Things to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do offers simple and practical ideas for those moments when you feel stuck, bored, or unsure how to spend your time. From organizing your space and learning something new to taking a walk, reflecting, or working on a small personal goal, these activities can help you reset your mind and make your day more meaningful.
This video provides a practical framework for overcoming indecision and increasing productivity. By identifying a single high-impact goal and analyzing which actions increase or decrease the likelihood of achieving it, individuals can create a clear roadmap for their daily lives while prioritizing data over fleeting emotions.
If you come home from work and you don't know what to do, you want to do more, you want to get more
things done. This is the framework I've been using that when I get confused, I don't know what the
best thing to do is, when I have no clue what I want to do. This is the thinking process that I
use and I don't want you to miss out on this because it has allowed me to save hundreds of
hours. For me, the first thing I had to realize was understanding what the priority is in my
current situation and if I didn't know how to find the priority, what I did is I wrote down 10 goals
that if I achieved in the next 12 months, which one of those goals would have the greatest impact
on my life. So I literally just got a piece of paper, I opened a new page of my journal,
wrote it down and then it took me three minutes to do and I immediately saw the goal that would
benefit me the most. So after I circled and honed in on that goal, everything else in my life I
thought of what would increase or decrease the likelihood I get to that goal. So for example,
if your goal is to get to a certain weight, going to the gym would increase the likelihood you get
to that goal. Doing push-ups would increase the likelihood you get to that goal. If you eat
terrible, that would decrease the likelihood that you get to your goal. This is where it gets fun
because if you have a specific goal, you can literally create your own mega list of things to do
to get to that goal. If you want to work more, get more done. Scrolling on your phone would decrease
the likelihood you get to that goal. Going out all the time, hanging out would decrease the
likelihood you get to that goal of getting more work done. And the cool thing about this is that
for everything that would decrease the likelihood, you can pretty much just do the opposite of what
that thing is and it would increase the likelihood you get to your goal. Instead of eating terrible,
eat good. Instead of scrolling all the time, don't. Focus on something instead. If your goal
was to be more social, staying inside would decrease the likelihood you get more social.
So go out. Not talking to anyone would decrease the likelihood you get more social. So say hi
to people. Some more things about this that aren't just this mental mindset practice is
things like going on a walk. Going on a walk has cleared a lot of my thoughts, confusion I had.
Also, a lot of confusion, overthinking we have is from a lack of action. We just need to do it
longer. Do it more. Don't stop something because of emotions. Stop because you have enough data to
actually say, yeah, this isn't what I should do. So if my goal was working out, I wouldn't listen
to my emotions when I say, I don't feel like working out. I'm too tired. This and that.
I would listen to the data. What has happened when I worked out? I got more in shape. List
every reason why you should do something or every reason why you should not do something.
What would be the benefits of doing this thing compared to doing this thing? Weigh out all the
pros and cons of each thing. Give yourself some time to think about this and you can slowly start
to see, yeah, these things I should be doing. I should stop procrastinating on them. I should
stop being lazy on them and start doing them. Think about what your future self would care about.
And emotions are like weather. They come and go.
