Transformation Tuesday: Overcoming Procrastination

On this episode of the podcast we have a Procrastination edition of our Transformation Tuesday webinar.

This week, we talked about why we put off the things we want most, and how fear of failure and perfectionism keep us stuck. We break down the neuroscience of procrastination, the Stoic discipline of "persist and resist," and how to use gratitude to make discipline dopamine-generating by setting your life up like a "butler for future you."

Plus, John's cataract surgery adventures, and a runaway DoorDash habit.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm Gib Gerard here with another Transformation Tuesday episode of the show. If you would like to watch Transformation Tuesday, all you gotta do is go to Facebook.com/slashjohntesh. We do it live on Facebook every single week. We also do it live on Zoom, a little bit more interactive. We have a Facebook group that you can find at facebook.com/slashjohntesh. This is Transformation Tuesday. We will interact with you guys and help you guys figure out how to get you from the place you are to the place you want to be. If you want to help us decide what topics we're going to cover? You want to be a part of that community again. That's Facebook.com/slash John Tesh. And if you like this kind of actionable information, information that you can use right now to make your life a whole lot better, you need to sign up for the newsletter. There's a link for where to sign up for our daily newsletter in the show notes. Goes right to your inbox, and it's one quick actionable thing that you can do every single day to make your life a whole lot better. Anyway, all of that is bookkeeping. Here we go. Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, Transformation Tuesday with me and John Tesh. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Transformation Tuesday. For those of you on Zoom, for those of you on Facebook, it's good to see you guys. Or not see you guys, but it's good to be here with y'all. I'm Gib Gerard alongside John Tesh. This is Transformation Tuesday. Our goal, as we tell you every week, is to get you from the place you are to the place you want to be. We take our decades of experience producing intelligence for your life, the research that we have reported on for years, and we help bring it to bear with experts in your life to help you again change your life, get you from the place you are to the place you want to be. Previously, we've talked a little bit about fear of failure and what that sets you up for, how that what that mentality does for you to not start. And we are going to continue that a little bit today into the conversation around how fear of failure influences procrastination, and how some basic tricks for how you can overcome procrastination in your own life, so that you can actually get started on that dream life that you have in your head. Hello. First of all, hello, hello, Kim. But how do I get my head as big as yours? Anyway, I can make mine smaller. No, that's okay. The first of all, I have to apologize for my reflective glasses. I and those of you, some of you may want to want to talk about this in the in the Facebook group afterwards. But I just had my both eyes cataracts taken out of my eyes. I mean, I spent a lot of time in the sun as a kid. I think we all did at my age, and lost time in volleyball, you know, without without protection. So, I guess I'm not really early for cataract surgery. It's right, it's right around this time. But anyway, I opted for the for what's called L A L from R X S Sight. That's the company. It's it's a new thing, and basically, what they do, they put in these new lenses, right? Which is what they do. It's I mean, it's it's really sort of barbaric. I mean, what they do is they they they put you out. You're not completely out because you have to be able to talk to the doctor when you're doing the surgery. You get the one eye done, and then a week later you get the other eye done, and then the fun begins. So then what they do is they take they go into a laser room, and then you know they're all wearing helmets and stuff, and you're sort of almost out of it, but telling you where to look, and then they they take the laser and they cut the the cataract out of your out of your lens, right? And then they remove the lens, and then they put in a new. Then they go into you go into another room, and they put in this lens. And this this particular lens, it's not focused right away, but they've come up with this thing where you, if they expose it to concentrated ultraviolet light, they can actually tune it to to a certain prescription. And so you have to wear these these glasses that that block all of the ultraviolet light. Otherwise, all of a sudden, you'll be, you know, like a cyborg or something. You know, so it takes like three or four weeks for them to tune it tune it right, but it's driving me crazy because I got so many. I