Consuming Self-Improvement Content is Wasting Your Time Unless...

If you want to become the best version of yourself, then you must invest your time in self-improvement. There is no deliberation. Self-improvement is a requirement to becoming your best. No one is born perfect. And no is or ever will be perfect. But you can always improve. Your life can always get 1% better.

You need to have the desire to improve. If you’re complacent, then you won’t want to change.

But most people who want to improve end up wasting their time and effort on the wrong thing.

This blog post will show you what this wrong thing is. And you’ll learn how to avoid falling into this trap.

Why do most people waste their time with self-improvement?

Self-improvement is crucial to improving your life. But it’s only beneficial if you know what to do.

You see, most people fall into a trap with self-improvement.

They get excited to learn about it. And they’re excited to see the changes it’ll make to improve their life.

But they get side-tracked. They waste their time not improving as much as they could have.

Why?

Because they spent too much time consuming self-improvement content and not enough time applying what they’ve learned. They don’t do enough with what they’ve learned.

They want to learn everything there is to know about self-improvement. But this leads to inaction.

There are competing voices and ideas in the self-improvement space. They will tell you to do different things and disagree with each other.

Falling down the rabbit hole consuming endless self-improvement content isn’t helpful. It becomes difficult to decide what information is good and what is not.

You get the shiny-new-object syndrome where you want to try everything new that you see. But you never stick with any one thing consistently. You want to learn that one extra little secret that you hope will change the game for you.

This inaction causes you to spin your wheels, never making any measurable improvement.

Consuming self-improvement content becomes an addictive and mindless pleasure. It’s just like consuming entertainment such as social media, video games, TV, and so on. You can get lost in self-improvement content for hours and not gain any benefit from it.

Self-improvement content is addictive

It is easy to consume self-improvement content. All you’ve got to do is sit down, relax, watch the video, read the article, or listen to the podcast.

You can consume content after content and feel like you’ve made productive use of your time. But you actually spent your time with slightly-better mindless entertainment.

Consuming endless content doesn’t actually help you improve. It wastes your time. And it can also confuse you and even push you away from self-improvement altogether.

You are bound to learn conflicting information from consuming self-improvement content. This will overwhelm you. It’s information overload.

Plus, consuming this content only delays the thing you really need to do to improve: To take action. This content consumption is procrastination disguised as productiveness.

Self-improvement content is of no benefit to you if you don’t apply the information into your own life.

What should you do instead?

Instead of falling down the self-improvement content rabbit hole, take your time learning.

It’s great to be ambitious and learn everything that you can. But that information doesn’t help you if you aren’t using it.

Take your self-improvement content consumption slowly. Learn one bit at a time. And take that bit of information and apply it into your life as soon as you learn about it. This is an actionable and sustainable approach to upgrading your life.

Don’t let the self-improvement content go in through one ear and out the other. You want to get the greatest benefit from the content.

Taking action is what gives you this value from the content.

Action causes you to apply the information that you’ve learned. It shows you if you actually learned the information. Or if it is just random words that are somehow stuck in your brain.

Action makes you put your money where your mouth is. It shows you if you’re truly committed to improving. Or it’ll show you if you just want the quick dopamine hit and think that you’re improving.

How to apply self-improvement content to your life

The key to applying what you’ve learned from self-improvement content is simple: Take massive action.

You have to do something with the information you’ve learned. Something beyond just thinking and contemplating about the information.

Massive action is simply the process of doing something with the information you’ve learned.

Take massive action with each little bit of information you’ve learned.

Keep in perspective where you’re at. For instance, let’s say you learned about the benefits of meditation and want to give it a shot. Don’t go straight in trying to go for 20+ minute meditation sessions each day.

Instead, massive action would mean to meditate for 1-2 minutes every day. That’s 1-2 minutes you didn’t spend meditating the day before. Soon you’ll build the habit of meditating every day. And then you can gradually work your way up to 20+ minutes per day with ease.

Action is the key to improvement.

If you just think about the content, you’re not doing anything with the information. It’s just stewing in your brain, waiting to be put to use.

If you don’t take action, it can lead you to overthink the information. Or you can completely forget about what you’ve learned. Both of these problems can be remedied simply by taking action.

Wrapping up

Don’t waste your time consuming endless self-improvement content. It’s tempting to watch video after video. Read book after book. Listen to podcast after podcast. And so on.

But that’s not worth your time or energy.

Focus your energy on taking action. Do something with the information you’ve learned. You most likely know how to apply the information you’ve learned already.

It’s simple… You just need to do it.

Consume self-improvement content slowly. And take massive action with each bit of information that you learn. This is the key to getting the most value out of the content.

Action destroys procrastination.