You know
When you are guilty of wasting time
and lying in bed and you're being lazy.
You know it
whether that was 7 o'clock in the morning or 6 o'clock in the morning
You know it
you have to start the cycle of waking up early by waking up early.
Success is not convenient
you have to do what is required to accommodate success
holding the line
maintaining the standard
giving no slack, none
That's the discipline.
There are opportunities that are gonna come your way
and there might be some other things going on
and you have to make a choice, you have to ask yourself the question
What do you want?
because if you don't know what you want, nothing else matters
how I'm about to use my time?
is it positive?
is it purposeful?
is it leading in the direction of where I'm going and the meaning of my life?
is it productive?
and is it profitable?
But when you know what you want
E why do you wake up at 3:00? because I know what I want.
One thing that discipline definitely does help you with
is it, it helps you get things done
and when you get things done
when you you you actually do things, you you you have more success.
I wake-up, boom and I go pursue
A big part of success is just not being lazy and just doing it.
Yeah,
Just get- it's like 90% of it is just showing up.
If I look at the best of the best
whether in business, in science, in the arts, in sports.
These are people who have trained in the rain, to show up in discipline
And getting up early is not only an incredible competitive advantage
because most of your competitors are asleep.
But getting up early is a great gift to give yourself, you get more life.
College is all about time management.
Getting ahead of the curve, because it's so easy.
That's what happens with kids in college, that's why they don't do well
because for the first time there's no one
tracking them
no one is imposing discipline on them
you have to have -in order to do well in college-
you have to have self-discipline
because no one is gonna tell you to start that paper that's due in six weeks
no one is gonna tell you to start it tomorrow.
Get there and start working like, you're not gonna feel perfect every day
if I felt, if I only worked out when I felt good, I'd be a fat
because there's a lot of days I don't wanna do it
and it's pretty much the same with everybody that
that actually gets good at something
that you you get, there's got to be those days you push through.
you need to get the time management going
you need to get a discipline, time management, schedule
you need to get ahead of the curve as early as possible.
And there, they are probably gonna be more numerous than the days you don't
and so the benefit of discipline in my eyes has always been
that through discipline I get things done.
I always tell my, I always say that I'm like the most lazy disciplined person I know
because I don't wanna do it
yeah,
but I always do.
Do you wanna be an artist? do you wanna be an engineer?
I don't know, but I want you to start the year off.
We're not talking about -you know- fake dreams
and just writing goals down to be doing it.
I'm talking about knowing what you want, because when you know what you want
that's what a drive comes from, that's what a passion comes from.
When the thing is done, when the discipline has been implemented
remember what that feels like
and then remember that those minutes and those hours
they turn into weeks and months and years
and holding the line in those critical minutes
will put you in an infinitely better place, physically and mentally
if you maintain the discipline.
when I don't have my morning routine game, I feel -you know- out of sorts
so I think it's true for everybody, you gotta own your morning, you got to win it
because that starts and sets up everything else
people need that discipline, those routines that would help the rest of day go better
get some momentum and be ok if that momentum is really small
because it will build trust
that momentum builds and trust those gloomy and bad dark days.
Trust that those are going to be there
honor the difficulty
when we honor the struggle instead of hate the struggle
we can really achieve extraordinary things because our mindsets in the right place.
Now the first night you're gonna have a hard time going to sleep
what you do is the next morning you wake up early anyways.
That first night you only got five hours worth of sleep
and now you're tired throughout the day, good
because then when you get to bed that night you’ll turn off that computer
you'll be able to go to bed earlier like you wanted to.
You can live on 6 hours sleep
so you've 18 hours, you've 18 goddamn hours
I wanna know what you're doing with your 18 hours?
because you can work your 9:00 to 5:00 and that's nine
and you can travel for an hour here and there, respect nice little solid commute
oh, you want to be a family man
mazel tov, you could spend two hours with your kids.
What are you doing with those other five hours?
You're watching House of Cards, you're playing Madden
you're relaxing from the other intense
Gary, I already spent 11 hours
Well, great then don't complain or want more.
Respect that by getting rest and this and that
you are giving up opportunity to go into a new world
you want the audacity to have a 1% life.
and let's call it what it is
you want to live as well as the 1 to 2 percent in the world.
It's not very complicated the math is .........
Like you, if you want to have one of the best lives in the world
which is you live on your terms
you have to pay your dues to get there
and you have to be lucky enough to figure out
that you had talent in the thing that you actually wanna do
because you can work 24 hours a day
and if you stink at golf or you're not a good content producer
or your logos look like the shit I would make
then you're gonna lose
So, that's what you gotta do.
The most important thing you can do is win the morning.
Just win the morning man
It is not easy
but it is worth it.
As John Henrik Clarke said
“powerful people can not afford to educate the people that they oppress
because once you are truly educated you will not ask for power
you will take it”
I have the chills right now
and I want everyone listening to this to really think about that
Power is not given, it is assumed
if you want something in your life, you've got to become capable of taking it
and that's the whole point behind getting educated.
Don't think about education as flipping through a bunch of books
getting educated is about gaining knowledge.
knowledge that has utility
knowledge that can be put to use in service of something
but you've gotta know what that in service of is
what are you trying to do?
why are you trying to educate yourself?
and are you waiting? Are you asking politely if you can be educated?
or are you grabbing the things that you need in order to learn
and insisting of yourself
insisting of yourself
that you gain that knowledge
that you begin to empower yourself
that you build yourself into someone who can not be conquered
and as Walt Whitman said “I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave.
To meet life as a powerful conqueror and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me”
Now if you're gonna live by those words you’re going to have to empower yourself
you are going to have to become capable of something tomorrow
that you are not capable of today
and the only way to do that
is to educate yourself.
But don't get trapped in other people's definition of education
education is not sitting blindly in a classroom
education is not simply working your way through Wikipedia
education is about understanding what you're trying to accomplish
and getting the knowledge that you need in order to bend reality to your will.
And this is the thing that drives me crazy
about how people approach education at the end of the day.
knowledge
Skills
They are designed to have real-world impact
they are designed to give you the ability to do something
that influences this world
they are designed to make you capable of something that you weren't capable of before
when it is blind learning, when you think it's to impress your parents
or to get an A on the test
or to make your manager at work happy
you've already lost.
the point of knowledge is to make sure
then you can close your eyes and envision a world
open your eyes and then make that world come true.
The point of knowledge is to control your own life
Never forget that.