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How to quickly get out of a slump

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Summary

In this motivational video by Avery B from AB Academy, we learn how to quickly escape a slump. Avery shares his personal experience of falling into a slump during a trip and provides five essential steps to regain productivity and focus. These steps involve acknowledging and accepting the slump, resetting your environment, reconnecting with your purpose, aligning your habits with your goals, and being accountable for your actions. Avery emphasizes the importance of having a strong 'why' to push you forward and surrounding yourself with a supportive environment to stay motivated.

Highlights

Avery B shares personal insights on how he identified his slump during a trip. 🌍
Using a habit tracker can show you where you stand in terms of productivity. 📊
The first step to improvement is acknowledging there's an issue. 🧠
Your environment reflects your mindset, so keep spaces tidy and inspiring. 🧹
Knowing your 'why' is crucial to staying on track with your goals. 🎯
Accountability is a game-changer; team up with friends for mutual motivation. 🤝

Key Takeaways

Acknowledge and accept you’re in a slump to plan your comeback. 🚀
Reset your environment to boost your mood and mindset. 🏡
Reconnect with your purpose to reignite your motivation. 💡
Align your daily habits with your big dreams. 🌟
Be accountable, track progress, and partner with like-minded friends. 💪

Overview

Life can get messy, and sometimes we find ourselves in a slump, just like Avery B from AB Academy experienced. During a trip, his usual productive habits slipped, leading him to create this inspiring video where he shares five actionable steps to get back on track. It starts with acknowledging and accepting that you're in a slump, a crucial first step in planning your recovery journey.

Resetting your environment is Avery's next piece of advice. Whether it's your room or your office, a clean and organized space often reflects a clearer state of mind. He emphasizes reconnection with our life's purpose, suggesting that identifying and focusing on our 'why' can motivate and guide us through tough times.

Finally, aligning your habits with your aspirations and holding yourself accountable are cornerstones of Avery's approach. Forming a partnership with like-minded people who can motivate you daily is a powerful way to stay committed to your goals. This motivational pep talk leaves viewers ready to tackle their slumps with a fresh perspective.

Chapters

00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Video Purpose The chapter titled 'Introduction and Video Purpose' is a spontaneous video recorded at a gas station by Avery B. He decides to make the video for AB Academy, highlighting the need to create more videos on-the-fly based on his thoughts. The primary focus of this video is to discuss how to quickly get out of a slump. Avery promises to share five steps, each leading to the next, culminating in a crucial fifth step that ties everything together.
00:30 - 01:30: Realizing the Slump and Habit Tracking This chapter addresses the realization of personal decline and the importance of habit tracking. The narrator discusses how traveling can lead to falling off personal habits, such as unhealthy eating and disrupted routines, which negatively affect things like skin quality and sleep patterns. Recognizing this slump is valuable, as it highlights the role of a habit tracker in maintaining beneficial routines even when disruptions occur. The habit tracker helps in identifying when the person is deviating from their habits, allowing them to course-correct and maintain a healthier, more consistent lifestyle.
01:30 - 02:30: Step 1: Acknowledge and Accept the Slump In this chapter titled 'Step 1: Acknowledge and Accept the Slump', the focus is on recognizing and admitting when productivity levels have dropped. The speaker uses a personal example of how observing their habit tracker reveals a decline in productivity scores from 100s to 70s or 80s. They emphasize the importance of reassessing and understanding the reasons for this slump. The chapter sets the stage for providing strategies on regaining productivity by first acknowledging the slump as a crucial first step.
02:30 - 04:00: Step 2: Reset Your Environment The chapter emphasizes the importance of recognizing and admitting one's current situation as the first step to solving any problem. It draws an analogy between navigating to a destination and understanding one's current position, highlighting how essential it is to know where you are before you can map out where you want to go. It underscores the value of self-awareness and acceptance as a foundation for progress and change, using personal habits as an illustrative example.
04:00 - 07:00: Step 3: Reconnect with Your Purpose In this chapter, the focus is on reconnecting with one's purpose, beginning by recognizing and acknowledging one's current situation. It's about understanding where you are at the moment to pave a path forward. A key step is to 'reset' various aspects of your life, which includes decluttering and starting anew, both digitally and physically. This process also emphasizes the significance of one's environment in reflecting and influencing one's mood. Ultimately, resetting is a step toward realignment with your personal goals and purpose.
07:00 - 12:00: Step 4: Align Your Habits with Your Purpose In this chapter, the focus is on aligning one's habits with their purpose. The narrator challenges the reader to take a look at their current environment, such as their car, office, or home, and assess its condition. This is metaphorically linked to one's mental state, emphasizing that a cluttered or disorganized environment reflects a similar state of mind. The chapter encourages performing a 'reset' by removing anything from the environment that does not serve one's purpose, suggesting that this will also help in clearing one's mental state and refocusing on what really matters.
12:00 - 15:00: Step 5: Be Accountable The chapter 'Step 5: Be Accountable' emphasizes the importance of curating personal environments that align with specific actions and goals. It highlights that spaces like bedrooms should be reserved for sleep and relaxation rather than distractions such as TV. Offices, on the other hand, are designed to foster motivation and productivity, featuring items like motivational posters and vision boards to inspire work and focus. The core message is to assess and adjust your surroundings to better support your intended activities and objectives, ensuring that each space in your home encourages the right mindset and behaviors.
15:00 - 17:30: Conclusion and Final Motivation The chapter discusses the importance of maintaining a clean and organized environment as it reflects one's inner state. It emphasizes reconnecting with one's purpose in life and acknowledges a personal incident about the use of language and its impact on others.

