You're paying a price
by sitting there being miserable.
And you might say,
well, the devil I know is better than the one I don't.
It's like, don't be so sure of that.
The clock is ticking.
And if you're miserable in your job now
and you change nothing
in five years, you'll be much more miserable
and you'll be a lot older.
What would amazing look life for you?
What would amazing look like if you were amazing?
If you know what amazing looks like,
then why haven't you gotten there yet?
I want you to say the reason I'm not an amazing yet
because I hit the snooze button,
that's why I'm not amazing right now.
The reason why I'm not amazing right now
cuz I coudn't get up early enough,
cuz i told myself I'm not an early person.
You don't have time
to waste.
So I need you to put in a thousand percent every single day.
Whatever you want to do in this life,
or whoever you want to be,
you must do it before you're ever rewarded for it.
Because if you can't handle that struggle,
you don't deserve the comfort.
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.
What you're gonna do to change yourself?
Write down what you're gonna do to change yourself
and go out and actually change yourself.
Go out and actually push yourself beyond those limits.
Go and actually get up on
the first alarm that you set off.
Get up on that one.
We get one opportunity in life,
one chance in life
to do whatever you going do
to lay your foundation,
to make whatever mark you gonna make.
Whatever legacy you gonna leave, leave your legacy.
And it's found through effort.
Wins and losses come a dime dozen
but effort
nobody can judge effort
because effort is between you and you.
It's about knowing that you have to develop yourself,
that you don't get in life what you want.
You get in life what you are.
You have to develop your mind,
You have to develop your skills.
You have to have a talent ability that you
are cultivating so that you can create value for the world
with what it is you have with your gift.
There has never been a point.
Anytime and there never will be
where everything is perfect.
Okay.
No such thing.
Because life is a possibility,
because it's a possibility.
It cannot be perfect.
It doesn't matter what we do.
There's still something more to do.
The possibilities when you do this, although known,
are endless, but one thing is for certain.
If you don't push yourself,
nothing in your life will change.
At some point, everything's gonna go south on you.
Everything's gonna go south,
and you're gonna say,
this is it.
This is how I end.
Now, you can either accept that
or you can get to work.
That's all it is.
You just begin.
From my perspective, when people ask me all the time,
they : "I lack discipline.
How can I get discipline in my life?"
And no one wants to hear this answer.
No one wants to hear it.
The one of the first steps you can take
to impose discipline in your life
is to wake up early in the morning.
Cause let's face it, when the alarm goes off,
you're, you got your head on that soft pillow.
It's all nice and cozy and warm in there.
You do not feel like getting up.
And so you have, he doesn't even have a snooze alarm.
He doesn't ever hit the snooze alarm.
Yep, you too.
And you should not.
You should not.
That snooze alarm is,
I call that snooze alarm
the dream killer.
Like when you, when you, when you press that
snooze button, you're killing your dreams.
I don't care how good you are in anything,
you don't have discipline,
you ain't nobody.
You nothing about discipline cuz you give up under
the slightest struggle without discipline.
100%
And that has to be something that
you also learned from Cus's as well.
I don't, the hell, I know what discipline at,
I don't know what discipline.
He told me discipline is doing what you hate to do,
but do it like you love it.
"Doing what but do it like you love it."
That is a great quote.
And if you can do that,
you could be successful in anything.
Oh, you normally are.
You'd be the best janitor in the history of janitors.
Yeah, and I just use that for a perspective,
not just putting the janitor down.
Yeah.
You know the best of it.
When you're making progress in your life,
it doesn't matter where it is,
you're gonna feel more alive.
If you're overweight,
but you get yourself today and you say:
"you know what? I'm stepping into the gear.
I'm just putting these darn shoes on.
I'm not waiting for the perfect
you know, person to come by and coach me.
I'll get that too.
But right now I'm just going for a walk
or I'm gonna go for a jog, or I'm gonna go lift some weight.
I'm gonna do something right now."
And you get yourself into gear, and
you do that for a few days in a row.
