How I trick myself to be self-disciplined

It's about learning, coding, and generally how to get your sh*t together c:

In this video, I talk about all the ways I trick myself to be self-disciplined to study and just get things done in general.

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[Boomk]

How I've "forced" myself to be more disciplined :

1) I no longer sleep with my phone
2) My phone is not allowed in my room which is where I work
3) I am allowed to take my phone for my workout and when I go outside
4) I wake up at 5:30 am and go to bed at 9:30 pm
5) I start my day with 1H of workout before starting my work
6) I eat better, sleep better, drink better

I work as I never did in my life with this routine, I learn a lot of stuff for example I'm writting in english and it's not even my first language I'm french !

Before starting my routine, I had the feeling that all of my projects were on hold because I couldn't get the work done, now it is another story.

Do not give up on yourself, you are worthy and you deserve to treat yourself properly !

Lots of love

[sebisamuel]

Ye tricking yourself into doing stuff is very effective just like how I have successfully been tricking myself into existence 🐢🐢🐢

[malak-dsfe]

I am Moroccan and I used to watch your videos only to learn English, but I became more and more benefited

[AndreTheBarbadian]

Man I am always so jealous when I hear people speak about Will and all of the power he has. One day I too want to have Will's power 🌻Hope these techniques help me

[shadow.ravenge]

I’ve been doing this for some time now, always laying around the stuff I’ll need the night before: my clothes, my keys, any other weird thing, going as far as placing little notes for myself… Making my life easier has also contributed to thanking myself multiple times thus loving myself more lmao
I won’t lock my phone away but I do really need to download some kind of app to only allow myself to receive calls and such. IOS already has some functions for that but you can actually make some “exceptions” and that doesn’t help me at all

[DXmaryoOD]

this is the second video where ive seen that lock box and it looks awesome...but my paranoid brain immediately went to, "what if someone breaks into my house and tries to murder me and and then i need my phone to call 911 😭"

[LukeBarousse]

Not gonna lie... I'd be terrified to lock my phone away until noon everyday 🙀 We need to get on Tina's level 🙌🏼🐙

[pkk]

A trick that I use is: when I am tired I do a task to check if i am really tired or I am just lazy. If I don't get asleep I was just lazy. If I am getting asleep I sleep 20min and then I do the task

[ambarbhat]

I came here to learn about self discipline but Mann couldn't stop looking at your hair *touchwood* you have such a beautiful hair, girl. If you don't mind can you please share your hair care routine! 😩

[juanescorcia]

Be self discipline and avoid procrastinating: NO
Procrastinate and waste time watching videos to stop being a procrastinator: Yes

[KuyaaaRenz]

My 3 year old phone started to frequently lag a few months ago, and I had to remove a handful of apps. Turns out, those apps I removed were either unnecessary, or have counterpart programs on a laptop and irl stuff (alarms and notes), eventually turning my phone into a basic phone that doesn't lag as much anymore.

Thanks to your video, I can reinforce stuff that I've already been doing. Will add the "out of sight, out of mind" context more often now too!

[wheeiraeth]

Thanks Tina for sharing the idea of locking your phone! We often don't realize it but we're being slaves to our phones when we start mindlessly scrolling it through the wee hours of the night. I didn't want to spend 70 bucks on a locking container so I found an alternative I thought I'd share!

It's called "Lock My phone (Zen Mode)" and it basically makes it impossible to unlock your phone (without paying) during the hours you set it to be locked! Worked so well for me!

[janahany]

This is very helpful, I really like your style of doing things more easy to achieve, and I find some similar challenges that faces me but you conquer them so you give me a clear vision of how can I be the ideal self I want to be💖

[isabellapap]

Aside from environment design being extremely useful, there is one thing that personally concerns me and that's time management. I know one solution is to start working on a task early, but if your life tends to be designed in a way that you get thrown random urgent tasks very often, what do you do if 12pm comes around and your task isn't finished? For me, I get 100 x times more desperate because now I am already exhausted from being disciplined and such and it's finally chill o'clock but I can't show up because I never managed to find the pesky bug in my code for example so the day spirals into a stressful mess.

