How To Make The Greatest Comeback Of Your Life (In 6-12 months)

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Summary The video provides a detailed strategy for personal transformation through "monk mode" - a 6-12 month intensive self-improvement protocol involving focused work, eliminating distractions, and dedicating time to achieving personal goals. The speaker shares his own journey from feeling hopeless to becoming successful by taking consistent, disciplined action towards his dreams.

Takeaways
  • Identify personal goals and break them down into concrete milestones, researching strategies from people who have already achieved similar objectives.
  • Enter "monk mode" for 6-12 months, which involves dedicating 4 hours daily to deep work, eliminating distractions like alcohol and excessive social media, and maintaining physical health through exercise, proper sleep, and sunlight exposure.
  • Take consistent action towards goals, focusing on personal growth and transformation, understanding that no one will save you except yourself.
  • Overcome challenges by maintaining motivation, remembering your initial purpose, and recognizing that the internet provides unprecedented access to knowledge and resources for self-improvement.
  • Commit fully to personal development, understanding that escaping mediocrity requires extreme dedication and willingness to make sacrifices.

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00:00

The Cycle of Demotivation & Personal Struggles and Low Self-Worth & Family Challenges and Depression

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  1. Daily routine involves waking up tired, unmotivated, and scrolling social media, leading to negative self-perception and feeling life is unfair.
  2. Lack of motivation spreads to personal health, resulting in skipping gym, eating junk food, drinking alcohol, smoking, and disrupted sleep patterns.
  3. Personal background includes family financial hardship after father was scammed, parents working constantly, and experiencing family challenges.
  4. Depression and hopelessness set in during high school, causing loss of motivation, disinterest in activities, and constant social media scrolling.
  5. Emotional impact of watching parents struggle and experiencing family difficulties created a sense of helplessness and disconnection from life.

You hear your alarm clock snooze it multiple times and when you finally wake up you think to yourself: ah, here we go again. You get out of your bed feeling tired and unmotivated. You grab your phone, start scrolling and see other people living their best lives. You start to think yourself: my life sucks. Life is so unfair. There is no point getting in better. Nothing is going to change. Nobody can save me. This luck of motivation starts to spread into other aspects of your life. There is no point getting in shape. You're good as you are, so you start to skip the gym, eat more junk food, drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes every night. Why would you even get 8 hours of sleep? You start to sleep later and later and eventually pulling all nighter becomes your routine. Reading books is a complete waste of time, right? You would rather scroll on Tik Tok, watching content you don't even truly enjoy. Life starts to feel pointless. You don't even enjoy the things you used to enjoy anymore.

In high school, my dad was scammed by my uncles and lost his job, putting us in a huge depth. Despite seeking help from, my f, side died. They ignored us. My parent worked 24/7 to support our family and eventually my mom got sick. We couldn't even afford school lunch and my dad's side refused to help us, telling us my mom should work harder while my mom's side help us a lot. It still left a hole in my heart. Watching my parents get more and more tired made me feel something I can't explain.

I became quite depressed in high school. I spent my days only scrolling on social media. I wasn't motivated to do anything and even waking up became a challenge for me. I felt hopeless, helpless and had no motivation towards life at all.

01:33

Discovering a Path to Self-Improvement & YouTube and Personal Transformation

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  1. Discovered productivity content on YouTube that inspired self-improvement and taking control of life.
  2. Pursued long-time dream of becoming a YouTuber during lockdown by cutting unhealthy habits and focusing entirely on content creation.
  3. Gradually grew YouTube channel, starting with 40-50 views and eventually reaching 100 subscribers in 3 months.
  4. Started earning money through YouTube, which enabled supporting and partially retiring family.
  5. Overcame challenges like negative emotions, feeling like a failure, and learned that personal evolution is crucial for success.
  6. Believes in personal accountability and the importance of learning, adapting, and taking action to achieve goals.

One day I was watching YouTube and I still remember the day I stumbled upon my first productivity video on YouTube. I started to learn more about productivity and started consuming self-improvement content. After a while, this content gave me hope and willingness to improve my life. I started to take more responsibility towards my life and, step by step, I started to take control over my life.