How to quickly get out of a slump Transcription

00:00 - 00:30 yo AB Academy what's going on it's your boy Avery B I'm currently at the gas station right now getting gas on the way to a video shoot and I thought to make this video for the Academy got to do more videos when we just on the spot whatever on my mind what I'm thinking I'mma bring it to y'all man so basically this video is going to be talking about how to quickly get out of a slump I'm going to give youall about five different Steps step by step one leads to two two leads to three on down to five make sure you stay tuned to five because number five is is going to tie
00:30 - 01:00 everything in together y'all already know this but why I'm making this video is this I recently um went out of town and while out of town you know when you go out of town your habits fall off you know what I'm saying you start eating [ __ ] you start drinking and [ __ ] like that man and I noticed myself doing it and stuff like that like my skin getting all bad you know what I'm saying I'm waking up later and [ __ ] like that so I'm like damn I'm going into a slump right now and it's I'm thankful that I realized this type of stuff I'm thankful that I got the Habit tracker which actually tracks The Habit so I don't got
01:00 - 01:30 to guess no more I don't got to guess if I'm being productive or not I can literally just look at my habit tracker and be like damn today I got a 70 today I got a 80 I used to get hundreds what's going on you know what I'm saying let's re-evaluate let's bring it back to the surface and see what's going on you know what I'm saying so I'm about to show y'all how to quickly get out of one and how to get back to your most productive self I'm going to wait for this to um finish it up and then I'm going to go in the car and we going to get into it all right boom we back in the whip let's get into it so step number one man is going to be actually acknowledging it man not
01:30 - 02:00 only acknowledging it but accepting it you feel me the first step to solving any problem is actually admitting that there is a problem man understanding where you at I heard a crazy concept the other day basically saying like in order to go somewhere you got to know where you're going I can't tell you to hey pull up to me in Atlanta and you don't even know where you at right now how can you GPS where you going if you don't know where you at so basically bro acknowledge everything that's going on you know what I mean in my case I acknowledge like damn I start eating bad
02:00 - 02:30 I start waking up late I'm starting to drink alcohol a little bit too much okay cool I'm here I'm right here right now how do we fix it where do we go about it you know what I'm saying acknowledge where you at you can never go anywhere without first understanding exactly where you at at the moment number two is going to be reset reset everything reset your call logs reset your photos and most importantly reset your environment your environment says a lot about your current mood your environment says a lot
02:30 - 03:00 about your current state if you go I I challenge you to do something right now man look around wherever you watching this video at it could be your car it could be your office it could be your bedroom could be your house in general man how does your house look and just take accountability of what that look like look around and that's probably how your mind is that's probably how your mental state is I know me for a fact my mental state represents my environment bro you want to perform a whole reset if there anything in that house that's not serving you bro get that [ __ ] out of
03:00 - 03:30 there if it's anything that's in your bedroom that's not serving you bro get that [ __ ] out of there you know what I mean I try to use places in my house as specific points to trigger me into doing certain actions for example my bedroom y'all y'all seen my bedroom it ain't no TV in there I don't want to watch TV in my bedroom I want to sleep in my bedroom you know what I'm saying my office I got different type of motivational posters in there I want to get motivated I want to work I got my um vision board in my office I want to work I got things I want to work towards look at your environment make make sure it's not
03:30 - 04:00 dirty make sure it's not cluttered make sure it's not stagnant bro because your environment is a visual representation of how you feeling in the inside No Cap three you want to reconnect with your purpose in life damn I think I took the wrong exit reconnect with your purpose my [ __ ] understand I'm sorry for saying the n word bro I had okay I'm going to go on a little tangent I had a white guy he was looking at me and he said he was really turned off by how many times I said the n word you know so
04:00 - 04:30 honestly I'm catering towards the the the the people that's like me but I'm amazed and I'm very very exuberate and I'm happy that other demographics are taking a likeness to the things that I'm talking about so I appreciate you if you're still watching I'm sorry if I'm um you know what I'm saying throwing you off and stuff like that I'm just talking to y'all how I would talk to my friends so if things like that slip out that's why but number three is reconnecting with your purpose you got to understand what you came in it for you know what I mean I guarantee you that if you want a rut if you in a slump if you doing
04:30 - 05:00 things that you usually don't do it's probably because you kind of got off track from your purpose you got off track from the things that you that you really started this journey for you know for example um if you're a YouTuber you started YouTube for a certain reason and you stopped posting videos it's probably because you got disconnected from that reason I guarantee you if you still had that reason in your head that reason will push you forward you know what I'm saying that's why like a lot of times you are here you got to have a why you got to have a strong why why do you have to have a strong why because the strong
