I'm sure you experienced this before:

You might have had a breakdown or you might have had an epiphany.

Either way, you had this realisation that you needed to make some sort of a change in your life.

Suddenly you knew what you needed to do, and you even had the motivation to do it.

However, when you woke up the next morning, you didn't wake up as the new person you felt like you were the night before. You woke up as the same old you, with no motivation to make the changes you planned to make.

And in the following days and weeks, no additional exercise was done, there was no progress in your learning, and you still didn't get things done on time.

You have again, fallen back into your set ways, and failed to do what you said you were going to do.

But don't worry. You're not alone in this.

I don't manage to do everything I tell myself I'm going to do, either.

But I have found a way to substantially increase my odds of following through on my desired behaviour.

Instead of relying on motivation, which comes and goes, I started applying what psychologists call: implementation intentions.

Studies mentioned in the video for further reading:

Implementation intentions:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...

Meta-analysis of implementation intentions:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Coping plans:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...

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Nowadays everyone is constantly busy with something. But being busy doesn't mean we're using our time efficiently.

It's sad to say this, but most people completely waste their time.

And time is our most valuable resource. We can't make more of it, like we can make more money for example.

So it's wise to use our time in a way that will benefit us.

When we're bored, what do we usually do?

Most of us up end being glued to a phone, TV or a computer screen.

That might ease our boredom in the moment, and we might not even consider that time to be wasted.

But there's an opportunity cost.

That time could've been spent on a different, more valuable activity.

Specifically on something that could actually benefit us greatly in the future.

This is why in this video I'll go over 5 things that will help ease your boredom, and teach you to use your free time more productively.

There were two friends that grew up together.

However after they were done with their education, they went their separate ways.

One friend became extremely successful in every aspect.

The other friend however, became the exact opposite.

But no matter how different their lives became, those two friends still kept in touch.

In fact, they talked to each other every day.

That's because those two friends were actually the same person.

The first friend was that person's best and ideal version, while the second one was his worst version.

You and me both have those two friends inside of us. All of us do.

And we have the potential to become either one of them.

Which one we end up becoming though, is determined by the choices we make each and every day.