- Discipline is bullshit, right?
Because most people don't have self-discipline
including myself, right?
There are days where I don't feel like working out.
There are days where I feel like
I don't feel like working, right?
Not every single day you feel like
you wanna work all the time.
We human beings, we're not machines, right?
So self-discipline, that's not, to me
at least, that's not my key to success.
I don't believe in self-discipline
because most people lack self-discipline.
Here is what I believe in.
I believe in environment,
I believe in expectation,
and I believe in integration.
First one, environment.
I always say that your willpower is never
as powerful as your environment.
A lot of times, maybe you wanna change,
you want to make a new decision,
you want to take a leap of faith,
you wanna do something new
but your environment is not supportive of that.
The people around you,
your family and friends,
they are not supportive of your new goal,
your new vision that you have for yourself.
Or maybe in terms of your environment,
where you live in, that is not supportive
of where you wanna go.
So instead of trying to fight with that,
I always say change environment.
Change your environment.
It's more powerful because your environment
is more powerful than your willpower, your discipline.
So what can you do to structure and create that
environment so that it's easier for you to accomplish
whatever it is that you want to accomplish.
Maybe it's more success.
Maybe it's a health goal, right?
Maybe it's a fitness goal,
whatever it might be.
That doesn't mean that you gotta have a treadmill
at home and things like that.
For me, I don't go to the gym because
I don't time to go to the gym, right?
I've got a lot of things going on.
So if I can have a little treadmill at home.
If I have, even as simple as just a floor, right?
You can do a lot of push-ups, sit-up
like different types of exercise
that can fit in within my business schedule.
That's it.
That simple.
Versus, okay if I have to go to the gym,
I gotta try 30 minutes, I gotta to got to get change,
I gotta or do all of that.
Well that require a lot of self-discipline, right?
That requires a lot of that.
Maybe I don't have that.
Versus here, you know what,
I can walk 10, 20 minutes, 30 minutes,
I get my exercise in, I'm built.
So it is in my environment, so I'm not relying on
self-discipline, I'm relying on the environment
to help me succeed.
Number two, expectations.
Most of us live up to other people's expectations.
We don't wanna disappoint other people.
So let's use that.
Don't just relying on your self-discipline.
Let's say you have a goal, instead of just
keeping that to yourself and say, I'm gonna work on there,
I'm gonna work on there and when I get there,
then I'm gonna tell other people about it,
no, do the opposite.
Do what I do.
Tell the whole world about it.
Declare it to the whole world,
this is who I am,
this is what I'm gonna do,
this is who I want to be,
these are my goals and you tell the whole
freaking world about it.
The world will hold you accountable.
Just like my YouTube channel.
I declared in the beginning, I'm gonna hit
1000 subscribers, we did that.
I declared the world we're gonna hit
a million subscribers at the end of 2018,
we did that.
Now, we declared the world we're gonna hit
10 million subs, guess what?
We're gonna do that.
I don't hide to myself and say,
oh I'm just keep it to myself,
this is my goal.
No, I'm gonna tell the world.
We're gonna do it, you and I,
we're gonna do it together.
The same thing.
Except nothing to do with self-discipline
because now I declare to the world
that we're gonna do that.
I need to keep up with my daily upload on YouTube.
There are days I do not wanna make a freaking video,
believe me, right?
If I rely on self-discipline,
you will get no video, you will not be watching this video.
I know if I wanna hit 10 million subs,
I need to be consistent.
In terms of creating good contents for you.
It's very very simple.
There's no thought, there's no discipline needed.
It's what I must do.
It's what is required to do.
Not self-discipline.
Number three, integration.
So instead of just relying on self-discipline,
why not just integrate that in your life, right?
So for example, if there's something you want to accomplish,
just integrate that into your life.
One of the things that I teach all my students
who are learning closing from me,
very simple, I teach them
a role-play a day keeps proverty away, right?
Every single day you spend at least,
invest at least one hour role-play
and holding a skill.
It's as that simple.
It's that integration.
It's not, today I don't feel like I'm gonna role-play
or maybe I'll do it tomorrow
and then you procrastinate
and you don't do it full week
and then guilt kicks on,
no I shouldn't have don't that
but I didn't do it,
now if I do it, it's kind of too late,
I'll look stupid in front of other people.
It's all these BS having in your mind
versus hey, you know what, I'm gonna it an hour a day.
An hour a day role-play, period.
That's it.
There is no thinking.
I don't want you to think about it.
I don't want you to hesitate.
I don't even want you to, just integrate into your life.
Every single day, I'm gonna do an hour of role-play, period.
If you want to improve your closing skill.
You see, it takes all of decisions making
out of your thought, all of these BS in your mind
take that away and just do that.
So again, environment, expectation, integration.
Those are the three things that made me successful,
not self-discipline.
Now if you do have self-discipline,
you're one of those rare people that actually have
a lot of self-discipline.
Good for you.
Combine that with these three things
and see how much more successful you can become.