Secret Code to Breaking the CAGE How to Take Massive Action Effortlessly
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thank you very much for the
wonderful introduction do you all
remember that there was this time that
you have very important things to do and
you keep delaying it
or maybe not just one time a lot of time
or how many of you like me have a to-do
checklist
but maybe it only works once a while or
it doesn’t work at all so yeah it’s
funny sometimes when we have
we know exactly what we need to do but
we keep drag and drag until
god knows when and finally gotten
ourselves into troubles
or possibly even other people into
troubles and yet we were still
pretending that nothing happened and
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continue to watch drama so we failed to
complete our assignments i failed to
study for exams
get out on time uh check on our loved
ones and uh
a lot more and all these little little
things
keep us further and further off track i
know this
well because i failed all of them
i lost my job i lost my company couldn’t
go to college
ended up with hundred thousands of debt
and
if you believe it still happily
procrastinating
incredible i thought that i am born
failure until i discovered the two
missing elements
that has been preventing me from taking
massive action in life
so i finally found the secret code to
breaking the cage that has been locking
off us down
i realized that by managing these two
key elements you are able to
do things and take actions much easier
you no longer need to
force yourself and discipline yourself
so imagine this
you can happily you can take action
happily and effortlessly
how good can that be but is that even
possible
yes the c a g e cage
formula is about building great clarity
and commitment towards the things that
we wanted to do
and achieve hence the c stands for
clarity
and commitment clarity means that you
have to be clear
if you are not clear of what you are
doing or why you are doing it
it’s impossible for you for you to even
commit
so here are the things that you need to
be clear of
the two keys to action taking goals
and emotion so now
a equals to g times e means
action is equals to goal or the purpose
times the emotions towards the goal only
with the right goal and right emotions
we will all take massive action
effortlessly
if the goal and the emotion is not
resonating with you
you will have a very hard time forcing
yourself to get things done
now let me give you an example let’s say
that
you want to start a habit of waking up
early in the morning at 5am but if you
don’t have a reason or purpose
to wake up that early you won’t no
purpose
no goal no action so yeah
say it says now you we set a goal and
the goal is to
exercise before you go to work but maybe
you’re not the
fitness kind of person so your emotion
towards this goal is um
not exciting not motivating and sounds
like
a lot of effort so wrong emotion
equals to wrong action which is
snoozing the alarm clock that’s what we
all do it’s not
all right so how about we change the
entire goal and emotions completely all
right
say you’re waking up early to have
breakfast with your loved one
every morning before you go to work and
for certain reasons
you can’t have breakfast you can’t have
lunch or dinner together so breakfast is
your only option and it’s just so happen
at that time
it’s the period uh you were madly
and deeply in the you remember those
kind of period
yeah so you will probably wake up
automatically every morning cook
breakfast
and send him or her off to work
then you look forward to every morning
so strong emotions build
strong actions the stronger your
emotions the bigger the actions that you
will take
well of course uh as year ago uh years
go by
the emotions wears off and the action
might becomes
weaker the only possibly possible
reasons why you’re still waking up in
the morning
early in the morning is because it has
become your habit or
other another emotion take place taking
place
like fear of being there every morning
so there are three lessons that i wanted
to share with you when you apply
cag cage so the first one
is uh simply watch your goal
and emotion closely
lousy one create lousy results you need
to visualize your goals be
honest with your emotion embrace them
stay true food to the with them and
strengthen them
so that’s the first lesson when i was 12
i watched my music teacher uh
competing on stage so i was very
thrilled that time i remember very
clearly
the atmospheres the excitement the music
and i can literally
picture myself playing performing on the
stage
i was so mesmerized with performing in
front of
thousands of people since then it has
become my dream but when i was 15
i had the chance to perform in one of my
dream hall
in new york however i need to win
the national open level championship
in order for me to represent my country
and to perform that
so at that time i was only like in a
grade five
in music and i have to compete with all
these teachers
and professionals so it’s kind of like
almost impossible
but because my visions and my emotions
towards this is so strong
i actually can practice four to eight
hours every single day
after school most of the time at
midnight because i can just put on my
earphone and no one will disturb me
there
so every single time i practice i can
imagine myself
performing in front of thousands of
audience
every single time so when your goal
is very clear and your emotion is so
strong
you will enter a state of flow or some
people call it
zone okay have you ever uh
for being very focused into doing
something that you lost track of time
yeah that’s it so i can practice all the
way until sunrise
and go to school straight right after i
remember i practiced
so hard literally that i broke
the keys on my piano yes i did
so in 1999 my
team won the national championship and
we represented the
malaysia to the world music festival in
every fisher hall new york city i
remember that our performance was very
well received
then that we were invited again to los
angeles uh as an international guest
performer
well despite when we are back despite
all these uh
perks and success i flunk
my grade six music exam i become very
late i became very lazy and practiced
very little
then i noticed i don’t understand the
reason or i don’t have a purpose
of passing my grades i didn’t even
create one i think let’s set any
so this is how i realize the huge
difference
when you have the right goal and the
