Name: If you’re ambitious but lazy, please watch this…
Uploaded: 2026-02-07T10:39:57.000Z
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What I'm about to share with you today is a step by step formula for how to not be lazy, to find motivation, to discover discipline and actually make a shift in your life.

Now, if you don't, you can often get into the spiral of feeling like you're ruining everything.

I'd wake up tired, scroll for hours, lie to myself about tomorrow, and

still wonder why nothing in my life was changing.

I wasn't broken, but I felt like I was wasting my potential every single day.

The truth is, I almost let it all slip away.

And if any part of this sounds like you, you need to hear it.

The hardest part isn't doing the thing, it's starting the thing.

Set the smallest possible action step so small it feels ridiculous not to do it.

Everyone's always telling you to achieve more, to think bigger, to do more.

We fail because we set the bar so high, we never get started.

We imagine we need a perfect plan, a perfect morning routine, a perfect burst of motivation.

And momentum, not motivation, is what actually changes your life.

It's something known as the activation barrier.

Behavioral science shows that the hardest part of any task isn't doing it, it's starting it.

That first moment takes the most mental energy.

So when you lower the bar, when you make the first step laughably easy, you bypass resistance.

Don't work out for an hour, just put on your shoes.

Don't write 10 pages, just open the document.

Don't eat healthy forever, Just drink one glass of water.

Once you're moving, your dopamine system kicks in.

Action creates motivation, not the other way around.

I can't express to you just how big a point this is.

The goal is to get started, to do the smallest thing.

If you're thinking, I need to start a business, well, the first step may actually just be registering a company or getting a trademark on a name, or building the minimum viable product version, which may start with a phone call to a friend who could be a mentor.

The point is to write down what you want to build and then write down every step to get there almost thinking of it like a stepladder.

And just like a step ladder, you now place one foot in front of the other and.

Another reason why this works is because it's called the tiny habits effect.

BJ Fogg, a Stanford behavioral scientist, found that habits stick when they start smaller than your resistance.

When you make the bar low enough to win, even on your worst days, you train your brain to associate action with success, not shame.

It's giving yourself a chance to show up.

Every time you follow through on something small, you build self trust and that trust becomes confidence.

And that's how you shift from lazy to consistent, from overwhelmed to grounded.

We lower the bar to take care of ourselves.

When you lower the bar, you start winning again.

Not in a way that looks good, but in a way that feels good.

Lowering the bar isn't lowering your potential, it's raising your consistency.

And consistency compounds into results that perfection never delivers.

One of my favorite quotes is that you should start so small it's impossible to fail and then repeat it until it's impossible to stop.

Your brain hates unfinished tasks and will naturally want to complete them once you start.

Momentum before motivation, remember action before enthusiasm.

Just take one step forward, one small step.

Do the simplest thing you can do one thing.

Step number two, focus on building a ritual, not a routine.

I remember times in my life where I just didn't have any willpower.

I would just feel like I would break down even before starting.

You do the same cue before the same task every day, same place, same playlist, same coffee mug.

For me, I know that if I listen to meditation music from the moment I wake up, I can now lock into my meditation quicker.

After brushing my teeth and having a shower, I know that I work out straight after meditating.

So my brain and body are already prepared and and ready for that.

Over time, your brain links that cue to productivity through classical conditioning.

One creator lights a candle before Writing the brain learns Candle equals focus mode.

The point is that you're creating a cue that leads you to that activity.

You get home from work, you walk in through the door and you have jazz music playing.

Because jazz music tells your body it's time to relax and calm down.

Otherwise, you walk into your home and you're still carrying all of that energy with you.

I remember one of my clients telling me that they loved leaving their yoga mat already rolled out next to their bed, so they could literally roll off their bed and onto the yoga mat and start practicing yoga.

Other people leave their shoes by the door, their running shoes, so that they remember to put them on and go for a jog, go for a walk, or maybe even a long run.

It makes the cue and the association easier for you to follow through, right?

If you have your vitamins and supplements right near your breakfast every day, you're more likely to take them if you have them in a bottle or a jar that's somewhere else, in your bedroom or in your house, it's going to take you forever to get there.

How can you make it easier and simpler on your brain and your body to make the shifts you want to make?

Step number three, Break the dopamine addiction cycle.

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