Did you know that less than 1% of people are naturally
extraordinarily gifted at something?
Think genius.
Think savant.
Do you know what that means for us the other 99+ percent of people?
If we're going to do anything great in this life
it is going to require discipline.
That's the truth.
If you are going to accomplish anything extraordinary with the days on this planet
it is going to require you pushing through the discomfort
and embracing the grind and disciplining yourself.
If you want to live your best life your absolutely best life
you gotta do me a huge favor you got to watch them choices you make.
People make bad choices they wake up and make another choice
they make another bad choice now they got a habit of bad choices.
And they like, "how do I get here?!"
Choices.
"How do I get here?!"
You're trying to get to certain places but you ain't making the choices
that's gonna get you there.
You're all in your feelings.
The cause of laziness is a craving for comfort.
It's wanting comfort ultimately.
Your problem is not laziness.
It's the worship of comfort.
Which produces laziness.
It's that I don't want to do anything
that I don't want to do.
It's believing this lie that if it doesn't come completely natural
to me if it's not easy
You can lie to yourself and then you don't need discipline.
You can tell yourself everything's okay and then you don't need discipline.
You can tell yourself you can lie to yourself
and say that you're winning.
And then you don't need discipline.
But if you tell yourself the truth
if you tell yourself the truth that you know you could be better
you know you could do more if you tell yourself the truth
you won't have to find discipline.
Discipline will find
you.
The greatest version of you is not the
"I can do anything" version of you.
The greatest version of you is the disciplined version of you.
The greatest version of you is the version that has parameters.
No, I don't do that.
I don't drink that.
I don't go there with these people.
I'm focused.
I have a prize that's in front of me.
I know what I'm supposed to do and that ain't it.
I have to stay right here.
You can become godly through discipline.
Not easy.
Not just because you feel like it.
That sometimes you have to honor the grind.
If it don't scare me I don't wanna do it.
If it ain't edgy and half crazy
in.
And what I'm telling you is the battle never changes.
Every day you
have to get self-control.
in your life on a regular basis and think about it repetitiously.
Literally, the things that we obsess about become the things that we possess in our lives.
Your mind is a weapon and you got to be in to use it
and pick that weapon up and control it.
Most people are out of control with their mind.
They don't point it at something they let the world point it
and they miss fire all the time.
So today I want you to pick up that weapon that is
your mind and begin to point it
at the things you want.
Becoming successful is a situation
of developing discipline persistence
patience grit
character traits that you don't just get.
You
are not f*cking born with.
It's going to come down to you
developing the ability
to do the things that you don't feel like doing
because you know that it's the right thing to f*cking do.
So often we want to blame circumstances
for the way things are.
We want to blame genetics for the reason we're kind of fat.
We got all these problems but might I suggest
the problem is the pattern of
your response.
But you can't change the product if you don't change the pattern.
You can't change the way your career's going if you don't start changing your work ethic
and your work habits and your interrelations.
You can't change your wisdom unless you change your input.
'Cause the problem is the pattern.
Whatever's going on is your fault.
It is your
fault.
Accept that.
Own it.
And then deal with it.