05:00 - 05:30 y would get past any how the how doesn't matter as long as your why is very very strong you know what I mean and that's powerful that's facts hold on let me see where I'm going real quick I got to use my GPS cool we got it but yeah a strong why can bear anyhow you know what I'm saying if you got a reason why say for example um I just ran into this one guy the other day he probably watching this video he said that um he be watching me and stuff like that but I remember when I got one of my first jobs it was at UPS and he the one who trained me this guy trained me to um basically work at UPS yes and at the time he's he he has been
05:30 - 06:00 working there for like 15 years plus and he never missed a day you know what I mean so he telling us this I never missed a day before this man I was so lazy I was so this I was smoking all the time I was this I I couldn't make no money but I got my why in my in my life my why came and he was like my why was my daughter when he had his daughter he had reasoning he had a why to keep going to keep pursuing and keep pushing forward and he had a constant reminder of that why you can't just not you can't
06:00 - 06:30 just forget about your daughter bro you know if you have a baby with a girl and you and you see the girl you see the baby it's not it's no forgetting about it so he had a constant reminder of that why and though thus he had that constant reminder of that why he showed up every single day no matter how you feeling every single day so you just got to have that have that constant reminder of your why not saying that you going to have a baby or you got a baby or you have to have a baby to have your why everybody got their own why you know what I mean you might be the person in your family that is going to be the first one to
06:30 - 07:00 make your family a million dollars you know what I'm saying comment n if you resonate with that if you want to be the first millionaire in your family that's a strong ass why but once you in a rut you not thinking of that you know what I mean you going back to your old ways that's what I feel like a RT is bro that's what I feel like a a slump is a slump is basically you self-sabotaging and you going back into the old version of you you know what I mean because it's a part of you that don't want that don't want success you know what I'm saying a lot of people say oh you scared to fail n my [ __ ] you're scared of succcess you
07:00 - 07:30 scared to succeed not you but a part of you is scared to succeed you've been living in this version of yourself for so long in this version of comfort so long that once you start getting a little bit of success the other version of you like hold on bit dog you going a little too hard you going a little too crazy calm that [ __ ] down let's let's go back into what we used to let's take our ass back to the hood let's take our ass back to you know what I'm saying eating the ramen noodles my [ __ ] you you what you forgot about us it don't always be the people people around you bro this
07:30 - 08:00 [ __ ] could be you you could be talking to yourself like that bro and you got to first off like I said bro you got to understand that you in that period you got to refocus bro you know what I'm saying you got to refocus on that why and once you got that why you going to see it you going to be like damn okay cool I'm locked in I know why I'm doing it and you going to do it simple number four Once you reconnected back with your purpose what you have to do is align your habits back up you know what I'm saying align your habits with that purpose align your habits with
08:00 - 08:30 everything that you said that you wanted to be in your life you know what I mean once you got your purpose of hey all right I got to be my first millionaire in my family do your habits look like you the first millionaire in your family you know what I'm saying like how your schedule look how your calendar look can I look at your calendar and be like oh he making money or am I going to look at your calendar and be like [ __ ] are you even using it you know what I'm saying I don't see no deadlines I don't see no dates I don't see no habits in here you know what I'm saying how your habit tracker look bro align your habits with whatever you want to do in your life
08:30 - 09:00 imagine telling me that you want to be a successful YouTuber but on your habits you ain't doing [ __ ] to record no videos you ain't scripting no videos you ain't planning no videos you playing 2K in video games and [ __ ] but you say you want to be a YouTuber I see it all the time hey b hey I want to do this YouTube [ __ ] bro I be watching your videos and then just inspire me and motivate me I want to do the same thing I'll be like [ __ ] what you do on a day-to-day basis [ __ ] I be going to work and then I be chilling with my girlfriend I be talking to my friends about it my [ __ ] you don't want this [ __ ] you don't want to
09:00 - 09:30 do it your habits say otherwise you know what I'm saying like of course you want to do it but you don't want to do it if you wanted to your habits would align with it you feel me everybody got to go to work everybody got personal problems everybody got to deal with personal [ __ ] bro that's what separate the people who make it on the people who don't the people who make it don't use this as excuse the people who make it actually go forward and make their habits dictate and make their habits align with their purpose with they passion with what what what they want to do in life you know what I mean so you just you just got to