[LillySchwartz]

I have a similar trick. I put my phone at the other end of the flat at midnight and I'm lazy enough not to go get it until I really need it. I sleep better and usually I get an hour of reading done before getting the phone in the morning. I also deleted all social media apps and now the only social stuff I can do with it is check emails and messages. I also don't allow myself to look at news on the phone. Which means that even if I do get my phone, I'm unlikely to use it for procrastination. This alone has tricked me into spending way less time on social media / looking at news, mainly because those websites are just utterly painful on computers these days! Currently I'm also training myself to close the tab every time something I see on the internet annoys me. Like a trigger -> response type thing. Since there is a lot of annoying stuff on social media + news, I mostly close the tab after scrolling down a few times. Seems to be working! Another good trick is to just allow yourself to procrastinate in very tight boundaries. At uni I had a half and half schedule. 45 min heavy brain squeeze studying followed by 45min of watching series. Since I was doing that from 8am to 1am in the morning back then I usually got around 7-8h of studying done while most of my friends couldn't even get to half that time because they tried to study many hours in a row and everything past 1h turned to inefficient brain fog. And I spent half the day watching series! My path to an MSc with distinction? Watching every single episode of Star Trek 😆 I don't procrastinate quite as much anymore, but when I do I usually start watching series in foreign languages now. Nothing quite as hilarious as Stargate in Spanish or Buffy the vampire slayer in French! It's the opposite of self-discipline, but it really helps with brain fatigue when you need to concentrate for long stretches of time.

[Thuvu]

I can't imagine waking up smiling when my phone alarm goes off 😂, I'd just slap my phone and sleep a bit more haha. Thanks for sharing these tricks, Tina! Badly need this phone lock!

[lolaloliepop]

I have ADD and my entire life I never quite grasped what was wrong with me that the advice to do the hardest thing first because of motivation just never worked. Hell, I studied neuroscience, I was aware of how ADHD works on a strictly chemical and physical level with DAT and adenosine and glucose/etc, and even then I'd just zero in on how "but how come I'm less productive when I take the productive people's advice" instead of, for years at least, recognizing that when things are chemically backwards you gotta do things backwards. That is start with the smaller "easier" tasks and work your way up to the harder ones through the day since we tend to build motivation as the day goes on and we complete things (well, more extreme than most people)
I'm far from perfect, I'm a sprinter, but aside from getting a manual alarm clock and journaling so that I can remind myself why I'm even waking up in the morning...and obviously medication as time has gone on and brain gets older...is learning to go with the flow vs against it. Works for me to build xp before facing the boss battle vs doing the hard battle first when the hp bar is full? cool, do that. Can't seem to break focus a la pomodoro timers or endurance run for 8+h days? ok well 2h sprints (2h work then 2h does work - so it might mean the day being "longer" but it's less straining.

also it's not really feasible if you don't have many friends or many good friends, and is part of why I twitch stream, but if I have a planned hangout with friends at the end of the day I'm so much more motivated to race against the clock and get things done.

[chessfan]

During my preparation time for university exams i installed a parental control software on my PC. Restricting daytime and amount of social media and games. After giving the password to a friend i wasn't able to procrastinate with this anymore. This helped a lot. ;-)

[seanmcelroy]

I copy people who are successful at achieving goals like yourself and incorporate the techniques into my life!

[go_better]

Thank you, Tina. I think that tips you provided are the consequense of acceptance of being lazy (no offence!) and accepting one's limits. Like....I didn't pass this challenge and I still have "productive" self-image. So I'm burned out and procrastinating all the time. And time flies and I don't complete my tasks, I don't keep up. And it frustrates me even more, and it goes on and on.

So, it's a paradox. After understanding that one is lazy - productivity grows and vice versa.