Your Discipline Problem Isn't What You Think (It's THIS!) — Transcript

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1. 0:00What do you think a lot of people get wrong when  it comes to being disciplined? Discipline is not
2. 0:04restriction. Discipline is freedom. If you  don't have discipline, then you're going to
3. 0:11be a prisoner of your choices and your habits.  So, if you don't have the discipline to train,
4. 0:18you're going to be a prisoner of your body when  you're older. If you don't have the discipline to
5. 0:23eat well, you're going to be a prisoner of disease  in future. If you don't have the discipline to
6. 0:31uh build a business, you will be a prisoner to  your finances or if you're building a brand or
7. 0:39like if you don't have if you don't have the  discipline to save money, let's say, you will
8. 0:42be a prisoner to your finances. So, the reality  is when you do have discipline or structure,
9. 0:48let's say, let's use the word structure. When you  do have structure and a plan that you follow on
10. 0:53a day-to-day basis, that will lead you to get the  things that you want. And when you have the things
11. 0:58that you want, discipline is long-term freedom.  You'll have freedom for time if you know how to
12. 1:04manage your time with discipline. If you don't  know how to manage your time for discipline,
13. 1:07you'll have you'll be a prisoner to, you know,  chaos. Chaos, you won't be able to get things done
14. 1:15because you don't know how to manage your time.  So, if you really change the framework of what
15. 1:19does discipline really mean? Is it restriction or  is discipline freedom? And the truth is discipline
16. 1:24is freedom in the long run. Yeah. And for me like  discipline just comes down to consistency. I think
17. 1:31I think why people think it's this very rigid  kind of harsh term is because they think maybe
18. 1:38I'm wrong but this is my assumption. It's tied  with motivation which is a very fleeting concept.
19. 1:42So it's like I'm not motivated every day so how  can I be disciplined? What are your thoughts on
20. 1:46motivation? Here's a thought on on motivation.  The problem is that everybody's waiting for
21. 1:51motivation right? I need to feel motivated to  go to the gym. I need to feel motivated to start
22. 1:56eating healthy. And the only thing that's  going to motivate you is your progress. So,
23. 2:03if I want to lose weight and I feel stuck in my  in my weight gain and I don't feel good, I don't
24. 2:10like to look at myself in the mirror. You see this  a lot and I'm like, wait until when I'm motivated,
25. 2:14I'll start eating clean. The issue is that when  you wait for motivation first, which never comes,
26. 2:19you can get motivated from one inspirational  video. You'd get really excited. you feel fired up
27. 2:24on that motivational video, but then 2 hours later  you forget that you watched it. Motivation is not
28. 2:29going to allow you to put one step in front of the  other. The only thing that allows you to do that
29. 2:34is to do the discipline first. So you do it first  even when you hate it, even when it's annoying,
30. 2:38even when it feels difficult, even if your mind is  not there, right? So you do the discipline first
31. 2:46through the crap. one week in, two weeks in, you  see results and it could be as quick as a week
32. 2:54in or two weeks in in most things. I mean you can  have five instill five habits of discipline like
33. 3:00sleep better um you know drink a lot of water uh  you know sleep sleep 8 hours drink a lot of water
34. 3:06uh journal in the morning and uh have some quiet  time prayer time or meditation time for 5 minutes
35. 3:11in the day. If you do these things for a week, you  will see change. And when you see change and it
36. 3:17could completely shift your life in many ways in  your body when you're dieting or in your training,
37. 3:23when you're going to the gym, that is what's going  to spark up the motivation. It's your movement and
38. 3:30your progress that sparks the motivation. It's not  the other way around. And most people are waiting
39. 3:35for the motivation first and then they'll  instill the discipline. So they don't move.
40. 3:39They stay exactly where they are. It's always  motivation first. Sorry. It's always discipline
41. 3:44first. Action that action creates progress. That  progress says, "Damn, look at this progress. I can
42. 3:52keep going." And your momentum will continue to  create motivation. But the problem is that when
43. 3:57people see momentum, sometimes they break.  Okay, I see momentum. You know, it's been a
44. 4:01month and I am ripped now. So great. Then they  slack off again. And what's so much harder than
45. 4:05finding motivation is hard finding momentum. So,  if you find that momentum, don't let it go. Like,
46. 4:11that's the best advice I can give somebody  because the multiple times that I've had strong
47. 4:16momentum in posting on social, strong momentum  on my podcast, strong momentum in my business,
48. 4:20strong momentum in the gym or in eating habits,  and then I get lazy and I slack off to find that
49. 4:27momentum again, it's t it's tough. So, when you  catch the momentum, don't let it go. Yeah. And
50. 4:34I'd say like in my experience anyway, even when  you have that momentum, you're not necessarily
51. 4:38motivated that whole time, you feel the fire  and it's like you're being consistent through
52. 4:43it. It's almost like you've got a little bit extra  energy that supports you through. But even still,
53. 4:49like when you're I find I consider myself to be  very disciplined um and consistent in life in
54. 4:55general. Like motivation for me is just a bonus.  That's how I see it. Like some days I wake up with
55. 5:00more energy. If anything, pregnancy has taught  me is that, you know, when you when you have it,
56. 5:05capitalize on it. When you don't have it, just  listen to your body. But like it's it is this
57. 5:10fallacy that it's something that will carry  you once you have it. But I think even an even
58. 5:16stronger approach is that discipline, consistency,  which are the foundation blocks, and then if you
59. 5:21get a motivated day, like that's kind of a bonus.  That's how I see it. I totally agree. Actually,
60. 5:26that's a good point. The thing is discipline  exists because you stick with it even if you don't
61. 5:32feel like it. That's why discipline is there.  Discipline doesn't care about your feelings.
62. 5:37And if you realize that that it's not about let  me see if I feel good about this so that I will
63. 5:42perform today. You do it anyway. You need to park  your feelings and you do the thing anyway because
64. 5:49that's going to feed into long-term goals of happy  you of 80-year-old you. You do the discipline
65. 5:55today to make the future you happy. You don't  do the discipline today to make you happy today.
66. 6:00It's not a, you know, how do I feel about this  today kind of a thing. It really has to be what
67. 6:06is the long-term plan? Who am I making proud? Is  it 80-year-old me? Is it next year me when I get
68. 6:11to launch this business? And you do the discipline  today to make that person proud. Yeah. Yeah. 100%.