Welcome back again

To this third guide

As you know now

I'm Kam Knight

- Coach

- Speaker

- Author

And in this guide

You're going to discover

The secret to ending

Your procrastination & sabotage

Though...

I have to warn you

If you're looking

For a quick fix

Or simple tools or techniques

You won't find it here

That's because...

You're mind and body are extremely complex

There are deep

Underlying reasons

For why you

Procrastinate & sabotage

So it's important

To understand this complexity

If the fix was simple

Or could be overcome

With some tool or technique

You would have

Come across it already

And more importantly

Applying it

Since you haven't

Means there's more going on

To understand what's going on

Know....

The part of your brain

That creates wants and desires

Works separately and independant

From the part that

Allows you to act

On those desires

So...

You have one part of your brain

Creating wants and desires

And a completely different part

That gives the green light

To act on those desires

So...

It's possible

For your brain

To both create a want for something

And at the same time

Keep you from going after it

And...

That's what procrastination and sabotage are

A part of your brain

NOT giving the green light

To go after a desire or outcome

Interestingly enough...

Both parts can get in your way!

And in this guide, you'll learn how both your wants and resistance hold you back

1. Wants

Let's first start with your wants

It's hard to imagine

But many of your challenges in life

Actually come from your wants

That’s right!

Your challenge to doing what you want

Comes from the want itself

That's because...

The part of your brain that creates wants and desires

Is completely unrestrained

It’s creating wants one after another

The only job of this part of the brain

Which I call the wanting mechanism

Is to create wants

And it's cranking out endless wants and desires

Day in and day out

At a pace

Faster than you can achieve

You can think of your wanting mechanism

Like a simple on-off switch

That gets flipped

Based on certain cues

It sees a new pair of shoes, and wants it
The latest iPhone comes out, it wants that too
Someone attractive walks by, and it wants that as well

This switch creates so many wants

In a single day

No one person

Has the time or energy

To achieve in a lifetime

Even if you lived multiple lives

You couldn't achieve

Let alone enjoy

All the wants

Your brain is producing

And that’s because...

Your wanting mechanism doesn’t understand

That your time, energy, and resources are limited

It simply creates wants

Nor does it check to see if your want is achievable

It simply creates wants

Even while you’re working on one want

Your mechanism will create other wants to chase

The wanting mechanism is the reason

- You buy stuff you DON'T need

- Crave things that AREN'T fulfilling

- And why people cheat when they’re already in a relationship

It’s also the reason

Why it’s so hard

"To do the work"

This mechanism pulls you

In so many directions

It’s difficult to stick to any one

Though...

This is just ONE of challenge of your wants

There are many other challenges your wanting mechanism creates, including:

A. Conflicting Wants

This is where

The brain creates

Two opposing desires

So, having one

Means giving up another

Because you don't let go of either

You achieve neither

B. Strong Wants

This is where

Your desire is so strong

It takes all your

Attention and focus

So you don't

Have anything left

To work on the

Task, activity, or goal

In other words

Since all your attention and energy

Is on the desire

None is available for actually

Working on the desire

C. Unaligned Wants

Just because your brain

Creates a want for something

Doesn’t mean you will

Enjoy or find it fulfilling

So...

You may be chasing

A want or desire

You deep down

Don't really want

This is where

One cause of your

Procrastination and sabotage

Comes from

The other is...

2. Resistance

As you learned

Anytime you have a want

It's reviewed by resistance

To see whether

You should do it or not

Resistance looks at many criteria's

To decide if you should do it or not

I'll quickly talk about one of them

So you understand how resistance works

One of the reasons resistance stops you from going after something is if

The task or goal opens the door to a lot of failures

I’ve traveled a lot

To over 100 countries

But there was a point

When I was afraid to travel

In fact...

Traveling was so scary

I rarely traveled alone

After diving into the root of this resistance

I realized...

