Yes, you read that title right, but there is a caveat.
Of course you have to take action to actually achieve your goals, but let's say your goal
is this direction, but you're moving absolutely the opposite direction.
Well, you're not going to achieve your goal.
So action is not actually going to help you achieve your goal.
So doing nothing actually helps you figure out if you're actually going the right direction
because for most of us our goals are actually seemingly impossible or we don't actually know
the path to get there.
We don't actually know if this tactic is better than that tactic or if this strategy is better
than that strategy.
So one thing that I've done in the past that I am doing right now also has helped me tremendous
honestly, and I think it'll help you.
So listen up.
Literally all I do is just sit in my room.
I've stripped everything from my room except for a journal and my mind.
That's pretty much it.
That's all there is in my room.
It's literally nothing, not even a bed.
I just have like a mat.
So I just sit in my room and I just think and then if something pops up, that's really
important, I write it down and I have the lights off.
I just, I don't know why, I just like it better with the lights off.
I can like be more immersed in my thoughts I think.
And I'm not really trying to have a particular goal or anything.
If I do have a particular goal on like the direction that I want to go, I usually go
on a walk.
So I go on an hour long walk in nature, like around trees and stuff.
And I make sure that I choose like a park.
So I don't have to like cross sidewalks because when you're in like civilization and you have
to like cross the street, you're using like now, like you're using critical thinking.
So you're not going to actually be completely immersed in your thoughts and it's not going
to be as effective.
There's one day where I pretty much was kind of lost.
I didn't really know what was going on.
I have been doing the same thing for weeks and I didn't know if it was actually going
to help me.
And so I literally just sat in my room and literally just stared at my wall and I sat
there for like 40 minutes.
And what I did was just that.
And then I was just deep in my thoughts and then eventually something popped up like I
had an epiphany.
I didn't like force it or anything.
I just like went in there with no expectations because I do this twice a day, every day.
So the thing that I was doing for two weeks without much results, it took two weeks of
sitting in my room twice a day.
So probably like an hour every day of just thinking plus an hour long walk.
So it's not like straight away.
And if you're more conscious about it and more like intentional about thinking in your
mind like about what you want to figure out, then it may go faster.
But I was just kind of passively doing it.
And then I was able to change directions.
For example, I did this when I realized that I had to stop editing.
Like I was spending way too much time editing my videos because I would post one video every
week and it would be like completely edited, which was basically me using all of my time,
all my work hours, all my deep work hours on editing.
So I was increasing my editing skills.
But the actual thing that was important was my recording skills and that was not getting
better.
I was only recording once a week when in reality I actually had to be recording way more.
So that's what I did.
I'm doing like five practice videos every single day and this is one of them.
So sitting on a wall, literally doing nothing has helped me get closer to my goals than
most other things that I've done.