Self-Discipline is the most important thing you will ever learn in your life. Because it means,
instead of going with the flow and letting others decide your life, you decide to take things in
control and shape your life the way you want. It is the ultimate level of freedom where you
decide what you end up becoming, and that's why it is so important.
You can accomplish in a single year more by being disciplined than you can in 10 years
without discipline. By the end of this video, you will learn how exactly you can become disciplined.
I will share with you how I personally built my discipline. If you are ready, let's start with
the first step.
Number 1 create a sense of accomplishment.
It's difficult,
if not impossible, to keep yourself motivated when you don't see your progress. Often
that's the main reason why people give up, although they might be close to their goals.
The best way to visualize your progress is to write it down. I know that you have
heard countless times that you should create a to-do list, but that is the best way to see
your progress right in front of you. After having your morning routine,
Take a piece of paper and a pen and create a list of what you have to accomplish throughout the day
to consider the day productive and successful. I typically have something between 5 to 6.
I know that you
can do it in your phone or a computer but think about how much of a distraction is your phone,
how much unnecessary things you do when you turn on your computer. It's far more productive to
rely on traditional tools such as a pen and a black note. And every time you accomplish
an important task, don't move to another until you properly rest and tick the box that you have
accomplished it.
Keep the list always around you so that every time you get distracted, it will remind you of the
important things you have to take care of.
And at the end of the day, if you end up ticking all the boxes, you will see your accomplishments
right in front of you and it will give you the motivation to keep moving, to accomplish more
tomorrow, to have another productive day. 2. Don’t push too hard.
One of the places I spend a lot of time is the gym because I just love lifting weights and always
being in shape. My friends often ask me to help them out to get in shape, and I see this problem
all the time. They come to the gym and go all in. As much as I tell them “don't push too hard,
it's your first day, you shouldn't exercise for more than half an hour and should take minimum
weight” - they don't listen.
He is motivated, and he wants to take the maximum weight he possibly can. What
ends up happening is that the next day, every muscle in his body is in pain. He
gets exhausted and never visits the gym again. It happens all the time with everything. I get it,
you watched a motivational video, you are inspired, but that's not sustainable. If you
push too hard, you will get exhausted and give up. So start with something extremely small,
one habit at a time. It doesn't matter if it takes you an entire year to build
self-discipline, that's much better than going all in and giving up the next day.
3. Number 3, Long term benefits should outweigh short term pleasures.
This is the golden point of this video.
If I would offer you a thousand dollars today or 1010 dollars next month. What would you chose?most
people will choose a thousand dollars today, because waiting an entire month for extra 10
dollars doesn’t worth?
But what if it was a thousand dollars today or 2000 dollars next month. Most people would
rather wait for another couple of weeks and get an extra 2000 dollars. The time frame didn't change,
but the reward is substantial more. The only reason you are willing to control your temptations
from getting that thousand dollars now is because you will get twice that amount if you just wait a
little longer.
And that's how your brain always thinks. It always compares
long term benefits with short-term pleasures. The only way to discipline yourself is to make
it clear to your brain that long term benefits are significantly higher than short term gains.
So before you push yourself to wake up early, work more hours, or start going to the gym,
ask yourself, why do you want to do that? What is the final goal?
Let's say you want to be financially
independent. And the path to it might be to save more, live frugally and hustle for 4 or 5 years.
Next time before wasting your money on unnecessary thing, your brain is going to compare weather it
worth to spend a few hundred dollars on a pair of sneakers that you don't need and delay your
goal of attaining financial independence or not. And if financial independence is more important
for you, then you are going to make the right decision.
4. Self-Discipline is much easier than you think.
At first glance, self-discipline seems hard. It takes an unbelievable amount of
willpower and commitment. In some ways, that's true. However, that's just part of the story
because the other part is that discipline means you are limiting your daily choices.
One of the things that consume a lot of your energy is the number of choices you have to make
on a daily basis, and discipline simply tells you that, you no longer have to decide;
you have already made a choice to commit to doing this and that every single day.
You don't have to decide what you gotta
do first thing int he morning because you have to go for a jog, Friday evening? Should you hang out
with friends? Watch Netflix at home or play video games? None! Because you have to hit the gym.
Discipline means having
a strict daily routine. It's only difficult in the beginning; once you incorporate it into your life,
life just gets easier. You will do what you are supposed to do by default.
Overall, you will be more satisfied with your life since you will be accomplishing your goals.
5. Find out what's holding you back.
Discipline basically means getting rid
of bad habits and replacing them with good habits that will eventually lead to great outcomes down
the read. But before you start, you have to figure out all of your bad habits that you want to stop.
Be it smoking, wasting time, buying unnecessary things, eating unhealthy, doesn't matter. Create
a list, write them down. You are not going to get rid of them in one or one month.
It might take you a year or more but having them written in front of you makes it much
easier. Create another column beside it and write what habits are you going to replace them with.
Binge-watching on Netflix with working out. Unhealthy burgers with salads,
snacks with fruits. write them on a big board and stick that board in your room or office,
make sure it's always visible to you.
6. Deadlines
Have you ever heard the saying that "a goal is a dream with a deadline"? Whatever you want to do
or accomplish, if it doesn't have a deadline, it's just wishful thinking. And the deadline should be
reasonable and specific. Even if you are starting with small incremental steps, it's important that
you set a deadline for it. Even if you end up missing it, set another deadline. Of course,
the point isn't to set a deadline in order to miss them. But without a clear time frame,
you will end up procrastinating.
And lastly,
Failure is part of the process.
Don't expect yourself to be hyperproductive every single day. Just because you couldn't do
it today doesn't mean you shouldn't try again. Cheat days are part of the process. As someone
who works out regularly and tries to eat healthy all the time. I have cheat days too,
sometimes I would have fast food, I know that's wrong, but I don't hold my self to it. The next
day I would try harder to stick to my diet. If you couldn't wake up early enough, it's fine.
Try again, tomorrow. The most important thing is - never give up. And you will certainly make it!
Here you go, this is your secret recipe for building self-discipline. I know that they
work because I used them to discipline myself. It was not easy, but eventually, I made, and since
them my life has only changed for the better, and I am confident that yours will be as well.
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