N.E.E.T.

It’s been well over a year since I’ve updated this blog. While there’s only a few posts on this site, I really enjoyed the neetstyle project.

Over the past couple of months a  few people have actually dropped by, read the posts, and commented on it! This is not only surprising to me and also inspiring for me to see. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts, I really appreciate it.

I personally have always wondered how many people have actually read the few posts I’ve done. Seeing these comments is more than enough reason for me to start this project back up again.

I’d love to hear from the 2 or 3 of you reading the site — what types of posts would you guys like to see? Feel free to leave a short comment and I’ll be sure to write about it over the next few days. In the meantime, be sure to visit the site periodically as I intend to update the site on a more regular basis going forward.

General

Time to get organized and clean up that room of yours!

I know I have the tendency to let my room slip to look like a complete heap of trash. Hell, I still have 2 boxes of junk laying in my room that has yet to be unpacked from when I moved in 9 months ago.

I want our first mission with our battle against our Neetstyle to be a small yet easily doable task. At the same time, I wanted something symbolic. A mission that really starts to lay the framework to self-discipline for even the biggest Neeters.

Our first D Rank mission is: Create a to-do list for cleaning your room.

• What I want you to do IMMEDIATELY after your are done reading this post is to grab a pen and paper and take 60 seconds to write down 5 things you need to do in order to clean your room.
• After your’re  done writing a list rank them in order from easiest to hardest.
• Review your list several times and really visualize yourself chipping away at your pig pen.
• Take the EASIEST task your wrote down for yourself and spend no more than 5 minutes getting it done.
• After you’re done with your first task, go back to your list, scratch it off and move on to the next one.

You don’t have to complete all the tasks now, after all it’ll probably take anywhere from 1-2 hours to do a full room cleanup. A full cleanup would end up being a B rank mission.

Not sure where to start? Take a look at my list.

It’s important that you start with the easiest task first and gradually work your way up. There’s 2 VERY important rasons why you need to start with the easiest task first.

1. You’re a Neet remember? Don’t try to get bold and tackle down the hardest thing first. If you fail to complete the hardest task off the bat, you’ll be setting yourself up for failure and will be very likely to get discouraged to take care of any of the smaller tasks. In the end, you’d have done a half-assed job wondering why my advice to you isn’t working.

2. As you complete your easy tasks and cross them off your list you set the groundwork for consistency. You create momentum for yourself. Every time you cross off an item you get more pumped up and motivated to take on the next. By the time you get to the hardest task, you can focus all of your energy on the hardest assignment. All the momentum you created from the previous tasks you completed will be with you and before you know you’d have steamrolled through an entire B Rank mission.

There you have it! Some of you might have enough momentum to really plow through this and clean up your room 100%. For other Neet’s, just doing the easiest thing on the list will be extremely difficult. Either way, I’m sure most of you will be able to take care of this easy-to-do D rank mission.

(To my friends and other early readers: I’d love to hear how this blog is working out for you. If you decided to do this D rank mission please drop a comment and let me know how your experience went.)

Darren

D Rank

One thing I’d like to do is add tasks in addition to the insight I provide in the posts that I write. 

If you haven’t figured it out already I’m a big anime geek. I’ve coupled my otakuness with neetstyle and borrowed Naruto’s mission ranking system to offer action items for you to complete. 

Their are a total of 5 different mission ranks and it’s qualification is briefly explained below:

• D Rank Mission – Requires little to no effort. 
• C Rank Mission – Requires some effort.
• B Rank Mission - Requires solid effort and experience with D and C rank missions.
• A Rank Mission – Requires amazing effort, strong self-discipline and experience with D, C and B rank missions.
• S Rank Mission – Requires amazing effort, strategic short-mid-long term planning and conceptual thinking.

To give you a better idea of what tasks might fall under which mission, you can look at it this way:

D Rank Mission would be something like, “Write down 3 things you’d like to do today.”