09:30 - 10:00 understand that [ __ ] cuz ain't nobody going to have sympathy for you my [ __ ] you know ain't nobody going to be like oh well he got work today so I'm just going to like just just hope that he can produce a good video that I watch I'm not going to watch nobody else until he get off of work and actually do this no [ __ ] ain't nobody G to say that [ __ ] bro you know what I mean you got to put that work in you got to make your habits align with what the [ __ ] you want and that's with anything you want to make clothes my [ __ ] go make some clothes you know what I'm saying get your ass off work soon as get off work go design
10:00 - 10:30 them clothes go drop them clothes go talk to the manufacturers bro that's with everything with anything you want go get that [ __ ] you know what I'm saying only person standing in between what you want and what you what what you what you got to have and the stuff that you want in life is you my [ __ ] that's the I'm sorry I said it again that's the only person standing in the way of you and your goals is you nobody else can stop you nobody else can block you nobody else can steal the ball you playing literally bro you are literally playing One V one with yourself right right now you know what I mean if you
10:30 - 11:00 cross yourself over and dunp the ball you won but if yourself stealing that ball you self sabotaging y'all letting yel steal that ball and go down the court the other way imagine this bro it's home in a way you playing full court basketball right now home is where you want to be and the away is where you used to be you letting no away team beat your ass you letting no away team win you letting no away team every time you do a crossover dribble move you letting no away team steal the ball and go down the court the other way no bro you
11:00 - 11:30 literally dictate your home and your way score the ball you know what I mean you are letting your your own self block your shots from whatever you want in life nobody else can do that but yourself you know what I mean nobody else can bro whatever you won't get that [ __ ] do that [ __ ] if you want to record a video do that [ __ ] I said I wanted to record this video today I ain't got no camera on me I I had to go I had to leave the house and go do a video shoot I Bro [ __ ] that I still got to record it you know what I'm saying that's what everything that's with anything bro you
11:30 - 12:00 know what I mean I figured out that I was in the slump I'm like man [ __ ] that [ __ ] bro I got to get out of it cuz the only person that can keep myself in it is me you know what I mean finally we on to number five number five is basically to be accountable be accountable for everything be accountable for what you said you wanted to do be accountable for the things that you said you was going to do today be accountable for everything that's happening around you if you didn't record a video today there's nobody fought with yours if you didn't do what you said you was going to do on your habit trackers nobody's fault
12:00 - 12:30 but yours you got to have that accountability you got to assume accountability and if that's hard for you you a you ain't you ain't ain't nothing wrong with you bro that's just how it is but you can't just be okay with that [ __ ] you know what I'm saying get you an accountability partner find you one of your best and closest friends that's on the same type of time as you that's on the same wave as you that's trying to get better and y'all be each other's account accountability Partners bro find some type of accountability in your life share your tracker with his
12:30 - 13:00 and vice versa y'all both get a habit tracker share with each other have the same 10 steps on it and see which one of you guys can get 100% the fastest which one of you guys can stay at 100% the longest if one person get 90% tap and be like hey you at 90 I'm at 100 tighten up if somebody say that to you bro you're going to get tightened up bro you know what I mean you dictate your friendship you dictate the environment you around bro be around a successful environment be around an environment that's pushing positivity and not [ __ ] you know what I'm saying that's what you that's what you got to do if you around friends
13:00 - 13:30 and your friends is on low vibrational [ __ ] bro if you around people and your and people around you ain't trying to make you more positive more productive bro then you doing yourself a disservice by hanging around these folks you doing yourself a disgrace by still being around these people bro you don't owe nothing to nobody but yourself and what you owe to yourself is to be the best version of you imagine living this life imagine going through life and everything that you want out of life everything that was put in your head and your imagination of these things you want the car the crib the watches the
13:30 - 14:00 house the the [ __ ] anything bro anything that was put in your head bro imagine not getting it the only reason you ain't get it is because you ain't want it bad enough imagine living your life all the way to you 90 dying and not getting anything that you wanted now imagine living your life turning 35 and you got everything that you ever wanted because you put in the work and you really maximize your opportunities and you really controlled and constructed your friend group and you did all these things bro that's possible that's extremely possible the only person standing in between that is the man in
14:00 - 14:30 the [ __ ] mirror man I hope you enjoyed this video make sure you like comment subscribe Aver B A Academy out