right emotions the right goal
will set you to the right direction the
clearer it is
the clearer your path the right emotions
will fill you up with positive energy
and the stronger the emotion
the stronger the energy so you need to
be
to constantly observe and watch your
goal
and emotion closely all right
now the next lesson is create a goal
if you do not have any if you have
something to do and
you don’t have a reason to it you would
have two choices
one is either you scrap it don’t do it
two
you set a purpose or go of why you need
to do it
when i was tutoring uh last time one of
my students was doing quite badly in
language
especially english since english is not
his native language so he doesn’t really
like the subject
but he like playing games though so i
introduced him to an
online mmorpg games so for those
who doesn’t play online games there so
this is type of games where thousands of
people
will play together on the same platform
discovering
imaginary world and world and building
building their own awata
so he loved this game very much even
though it is in english
but in this kind of game you need to
interact a lot
you need to do quests trick items make
friends talk to people and
create teams so he was kind of like
struggling with it
so i have to t i taught him a few lines
for him to get about in the game but
after that ever since then you have no
idea how much you start paying attention
in class
doing homeworks and learn new words and
sentences
then now he has a reason to learn
english
from the game he started to enjoy
chatting with other people communicating
and slowly he built his confidence in
the language
so from failing in his exam he makes so
much
progress over time to getting good
grades
and in three years three years time he
actually gotten
an a for the very first time in english
exam
so from something that he hate to
something that he
is see how powerful it is when you
figure out
a reason and a purpose or a goal that
you can enjoy the entire process even
though if it’s something that you might
not like
if you have an excitement that you don’t
like work that you are
reluctant to do or boring routine find a
purpose that you can
achieve from there look for an outcome
that is compelling
and think of how you can enjoy the
entire process
so if it’s something that you really
need to do whether you like it or not
why not set a goal that you can enjoy
the process
so that is lesson number two
set a goal if you do not have any
now the last lesson is this change
the goal if the emotions towards the
goal is
not right if your emotion towards the
goal is
destructive changing if your emotion is
weak changing if you don’t resonate with
it
change it if you don’t feel like it
change it
i know you may set goal and feel happy
about it but
if you still find that you are still
progress procrastinating
you need to change the goal don’t be
afraid to change the perspective
of the things that you wanted to do the
new goal
may be different but you can still
achieve the same outcome
or if believe me you can even
get better outcome from better
perspective
so early this year i wanted to start a
new habit of
running i know i am i know the fact that
i
am not the type of person who is
motivated
without getting feed and having healthy
lifestyle and all
but i just want to look good i need i
wanted to get
rid of my uh lumpy tummy
uh and build a little bit muscles here
and there so that i can feel good
when i go to the beach hence i
i join a small running group together
with a few of my friends
so that we can motivate and give each
others
a little push so we to build a consist
consistent running habit our target was
is 688 kilometer until the end of july
so i was pretty excited about it and
started running
the first week was okay uh
we did run uh but the second and
third week uh i stopped running because
i was busy
well i was busy does that sound familiar
so in the month of january i only
managed 19.5 kilometer
which is a little bit more than half a
kilometer a day
actually that’s kind of like less than
crossing the street to buy
lunch then it comes february
which is more difficult because it was a
chinese new year period
i told myself it is okay let’s do this
for real this time
and i manage 20.8 kilometer
hardly any hardly any better from the
previous month
the only thing that i learned from all
this is
i don’t like cardio obviously it’s not
working
i guess looking good is not good enough
to motivate me
so i have to change my reason of running
so
the reason i run now is to
listen to podcasts ebook
and affirmations to rewire my mind so
i changed my focus to running to
listening
i have always loved listening to talks
and podcasts
so since then i i i will go out
jogging almost every day because it’s
kind of like one of my favorite
time of the day well i still don’t
really like the actual
running work but i enjoy the entire
process very much
so by half the month i did
13 runs and by the end of march
i have completed 166
kilometer so don’t worry to change the
perspective on how you look at things
or the things that you wanted to achieve
you can always
change to a better
goal and emotion and by doing that you
can even gain
better outcome and results from it so
that’s lesson number three
i have been using this formula quite
extensively
and i am still a work in progress so i
learn more and more every day
not just for myself but also from the
people around me so by managing these
two cat elements you will find yourself
procrastinate
lesser and take more actions to be
productive
if you wonder how some people are such
a massive action taker it is simply that
they’re just
very clear they have very good clarity
of their goals
and they have strong emotions strengthen
their commitment towards it goals and
emotions
are abundant anyone can create goals and
every human has emotion so the art of
taking action
is not exclusively only to those
successful
and powerful people it is already
inside all of us you can do it i can do
it
everyone can do it it only the only
matter is
would you do it so whenever
you find yourself procrastinating look
into
your goal and emotion
it is just that simple
again by mastering this formula we will
be able to
we will be able to take massive action
effortlessly
so i hope that my sharing today here on
the cag8 cage formula
will enable all of us to break the cage
that has been
locking us down from taking action
my name is marcus and thank you very
much