hould be doing that day and I like to have at least one of those things that's exciting even if it's unlikely which is the key.

So I always have a few things going on in my life and always have in every age. Well with a lot of things I want to do I have it's like my ambition I have all that and it's just like it's harder to activate that.

Oh okay then you need my new book "Loserthink." I'm going to give you a preview. So you have exactly the problem I've got a chapter on. And here's the trick. It's a hypnosis trick. You ready? So I'm not going to hypnotize you. I'm just gonna tell you something that a hypnotist knows. If you could get somebody to do something small such as tell them that their pinky is moving you know they feel a pinky twitch then you can get them to think that their hand is moving and there's light and that's floating. So the hypnotist will start with the smallest thing that's true. They might say your eyes are blinking because your eyes usually blink. They might say you feel a little something in your hand because just the suggestion makes you think I think I feel a little something I don't know what it is. So they start with the smallest thing and then your body can be easily coaxed into bigger things including getting up and doing something right.

You can do that with yourself when you are locked what I call couch lock. Sort of a stoner term but when you just on the couch you like yeah there are 10 things I need to do I can't do anything. Here's the trick. You ready? I talked to your pinky. Literally say to your pinky twitch and then move it. Then say the rest of your fingers wiggle. Then say to your hand move. Your arm and then stand up. And as stupid as that sounds watch how well it works. You can take yourself off the couch in five seconds when before you were just locked in because your brain was saying I want to I don't know why I'm not. Because you actually don't know why you're not. You can't even answer the question to yourself right? I want to get up. I want to do these things. I have this list of things to do but I noticed that I'm not. Why am I not?

Move your pinky. Move your hand. Move your arm. Stand up. And then ask yourself what's the smallest thing you can do toward one of those goals. Really small. Say to yourself okay I can't do the whole goal it's too big and I don't have that much time but I could look something up and write down a phone number so that when I do have time I can call that phone number. If yes that makes sense in your process. Or I can do a little research or I can set up a time to have lunch with somebody. Smallest smallest thing you're willing to do. What you'll find is that one by one you'll do a second small thing and you'll say I've done two things. By the time you've done four or five things you start feeling the feedback mechanism. You feel hey I'm a guy who did five things toward my goal and it felt pretty good. I actually feel some satisfaction. And then it becomes self-sustaining after a while. Occasionally you'll have to go back to moving the pinky to move yourself back into it.

But always always take the big thing that's stunning you into inaction and shrink it down into its smallest micro step. It's the micro step that works. I always have probably 20 different projects going at any time because I like to stay busy but most of the time I can only do a micro step with each one. Once in a while and when I have that chance I'll take the micro step. So for example I have a bunch of things I need to fix in my house. You know just reached that age so I've got I couldn't think of all the things I had to fix it was too big. So I said okay I'm gonna buy some note cards the next time I'm in CVS. So I buy some note cards. Actually I think I just ordered them from Amazon because it was even easier. Take my phone out. Give me note cards and they arrive in mail next day.

I take my note cards and I open them up and I say you know what I need to do with these note card