As Tim in the video pointed out, the real problem of procrastination is when there is no deadline.

Then, I thought, "that's right!". At the second thought, "that's not ture!". Because we always have a real hardcore deadline called death. So, the real problem is that we don't think or feel that we are going to die at some point.

There still be an unsolved problem even we recognize our mortality very well. Because we don't know when is the deadline exactly. So, we need to set a temporary deadline by ourselves.

As we get older or matured, somehow, we live from a different dimension than before. Which can be a spiritual awakening for you.

It is about seeing things differently. Or you realized that you had been seeing things with limited understanding of things around you.

Now, you can see things two different ways and you know the new way of seeing things make much better senese. Not only that, the new way of seeing things make you feel better about the world including yourself.

Not everyone says so, but everyone is seeking success. Even though, not everyone knows what success is.

What is success? Let us call this success. "If you get what you want, you are successful." Not a very bad definition I guess.

Then, the question turns into "What do you want?" Do you know what you want?

I thought I wanted something long ago. But it turned out that I didn't know what I really wanted at that time. Or, maybe what I want changes over time. Probably, it is the way it is.

It's a new year and it's important to remind ourselves of what drives our lives.

There is something within us that drives our lives. We need to keep it alive. Why do we do what we do? Why are you here? What makes you happy?

These questions should be answered by you.

If you want something so badly in your heart, your struggle isn't an issue. In other words, you avoid struggles at any cost if you don't know what you really want.

Once you know what you really want, you will ultimately overcome and transcend struggles you will face on the way. It's not easy and you need to motivate yourself from time to time.

The video helps you to motivate yourself. Remember your biggest want, aspiration, dream. 

As a human being, everyone has aspirations, dreams, desires. But only few actually pursue them. Why is it? How can we change it?

As the author of the book says, it is about freedom. We want to be free from cultural conditionings. We want to be free from physical limitations of forms. We want to be free from prisons we create for ourselves.

"Why, having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mise?" No offense to mise though.

Compare to the whole scheme of the universe, we are nothing. What we do doesn't matter at all.

Even if the earth is destroyed, it's nothing from the viewpoint of the universe. You and I would be affected hugely as humans on this planet though.

Once realizing the humongous picture of the universe, you want to do whatever you want to do. It's nothing. Failure, success, health, danger, good relationship, bad relationship. Nothing matters to the universe.

If you see no difference between you and the elephant at some level, you are good to go. Our analytical mind tends to analyze, categorize, cut things in piece to understand things around us. On the other hand, some part of us feel the oneness of everything.

The society we live in now has analytical tendency and it gives us some misleading about the world. We are part of the world and the world is just one. Do you feel that way?  

This is not some kind of motivational talk. This is the conclusion you get if you examine yourself deeply. Let me explain.

​You are a human being. That is the starting point. Then, where you did you come from?

You don't really know but it seems your father and mother did something that created you. But the truth is you are your father. It is true biologically. And you are your mother. There is no such human being called "you". You is just a concept you believe.

Attachment is your clinging to something or someone. If you are attached to someone, you are virtually a slave of the person. You cannot live without him or her. You are addicted. You are dependent. You are owned.

Being free from attachments is detachment. You are free from anything and anyone. You are independent. You are not controlled by anything or anyone.

Which do you like?