Even if you haven't lost the 10, 20, or 30 pounds yet,
you're gonna start feeling better immediately
cuz you have the power of momentum
and you're making progress.
Progress equals growth.
Growth equals feeling alive.
We grow or we die.
So what's the worst thing that
could ever happen in your life?
Same survey.
Ask the people North America,
10 seconds to come up with the answer.
Number one answer to become a quadriplegic.
That's why I made this show,
because the idea
that I could be in a position where I'd be alive,
but I couldn't physically feed myself,
take care of myself, that I'd be completely immobilized.
For most people,
that's the scariest thought of all,
to them that's the worst possible fear.
From my experience, from what I've seen of other people,
the only thing that gives the human animal
the best feeling, which is to feel good about
yourself when you're by yourself,
is to do the hard things
and to do things that bring fulfillment.
And the things that bring fulfillment are often born of
momentary suffering,
but they allow you to get stronger
in order to serve other people.
That's it.
That's just what I've seen.
So I don't think it's better
than the alternative that I just described.
It's just the only thing that I've seen really
lead to that sense of like
deep fulfillment.
So, my thing about the specific part
about the good habits are hard
to stick with because they're boring.
Just you've gotta attach habits to things
you actually really and truly care about.
No one can tell you what to care about.
You can certainly build that into your life.
You can take something that's an interest and
build it into something you care deeply about,
which I've talked endlessly about,
so I won't go into it here, but that is very, very possible.
Associate your habits to that thing.
Suddenly the habits will be very easy.
Don't judge yourself.
Live your life the way you want.
But respect the realities of neurochemistry
There are three keys to peak performance in achieving your goals.
They are commitment, completion, and closure.
When you make a firm commitment to achieve a particular goal
and you put aside all excuses, it is very much like
stepping on the accelerator of your subconscious mind.
You'll be more creative, determined and focused than ever before.
Great men and women are those who make clear, unequivocal commitments
and then refuse to budge from them no matter what happens.
Completion is the second ingredient in peak performance.
There is an enormous difference between
doing 95 of a task and doing 100 s of a task.
In fact, it is very common for people to work very hard up to the 90 or 95 level,
and then to slack off and delay the final completion of the task.
This is a temptation that you must fight against.
You must continually force yourself, discipline yourself
to resist this natural tendency and push through to completion.
Every time you complete a task of any kind,
your brain releases a small quantity of endorphins.
This natural morphine gives you a sense of wellbeing and elation.
It makes you feel happy and peaceful.
It stimulates your creativity and improves your personality.
It is nature's wonder drug.
The more important the task that you complete,
the greater is the quantity of endorphin that your brain releases,
very much like a reward for success and achievement.
Over time, you can develop a positive addition to the feelings
of wellbeing that you receive from this endorphin rush.
Even when you complete a small task, you feel happier.
When you complete a large task, you feel happier still.
When you finish the various steps on the way to the completion of a large task
at every achievement you get an endorphin rush.
You feel continuously happy and exhilarated when you are
working steadily toward the completion of an important job.
Everyone wants to feel like a winner
and feeling like a winner requires that you win.
You get the feeling of the winner by completing a task 100
when you do this repeatedly, eventually you develop
the habit of completing the tasks that you begin.
When this habit of task completion locks in your life
will begin to improve in ways that you cannot today imagine.
In psychology, the reverse is always true.
The incomplete action is a major source of stress and anxiety.
In fact, much of the unhappiness that people experience is
because they have not been able to discipline themselves
to follow through and complete an important task or responsibility.
If you have ever had a major assignment that you have
been putting off, you know what I'm referring to?
The longer you wait to get started on an assignment and the closer the deadline approaches
the greatest stress you experience,
it can start to keep you up at night and affect your personality.
But when you finally launch into the task and push it through to completion,
you feel a great sense of relief and wellbeing.
It is almost as if nature rewards you for everything that you do
that is positive and life enhancing.
There is nothing that will get you paid more and promoted faster
than to develop a reputation for getting your tasks done quickly and well,
and on schedule.