Since I was 15- 16, I always wanted to become a YouTuber and after failing four to five challeng, I quitted for a while. But it was always a dream of mine and sharing my experiences and thoughts through a video has been always a passion of mine. I decided to go in on YouTube.

During the lockdown, I cut out all my unhealthy habits, started exercising at home and fully focused on YouTube. For a year I literally disappeared and focused on my dream. I gave my all in. In the beginning I was only getting 40- 50 views, but I promised myself to go harder and keep going. I kept going for a while and suddenly one of my videos to cough. In only 3 months we gained 100 subscribers on this channel. I started making more and more money by doing what I love and eventually I started supporting my family financially and retired them partially. My goal is to completely retire them in 2 years and make them live their dream life.

Gaining this Freedom wasn't easy at all: fighting with negative emotions every day, feeling like a failure, feeling hopeless, pointless, helpless.

I know that feeling, but I want to remind you something: no one is going to save you except you. You either evolve. Evolve or die. That is the truth about our world. You either learn the game, play accordingly and Vin, or you complain and do nothing about it and eventually lose.

If your life currently sounds like this, I want you to stick around. No matter how hopeless you feel in the current moment, there is always something you can do. You are much more capable than this and I trust you will succeed. We got this, I got you and you got me.

03:22

Breaking Free from Mediocrity & Setting Clear Goals and Milestones

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  1. Escape mediocrity by identifying and deeply understanding your life goals, writing them down, and breaking them into achievable milestones.
  2. Research and learn from successful people who have already achieved similar goals, using resources like books, videos, and online content.
  3. Dedicate 6-12 months to singularly focusing on your goals, understanding that achieving an extraordinary life requires extreme dedication and prioritization.
  4. Recognize that wanting more than an ordinary life means rejecting normalized behaviors like unhealthy habits, shallow relationships, and negativity.
  5. Minimize the motivation gap between your current self and ideal self by setting clear, actionable steps towards your objectives.

Being successful, making more money than other people, having Freedom, being in shape, having a good relationship and living the dream life obviously comes with sacrifices. Not every wants to be exceptional and some people are happy living a mediocre life, and that's completely fine.

But if you clicked on this video, something tells me that you want more than mediocracy. You want more than an ordinary life, and if that's the case, we need to escape mediocracy together.

In a world where eating a bunch of unhealthy stuff, drinking every single week on Fridays, having shallow relationships, being jealous, bashing other people's success, is normalized and wanting more, wanting to improve, get better, is considered toxic, mediocracy is not going to help your dreams, no matter how crazy. No matter how stupid they sound to other people.

I want you to identify your goals. I want you to truly ask yourself: what do you want from Life? Why are you wanting to change your life? Think about this deeply and write them down on a paper, or on a notion page, if you will.

Once you have your goals written down, I want you to figure out what it takes to achieve them. Break them down into multiple steps and Milestones. You often became un motivated when we realize the gap between our current self and our ideal self.

By setting Milestones, you can minimize that Gap.

If you don't have any idea what the steps will look like for you, research it. I'm quite sure there is someone on the internet living your dream life and teaching about it and probably had a similar situation as you do right now. Watch their videos, buy their books, read their blogs and articles and learn from them. I'm not only talking about YouTubers or online celebrities, by the way. Many successful people write books and share their knowledge for 10 to $20, so there is no excuse for not reading regularly and learning from them.

Once you have your goals and Milestones written down, it's time to disappear for 6 to 12 months.

During these 6 to 12 months, we're going to Solly focus on our goals. Working towards our goals is going to be the number one priority. You might be thinking: oh, disappearing for 6 to 12 months is Extreme. I would rather have a balance. I understand you, but you're the one who wants the results fast.

If you want an extraordinary life, you can't live like an ordinary person. If you want quick results that will help you escape the rot to your in and change your life, I'm sorry, but you need to go a little extreme sometimes.

If you listen to many successful people, you will hear them say that at the beginning of their career, they solidly focus on their goal and nothing else.

