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title: 'How to Eliminate Procrastination from the Root: A 3-Step Framework'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=q5L4H4EWK4Q'
video_id: 'q5L4H4EWK4Q'
date: 2026-08-11
duration_sec: 661
---

# How to Eliminate Procrastination from the Root: A 3-Step Framework

> Source: [How to Eliminate Procrastination from the Root: A 3-Step Framework](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q5L4H4EWK4Q)

## Summary

The video presents a personal story of overcoming procrastination to achieve a dream of becoming a successful YouTuber. It explains that procrastination is an emotional issue, not a time management problem, and offers a 3-step framework to eliminate it. The framework includes using dopamine to start tasks, aligning tasks to bigger goals, and managing ego to handle failure.

### Key Points

- **Personal Story** [00:00] — The speaker shares his personal struggle with procrastination and his dream to become a top YouTuber in India.
- **Root Cause** [00:53] — Procrastination is an emotional issue, not a time management problem.
- **Fear of Failure** [01:49] — Fear of failure was the speaker's main reason for procrastinating.
- **Dopamine and Motivation** [04:07] — Dopamine deficit in the brain prevents starting work; small tasks can trigger dopamine hits.
- **Aligning to Goals** [06:06] — Attach every task to a bigger goal to stay motivated, using positive or negative reinforcement.
- **Ego Management** [08:02] — Manage ego by building success elsewhere or believing you are the best to handle failure.