An A Rank Mission, “Create a financial budget for yourself and adhere to it.”

Got it?

In the upcoming posts get ready for some D and C rank missions as well as providing more insight into self-motivation.

Tips

The question I always find myself struggling to answer is:  How do I keep myself consistently motivated in order to execute?

If you’re like me your motivation cycle feels something like:

1. Think of an awesome idea. Get really excited.
2. Spend the next day or two laying the framework for your idea. Still pumped.
3. Realize how much work is ahead of you. Become completely unmotivated.

It’s a procrastinators cycle – all NEET’s are like this. We come up with reasons why we can’t, wouldn’t or shouldn’t do things in our life. We constantly set up stupid barricades in our head that prevents us from actually doing anything with our lives.  We go from optimist to pessimist. In turn, it leads to procrastination, lack of ambition and a lack of execution.

“Oh, but if only I was working on something cool. That’d really get me motivated to follow through!”

This is a MYTH.  While an idea will increase your interest and motivation level for a project, unless you already have proven discipline, you’ll find yourself struggling to stay motivated to execute on a CONSISTENT basis.

Consistency, it’s key.

To be candid, it doesn’t matter what this brilliant “idea” is, it’s about the execution.  Examnple? 3 months ago I decided to startup competitive gaming again. I began immersing myself with the competition and got super pumped up to start my own competitive dota (http://www.dota-allstars.com) team.  Which I eventually did – I scheduled practices, figured out a rotation, created a team page on MyGameMug (http://www.mygamemug.com). However, sometime during my 2nd month of captaining the team my motivation started to dwindle. I sent out less updates, scheduled less practices – I was more and more less motivated to keep the team going. I started thinking about how much work I put in and how much more work the team needs in order to get to a level that we all wanted to be at. Then I started thinking about the holidays, work and other priorities in my “real life”.

Hopefully you’re starting to see the picture here. This type of thinking made me create barricades for captaining my dota team.

” I’m really busy at work. So I won’t have time to send out an e-mail about our upcoming league match.”

“The holidays are coming up some I’ll be busy shopping and wrapping gifts”

“It’s just a game, I have more important things to do.”

These are just a few things I told myself that resulted into barriers in my head and wouldn’t allow me to CONSISTENTLY manage my team. Sure, dota is just a game and I should be prioritizing work, school and family over it – but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t have 5 minutes in my day to send out a reminder e-mail to my team a about our upcoming league match. Let’s not kid myself, while dota is just a game, I spent an entire MONTH laying the foundation for the team and recruiting teammates for it. It’s obviously something that is important to me where  I should respect both the time that me and my teammates have all put in.

My first tip: Escape denial

Some people reading this post will feel like I hit this subject dead on. Others are probably reading it and telling themselves, “Well, I’m not doing ABC in my life because of XYZ reasons.” If you’re part of the latter, you’re most likely in denial about your lack of ambition, motivation and consistency.

If you find yourself commonly using excuses like:

“I have a lot going on. I’m burnt out.”

“I don’t have enough time.”

“It’s just not for me.”

Perhaps it could all be true, but, I’m willing to bet that 99% of the people who are saying, “I don’t have enough time”, just don’t manage their time very well. Especially for those of you single and in your twenties. Unless you’re working a high-pace job, going to school, doing side projects, maybe a family on the side – YOU DO have enough time in your day to get things done.

Spend sometime thinking about this. Are you a person that’s easily motivated but can’t execute over the long haul? Are you someone who knows that they have NEET like qualities and wants to do something about it? Or maybe you’re a NEET in denial.

My next couple of posts will cover more about self-motivation. The things that I’m doing to keep myself consistently motivated and make my life easier. Listen to what I’m saying! I am an expert at this subject. You know why? Because NEET-ness, laziness and procrastination is something that’s innately ingrained in me. It’s something that I battle and conquer everyday. I have a good grasp on it. Expect  real tips and solutions from me, not some psycho-babble-mumbo-jumbo.

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