it. You will continue to procrastinate. And the truth with procrastination is you can, get away with it. If you are catching yourself now and you're noticing a pattern of procrastination, I'm going to spoil what happens if you don't change it. You will continue to procrastinate. And the truth with procrastination is you can get away with it. You 100% can't. If you're competent, if you're able to string some kind of chat GPT, not that you should be using chat GPT on any of your educational or work assignments, but if you know how to get things done, you will get them done. You will.

but you won't be happy because they won't represent the best side of you. They won't give the best representation of what you're capable of. And if you want to make any kind of improvement in your life, if you want to become better at whatever you're doing, you just can't do that. I mean, you can, but you're not going to get better. If you want to improve, you need to put your best effort forward. You need to do the best that you can.

And I think you should do that for the things that you care about, not for everything. Some things, let's be real, right? We're just doing them to get them done. And that's okay. That's fine. Put less time into that. Get them done.

Pass it. But the things that you do care about that kind of let your soul on fire and you're like, you know what? This represents me as a person. Stop procrastinating on that. Like get on it like yesterday. Like two yesterdays ago. And just ask yourself, what is the next step?

And that goes for things in your life. life too. Maybe you just graduated high school, you just graduated college, and you have some thinking to do. You have to figure out, like, what is the next step in your life? You're not going to find that answer by delaying yourself over and over by, I don't know, hanging out with the bros all the time, partying all the time. Those things are good and fun, but not when you have to make a decision and not when you have to really think through it and figure out what your answer is. Most of the time, we already know what we need to do. We already know what needs to get done.

What's missing is we don't ask ourselves, what is the next step? The aliens in that meme were on to something, okay? They know what the next step of the operation is. We don't. And that's why we have to ask ourselves these questions. That's why we have to be introspective and figure it out because maybe the next step isn't the one that we think it is.

maybe we need to pull back entirely and look at our problem from a completely different perspective. Maybe we got to ask our friends or a trusted person in our lives about our problem and get a different perspective to change the way we think about it. Procrastination, it doesn't just stop at school or work. It can even be in your love life. It can be in your personal mental health journey. A lot of the decisions and the changes in our life, we end up procrastinating because we think that, that they are more convoluted and more problematic than they actually are. So keep it simple and ask yourself if you're ever feeling like you're procrastinating

and you want to get out of it. What is the next step? Zerky Show! I love you so much. If you know, you know, we are in unprecedented times. I don't know how long I'm going to be seeing your face on here, but what I do know is the Zirky show is here to stay. Watch it, you can listen to it.

It's your pick. We got you covered. Do the things that you love and enjoy in this life. And actually do them because a lot of us procrastinate, even trying a new hobby or trying a new pastime, when it could be our favorite. Zerky Show. Peace.

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