I've never met a person who was not
successful that didn't have a great
amount of self-discipline within their
life self-discipline and being able to
perform and being able to keep your life
on schedule and being able to keep
commitments and promises and meet
deadlines is essential to success of
none of us none of us can afford to have
a life that is controlled by someone
else or a life that is basically
controlled by our emotions I learned
many years ago that there are two kinds
of people there's the type of person who
says I'm gonna wait till I feel like it
before I do it and then there's a person
who says I've got to do it so that I
feel like it one will never get anything
done because they're sterile waiting to
feel the moment to move or the other
person says no I need to move and then I
will begin to feel
Sonia self-discipline is essential in
your life and in my life if we were to
get things done
so I have a challenge for every one of
you this video the challenge is simple
as you go through your weekend and
sometimes it's kind of a hopefully an
easier time ask yourself am i practicing
self-discipline in my life by doing the
things that I should do because I need
to do them or am I kind of waiting to
feel the moment do like our friends Nike
say just do it if you want it you gotta
go get it it's time to stay focused I
hope this video makes you uncomfortable
as I look at this I look at this as a
mirror you get to look yourself in the
mirror and acts hard and tough questions
what am i doing every single day with my
life creating obstacles challenges and
distractions for myself
people look at politicians and
celebrities on the TV and the newspapers
glossy magazines what do they see I'm
just like them that's what they say
come on man come on I'm special I'm
different I could be any one of them
well guess what you can't you know why
because in reality mediocrity is where
most people live mediocrity is the
elephant in the room it's ubiquitous
mediocrity in your schools it's in your
dreams it's in your family I'm giving
you my hand and I'm saying take my hand
and let's fly you changed you stopped
being you you let people stick a finger
in your face and tell you you're no good
and when things got hard you started
looking for something to blame like a
big shadow you me or nobody is gonna hit
as hard as life but it ain't about how
hard you hit it's about how hard you can
get hit and keep moving forward how much
you can take and keep moving forward
that's how weird it is done most of you
say you want to be successful but you
don't want it bad you just kind of want
it
your habits determine what direction you
go you don't want it badder than you
want a party you don't want it as much
as you want to be cool you most of you
don't want success as much as you want
to sleep you're better than that today's
your day you are the only reason why all
of your ancestors before you ever lived
make a choice like you just decide what
it's gonna be who you're gonna be how
you're gonna do it just decide you have
this this habit of getting comfortable
in our routines and patterns and then it
gets difficult to get out of that
there's got to be those days you push
through there probably gonna be more
numerous than the days you don't and I
think that's something to be mindful of
as well try to imagine your life when
you'd make that easy choice next time
what is that gonna do is that gonna keep
you away from your dreams are you gonna
regret that later you know a lot of
opportunities appear only once in life
and you skip that taking the easy choice
they're probably gone forever you can
dream of the kind of life you want you
can dream up the kind of change you want
you can trigger the kind of future you
want but until you wake up and begin to
plan to get there it would only be a
dream if you don't get up and actually
do something to anything those a new
positive emotions will never have the
opportunity to follow those actions
you'll just be stuck in a lazy
demotivated hole for as long as you
choose to be
and so the benefit of discipline in my
eyes has always been that through
discipline I get things done you told us
to choose about to start working out you
told us the truth won't start a business
but when are you gonna do that your
number one job is to become more of
yourself and sometimes all a big part of
success is just not being lazy and just
doing it yeah just yeah that's like 90
percent of it is just showing up get
there and start working like you're not
gonna feel perfect every day effort
effort then I see so many people talking
about hustle hard work determination
grind work ethic at the end of the day
when I look at the body of people many
of them and I've worked with around the
world at the end of the day it's effort
do I not have enough time or am I being
lazy
and lazy comes in two different flavors
lazy comes in two distinct flavors lazy
comes in one flavor which means not
working you might be saying hey I'm
constantly working I'm constantly
learning that's an easy that's an easy
rebuttal but the second flavor of lazy
is not doing what needs to be done it
means holding out on doing what you know
is necessary but hard to do