Battle Procrastination || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Failing with your To-Do list? || Acharya Prashant, at SPIT Mumbai (2022)

Transcript

00:00Then you push yourself using the thing called willpower and with great difficulty you manage

00:04to complete 2 or 3 out of the 6.

00:07And then again the list is remade next day and again you find 2 out of 6, 3 out of 6.

00:13And if something is indeed important, why can't I sit with it for 5 minutes and appreciate

00:20its importance.

00:21If something is important, don't just write down 4 words about it.

00:26Give 4 minutes to it.

00:27You will keep everything else aside and commit yourself to that task if you really understand

00:33its importance.

00:34So we see the problem lies not in the absence of willpower but in the absence of understanding.

00:40Ask yourself, why is this thing important?

00:43Why?

00:44What does it give to me?

00:45What does it turn me into?

00:47How does it help me, raise me, strengthen me, purify me?

00:52And if you have good enough answers, then you will find it has become impossible now

00:57to avoid that task.