got these glasses. I got I got these. You know, and and I go into the gym. I go into the gym. I don't want to poke myself in the eye, but I go into the gym with these. You know. Oh yeah. And usually these are the maxi ones. You know, the garage from the side too. I'm in the gym and I'm working out. We know each other in a Gib or thing, and that guy can say, "Hey, Tesh, I love the new look. Oh my gosh! Where's the squash court? Not exactly what it looks like. It looks like a racquetball squash. And so I said, "Well, it's like well, and then you're like, "Thanks, because you know you don't want to hear what I just told you over and over again. And then this other guy who actually used to play water polo in in your pool at Harvard Westlake, where you went. He he comes up. He goes, "Hey man, I love the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, like fantastic. You know, like it was like I'm going for this. Look, so I'm thinking, well, maybe you know, I'll get the non-reflective stuff, and so so that's why I look like Adamant today. But I'm really excited. Because we're getting ready to getting ready to tune up here. That's it. Yeah. I have another story. I'll tell it at the end. I'll tell a story about how great it is to be a grandparent and what it's like to watch little league baseball with Gib coaching and his son on the mound and how dangerous it is. How absolutely! Oh man, that was crazy. Dang it! Well, that's a tease for you. Don't go away. Go ahead. Okay. All right. So as I said before, we before we go to the cataracts, which you know life happens. I think you're. Are you more? Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. But. But it's hard to tell with the glare right now. Boy, your kids-you know, kids got three kids, of course-in there, you know, and it's great the way they just sort of roll with the punches. You know, I hear they come over to the house. I'm like in really dark glasses, like, "Hey, pop up, I love the look, you know. I was like, "Come on, because they've seen they've seen me and mom. It's this ridiculous, you know, situation with you, yeah, right? Yeah, no, it's another dressed-up thing. I got it. It's yeah, we're we're doing we're doing pieces, we're doing bits. Okay, so to get us into the procrastination concept, so we talked before about why about why our fear of failure sets us up for failure. Here is Doctor K, who he's been doing this gamers guide thing, which is like helping you know young, particularly young men who are gamers over and helping with their neuroscience. So this is him talking about the neuroscience of procrastination and and a little bit about what our mentality is that leads to us putting off starting that thing that we want to start. So when we talk about something like procrastination, oftentimes procrastination is correlated with things like perfectionism. So are you perfectionistic? Do you need it to be perfect before you get started? Right. So I have to figure everything out, and then I want to do it. Now, why are we perfectionistic? That's how I used to be. Right. Because insecurity of I don't want to get rejected. I don't want to fail and face that failure. So I procrastinate. Absolutely. Right. So so if you can't afford to fail, then it needs to be perfect. So, perfectionism is an antidote to anxiety. Anxiety is like this could go wrong, this could go wrong, this could go, this could go wrong. How do I fix this problem? I make it perfect, and there's no room for anything to go wrong. And so, if I become perfectionistic, now everything has to be perfect before I get started. That means I'm procrastinating because getting things perfect is hard. So there's a certain amount of emotional avoidance in procrastination. So if you're trying to overcome procrastination, couple of

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Do you have anxiety? Is there an emotional consequence that you're avoiding? Why are you avoiding that emotional consequence because of a some scar? Because you know that if you're in that situation, there's going to be a ton of emotional stuff that you can't handle. Yeah, I don't, I don't know how you found this, but this is like this is sort of like you get this and you get everything. It was one of those speeches, right? I mean, it's I I see myself in in in in so many chapters in my life, I see exactly what he's talking about, and at the times that, and I'm married to somebody who does not procrastinate. No, which is great. Otherwise, I wouldn't be a lie. And it's a longer story, of course. But when I was in, I mean, when I was in college, I remember I was working. I was working at college. College Esso. It was Esso back then it wasn't even Exxon, and I was on my way. I had a job as a lifeguard in the summer. I was I was in college, but it was summer summertime, so I just stayed in Raleigh, North Carolina, and rather going home. And I was a lifeguard, and I had shorts on, and and I was I I