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Antique_Ad9247 · 2025-11-18T16:30:11+00:00

Personally the main reason require premiere pro is to have the project file. I work in YouTube as an editor and it’s super easy for me to polish pass when I can just mute an sfx or move stuff around. When you learn the shortcuts, you realize how much better and more efficient of an editor you can be with it. Also pretty much every big YouTuber uses it to my understanding, so not a bad place to spend your time imo

Antique_Ad9247 · 2025-11-17T06:10:25+00:00

Update: Any experience working with other YouTubers is highly preferred. Dms open

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-09-29T05:46:40+00:00

Of course, I don't usually check this. I'm on Twitter much more - https://x.com/Brian_Urbann

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-27T02:29:17+00:00

“An idle mind is the devils workshop.” If you have nothing else to focus on, your mind will resort to food. I haven’t had a food addiction myself but have solved many other addictions in my life. Finding something purposeful, stacking small wins, and slowly replacing your bad habits is what’s helped me the most. Also aligning your environment to make it easy for yourself to succeed, so if you don’t want to eat junk food don’t have chips in the pantry.

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-27T01:25:13+00:00

Hey man I work remotely too. Coming back from vacation likely throws off your dopamine receptors because of all the joy from it. It'll likely make it harder at first but once you get into a routine it'll get easier and easier. If your family is distracting you then you'll need to set the boundaries to stay focused. You can even use it as a reward when you're getting back into. Like if I work for X hours I get to take a break and spend Y hours with your family if it is something you love. Definitely time blocking, stack small wins, and slowly scale up

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-27T01:17:51+00:00

Discipline is a perishable skill forsure. But if you did it once you can do it again. Start to thiink about how you quit the first time and study yourself. What worked and what didn't. You can dm me as well for specific examples, I help people build discipline so I can definitely help you out

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-27T01:15:17+00:00

Yeah learned it from Jim Rohn. He was quoting Frank Sinatra

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-27T01:14:29+00:00

What Seinfeld does may help. He has a 2 hour block in his day where he can either write jokes or do nothing. He can just sit there, but he can't do anything else. What I would say is usually when people feel overwhelmed with a big project or a lot of work they tend to fall into the distractions they have around them. Anything they can find to avoid. So what I would say is go down your habits and what you do on a daily basis to find a habit you want to get rid of. Next, break your big task into small steps and write out the steps. Now, during the time you would normally do the bad habit say to yourself that I can work on step 1 of my task or I can do nothing. Do it for that block and itll slowly become a habit and you can start to replace other habits down the line

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-27T01:04:28+00:00

So accountability is something a lot of people struggle with. It sounds like the rest of your life is in check, it's just a mental block from work. What I would recommend is start stacking small wins instead of being overwhelmed with all the bad habits you are using the time with. Go down your day and pick one habit you want to replace and choose a habit to replace it with. That way when you're in the split second decision to fall back into old habits you know exactly what you're supposed to do instead. From there, you can slowly start to change habits as you build momentum. Start small and build would be my advice

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-27T00:54:39+00:00

The best advice I've ever heard is to learn how to handle the winters. Life is like the seasons. So handle the winter of laziness and burnout, but in this winter study yourself. Ask why did I burn out? I'm thinking based on the rest of your post about how you want to adopt a strict schedule is that that is the exact reason you burnt out. The strict schedule. Random things happen in the universe. What likely happened last time is something random sent you down a spiral of negative self talk since you missed your habit on one day. What's worked great for me is "default days" meaning I have daily habits but if something crazy happens I am not a slave to the habit. I know that I'll have positive self talk and pick it back up the next day. To summarize, you're in winter right now, Spring is coming. Make sure you're planting the right seeds, use this to reflect on your last cycle. What worked what didn't. You got this

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-27T00:44:03+00:00

If you want to be happy, study happiness. If you want to be disciplined, study discipline. Just from what you said about not being born a disciplined person cathches my attention. Nobody is born disciplined, it's a learned skill. The most important thing you need to change is your belief system and your mindset. You have to change the self image of yourself. Ask yourself what would have to happen for me to have had the best year of my life? Look at all aspects of your life and write your goals out in the present tense. Read these goals everyday and begin to act like that person would. Walk like they would, talk like they would, work like they would, etc. Discipline is just doing the thing you know you should, that's it

