- If there's one comment I can count on seeing
on my YouTube channel almost every single day
it is this, "Ron, how do I stay motivated?
"I can't stay motivated to study
"or I can't stay motivated to exercise.
"I can't stay motivated, I'm lazy.
How do I stay motivated and how do I stop procrastinating?"
Do you realize what you're saying?
That is literally one of the worst things that you can say.
You're saying that you have dreams, that you have goals
that you have ambitions.
You wanna take a test and study for it
and get that job that you've always wanted.
You wanna get in better shape, so you can be healthy.
You wanna make more sales, so you can have more money.
And you are telling me that you can't do it.
And in your words, it's because you can't stay motivated.
That is literally the worst thing that you could say.
Why?
What are you saying?
You are saying that you have a goal
and what is standing in between you and your goal
is not a bear or a mountain lion or something terrible
that's gonna stop you, it's you.
You are the one stopping you from your goals.
You are the one that's stopping you from enjoying the life
to the level that you wanna enjoy it.
And you believe the problem is,
you don't have the motivation.
Well, that is not the problem.
The problem is discipline.
Forget about motivation.
Motivation is the most temporary thing in the world.
Motivation will be here today and it'll be gone tomorrow.
You don't want to be motivated, you want to be disciplined.
You wanna be the student who studies for a test,
because you have the discipline even when your friends
are saying, "Hey, let's go out, let's party.
"Let's go have a drink.
"Let's take it easy tonight.
Let's go see a movie."
You wanna be the student who has the discipline to study
among those distractions.
You want to be the athlete who has the discipline to train
even when you're not feeling well.
It's about discipline.
It's not about motivation.
Put it on the schedule.
You wanna work out today, put it on the schedule.
Every day, I'm gonna work out at this set time.
It takes it out of the equation.
Oh, should I work out today?
Should I not work out today?
Am I motivated to work out today?
Am I not motivated to work out today?
Forget all that.
It's on the schedule, you gotta to do it.
There's no debate about it.
Make it about discipline.
Jim Rohn said this, Jim Rohn said,
"We will all pay two prices.
"We will either pay the price of discipline
or we will pay the price of regret."
What does that mean?
The athlete who is training
and that athlete doesn't feel like training today,
so it's gonna take it easy.
Well, guess what?
That athlete will either pay the price of discipline
or pay the price of regret.
That athlete will say, "You know what?
"It's on the schedule to train today.
"I'm gonna train.
I'm gonna pay the price of discipline and train today."
Or what if that athlete doesn't train today?
Well, guess what?
In two or three weeks they're gonna say, "You know what?
"I'm not feeling so good.
"I'm gaining weight.
I don't have the energy that I used to have."
They pay the price of regret.
The illusion that you believe, the illusion that you believe
is that if you don't study today and you just take it easy,
you're not gonna have to pay any prices
'cause you'll just enjoy time with your friends.
Well, guess what?
You didn't pay the price of studying,
you didn't pay the price of discipline
but you are gonna pay a price.
And the price you will pay is when you're sitting
in that exam, taking the test and you fail the test.
And then you have to retake the class
and you have to go through it all again.
We all will pay a price.
You are either going to pay a price of discipline
or pay a price of regret.
You wanna lose weight and you see that cake
or that pizza sitting over there.
And you think, man, that looks really good.
I'm gonna eat that and get that pleasure.
You will either pay the price of discipline,
it's discipline, it's hard not to eat that cake
or that pizza when you want it.
And you gotta pay a price right now
or you'll pay a price later.
And that price later will be the regret of the gained weight
and feeling out of shape and not feeling your best,
not feeling mentally focused.
When you go to the beach, if you are in shape
and you've taken care of yourself,
you've taken care of your body because you have discipline,
you will be able to enjoy the ocean
and go for a swim in the ocean and your body will enjoy it
because you have paid the price of discipline.
But if you didn't pay the price of discipline
and you're out of shape and you get winded,
you don't get to enjoy the ocean.
You sit on the beach, overweight and out of shape
and you're paying the price of regret.
We're all gonna pay a price.
When you go to the mountains, you are able to hike up
to the top of that mountain
because you have paid the price of discipline
and you have paid the price of taking care of your body
so you can hike to the top of the mountain.
If you go to the mountains
and you have to sit at the bottom of the mountain
while your friends hike up the mountain,
you will then pay the price of regret.
You regret that you did not stay in shape.
You say you don't have the motivation to study?
You say you don't have the motivation to make sales calls?
You say you don't have the motivation to exercise?
Wrong.
It's not about motivation, it's about discipline.
And every time you get in that mindset
of I don't wanna do it today, ask yourself this question,
do I want to pay the price of discipline
or do I want to pay the price of regret?
You will pay a price.
The price of discipline or the price of regret.
What are your dreams?
What are your goals?
What are your visions?
Put them on the calendar.
There is no decision.
You're gonna do it even when you don't feel good.
It's about being disciplined
and just doing what you're supposed to do.
It's not about motivation.
My name is Ron White.
I'm a two-time USA memory champion.
If you wanna discipline your mind,
develop a powerful memory,
click the link below and get my Black Belt Memory Course.
I'll see you on the next video.