went to the gas station first, where where all my friends were, and I filled up the tank of my of my Honda 350 motorcycle in my shorts and tank top. I used to look good in that, and then it's like for like like a year, they were just all like the hell. And then 35 cents, right, to fill up the whole the whole thing, and then you know put my kickstand down and I got off the bike and I put down and I got back in the bike, and I took off, and I I went to I went to make a hard left turn, like to head towards the pool, and all of a sudden I'm on my right side with my hands like this, headed for a wall, and I you know had one of those showy helmets on right, and so I'm skidding like this, and oh I could just feel all the skin peeling off my legs, I hit the wall. It cracks the helmet, right? And I got like a now I got like a huge bump on my on my head, and so I'm just like, oh god, you know. It's like I got off the bike. This is in 1973. I get off the bike. I walk back to my house, which is next to the fraternity house. But like six of us had like a rental house, which is right next to Krispy Kreme, and I walk I I walk past the Krispy Kreme, which is the first time I've ever done that. I get I get out and I lay down in my bed and I just lay down there and I go into this deep depression and my my my housemates and everything like come on, John, you got to go to the hospital, man. You need to look at your legs and everything, and I just. Slept for like two or three days, and what happened was I procrastinated, and I was just like, I just don't want to go. I'll just put something on it, put some bacterine on it or something like that. I ended up getting infected both legs, and I had to. Here's a story about procrastination, right? And I, I went into the hospital. They had to scrape all of the new skin off my leg and start over, and I've had a couple of those things in my life where I'm just like, maybe if I just business wise too, maybe if I just ignore it, right, it'll go, it'll, it'll go away. And and man, you pay for that. It's hard sometimes too, you know, because it's hard every time when it's when you're facing some something really difficult. 100 100 100% So for those of you that are joining us for the first time, this is not normally like the show The Pit, where we just medically gross you out every other every other expression. That's just that's just today. So we want to. But what you hit on there is actually something that I think drives a lot of us crazy in terms of not starting something because, like, the older you get, the more embarrassing it is to be a novice, right? So in the same way that you know you were embarrassed that you'd fallen on your bike, you left the kickstand down, and you were you you had this stuff, and you let time go by to the point where the overcoming it was harder. Well, the same thing is true of us as as we age. It's like oh, I was I want. I've always wanted to go to graduate school. I'm not going to go to graduate school. I'm in my. I'm in my 30s. That's weird. I'm in my. And then. And then 10 years later, you're like, oh, I'm in my 40s. I really can't go now. And then I'm in my 50s. And then one day you wake up and you go, why have I put this off? I'm just going to go. Who cares what other people think? I got. I want. I want to write a book unless it's perfect. Otherwise, it's going to be embarrassing that I have a bad book out there. Whatever the thing is, we tell ourselves that it has to be perfect, and so we never do it. And then we get on our deathbed and we go, "Why did I never do that? Yeah, you know. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah. It's. I mean, and you know what's wild is that since the beginning of time, since Bob Proctor and some of these old guys that you've had on these personal development guys-it's been the same message for 30 or 40 years. It's just repackaged, and it's just because we have that resistance-the devil and the angel-we have a resistance that stops us from doing things. This is another medical story. No, it's not. It's not. It's not. But it's a story about how I get hooked on something. Oh yeah, and then it changes my life. I get hooked on something, and when I find it, and I overuse it, like we go to restaurants too much. But what's changed my procrastination, what's elevated my life is they should just put their logo right over my shoulder is DoorDash. I want to say now I don't, but now now the other day you know I'm a DoorDash power user, right? Yeah. So the other day I've got my voice is like it's it's it's it's getting hoarse and stuff. Like what's going on? I thought maybe it was the smoothies, maybe it was the acid in the coffee, whatever. I said, "Man, I can't go to sleep without tums. You know, click, yeah, yeah. DoorDash, right, right there. Tums, where do you want it from? Do you want it from Target? Do you want it from CVS? Do you want it from whatever? And then you order the tums, and I felt