I do my homework outside in freezing cold weather. No, I'm not joking. So I've got these biology reading guides for class. Basically just a bunch of questions I have to answer from the textbook. Normally, this would take me like 3 hours. Maybe more if I'm distracted. But I found this weird strategy that lets me finish it in an hour. Here's what I do: I grab my laptop, walk outside to my backyard, and sit there in the freezing cold. Like, winter evening freezing. The kind where your feet go numb and you want to cry. And I just... work. My feet are ice. My fingers barely move. Every part of me is screaming to go back inside, wrap myself in a blanket, and give up. But I don't. I sit there and push through. And here's why this works: Cold exposure kills distractions. When you're freezing, your brain stops thinking about everything else. It can't afford to. You might've noticed this in cold showers. The second that water hits you, your thoughts just... vanish. Your brain goes quiet. That's exactly what happens when I sit outside in the cold. No thoughts about Minecraft. No urge to scroll TikTok. No distractions at all. Just me and the work in front of me. And because of that? I fly through it. 3 hours of work done in 1 hour. Every time. Is it uncomfortable? Hell yeah. But that's the point. When you make yourself uncomfortable, you eliminate the space for distractions to even exist. Your brain has one job: survive. And in that moment, finishing the work is survival. So if you're stuck procrastinating on something, try this. Go outside. Let yourself freeze. And watch how fast you work. Cold kills distractions. Use it.

You keep falling off because you still see yourself as lazy. Let me explain. Let's say you're life is like a rubber band. Imagine your self-image is at Point A. Let's say you see yourself as unproductive. A procrastinator. A doom scroller. Now, you start building good habits. You wake up early. You study. You lock in. That's like pulling the rubber band tighter and tighter (further away from Point A, which is your self-image). As you pull further (doing better habits with the same self-image), the rubber band gets tigher... And boom, it snaps back. Because deep down, you still see yourself as that lazy person. Your habits improved, sure. But your identity didn't. And your identity always wins. You can only stretch so far before the rubber band pulls you right back to where you think you belong. That's why you fall off. That's why consistency feels impossible. Not because you're weak. But because you're fighting against your own self-image. So here's the fix: Move the rubber band. Stop seeing yourself as the unproductive person trying to be better. Start seeing yourself as a productive person who occasionally slips up. Because when you do that? EVERYTHING changes. Now, when you fall off — when you skip a day, when you doom scroll, when you mess up — the rubber band snaps you BACK to being PRODUCTIVE. Because that's just who you are now. You're not trying to become disciplined. You're just a disciplined guy. You're not trying to be a hard worker. You just ARE a hard worker. And when you slip? You get right back up. Because that's what a disciplined man would do. So stop trying to build better habits while still seeing yourself as the person who can't stick to them. Change the identity first. The habits will follow.

Newton's second law solved my entire procrastination problem. Let me explain. So I'm sitting at my desk, camera set up, ready to record a video. And I don't want to do it. Like, at all. I'm tired. My brain's foggy. I'm telling myself, "I can just push this to tomorrow." But then I just... hit record. And I start talking. At first, it's shit. My words are stumbling over each other. I'm saying random stuff. I sound like an idiot. But I keep going. And then, 10 minutes in, I pause the recording. And I realize something: I'm not tired anymore. I'm not resisting. I'm actually... enjoying this. I had entered a flow state without even noticing. And that's when it clicked. ▶ Newton's second law: An object in motion stays in motion unless acted on by an external force. The reason you procrastinate isn't because the task is hard. It's because you're not even moving yet. You're stuck. At rest. And objects at rest stay at rest unless acted on by some other force. So what's the solution? Simple. Get in motion. But here's the trick — you don't need some huge push. You don't need to psych yourself up or wait for motivation. You just need a tiny push... something that I call the minimum viable action (MVA). Let's say you have to write an essay. Don't write the essay. Instead, just type your name at the top of the page. Got 20 math problems to finish? Don't solve them. Just write down the formula you'll need to use. That's it. Because once you do that one tiny thing, the ball starts rolling. And once it's rolling? It just keeps on going, bro. That's the beauty of it. Starting is the hardest part. But once you're in it, it's so easy to keep going. So next time you're procrastinating, don't think about the whole task. Just do the smallest possible action. Open the doc. Write one sentence. Solve one problem. Get the ball rolling. Physics doesn't lie, bro.

So it's Friday evening, and I'm sitting there planning out this new morning routine. Wake up early. Exercise. Cold shower. Sit down and work. The whole thing. And naturally, I think to myself: "I'll start Monday." You know, give myself the weekend. Ease into it. Makes sense, right? But then something in me said... why? Why wait until Monday when I could just start tomorrow? So I did. Saturday morning, I woke up and did the whole thing. Exercised. Cold showered. Meditated. Sat down to work. And I kid you not — I entered a flow state immediately. Like, the kind of focus where hours pass and you don't even notice. I got more work done that morning than I had all week. And it hit me: If I had waited until Monday, I would've lost that momentum. Because here's what actually happens when you say "I'll start Monday": You don't. Or you do, but without any energy behind it. Because you've already killed the motivation by waiting. The best time to start something is always now. Not tomorrow. Not Monday. Now. Because momentum is everything. When you have the idea, when you feel that spark — that's when you move. The second you delay, you give your brain time to talk you out of it. To find excuses. To convince you it's not that important. 📌 "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." So next time you catch yourself saying "I'll do it tomorrow," stop. Ask yourself: why not today? Never push to tomorrow what you can do today. Because tomorrow never comes.

I just finished this brutal 2-hour work session. My brain was fried. And naturally, I wanted to do what I always do — open my phone. I reached for it, about to scroll TikTok, play some games, eat junk food. The usual. But something in me said... don't. So I didn't. Instead, I walked outside. Went to my backyard. And I just... laid down. No phone. No music. Nothing. I just stared at the sky. I watched the clouds move. I saw geese fly overhead. Heard the birds chirping. The wind through the trees. Just... nature. And I stayed there for like 20 minutes. Literally just existing. And here's what's crazy: The second I got up, I wanted to work again. You heard me: I WANTED to work again. I felt free. Clear. Motivated. Like my brain had quite literally been reset. And that's when I realized something. I wasn't tired from working. I was tired from never actually recovering. Because scrolling isn't rest. Gaming isn't rest. Watching Netflix isn't rest. All of that is just... more stimulation. Your brain is still working. Still processing. Still engaged. There's this thing called active recovery. It's when you actually let your mind shut down. Things like sitting outside. Sunlight. Meditation. Walking with no headphones. It sounds boring. I get it. But boring is the point. Your brain needs boredom. It needs silence. It needs space to breathe. Because when you give it that space, it charges back up. So next time you're burnt out and reach for your phone, try this instead: Go outside. Sit. Do nothing. It sounds simple. But I promise you, it works. Your brain will thank you.