your mind has to
seek discomfort it has to seek these
difficult tasks
you have to enjoy it and you have to
figure out a way to make your mind enjoy
those things
some people comes easy and some people
it doesn't something but some people it
takes a long time
i always tell people the best thing you
could ever do is force yourself to a
schedule
just write it down like today i have to
do an hour on the treadmill
i have to do an hour no matter what even
if you've been walking on
you're doing an hour on a treadmill the
next time you're doing a do it just
okay you did an hour and this is the
amount of miles you got in
next time you're gonna you know add
three miles put put an extra three miles
in that
one hour and just keep doing things like
that write down
today i'm going to do a hundred push-ups
and i'm doing 100 sit-ups and i'm going
to do 100 chin-ups that's today
and then force yourself force yourself
to adhere to a schedule
make a monday wednesday friday workout
schedule give yourself some time to off
you know
like don't don't even crush yourself to
the point where you can't do it
make it so that you really appreciate
those tuesdays and thursdays but on
monday wednesday and friday you're gonna
get after it and this is what you're
gonna do most people just try to go work
out
and you're kind of aimless and you show
up and like where you pick up the jump
rope and you drop a little rope maybe
you hit the heavy bag a little bit maybe
you do some curls
but you don't really have an aim
that's why people like to hire trainers
because the trainer will tell you what
to do
well you can tell yourself what to do
if you don't have money for a trainer
you don't even have to have an equipment
you know with bodyweight squats sit-ups
chin-ups
push-ups you could give yourself a
brutal full body weight workout
and you can find these for free on
youtube there's a ton of them
there's a ton of these body weight
workouts you could do just force
yourself write it down
monday wednesday and friday i'm gonna do
100 push-ups i'm going to do 100 chin
ups i'm going to do 100 sit-ups
even if it takes me off in deck even if
i have to do 10
and 10 and 10 and keep going all day
just that's what you do do 10 push-ups
take a break for 20 minutes do another
10. but get those 100 in
i don't believe in half-assing things
this life is short
you know if you get into something get
into it and if you're not into it don't
be into it
and i think that insanity and and
greatness
are next-door neighbors and they borrow
each other's sugar that's
that's my that's what i've always said
there's there's something about mastery
like true mastery
that requires you to shut off
massive areas of your life there's a lot
of people that are scared
of their ability to do something that's
difficult
i don't know if i could force myself to
to be disciplined i don't know if i
could
force myself to take that kind of action
well if you do force yourself to take
that kind of action you don't have that
question anymore that question i don't
know if i can do it well you're doing it
so you obviously do it can you do it
tomorrow we do it today or can you do it
tomorrow
just do it you get so much more benefit
out of
a struggle that you choose to embark in
versus a struggle that life throws upon
you
get out there and go and do something
just just
go and then in the middle of doing it
it'll become easy
even if it's not easy even if it's hard
it's easier than not doing it and
wishing that you had done it
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oftentimes people confuse discipline
with focus
and this is what why that's important
there are things
that some people can excel
at because they're focused on them and
because they're drawn to it and they
have an incredible passion for it
versus like you tell a guy like hey you
know you're going to study to be an
electrical engineer it's like i don't
want to be
an electrical engineer well you got to
have discipline and so they don't have
the drive
and they don't they don't get excited
about it and they don't do but
if you tell that guy whatever you're
going to be a golfer
and he loves golf and he's practicing
every day
and he becomes a professional golfer you
say well i thought that guy didn't have
any discipline
well it's not that he didn't have any
discipline he's just not interested in
that other thing i was never
a disciplined kid but i was i would find
things that i loved and i was obsessed
and i always felt embarrassed by it
because people would say oh your son
like to my mom
your son is so disciplined and she's
like my son's been crazy
like he's not disciplined he finds these
things and that's all he does
all day long like it's not really
discipline because he doesn't clean his
room
he's lazy there's all sorts of
he's supposed to do
i never did my homework there's all the
but if i had a thing that i was into
i was obsessed about it but i would it
would bother me that i didn't really
have discipline
like if i had jobs that i had to do i
didn't do a good job with them like
construction jobs that i had but
martial arts i just got lucky and it