bad for the guy who was coming, right? So I order like four of them. Four other things, yeah. So I like the tums. I used to see my bathroom. People are like, "What's wrong? You know. So I have the tums, but then on the way it goes, "Do you want a double dash? And so I order the Greek yogurt with honey on it. You know that thing. And I also got I also got a green tea from Starbucks. They come with like three different places the guy came, and he came, and he was and he was so he was so grateful that I tipped him. I just said, I just saved all this money on gas, and I didn't even have to leave. I'm in this chair, you know. And you leave, so and with your cataract surgery, you can't go. Exactly, I can't go outside. I'm like a vampire, and I have to thanks. We need to tie that together for those of you just joined us, and there's like 200 more people who just joined in a minute. So don't go away because we got a great story to tell about Gib's Gib's baseball coaching. But that's why I'm wearing these glasses. Is I just had cataract surgery. Anyway, Gib, I just took us left. I'm so sorry. It's fine, but but that has cured my procrastination because if I have a problem or whatever, do you remember when we were on the road, oh yeah, and this this whole company comes and they bring our big part of our of our concert is is a projector, right? Because we have so much media behind us, whether it's round ball rock or whatever, you know, stuff that we're playing to. Gib and I are performing, and the projector they can't. The guys who brought the projector can't figure out how to work the projector. There's something wrong with it. I call up DoorDash, and they bring me a projector that's this big for 250 bucks, and and by the way, it saved the show, right? 250 bucks from Best Buy. I had no idea they did any of that. You know, I mean, maybe they'll send over a person next time to this, like like a butler or something. I mean, it's unbelievable. It may sound like it may sound like today's. Is brought to you by DoorDash. It's not, but DoorDash, reach out. It should be don't procrastinate. Order DoorDash. You mentioned I didn't. I didn't buy the stock, and the stock is like the stock is like SpaceX for for delivery drivers right now. Massive. You mentioned you mentioned earlier that this that this concept of perfectionism and and procrastination, we've been saying the same thing for 50 or 60 years. But one of the things that I love is when we talk about stoicism, is we find out that there is nothing new under the sun. That these conversations predate DoorDash or whatever you know, whatever Marcus Aurelius had that was the equivalent of DoorDash. He he had a lot of servants. He was fine. The guy, yeah, he had a guy, but here is here is Ryan Holiday talking about a Stoic concept of discipline about doing the hard thing and not doing the bad thing, and and this is not a new concept. This is you know several 1000 years old. Stoicism is is doing the thing because you said you're going to do it because you know you should do it. It's also not doing the thing that you know you shouldn't do. Masonius Rufus, the teacher of Epictetus, would talk about how you know when you do something hard, or you forgo something, or you know you challenge yourself. He says that labor passes quickly, but the good endures. And he says conversely, when you do something low or base in pursuit of pleasure or because it's easier, he says the reward for that passes quickly, but the shame of it, the cost of it, it also endures. So Stoicism then is summarized by Epictetus in in two words. He says, persist, resist, right? Do the things you know you should do that are good to do, and don't do the things that you know you shouldn't do. That's what discipline ultimately is. Right. We just lost 100 viewers. You have to stop obsessing over the. You can't do that. This keeps changing. It's it's like it's like being on Max Headroom Shopping Network. Yeah. No, you're playing. You're playing. All of a sudden, the albums are going by. Yeah, folks, it's going to get much better. I promise. I want to talk about Gerard today. Okay, just to go back. So we, the reason why I brought that Ryan Holiday thing in is because this concept of doing the hard thing first, of eating the frog, of doing the thing that you have to do and you've been putting off. It is not a new one. And if you read Meditations, which is the Marcus Marcus Aurelius's journals when he was, you know, emperor, he's expanding the Roman power at an exponential rate. He is managing all the stuff that has to be managed in a sprawling empire, and he's writing this diary, which is meditations. He's constantly talking about exactly what we struggle with, which is doing the hard thing. So when we talk about why we procrastinate, it's it's perfectionism. It's also that we don't embrace this discipline of doing the hard thing and then avoiding the bad thing, and that cycle is what is keeping us