## Transcript

year is 2019 I told my own mom that you stay for one year I will be the biggest in India and do my best for 10 million In 2024, I told my mom the same thing
stay one year that I will be the biggest Youtuber in India and do my best for 10 million At that moment I realised that from 5 years back I act as nithi But I couldn't help it I tried a lot of productivty but nothing worked on
I knew I had so much potential in me but I was wasting all of it. मुझे दर लग रहा था कि शायद जिंदगी भर रिग्रेस ना करना पड़ी। At that moment, I decided कि procrastination को जड़ से धतम करने।
And just within 6 months, I am on the path to achieve my dream life. This is possible for you as well, but only if you eliminate procrastination from the root. But following this 3 step framework, चो मैंने 5 साल लगाया चीखने ने।
So let's dive deep. तो व्हाट आ दिस रूट्स ऑफ प्रोक्रास्टिनेशन है? लेकिन एक डॉक्टर भी आ गए ता इसके बारे में तो प्रोक्रास्टिनेशन नहीं एक टाउन मैंनेजमेंट एवं इश्वूप ये एमोशनल एश्वूप है
एक लिख एक्शन देखेंगे की आपके खुद लिख के लिए कि ये रियल लाइफ में कैसा लगता है?
जब मैं YouTube वीडियोस बनाना पोस्टपॉन किये जा रहा था पांच सालों से, तो मैंने अपने आपको पूछा कि Why am I doing this? जो मेरा सपना है उसको मैं क्यों डिले कर रहा हूँ? That is when I realized कि ये मेरे life का सबसे बड़ा goal था कि मुझे एक YouTuber बनना है.
बनना है. And क्योंकि ये मेरा सबसे बड़ा goal था, मैं डर रहा था कि अगर मेरे videos अच्छे perform नहीं किए, I would be considered a failure. और अगर मैं अपने life के सबसे बड़े goal को achieve करने में fail हो गया, so उसके
आगे क्या है? What will I do with the rest of my life? And that is why I was प्रोक्रासिनेट लोग वह जर्द और भी बहुत सारी चीजें है जिसके वजह से यह हो सकता है फॉर एक्जांपल फ्रेंड ऑफ
माइन इस विडियो मांसपर अब रॉस्टिक तो उसे मुझे बोला कि उससे पढ़ाई नहीं हो रही है शीघ्र प्रोक्रासिनेटिंग she was studying the same thing for 8 years 4 bachelor 2 master 2 second master but she can not practice what she is learning practice second master license so the procrastination was not assignment It was not out of laziness It was out of the frustration that she was not able to do what she loved doing And for you too if you look a little bit deeper you will find some emotional reason for procrastinating So find that reason
Now that you know what and why it is, we need to understand what are its triggers that lead to procrastination. Only then we can truly solve the issue. So there can be multiple and varied reasons that people procrastinate.
So one can be the lack of relevance. How meaningful and relevant is a particular task for you that you are motivated to do that. Another reason can be perfectionism. So there are people who procrastinate who are more of perfectionist also.
And also there can be a fear of unknown in them. In the field we say that not knowing well what to do. Somewhere or the other lack of training, lack of skill. lack of skill, for example we can talk about lack of personal resources to do a job.
Bhoat ho gaya gaya, now let's move to the 3 step framework, jahaan pe hum procrastination ko jhat ke khatam kar denge and each level we go deeper and deeper to solve the issue. Level 1, this is the level jahaan pe aapko issue to hai but it is not that deep.
Jab koi bhi productivity advice mere liye kaam nahi kar rahi thi, toh maine research karna start kya, ke hamare dimaag mein kya chalga hota hai when we are procrastinating. A research paper has explained it perfectly that when we are doing procrastination, in that moment,
we have a dopamine deficit in our mind which is why we are not even able to start work. But the good news is, this paper has given its solution too. See, dopamine is not just a reward chemical, it is also a motivation chemical which will help you to start and continue your work.
So how do we use this in real life? So, if you are in the current state of your life, let's say you are on a couch, then do a little more challenging task so that your brain will give you a small dopamine hit.
And this dopamine hit will start a chain reaction. Small task, dopamine hit, more motivation to work, more dopamine hit, more motivation to work. I can tell you how I used to apply this in my life.
When I feel lazy to write scripts for YouTube, I tell myself that I will just write the intro part. And when I have written the intro part, I feel very motivated because I have accomplished something.
So, the motivation that comes from that, the dopamine that hits, that helps me focus and write the script even more. And in an hour, I have written the entire script. Or when I don't feel like working, I will just tell myself that I will come on a call with a team member for 5 minutes, talk to them and try to do some work.
But because of that 5 minute call I release so much of dopamine in my brain that I get more motivated and in a blink of an eye in 1 or 2 hours everything gets over And not just me, listen to Andrew Uberman talking about this.
So for instance, if you're sitting around feeling unmotivated or you find yourself tending to tasks that are irrelevant to the goal that you really should be focused on, you need to put your body and mind into a state of discomfort quickly.
Just like a downward spiral, you can also create an upward spiral by brute forcing your brain to work. But if this is not effective for you, we need to dive into the second layer which is a little deeper. This means that you will need a little more to start the work.
First I will tell you the concept and then I will tell you how I used an extreme version of it. The concept is, attach every small task of yours to a bigger goal. Whenever you are avoiding any work, remember one thing that its connection is with a big goal.
Don't think that I have to do this particular task. Think that I am doing this task because I want a big house, I want a big car, I want to give a good life to my family, I want freedom.
Think like this. Now this is the positive side of it but there is also a negative side which I have used. For example, I procrastinated making this video a few days ago. So I told myself that this is not just a YouTube video.
If you don't make this YouTube video, then you won't be able to earn 10 lakhs a month. You won't be able to give a good life to your family. You will never get freedom and you will always be a failure in the eyes of society.
When I have clients for my agency and I don't feel like doing cold DM, I gaslight myself into saying that this client, this cold DM will change your life. But because you are not doing cold DM, your life will never change and next month you
will not get money because you are not sending this DM. So either positively or negatively you can push yourself to work by aligning your task to a bigger goal. This will not only give you tasks but it will also give you a big impact and you will be
motivated. And this is also backed by science which I will come to know later. In the book solving the procrastination puzzle, Dr. Pritchett has said something similar. When we have a goal towards which we have made an intention to act and we do not act, we experience dissonance.
It means we feel an incomplete inside because we know that we are not doing what we should do to achieve our goal. This will force you into taking action. And if this is also not working, we have to dive even deeper to level number 3.
This is where everything stems from. So listen carefully. Whatever we do in our life we do it to satisfy our ego One of the greatest psychiatrists Carl Jung said The ego is the center of consciousness and the core of personality freedom chase
कहीं ना कहीं, all of this is tied down to satisfying your ego. पर irony ये है कि ये ghost achieve करने के लिए हमें हमारे ego के साथ थोड़ा बहुत खेलना पड़ता है. लेट मी एक्सेस, जब मैं अपनी यूट्यूब जर्नी को स्टार्ट करने की सोच रहा था, मुझे बस एक की ही रोक रही थी, लोग क्या सोचेंगे, ये थाओग मेरे इगो का पार्ट है, कि अगर मेरे वीडियोज अच्छे परफॉर्म नहीं किये, तो I will be considered a failure and people will laugh at me,
solution to that achieve something else in other areas of your life that one cringe thing or one failure doesn't take a hit on your ego मैंने भी वही किया I built a six figure agency मैं एक बहुती अच्छे shape में आ गया and I got my life on track
ताकि जब मैं videos बनाएं जो की fail भी हुए जिसको 1000 views भी नहीं आए तो वो मेरे ego को इतना affect नहीं किया because society की नजरों में I was already successful But if you are just start out, you don't have anything else to build. There is one approach that can save you.
You have to develop an ego such that you believe that you are the best in the world. But you just need practice for it. You tell yourself that whatever I am going to do, I am the best at it. It will just take one or two years of practice.
That way, even if you fail, you will have a productive mindset about it and analyze why you failed instead of going into depression. मैं इंडिया का बेस्ट क्रियेटर हूँ। रनवीरालाबाद या फाइनांस विचर और टेक बर्नर कोई भी नए लेवर पर नहीं।
तो जब मैं अपलोडेड माई सेकंड वीडियो और यह परिवार था, मैं अपने आपको बोला कि यार तू तो बेस्ट क्रियेटर है। तो I started analysing कि शायद thumbnail इतना अच्छा नहीं था शायद title इतना अच्छा नहीं था
या फिर video का idea ही इतना अच्छा नहीं था and after analysing everything and improving on it when I uploaded my third video बूब, viral तो ऐसा ही एक egoistic approach
towards failure will lead you to success don't listen to other people saying कि आपको humble होना चाहिए या नहीं ऐसा कुछ नहीं होता एक फिलोसोफर है दोस्त अयर्स की नाम के
जिनोंने एक बहुती famous line बोली almost all capable people are terribly afraid of looking ridiculous and are miserable because of it this says that हमारे अंदर कहीं ना कहीं
grace में चुकी हुई है बड़ हम failure के वज़े से वो चीज़ को achieve करने के लिए steps ही नहीं रहते and I think that is the root of procrastination and once that is pulled out of you
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