05:45

The Monk Mode Philosophy

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  1. Monk mode is a mindset focused on eliminating distractions and dedicating yourself fully to a task or project to work efficiently towards goals.
  2. Everyone has their own version of monk mode, and the routine is just a supplement to help progress, not the definition of oneself.
  3. Mental and physical health are crucial; reaching a goal means nothing if you can't enjoy it due to poor health.
  4. Simply consuming information about successful people won't lead to success; taking action and applying lessons is essential.
  5. The monk mode protocol involves a set of rules that, when followed for 6 to 12 weeks, can create significant personal transformation.

No matter what happens in your life, you're going to stay focused, and during these 6 to 12 months, there is a protocol that can help you Trend amend sleep, and that is called monk mode. If you're interested in improving yourself and your life, I'm quite sure- sure that you have stumbled upon monk mode before, and if you're not, let me explain it real quick for you so that we have a better understanding.

Essentially, monk mode is a mindset, an approach to life, where you commit to eliminating distractions and dedicating yourself fully to a task or project. By doing so, you enter a state of focus and concentration that allows you to work efficiently and effectively towards your goals.

The great thing about monk mode is that there isn't a one protocol. Everyone has their own version of Monk mode, and today I want to share my version, and one thing that people get wrong is that they focus too much on their routine.

Your routine is a supplement to push you forward. It's not the definition of yourself. At the same time, if you're mentally and physically unhealthy when you reach your goal, you will not be able to fully enjoy it.

So what's the meaning of reaching your goals? Then you can create your own monk mode protocol, but let me share my version of Monk mode.

There are 10 rules for my monk mode. If you apply all the rules of my monk mode for 6 to 12 weeks, you'll be unnoticeable.

Just by doing some fancy morning routines and spending your whole day reading and watching and researching about successful people, you can't become successful as well. Right, I also fell into that trap a couple of years ago.

If you want to change our lives, we need to take action, no matter how much you feel like you're progressing just by consuming. Nothing is going to change in your life if you don't apply those lessons into your life.

07:21

Practical Strategies for Personal Growth

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  1. Dedicate 4 hours daily to deep work, potentially changing scenery to maintain focus and productivity, using tools like a portable monitor to enhance workflow.
  2. Avoid alcohol, drugs, and excessive social media during personal development periods, as they can disrupt dopamine levels and create addictive habits.
  3. Exercise regularly to release endorphins, reduce stress, improve mood, and decrease cravings for harmful substances.
  4. Prioritize quality sleep (7-9 hours) and track sleep patterns to optimize daily performance and mental health.
  5. Get daily sunlight exposure (10-30 minutes) in the morning and evening to boost energy, improve cognitive function, and support mental well-being.
  6. Maintain personal motivation by remembering your initial goals, especially during challenging times when others might discourage you.

Every single day, time block four hours of deep work into your calendar. Depending on your current circumstance. It might be one or it might be even 5 hours. The point is to dedicate a time where you do nothing but focus on your goals and take action for them. That is the important part, and during your deep work sessions sometimes you might need a change of scenery. Working for hours on the same desk can be extremely boring and if you have ADHD like me, switching places can be a GameChanger.

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Even a low amount of alcohol consumption can disrupt your cortisol levels and make you feel more stress during the week. If you drink very rarely when you're with friend and family, it's not the end of the world world, but during your monk mode, I recommend not drinking alcohol. Don't forget. This is a protocol to change and gain control over your life. So the best amount of alcohol to drink is no alcohol during these 6 months. Do not use drugs. This includes smoking cigarettes, feed or using LSD or any type of drug. Quit now. Some people limit their caffeine intake too, since it's also drug, but caffeine has many benefits consumed in moderation, especially for ADHD, and it can help improving alertness and concentration and might even calm you down if you have ADHD. I only drink one to two cups of coffee during the day, so, and I don't consume any type of caffeine after 400 pm to prevent it from disrupting my sleep. It's helping me get more things done, so I'm keeping it in my protocol, but depending on how it affects you, you can.