from that life that we want that cycle. So I we're going to transition now on the back half of this because we are only here for 30 minutes with a few hacks for how to break apart that cycle, how to break apart the idea of perfectionism, the idea that the the the the frog is too big to eat, and so we can't do it. And how to begin to build the discipline that allows us to change those habits? Go to grad school, finish the novel, you know, start the company, whatever the thing is. So here is Andrew Huberman, whom we whom we like. He's a neuroscientist with a procrastination hack that I think is a good place to start for this way to overcome procrastination is to do something harder than the hard thing that you're putting off. Give me a tactical example of this. I need to write a chapter on tools for focus for my book. I'll do anything but that. Okay, so then you have to find something worse than that. So for me, worse than that is anything involving a spreadsheet. Just the idea of a spreadsheet gives me hives. I would force myself to do five to 10 minutes of establishing a spreadsheet of my expenses and taxes related to some segment of my work life. So doing that, you'll see it will make writing that book chapter very accessible. It's a downhill cruise from there. So we've got do something that is harder than the thing that you're trying to get away from. If you can do cold exposure, that's kind of cool. If you like, I got to sit down and do this. I find myself for 10 minutes, kind of fluffing about trying to do stuff. I go upstairs. I have a cold shower. Okay, that was way more miserable. If you like it, then no. But if it's way more miserable, then that's the thing to do. Right. Wow. I hate spreadsheets too. That's a great idea. Yeah, do the harder thing. Great idea. Yeah, because then it's the harder thing, right? Yeah. Yeah, and then it's downhill. By the way, you know this is the this is the classic creative person's dilemma. You know, there's a there's a web comic I saw recently where it's a guy knocking on a door and goes,"Hey, I'm a writer on a deadline. Can I clean your house for you? Basically saying that you know when you have when if you if you've ever tried to write. If you ever had to write for any, you know, in any professional capacity, literally anything but the writing sounds more appealing than sitting down and writing. So you clean your house. There's nobody whose house is cleaner than a writer on deadline, and because all of those things that you don't want to do, writing sounds worse than that. So you start doing those things. It's it's in your head. You have to do it, but you're not doing the hard part, which is writing. You got to find the harder thing to do. You got to find that harder. I like it. I love it. I love it. This also underscores one of our, you know, the we have our five for this year. We have our five habits that are just universally good. And just to review a few of those, this idea of waking up at the same time every day, of spending five to 10 minutes or more in prayer or meditation every single day, making your bed every single day, doing that thing that sets you up for you know for for success, eating more whole fruits and vegetables, and then making sure that you get outside and exercise, get outside and exercise for those 10,000 steps. Those are our five habits that there is no downside to, and here is actually a great way of of boosting that, which is to act or of using that. I'm sorry to overcome procrastination. This is Jim Quick, who is a traumatic brain injury survivor, and Dr. Huston talking about a method for eating the frog for doing the hard thing that involves some a little bit of it gets in the in the neuroscience a little bit but involves some visualization and we're going to talk about how to use that. What are your thoughts around procrastination? People are putting things off that they really need to do in terms of the neuroscience. One of the brain areas that you want to bring online is the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. So that would be on the right side. It would kind of here above your temple. One of the ways that has been studied to increase activity there would be to picture the process of getting something done. So don't picture the end product. Don't picture being done. Picture yourself. Okay, I'm sit down with my cup of tea or my cup of coffee, and I'm opening up my laptop, and I'm getting out the documents that I'm going to need for my research, and I'm opening up Word. So you're you're picturing these boring, boring steps, and researchers find that this activates a bunch of brain areas. But one of the areas that it most activates is it activates this right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and as a result, people get more done when they picture the process than when they picture the outcome. Right. In the late 70s, I I dated a a girl who was who was a psychologist who was