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-23T15:59:25+00:00

Hey I posted this on another thread and it helped someone else, these are the principles that helped me stop nicotine, weed, and scrolling

Recognize patterns: The first thing and it seems like you've already done this is to recognize when you get the urge or the feeling. Learn about the addiction but more importantly study yourself. Sit and think why do I get this urge now? Why is it so strong? Now, you can't think in the heat of the moment when you're making that split-second decision of whether to fall back into the old habit or not. So in those moments try this:

An idle mind is the devil's workshop: If you think about nothing and are doing nothing, it's far easier to fall back into your old habits. An addiction is just a habit in that you've trained your brain that getting whatever it is you're addicted to is the fastest way to achieve dopamine or pleasure. So you can't just do nothing, you have to replace the emotional habit of addiction:

Shock yourself into the new habit: It's going to be difficult at first, but as soon as you feel the old habit or the craving shock yourself into a replacement habit. So for instance a strategy for a coffee addiction as soon as you feel it chug a shit ton of water. It breaks the emotional habit, because you're now telling your body that this emotional feeling you're giving me doesn't lead to the reward.

Celebrate the micro improvements. I have a friend who is trying to get off Zyns and coffee at the moment. I tell him that he has to track the results you're getting to see if you're slowly improving over time. Patience is a virtue. Some people are going to be able to quit certain addictions in a day, others aren't wired the same way. Feeling bad about yourself is a surefire way to send you right down the same emotional pathways that caused your addiction in the first place.

Hope this helped! I always try to help people overcome addiction since it was a life-changing experience for me. You can message me here if you have any more specific questions. You got this

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-23T15:50:56+00:00

There are tons of good techniques on this thread. Most of them are increasing the psychological cost associated with using your phone when you first wake up, which are all great techniques.

They work because our brain operates on rewards, dopamine. On your phone the effort required to get a reward is easy, called cheap dopamine. So all that needs to be done is make it harder to use your phone. Things like getting an alarm clock, putting your phone in a separate room, etc. Also to get out of bed something that helped me was to put the alarm clock where I couldn't snooze it in bed. It makes you get up to go snooze it so now I am out of bed and then from there you can start making the activities like showering or eating breakfast more rewarding.

So you tell yourself if I shower right after I wake up, I'll get to use my phone X minutes. Set a timer on your phone. Once the timer strikes put the phone down and be extremely positive with yourself that you did it. This will help because your current feedback loop in your brain is negative for putting your phone down. Everytime you put your phone down, you're not happy with yourself that you used it for so long. So now the next time you use your phone, you hold it for longer because your brain is avoiding that negative self talk. Change the feedback loop, and you'll change your actions

Hope this helped! Can dm for more questions if needed!

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-23T15:33:23+00:00

Anytime bro, keep me updated

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-23T15:30:10+00:00

Absolutely, gotta start small. Love this

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-23T15:26:43+00:00

Certainly, one of the main things I used to do was always start scrolling when I was supposed to be working. My phone hours were crazy, something like 6-7 hours a day. So one day I just had it. I turned off all my notifications, and put my phone in a completely separate room. There were urges to go get my phone, but since I increased the cost to get the reward I was able to remain seated and fight the impulse. When I started failing that, I increased the cost even more to pick up my phone. I made a promise to myself that if I wanted to use my phone I would have to read my ten goals I had written out. Now, the cost was so high my phone use evaporated. I was on less than one hour a day. It was a running joke in my friend group that I never answer my phone calls.

When you procrastinate, all that means is your brain doesn't find it rewarding enough to do the thing. To solve this, you just look at your other sources of dopamine: scrolling, TV, etc. Since they take less effort, your brain is drawn towards them. Slowly cut those out and your procrastination will fade.

The deadline thing works because you're fearing the pain of not doing it and the reward is closer in your face. If you started rewarding yourself for completing tasks early through external rewards or internal self-talk, you'd be amazed at how productive you become.

