Transcript
A (0:00)
What do you think a lot of people get wrong when it comes to being disciplined?
B (0:03)
Discipline is not restriction, discipline is freedom. If you don't have discipline, then you're going to be a prisoner of your choices and your habits. So if you don't have the discipline to train, you're going to be a prisoner of your body. When you're older, if you don't have the discipline to eat well, you're going to be a prisoner of disease. In future, if you don't have the discipline to build a business, you will be a prisoner to your finances. Or if you're building a brand or like if you don't have, if you don't have the discipline to save money, let's say you will be a prisoner to your finances. So the reality is when you do have discipline or structure, let's say, let's use the word structure, when you do have structure and a plan that you follow on a day to day basis that will lead you to get the things that you want and when you have the things that you want. Discipline is long term freedom. You'll have freedom for time if you know how to manage your time with discipline. If you don't know how to manage time for discipline, you'll have, you'll be a prisoner to, you know, chaos. Chaos. You won't be able to get things done because you don't know how to manage your time. So if you really change the framework of what does discipline really mean? Is it restriction or is discipline freedom? And the truth is discipline is freedom in the long run.
A (1:26)
Yeah. And for me, like discipline just comes down to consistency. I think, I think why people think it's this very rigid kind of harsh term is because they think maybe I'm wrong. But this is my assumption. It's tied with motivation, which is a very fleeting concept. So it's like I'm not motivated every day, so how can I be disciplined? What are your thoughts on motivation?
B (1:47)
Here's a thought on, on motivation. The problem is that everybody's waiting for motivation, right? I need to feel motivated to go to the gym. I need to feel motivated to start eating healthy. And the only thing that's going to motivate you is your progress. So if I want to lose weight and I feel stuck in my, in my weight gain and I don't feel good, I don't like to look at myself in the mirror. You see this a lot. And I'm like, wait until when I'm motivated, I'll start eating clean. The issue is that when you wait for motivation first, which never comes. You can get motivated from one inspirational video. You'd get really excited. You feel fired up on that motivational video, but then two hours later, you forget that you watched it. Motivation is not going to allow you to put one step in front of the other. The only thing that allows you to do that is to do the discipline first. So you do it first even when you hate it, even when it's annoying, even when it feels difficult, even if your mind is not there. Right? So you do the discipline first through the crap one week. In two weeks in, you see results. And it can be as quick as a week in or two weeks in. In most things. I mean, you can have five and still five habits of discipline, like sleep better, you know, drink a lot of water, you know, sleep, sleep eight hours, drink a lot of water, journal in the morning and have some quiet time, prayer time or meditation time for five minutes in the day. If you do these things for a week, you will see change. And when you see change, and it could completely shift your life in many ways. In your body, when you're dieting or in your training, when you're going to the gym, that is what's going to spark up the motivation. It's your movement and your progress that sparks the motivation. It's not the other way around. And most people are waiting for the motivation first. And then they'll instill the discipline so they don't move. They stay exactly where they are. It's always motivation first. Sorry. It's always discipline first action. That action creates progress. That progress says, damn, look at this progress. I can keep going and your momentum will continue to create motivation. But the problem is that when people see momentum, sometimes they break. Okay, I see momentum. You know, it's been a month and I have ripped now, so great. Then they stack off again. And what's so much harder than finding motivation is hard finding momentum. So if you find that momentum, don't let it go. Like, that's the best advice I can give somebody. Because the multiple times that I've had strong momentum and posting on social, strong momentum on my podcast, strong momentum in my business, strong momentum in the gym or in eating habits, and then I get lazy and I slack off to find that momentum again. It's tough. So when you catch the momentum, don't let it go.