studying neuroscience, and and and it almost killed me because she had an answer for everything because she had an answer for every. I mean, I love this woman who was just on. I love neuroscientists, right? We love Anthony Gib, but I mean, I I would wake up in the middle of the night and think, just check my hands to make sure there weren't electrodes on my fingers or anything, you know, because she was like testing everything. Hey, can you can you? I don't have anybody who who will do this test on on pain. Will you come in? I said, No, I'm not coming. And then she wouldn't go out with me anymore. So I was like, you know, I realized that she had dated a guinea pig, and I didn't even know it. She didn't want a boyfriend. She wanted a test subject. Anyway, I love the neuro the neuroscience of of all of this, because once we figure out what's actually happening in our brain, then then we're just not control. Well, hopefully we're not controlled by it, right? Right. You understand what the process it is, and then you can just speak it out loud. You say,"What am I feeling right now? And why am I feeling that way? Where's it coming from? It's like a lot of in in a lot of marriages, right? The fight is usually about something that you're that the reason you're not getting. That happened to me. You know, you know this story. It happened in therapy when I was in therapy with with your mother, and and the doctor finally just said, "Hey, why don't ask Connie to leave? And said, "Why don't you? Why don't we just get you right, John? Then you can bring that to to Connie, and we'll see what happens. You know, I was like,"What are you talking about, you know? But it, but it was, it, it was the right thing to do because once I felt like I was, I was, I was being a good husband, and I wasn't just putting all of my insecurities and everything on her and blaming her for it. Then I cured that part of my brain. I'm not sure where it says that's the dorsiflex or the or the or the pre pre dorsal frontal thing, but but it is that once you start to understand why you're doing things, that's your first step, especially to get rid of or to beat back procrastination, something like that. Yeah. So you know the this idea of of disciplining your mind. This is why prayer and meditation is one of our five pillars. is is super important because then it allows you to sit and visualize that process. So if you can visualize what it means to sit down and begin writing your book, if you can visualize what it means to sit down and begin, I mean maybe it is graduate school. I mean we're I'm picking random things, but to sit down and what does it look like to begin the process of of going? I mean it's going to be sitting. The computer and looking up different graduate programs and finding out what the best program that you want to be in and what the requirements are, et cetera, and you begin to visualize what it means to overcome that stuff. It's something I work on with my kids. It's something that I think is is really important for you being able to that discipline of the brain of the mind of being able to focus your mind and visualize it happening. It's not magic. Your brain begins to just accept that that is that's what the process is going to look like, and it's great. Yeah, but but I'll tell you one. I have I have one one addition to that, and that is, and I've seen lots of research on this. The the the visualizing and actually practicing in your head. I do that all the time on piano. If I don't have a piano with me, and and there's all kinds of of data that you know about where it's you know they use it with athletes. They use it with I've told the story how they use it with with downhill skiers. I've seen it in action. But there's also the flip side of that, which is is if you've got a goal and and you really point it at it, be careful how many people you tell about it because apparently our brain takes that as I already accomplished it, and so you start to slow down. I find it interesting. You start to get the reward for what it means to have done it, and so you actually have you've gone the wrong way with your dopamine cycle. You're actually getting the reward, and you everybody knows this person. I mean, it's by the way, it's a it's a running joke on Seinfeld, where Kramer's always coming in talking about what his plans are, and then he never does them because he's had the conversation already, and he does, and he's already gotten the reaction from Jerry and and George, and he's moved on. That is except for except for when he bought the the Merv Griffin. Oh my gosh! Set was that one? Yeah. Well, he didn't tell anybody that. He just found it in the trash and he put it in his house. That's what he did. Again, talk about the five pillars, right? We got we've got our waking up at the same time every day, and I forgot to we bundle that with making your bed. Yeah. This idea of prayer meditation for five or 10 minutes, getting