My brain was processing

Everything that could go wrong

- What if I buy the wrong flight

- Book it for the wrong date

- Or I have to cancel and can’t get a refund

- What if I can’t make it to the airport

- Miss the flight

- Forget to pack something

Or worse

- My luggage is lost

- I’m pick pocketed

- Or the hotel isn’t nice

So...

Anytime you set out to do something

Especially something new

Your brain will process

All the things that can go wrong

You don’t notice the processing happen

But it’s there

Running in the background

All you notice is the inability to do the thing

The more things that can go wrong

And the worse the outcome

The more resistance your brain will create

But...

Instead of telling you

What those things are

Your brain just creates

This impenetrable wall

You can’t push through

It can feel

Like being paralyzed

And not knowing why

Though...

This is just one cause of resistance

There are many more reasons resistance stops you, including:

A. Self-Image

Many people have a self-image

Of being cool, smart, tech savvy, and so on

But they won't apply themselves

Because if things don't go well

They will have to face the fact

That they are not as cool or smart

As they believe themselves to be

So it's easier

To not do the thing

And hold on to the self-image

Than to do it

And face the possibility

Of proving it wrong

B. Avoid Something Bigger

This is a pattern

I see a lot

With inspiring authors

Many authors spend

Years writing a book

But they'll procrastinate

On finishing it

Because finishing it will mean

Facing something bigger

They're avoiding

Usually feedback and criticism

They are so afraid

Of what people will think

About their book

They will procrastinate

On finishing the book now

To avoid the bigger

Feedback and criticism later

C. Authority Issues

When growing up

If the people

In your life

Were always telling you:

- What to do

- What not to do

- How to do it

- How not to do it

Your brain gets fed up

And doesn't want to do

Anything anyone has

Ever told you

Even when you grow up

And want to do those things

Your brain prevents you

Just to not give

The authorities in your life

The satisfaction of being right

These are other causes of your procrastination & sabotage

3. Tricks of Resistance

Here's the thing...

When your resistance

Stops you from doing something

It doesn’t tell you

That it's stopping you

Or give you a reason

As to why

For example...

If self-image is the culprit

Your brain won't say

“Hey, this goal of yours, might threaten the self-image we're trying to uphold, so I can’t let you do it”

Nope...

In action manifests other ways

Your brain uses manipulative tricks

To keep you

From taking action

And your brain

Has many tricks

Up it’s sleeves

To keep you

From doing so

To understand

What I mean by "tricks"

I’ll share a powerful story

Several years ago

I heard a woman

In South Africa

Give a speech

About her journey of addiction

She described a pattern

Addicts fall into

That she herself fell into

She said...

Many addicts know

What they're doing

Is wrong

When they're searching

For the next hit

A part of them knows

They should stop

But a sneaky little trick

Keeps them from stopping

They say…

After the next hit

I’ll stop

After the next one

I’ll stop.

I just need to do it one more time

But after, I’ll stop

Here is the thing…

They keep saying this

When they say it

They’re convinced

It’ll only be

Only one more time

Absolutely convinced

They truly believe

After the next one

They will stop

I bring this up

Because I know

You’re doing this

In some area of your life

Anytime a reminder comes up

In that moment

A voice surfaces that says

- I’ll do it later

- I’ll do it tomorrow

- I’ll do it this weekend

- I’ll do it next week

- I’ll do it next time

When you say it...

You’re convinced

You’ll do it later

Or next time

Absolutely convinced!

But when the "later" or "next" arrives

You push it off to the next

And next

And the one after that

And you'll do it for months and years

This is one of the tricks of resistance

It makes you

Keep putting things off

In fact...

There are some people

Who have been telling themselves

Later or next

Their entire life

Every time they say it

They're convinced

They will start next time

But they never do

Though...

This is just one trick of your resistance

There are many more, including:

A. Overwhelm

Have you ever

Procrastinated on something

That you thought

Was much bigger

Or more difficult

Than it really was

But after starting

You realized

It wasn’t so bad

Well...

