How to Stay Focused Towards My Goal? || Acharya Prashant (2021)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00So we have often many tasks to do in our day-to-day life and we make to-do list but we fail to

00:07complete it and the loop goes on every time. So what can be the other ways to overcome this?

00:14Write the right things in your to-do list and then you'll be forced to complete them.

00:22The reason why the to-do list goes unattended and a-begging is because it is full of worthless tasks.

00:37You write 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 to-dos. Not one of those six is something you can love to complete.

00:47Love is missing. Therefore, you find excuses to avoid those six tasks, six out of six.

00:57Then you push yourself using the thing called willpower and with great difficulty you manage

01:03to complete two or three out of the six. And two or three is enough to somehow cross the

01:11line and get you passing marks in whatever examination. Life has all kinds of examinations.

01:21And then again the list is remade next day. And again you find two out of six, three out of six.

01:29The cutoff has been cleared. You have survived for the next day to repeat the same story.

01:34The problem is not the absence of willpower or motivation or whatever.

01:40The problem is that you do not know the tasks to take up.

01:46When you pen down something, when you assign a task to yourself, ask, is it important?

01:55If it is not important, why must I pretend to give it importance?

02:03Why must I even jot this thing down?

02:08Let me be bold enough to simply omit it or strike it out.

02:14And if something is indeed important, why can't I sit with it for five minutes and appreciate its importance?

02:24If something is important, don't just write down four words about it.

02:31Give four minutes to it. Just four minutes.

02:36And ask yourself, why is this thing important?

02:44Why? What does it give to me?

02:48What does it turn me into?

02:50How does it help me, raise me, strengthen me, purify me?

02:57And if you have good enough answers, then you will find it has become impossible now to avoid that task.

03:06You will keep everything else aside and commit yourself to that task if you really understand its importance.

03:13So we see the problem lies not in the absence of willpower, but in the absence of understanding.

03:21Most of us complain of lack of motivation.

03:24That is hardly a problem.

03:27Because motivation helps nobody.

03:29You do not require motivation.

03:30You require realization.

03:32You do not realize whether something is important.

03:36Have you seen how motivated you are just by yourself, inspired from within?

03:45When you really know the importance of something, have you seen that?

03:54Somebody in your family is sick.

03:55Do you require to be externally and artificially motivated to call the ambulance?

04:07Or to put that person in some car, some vehicle and rush him to the hospital?

04:16Do you feel demotivated?

04:18No.

04:18There are so many things you just spontaneously feel inspired for.

04:28Why?

04:28Because there is some kind of clarity.

04:32You know the task holds something for you.

04:36And that's what energizes you.

04:38You know what this task is for.

04:40Unfortunately, as happens with most of us, happened with me as well.

04:50We do not know why we are doing a lot of things that we do.

04:55Why are we there in an engineering campus?

04:58Because that's the in thing.

05:03Why do we find ourselves in a particular department?

05:06That's what our rank gave us.

05:08Why am I in a particular hostel?

05:12Pure chance, randomness.

05:15Somebody allotted that hostel to me.

05:19Why do I have to attend a certain course?

05:21I don't know.

05:23I was given a timetable and a schedule.

05:26And it said,

05:28Mechanical workshop.

05:31Mondays 8am to 12 noon.

05:34So like a zombie, I am standing there.

05:38First of all, I don't know why I am there in Mechanical.

05:42Then I don't know why I am there in the workshop.

05:46And then the workshop assigned me some task.

05:51I duly wrote that down in my to-do list.

05:55How will you feel inspired to take that task up?

05:59You have no relationship with that task.

06:03Do you see what is missing?

06:05Love.

06:07You just don't know why that task needs to be done.

06:11They have sent you to the foundry.

06:15Or to fitting.

06:16Or to carpentry.

06:18Welding.

06:18How many Mechanical chaps here?

06:22Nobody.

06:27The college does not have Mechanical at all?

06:31IT.

06:33And there would be a lot of people who never wrote a proper line of code their life.

06:38Right?

06:42The entrance exam would be testing you on PCM.

06:45Correct?

06:46Not on your programming skills.

06:49Not on your knowledge of computer science.

06:52So, along with PCM,

06:55you might as well have had Hindi or Marathi or Sanskrit or Biology

06:59and you can still be here.

07:00Right?

07:03So you come here and you look at the thing called computer for the first time.

07:08And then a most advanced language

07:12called Fortran or Kobol

07:14is taught to you.

07:21Nobody got it.

07:23That's okay.

07:25Are you virginal?

07:27No.

07:29No.

07:32And you are told to write a program for this, this, this, this, this.

07:36Arrays and stacks and this and that.

07:42Already been assigned that?

07:44Already?

07:45No?

07:47And you don't know why the hell

07:49should I be an expert in stacking?

07:53That's the missing link.

07:55You do not know why you should be doing something.

07:59Once you know why you should be doing something,

08:01the hows become instantaneously clear.

08:04Inspiration just arises.

08:08It is no more an external task.

08:11It is your own.

08:12I want to do it.

08:13I love it.

08:16Then you will go

08:17even beyond the mandate.

08:21Nice.

08:22Let me try this one out as well.

08:25There are additional problems on the net.

08:29Can I try my hand at them?

08:30Can I try my hand at them?

08:34Hmm?

08:36Spend time with your to-do list.

08:38And dare to cross a few things out.

08:44Hmm?

08:44Even if that means some damage,

08:47some repercussions.

08:48I don't know.

08:49Don't like it, won't take it out.

08:51Out of the six things,

08:52I'll take up only four.

08:54But to these four,

08:56I'll commit

08:56my effort,

08:58my heart,

08:59everything.

08:59Hmm?

09:01Hmm?

09:03Amen.

09:12Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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