outside, doing the the the 10,000 steps, eating more whole fruits and vegetables, and then finally, it's about gratitude, some sort of journaling gratitude practice, which, by the way, primes your brain for being able to visualize things. Here is Chase Hughes talking about how to use the power of gratitude, and we have talked about this a lot. And I think we might have actually on some other broadcasts used this exact clip, but we've talked about the power of gratitude and what it actually does for making you more likely to do those activities again. Here he is talking about how to use gratitude to to foment discipline. If I can start looking backwards with gratitude, that's the fastest way to make discipline dopamine generating. So the tricks are to start small. When I go to bed at night, I will pop open the little Keurig coffee thing and stick the thing in there. Put a cup under there. Everything's like ready to go. I'll get my clothes out. Everything kind of lined up, ready to put on for the next day. I'm lowering the threshold of how much attention I'm spending. So I'm gonna set my life up in every single way that I possibly can, as if I were a butler for future me. So when I wake up in the morning, all this stuff set out. My checklist for what I need to do for the day. All the stuff I'm got to get on a plane is all laid out by the back door. I can grab it and jump in the car. Everything that I could possibly do to make my future self go, oh man, that's awesome, and look backwards with gratitude. I'll take $100 bill every spring or summer, and I'll stick them in the a jacket pocket that I'm not going to use until the winter, and I'll forget about it. And in the winter, I'm looking, and now I become a source of dopamine. Past tense me is becoming a source of dopamine for present tense me. Man, oh man, these are great clips. Thank you. You know, I, I, no, seriously, I've, I, you know, we travel a lot. You know, and and one of the things that drives me nuts is packing. I hate to pack, but I have enough. I don't have enough clothing. I have enough suits that I could actually pack a go a go bag, right? Right, where where it's just everything is in there, and I be and I could put a maybe not 100 but I could put a $50 bill in there, and and and just have everything ready to go. But there's it doesn't take very long to get to to set yourself up for the and on the days I don't do it often, but on the days when I do it, you know, even just taking out the shirt I'm going to wear and the socks and the thing and just have it all lined up like that, and then and then you go to sleep and you're not worried about any of that stuff, and then you write down all of your worries and your fears and you get and you offload those. That's he's talking about priming. I mean, that's that's Tony right now. That's Tony Robbins' whole yes thesis is is you must prime yourself for success and for happiness, and and look you're this is where the visualization comes in and this is where the gratitude comes in and they come together on this when you visualize what the process is you begin to make that your reality and when you make that your reality in your unconscious mind you consciously begin to do the things that will overcome whatever hurdles you happen to have. But also, if you can use the power of gratitude in order to power that engine of visualization and of accomplishment, it it makes life so much easier because there's you know it's really hard to get out of bed in the morning. It's way easier. To stay up for an extra three minutes and lay out your workout clothes, right? It's way easier to do that than it is to tell yourself when you're sitting in a warm bed that you've got to get up, pick your clothes, put them on. Like if it's already laid out, it's automatic. You're just like, all right, just got to get out of bed, put those on. That's an easy process, and it begins to get rid of those barriers that stop us from starting. That is that is where, and again, you're going to look back with gratitude on the person that you were yesterday. Yesterday, John is going to be helping today, John, and you're going to be grateful for that process. And that gratitude grooves that into you, so that going forward, you're much more likely to do it. And that is what is going to foment change in our lives. That's what's going to be getting to create that stuff. So, look, we are running out of time. I've got some more stuff on procrastination. If you would like to affect what we do on Transformation Tuesday, join our Facebook group. That's you can find how to find the Transformation Tuesday Facebook group right at facebook.com/slash John Tesh. If you're watching on Facebook, that's right here. For and we will continue on our conversation about procrastination next week. The neuroscience and some hacks to overcome it. You wanted to talk about little league baseball, and I use little league baseball as a backdrop for a