That's a trick

Your brain uses

It makes things

So overwhelming

You don't feel like starting

Let alone thinking about it

B. Bottle Neck

Have you ever told yourself

You'll start working out

Once you sign up

For a gym membership

Then you waited

Months and years

To sign-up?

That's another trick!

Your brain keeps you

From doing something small

To create a bottle neck

To the bigger action

As long as you

Don't do the small thing

You can't take the bigger actions

that lead to the result

C. Feel Superior

Have you ever had

Someone give you advice

But you said

"Nay, I don’t need that"

"I got this"

Or have other feelings of being "too good?"

As long as

You feel too good

You don’t do the thing

As long as you don't do it

The "tricks" win yet again!

By now you're understanding

There's much more

To your procrastination

Than you thought

I'm sure you've

Heard the phrase

"You are your own worst enemy"

Well...

Resistance is the enemy within

That stops you!

So...

Anytime you find yourself

Procrastinating or sabotaging

Or not able to do that thing

1. The first step

Is starting with your wants

As you saw

Your own wants can be the very thing that keeps you from going after them

2. The next step

Is addressing the resistance

Figure out why

Your brain is

Holding you back

If you remember

All your wants are filtered by resistance to see if you should do it

3. The third step

Is to notice

the "Tricks" at play

That's because

When resistance stops you, it doesn't tell you that it's stoping you, but uses manipulative tricks

Anytime you're stuck

Go through these steps

I hope you found this guide helpful

And it opened

Your eyes to

How deep your

Procrastination and sabotage go

Like I said

Your mind and body

Are complex

Even if I gave you

The best tool in the world

The tricks of resistance

Would keep you

From using them

In fact...

You likely have

Already learned

Plenty of tools

But you're not using them :)

Because it's not about the tools

It never was

Remember...

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The Real Reason You Procrastinate

1. Wants

2. Resistance

As you learned

Resistance looks at many criteria's

To decide if you should do it or not

I'll quickly talk about one of them

So you understand how resistance works

One of the reasons resistance stops you from going after something is if

The task or goal opens the door to a lot of failures

I’ve traveled a lot

To over 100 countries

But there was a point

In fact...

Traveling was so scary

I rarely traveled alone

After diving into the root of this resistance

I realized...

My brain was processing

Everything that could go wrong

- What if I buy the wrong flight

- Book it for the wrong date

- Or I have to cancel and can’t get a refund

- What if I can’t make it to the airport

- Miss the flight

- Forget to pack something

Or worse

- My luggage is lost

- I’m pick pocketed

- Or the hotel isn’t nice

Anytime you set out to do something

Especially something new

Your brain will process

All the things that can go wrong

You don’t notice the processing happen

But it’s there

Running in the background

All you notice is the inability to do the thing

The more things that can go wrong

And the worse the outcome

The more resistance your brain will create

But...

Instead of telling you

What those things are

Your brain just creates

This impenetrable wall

You can’t push through

It can feel

Like being paralyzed

And not knowing why

This is just one cause of resistance

There are many more reasons resistance stops you, including:

A. Self-Image

Many people have a self-image

Of being cool, smart, tech savvy, and so on

But they won't apply themselves

Because if things don't go well

They will have to face the fact

That they are not as cool or smart

As they believe themselves to be

B. Avoid Something Bigger

This is a pattern

I see a lot

With inspiring authors

Many authors spend

Years writing a book

But they'll procrastinate

On finishing it

Because finishing it will mean

Facing something bigger

They're avoiding

Usually feedback and criticism

C. Authority Issues

When growing upIf the people

In your lifeWere always telling you:- What to do- What not to do- How to do it- How not to do itYour brain gets fed up

Anything anyone has

Ever told you

And want to do those thingsYour brain prevents you

These are other causes of your procrastination & sabotage

3. Tricks of Resistance

When growing up

If the people

In your life

Were always telling you:

- What to do

- What not to do

- How to do it

- How not to do it

Your brain gets fed up

And want to do those things

Your brain prevents you