The problem with the excessive social media usage is that these platform, especially short form based platforms like Tik Tok and Instagram and YouTube shorts, make you release crazy amounts of dopamine. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that has been the classically associated with the reinforcing effects of drugs of abuse and may take a key role in triggering the neurobiological changes associated with addiction. The more dopamine you produce, the higher amount you require next time to satisfy yourself, and with social media, it can easily turn into a negative habit Loop. The more you consume it, the more addictive it becomes and the more you crave it. Lo dopamine producing tasks like working, studying, exercising, meditating and reading becomes harder than ever. I'm saying: limit social media, not quit it, because if you know how to use it correctly, social media can change your life and even you can make money out of it. You can learn from Highly Successful People by listening to them on podcast, watching videos from people you respect, to motivate yourself further, learn new things and network with people on the Internet. It's all about how you use it and if you're a content creator like me, understanding the trends and defining the demand is done by analyzing social media. So every time you're watching something, ask yourself: s why am I watching this? What's the purpose? What's the goal? If you have a clear purpose, then go for it, but if you grab your phone mindlessly, almost like an autopilot, then don't do it.

When we exercise, our body releases chemical called endorphines. These endorphines interact with receptors in our brains and reduce our perception of pain. Endorphines also trigger a positive feeling in the body, similar to that of morphine. Additionally, endorphines can help decrease cravings for Alcohol and Other Drugs. Regular exercise has been proven to reduce stress, W of anxiety and feelings of depression, boost self-esteem and improve sleep. Research has shown that exercise is an effective but often underused treatment for mild to moderate depression even. In addition, exercising outside, with the appropriate sun protection, of course, can help boost levels of vitamin D and your mood.

If you want to get most done during your 4-Hour Dew workk session every day, you need to get your sleep okay. I've been tracking my sleep every night for the past year and he using my or ring so- and this is not a sponsored pul- actively tracking my sleep every night and seeing how it affects my performance during the day has been a GameChanger. No matter how busy, stressful you are, you should never give up on your sleep. Get at least 7even Plus hours of sleep. I'm not talking about the amount you spend on bed, but the amount of sleep you get. I usually get around like 8 to 9 hours of sleep per night.

If you're spending your whole day indoor and not getting sunline and if you find yourself feeling down, no matter, you feel down okay. And people who were depressed. The study found that having less exposure to sunlight was linked to having worse cognitive function. This means that people who got less sunlight were more likely to have problems with their thinking skills. Also, viewing morning and evening sunlight is really the key to reboost night sleep and strong focus and energy during the day. You should never directly look into the sun. You get what I mean every day. View sunline for 10 to 30 minutes minimum each morning and don't stare at the Sun, but get the sunlight in. Leaving sunlight in the morning Coes up to 50 % increase in circulating cortisol, epinephrine and dopamine. These result in healthy increases in energy, immune system function and mood. So it can also help with anxiety and depression.

Life will get in away, things will happen and you will have days when the last thing you want to do is to focus on your goal. But trust me, it will be all worth it at the end. When you look at your past self in the future, you'll be thankful without personal meaning. It's hard to achieve the things you want, especially if you're dreaming big. People won't understand you, they will make fun of you and they will say it is impossible this, and that they will do everything to discourage you. There will be tons of reasons to quit, but during those days, remind yourself why you started in the first place. Whenever you want to quit, remind yourself that this is where most people quit and why they don't win.

13:42

Embracing Life's Opportunities & Final Motivation and Call to Action

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  1. Being alive is a privilege, and you should appreciate what you have like internet access, shelter, and food.
  2. The internet has democratized information, allowing you to learn new skills through platforms like YouTube, chat with AI, and connect with others via social media.
  3. Instead of comparing yourself to others or complaining, focus on your next step and what you can contribute.
  4. Take a period of 6-12 months to work on yourself and improve your position.

Being alive is the biggest privilege we all have. It's easy to compare your life to others and complain, but don't take things you have for granted. You have access to Internet and probably have a roof over your head and food to eat.

With internet access, you're capable of learning new skills and broadening your horizons. In the past, only the wealth had access to information and education, but now the power of internet has democratized information. Basically, you have chat, gbt to give feedback on your problems- even if it's not perfect, it's still better than nothing- and you have YouTube to listen to podcasts, learn from successful people and get motivated. You have Instagram to connect and network with other people easily. Twitter to share your thoughts and knowledge easily.

Instead of complaining, focus on the next step you're going to take, and the last step is to disappear for 6 to 12 months. If you have more to give, you should give more. I will see you in a much better position in 6 to 12 months. Okay, see you soon. Bye