lot of things because I think it is a really good teacher for my kids. Why my kids play it? So why my well why my son plays it? Why my kids do sports? So you wanted to tell the story about baseball. Yeah, basically. Basically, you know, like you said, we use as a metaphor a lot. For you know, for it's most of the time you're losing. You know, most of the time you're failing. Yeah. But but you know, so so grandma, my my wife and I, we we try to go to as many as many kids soccer and baseball and volleyball games as he can for our grandkids because they're in town. It's and it's great. So we got we got told okay Zeke is playing on the he's a scrimmage for the all star team. He's and he's going to be pitching, and so we go there and we sit in the we're right right on the beach right in Playa Vista and we're sitting there in the stands right, and and there's there's some netting and stuff like that, but then there's one area where there's it's just not much cover. You know, maybe it's like 10 feet, 12 feet high, and so there's a foul ball, right? And all of a sudden, you hear heads up, and fortunately, Connie had one of these little little umbrellas, right? And so I'm ducking under like little weenie boy. I'm ducking under the umbrella like this, and the the ball comes straight down and lands right on top of a woman's, a young woman's head, and I just thought she was going to be dead because it was like yeah, and it was it was a clean hit, nothing stopped it, and it was in a it was in a little there was a little kid, her kid was in a stroller right next to it, going this is this is so dangerous. What's you know it's like the world according to Gib. Yeah, we'll just let's just stay here. What could it couldn't be any worse? Yeah, you know, and so I don't know. Maybe five batters later, I get crack, and the ball goes. Everybody goes heads up, and all of a sudden you hear wham and a shatter in a car windshield goes out behind us, right? And this happens like three or four times, and finally the announcer goes after you hear it bounce off the top of a Mercedes. There's a big dent and dent in there, and the and the announcer goes, "Ah, today's baseball game was brought to you by Safe Flight Repair. Safe Flight replaced. It's like, but it was, but it was one of those things where it was like we were all. Most of us were like, well, parents too, but a lot of grandparents in there were all sort of huddled together, like in like like we were in some foreign country, and people were shooting at us, you know, and and then finally, finally, and this woman wouldn't leave. The one that got hit in the head has got ice on her head now, and and her child's like this, you know, he's going to be affected for the rest of his life, you know, and and and light on a swivel, eye is falling, and so Gib like Gib grabs a glove since she won't leave. He grabs a baseball glove and he's standing next standing next to her like this. And I'm going, "What are you doing? He goes, "That's all we can do. Yeah, the next one that comes, I got to catch it. He's ready. He's ready to field it. You know. Yeah. Oh my God. It was. I have Stockholm syndrome. No. I have to go to every game, and you bring a glove. Parents, because oh my lord yeah anyway wasn't well we just we gained another 100 people there you go so just talk baseball from now on folks that is all we have for you guys today again to follow up check out facebook.com slash John Tesh for joining our Facebook group for Transformation Tuesday, we're here every week to help get you from the place you are to the place you want to be. Right now, we are actively leaning into procrastination, how to overcome it. We'll share some more stories from our lives and also some more experts talking about methods for overcoming it. For John Tesh and Chrissy Whalen, I'm Gib Gerard. We will see you. I am right right now. I am actively ordering kiwi because on the radio show today we had a story about kiwi makes you regular. So I'm actively ordering that on DoorDash, and it should be here in 22 minutes. And I'm going to double dash it, and I'll end up with a Americano. Going forward, we will have fewer medical conversations and. More conversations about. I guess not. I'm 73 years old. I have to talk about anything else. Oh, let's look at your mole removal removal scar scar. Oh, right here. No, gotta give the people something next week. No time to procrastinate. Yeah, yeah. You don't even buy green bananas, as your as your own element says. That's dark. Okay, see you later, everybody. Bye. That's it for the show today. Thank you guys so much for listening. If you like the show, please rate, comment, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. It helps us out a lot when you do that. We also try to respond to every mention of the show, every DM about the show. You can tell us what you think about it because ultimately we do the show for you guys, so thank you so much for listening.