ITL164: How to Build a Life from Your Passion (and the Effects of Procrastination)

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, I talk about passion, procrastination, and how they will shape your future.

I believe passion is a lot like momentum.

•When you have momentum, you perform better than normal.

•You produce at a level far beyond what you normally would if we measured you.

•When you lack momentum, you produce at a lower level than normal.

•People don’t generally stay on a level playing field. They either have momentum or they don’t.

I see people who have amazing abilities and opportunities but they won’t get out of their own way.

•They will not discipline themselves.

•Overcoming procrastination is saying, “I’m not going to live my life according to a feeling. I’m not going to let a feeling dictate the way I act. Instead, I’m going to let the way I act dictate my feelings.”

What do you like to do more than anything in the world?

•Can you make yourself do something you don’t want to do for a little while to get something you’d like to have for the rest of your life?

•Would it be worth it to you if for three years you never do some things that you like to do, but at the end of those three years you can do whatever you want whenever you want?

Questions for Listeners

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•Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY

•E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com

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•Twitter.com/AndyAndrews

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective
0:06.5	with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews.
0:10.3	Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:12.9	Hi, and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews.
0:15.9	I'm your host, David Loy.
0:17.5	Yes, you are.
0:18.7	Andy.
0:20.5	How are you today? I'm doing great. I'm doing great.
0:23.0	I was laughing when you started because of being at the smart conference with Dave Ramsey and all the guys.
0:32.0	And I am amazed. Now I'm running into tons of people who are listening to the podcast. And when they talk to me,
0:40.2	they're saying, so how's David? So, where's David? So because at the smart commerce, we were in
0:46.3	Los Angeles. And I had signed some books and some people said something about the, you know,
0:51.9	about the podcast. And they said, no, now tell me about David and
0:55.1	Matt. And I said, well, you know, David's here. And they're like, he's here? David's here? Yes, he's here. What about Matt? No, Matt's not here. Matt wasn't out there with us. That's great, though. That's funny. I told Matt, yeah, we're, we need to get Matt on the show at some point. How about that. I want to get mad on the show.
0:52.1	Those people asked him about you, I said, he's a lot
1:14.1	uglier than you think he is. My wife would agree. A face for radio, is that what they say?
1:20.6	That's it. That's it, baby. All right. So what are we got? Andy, we've got a great voicemail from our
1:27.2	friend Lucas. Lucas sent in a great voicemail from our friend Lucas.
1:28.4	Lucas sent in a great question, and so we're going to hear what he has to say and
1:32.4	then get your thoughts on it.
1:33.5	But I want to use this time real quick to remind everyone that if you give us a call,
1:38.4	leave your question, your name, where you're calling from.
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