Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron. I help people
Expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I'll be sharing with you three steps to become more
disciplined in a very easy
way. Now this video is about that idea
and I believe it can really transform the way you go about the whole idea of
discipline, and really it having such a negative connotation
over your life and understand really that discipline is something that is necessary to become and have like a
laser-like focus going in the direction of where you want to go. Now it's necessary in order to build momentum.
It's necessary to really develop a strong energy in the direction of where you want to go. Now the first step
I have for you has to do with understanding that you must have a vision or a self image for what you are
moving towards. Now what this means is that if you don't have a strong why for who you prefer to be or a strong
why as to why you are even being
disciplined, then most likely the effort that you put into it will eventually fall away. Now that's something I found to be very
probable for me. If I don't have a strong why, eventually I'll ask myself when it gets hard
why am I doing this, and if there isn't an answer to that, I'll most likely revert back to the old
behavior that I had. So you must have a strong why and it could be something as simple
as you are doing it because you know that
that's who you prefer to be, but at the end of that vision have a picture for the self image that you have.
Have a preferred way that you prefer to be and this means that if you are trying to lose weight for example,
Don't focus on simply losing the weight.
Focus on the more positive side of it, of the
benefits you'll get from the energy
you're gonna have, the
self-image that you will have or the self-image you are imposing, and that will help you more easily move towards it and
also, let go of the negative behaviors that hold you back. So strong
why, a vision is so important for easily becoming discipline because it allows it to be a much more smooth type
process. Now the second step I have for you has to do with understanding
how our
motivation mechanism works. Now motivation mechanism,
It's same for everybody. Now the triggers and what we define to it to be will change from person to person
But it works like this:
We will always move in the direction of what we associate with pleasure
And we will always move away from whatever we associate with pain. Now this can change, and the best part about this is
we can choose what we associate pleasure with and we can choose what we
associate pain with that will be what helps us move towards it and move away from what doesn't serve.
So let me give you an example: if you have pleasure towards and you associate pleasure with doing your passion or
moving in a certain direction like for example me making videos that could be something
I associate pain with if I see it as something that's very takes a lot of energy something,
that's very strenuous, takes up a lot of time, but because I associate so much pleasure with the kind of person
I'm becoming, with the kind of work ethic that I'm putting into it, and just because I know it's my way of expressing myself,
it is so easy for me to move in that direction. I
associate so much pleasure with eating healthy food, because I know that that gives me so much energy. I
associate so much pain with eating deep fried foods, with eating fast foods, with eating a lot of foods that bring my energy down.
Now it's such a quick fix and all you have to do is become aware of what you are
associating pleasure with and what you are associating pain with and the most powerful
technique for you to move towards where you want to go is to
switch things that aren't serving you. So for example, if you are eating unhealthy right now,
there's a mechanism inside of you,
or just your motivational mechanism is associating pleasure with eating that food.
Could simply be from the quick pain, or the quick pleasure you get from it,
but then the pain is more long-term, but it's overlooked
But what you can simply do is to start
associating pleasure with the vision for who you prefer to be, with eating healthy, with having more energy, with all of those
characteristics, and then associate pain with being the same and maintaining
the unhealthy lifestyle. That will make it so much more easier, and you will actually then be
allowing the mechanism to work for you rather than work on autopilot.
Now the third step I have for you has to do with the technique that I've shared before
But it is just so powerful
for being able to be who you want to be and to do it from a place of a tool that works very quickly now
This is from the book called the Five-Second Rule by Mel Robbins
It's called the 5 4 3 2 1 Technique and all it involves is when you know there's something you should be doing
What you do is you say 5 4 3 2 1 in your head and then you do it.
The idea is that we have about a
five-second window and maybe even earlier than that or sooner than that of when our brain will talk us out of the new behavior or
Talk us into remaining the same now what we can do is say 5 4 3 2 1 and simply
Just decide we are going to do it.
It makes it so easy once you get to going with this because what happens is as you add the momentum to doing that more and more
it becomes
easier as you go.
It's like you almost prove to your brain that you can do this 5 4 3 2 1 Technique
and it just continues to work let me tell you how I've applied it.
I've applied it with when I wake up in the morning
and if I want to just lay there for an extra couple minutes i do 5 4 3 2 1 and you get up
It's just that simple.
You just make a decision that you're going to do it and it gets easier as you go
The idea is that
our decisions are what creates our life and as a result of who we are in the present moment.
If we change our decisions, we change our life
and we are five seconds away from making that change and we just do it a little bit every day.
You could do it with having different options of what you could eat. You're looking at the bagel cream cheese, or there is
Fruits or oatmeal you can make the decision by going 5 4 3 2 1 and just moving towards and grabbing the better
option
Now another part of this is how can you easily be disciplined realize that your state of being is a
choice you can just simply decide
that you're going to be happy and I know it sounds like a fake it till you make it type thing
but it really is a matter of
understanding your behavior, understand your body language
You can simply choose to move around as if you are happy and as you put your body language in that way,
eventually your mind will begin to follow it. You will begin to trigger yourself and anchor yourself
into being happy. Realize that every situation in our life is fundamentally neutral. We can decide
what things mean and we can decide to be happy that easily
that's something I've done. I choose to associate pleasure with my work ethic, with what I am doing, with editing videos,
creating videos, constantly being on the move. I've been busier now than I have ever been in my entire life, but I
associate pleasure with it and therefore. I enjoy it.
I'm more disciplined than I've ever been before and it's simply because I realize I have to be
disciplined to go in the direction of what I want to do and anytime that's discipline becomes scattered
And I become off that path that's when I lose the momentum.
So I gain momentum by that direction and simply deciding that every decision can be as easy as 5 4 3 2 1
Deciding that I will enjoy the process
associating so much pleasure with my end result of who I prefer to be and the pleasure with being in the moment and
associating pain with the old self in the old behaviors, and then simply deciding that that vision is who I am now.
So with that being said I hope you guys enjoyed this video feel free to like this video if you liked it. Subscribe
if you haven't already, and as always I will see you guys on the next day. Peace, much love
Namaste.
All right, bye.