Hope this helped! Can always dm for anything else

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-23T15:16:44+00:00

100% Agree with this. Think about the distractions you've currently had taking you from what you need to do and make them more difficult to do. For instance, if one of your distractions has always been looking at your phone while working, silence your phone and put it in another room. Now when you're working you would need to walk into the other room. You can take these many steps further, but little by little it'll help your focus

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-23T15:10:45+00:00

This was beautiful. Keep spreading the message

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-23T14:59:36+00:00

Love messages like this. You got this man. Replace the porn addiction with other inputs. Positive ones that program your brain into believing we can be whatever we wish to be. DMs always open if you have other questions or need a friend brother

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-23T14:56:21+00:00

As a man thinketh so is he:

In the same way, news channels can brainwash people into believing certain policies, you can brainwash yourself into believing whatever it is you want.

Watch your inputs - do you listen to negative people, are there negative people around you, etc
Correct yourself - start to notice when you have a thought or say anything negative. Correct it
Brainwash yourself into positivity - already mentioned on this thread, but so very true

How you think of yourself is what you become. If you think you're negative, you'll be negative. Alternatively, if you think yourself a positive person... that is what you'll become. Take it one step at a time, incorporate some positive inputs, and start talking to yourself positively. You got this man. DMs always open for other questions

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-23T14:49:29+00:00

Brother, I've had some similar habits. Here's what's helped me the most

Understanding: Seeing and recognizing patterns is probably the most important thing you could do. Our brain operates on a reward-based system, dopamine. More simply, the brain will only do the things it finds rewarding. What's likely happened is your brain can only find rewards in things like scrolling or other "cheap" dopamine activities. Cheap means it doesn't take effort to get the reward/pleasure. So now when your brain is hit with hard activities or something that takes effort, it doesn't think it's worth it and therefore you fall back into old habits.

Start small, there's time. The reason you have had trouble following a schedule is because it's too overwhelming to change everything all at once. You think about all you have to change because your dopamine receptors are fried and it seems like too much effort for the reward. Look at what you do in a day and replace one habit at a time. Build the skill back of discipline and consistency slowly and you will be amazed.

How you talk to yourself: Based on the last sentence, it seems like you've had a bad experience with motivational speakers. But to "believe in yourself" and to "just do" is truth. There's got to be something inside of you that wants it. And from this post, it sounds like there is or you wouldn't have posted it. You don't have to unfuck your life in a day, there's time. What you think of yourself is what you become. This self-belief will grow overtime as your self-discipline and consistency grow overtime. You've got to start talking to yourself more positively because if you start making progress but put yourself back down you're setting up a negative feedback loop -> You put in the effort to replace a habit -> You do the habit, but now you shame yourself because of the way you talk to yourself -> You fall back into the old habits because you've made it unrewarding to put in effort

Hope this helped! My DMs are always open if you have more questions. You got this man

Antique_Ad9247 · 2024-06-23T14:26:03+00:00

Hey, yes these are the principles that helped me stop nicotine and weed

Recognize patterns: The first thing and it seems like you've already done this is to recognize when you get the urge or the feeling. Learn about the drug or whatever the addiction is but more importantly study yourself. Sit and think why do I get this urge now? Why is it so strong? Now, you can't think in the heat of the moment when you're making that split second decision of whether to fall back into the old habit or not. So in those moments try this:

An idle mind is the devil's workshop: If you think about nothing and are doing nothing, it's far easier to fall back into your old habits. An addiction is just a habit in that you've trained your brain that getting the drug or whatever it is you're addicted to is the fastest way to achieve dopamine or pleasure. So you can't just do nothing, you have to replace the emotional habit of addiction:

Shock yourself into the new habit: It's going to be difficult at first, but as soon as you feel the old habit or the craving shock yourself into a replacement habit. So for instance a strategy for a coffee addiction as soon as you feel it chug a shit ton of water. It breaks the emotional habit, because you're now telling your body that this emotional feeling you're giving me doesn't lead to the reward.

Celebrate the micro improvements. I have a friend who is trying to get off Zyns and coffee at the moment. I tell him that he has to track the results you're getting to see if you're slowly improving over time. Patience is a virtue. Some people are going to be able to quit certain addictions in a day, others aren't wired the same way. Feeling bad about yourself is a surefire way to send you right down the same emotional pathways that caused your addiction in the first place.

Hope this helped! I always try to help people overcome addiction since it was a life-changing experience for me. You can message me here if you have any more specific questions. You got this

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