clicked with me like almost
immediately i became obsessed you know
and i wanted to be
i wanted to excel at it and so i was
just doing it all day long
and i think the more you choose to
embark on these struggles
these especially physical and mental
struggles because i consider
both martial arts yoga and actually even
trail running i
consider the mental struggles as much as
physical struggles
like because i could stop anytime i want
i'm halfway up the hill i can go
this
i'm walking the rest away yeah call my
dog over put him on the leash i'm like
we're walking buddy
or you could say no this is what i'm
doing today
i have a i have a very clear plan in
front of me
my plan is we're doing four miles today
this is where we start
this is where we end this is what we're
doing
sometimes when things are really hard to
do you think oh my god i gotta stop
doing this but once you do it and you
complete it
you have a satisfaction this sense of
satisfaction that you did something
really difficult
that is irreplaceable some kids never
get that and they just stay fat and
stupid their whole life
and some kids they get these little
lessons and then they realize like you
can push yourself
and you can get somewhere you know some
kids get real lucky and they get
involved in sports
or martial arts early and one of the
best benefits of sports is you realize
that through hard work you get
improvement
through improvement you get success
through success you get that big
dopamine rush
you get that good feeling you get
confidence you get this
girl yeah you get sometimes i didn't but
you get this knowledge that
you can do something that's difficult
and you can overcome even though it
feels like you can't you're gonna have
days where you suck
but those days are so motivational
i mean that's the bright side of tragedy
so when you come through it
you really will have an appreciation for
the moments without tragedy
you don't really feel it unless you you
get
less life burns you you don't really
feel it
it's one one of the things that i tell
people all the time because
a lot of people have a hard time
defining themselves they define
themselves by failure
because they failed but i'm like you're
not your failures you're you
okay your life is a series of lessons
you've learned now if you just dwell
on the failures like that's not that's
not healthy it's not smart and it's not
empowering
what you got to do is look at those
failures you go well now you know what
not to do
but you're not that you're you you know
you could have done the stupidest
ever but it's not you that's not you
you're you're a different thing
you're the the being that's experiencing
all these failures
and if you know that they're fuck-ups
then you've learned
okay if you repeat them over and over
again well then i can't talk to you
you know if you keep going back and
doing the same stupid over and over
again
well you got a deeper issue you know i
don't know what it is but i don't have
the time
building up that ability to endure
things that's also
a very important mechanism that you
could apply to everyday life
like that the mechanism of understanding
how to endure
like jocko willing's perfect example you
know he has that thing on his
if you go to his instagram page almost
every other photo is a watch
and so watch says 4 30 in the morning
because that's when he gets up and he
works out
and he earns the sunset and he does that
he's so disciplined and he's got this
saying that's a great saying discipline
equals freedom
and it's true because he's able to force
himself to do that
every single time there's no excuses
there's no breaks there's no days off
it doesn't happen so because of that
you're like you're not scared
you know that you can keep doing it you
know that you can continue to perform
there's a lot of people just running
from discomfort they're running from it
they're just avoiding it
so easy to and like if you get
distracted for a second
you're like yeah let me check my phone
you just start going through your phone
and looking at bullet
and you're just distracting yourself
from the tiniest
frustration of boredom just a little
we don't get bored anymore or if we get
bored we get bored for these tiny
amounts of time then you get distracted
so your distraction is eliminating
your boredom but the problem with that
is like there's certain thoughts
that only come to you when you're
thinking when you're
you don't have any input coming in when
we're constantly looking at our phones
the only input you're getting is input
from other people
and sometimes that's good sometimes you
get good stuff out of that but it's like
a diet of only fruit
don't think that you're that person that
made those mistakes you're the person
who's learned
you know and to have that attitude is a
really important thing and
to not say why am i doing this now i
could have been doing this my whole life
well you you weren't so the is that
gonna help
yeah you know you gotta just gotta not
think like that you just gotta be
happier doing it now
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