The official definition of self-discipline
is the ability to control one's feelings
and overcome one's weaknesses.
Awesome!
It's the ability to pursue what one thinks is right.
Despite temptations to abandon it.
See the problem with you.
Is you rarely exercise your self-discipline muscle.
You just go to the flow.
No backbone whatsoever.
And that's perfectly fine
until you start whining and complaining about your lack of success.
Whining and complaining about your lack of progress,
Whining and complaining
that you're not gaining any momentum
and you can't seem to get ahead in life.
See self-discipline begins
with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do.
So don't talk to me about you failures.
Don't talk to me about your setbacks.
Don't talk to me about the lack of success, you're achieving
because I'm that one.
I'm the one that will tell you the exact reason why you are failing.
You're failing because on a daily basis,
you fail to exercise your self-discipline muscle.
On a daily basis, you fail to sacrifice.
you're failing because, on a daily basis, you fail to come up with a plan.
On a daily basis, you fail to get uncomfortable.
You fail to push past your limits
and you fail to believe in yourself.
So this is the moment that you stop renting your problem.
This is the moment you stop renting your issue.
This is the moment that you stopped renting your lack of focus.
This is the moment that you stopped renting your lack of self-discipline.
It's time for you to take ownership.
It's time for you to take own the fact that you're the reason
it's time for you to own the fact that you're the one
that's exercising your lazy muscle.
It's time for you to own the fact that you're
the one that's exercising your do nothing muscle.
You're the one that's exercising your negative mindset muscle.
You're the one that's exercising your no willpower muscle.
But that's okay.
Because so many others, including myself, were once
in the exact same place that you're right now.
And then we sat down
and had a heart to heart conversation with ourselves.
We self-assessed and took complete ownership
for all of the lack of success that we were achieving.
Then we made a decision to flip the switch
and made the necessary changes.
To go into the kitchen of our lives
and cook up a dish of massive success.
And we quickly realized that a key ingredient is self-discipline.
See self-discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually unstopped.
Self-discipline is the center of the universe for success.
Self-discipline is doing within
while you're doing without.
And what that means is when your friends are
begging you to hang out and you say no
because you're way too busy,
grinding hard to put yourself in a position to win in your game of life.
I love this quote from late great Zig Ziglar.
He says,
"When you do the things you ought to do,
when you ought to do them,
the day will come when you can do the things that
you want to do when you want to do them.
See without self-discipline, success is not the possible, period.
So I need you to ask yourself,
"Do you have the strength to say no when so many others say yes?"
I need you to ask yourself,
" Do you have the strength to keep working
when so many of your friends are playing?"
I need you to ask yourself,
" Do you have the strength to keep going
when so many others are stopping?"
I need you to ask yourself,
" Do you have the strength to keep fighting
when so many others are throwing in the towel?
Because if you can answer yes to all of those questions,
you are will on your way to joining the 1% club,
you're well on your way to live in the life of your dreams.
So now is the time for you to hit the gym of your life
and start exercising your self-discipline muscle.
No more talk, no more excuses
from this moment forward.
It's all about massive execution.
Will there be days that you don't feel like it?
Yes.
Will there be days that you want to stop?
Yes.
Will there be days that you want to give up?
Yes.
Will there be days that you want to quit?
Yes.
Listen to me, quitting is never an option.
So get up and do it anyway
because when you push yourself to do and you get started,
you will be amazed at how all of sudden
you have the energy you need to get it done.
Sometimes you have to trick yourself.
And say, I'm just going to spend five minutes working on this project.
You get started and all of a sudden,
an hour later, you're not only completed,
but you also feel an amazing sense of pride and accomplishment.
I want you to understand this.
You will not always be motivated to do something.
So you have to force yourself to be disciplined
because those that are undisciplined
allow moods, appetites, passions,
and temptation to dominate their lives.
But that is no longer who you are
because you are now officially part of the does it club.
You are now officially part of the winner club.
You are now officially part of the champion club.
You're now officially part of the "those with self-discipline club" ,
because you now understand that with self-discipline,
all things are possible.
You now understand the great leaders
always have self-disciplined.
You now understand that
great entrepreneurs always have self-disciplined.
You now understand that
great champions always have self-discipline.
You'll now understand that great athletes
always have self-discipline because they understand
that self-discipline is about controlling your desire
and impulses while staying focused on
what needs to get done to achieve your goal.
The late great Kobe Bryant said
I don't understand lazy people.
We don't speak the same language.
I don't understand you.
And I don't want to understand you.
See Kobe understood that at the center of bringing any dreams,
any goal or any success into fruition
is a little thing we like to call self-discipline.
How you will go from below average to average,
from average to good, from good to great,
and from great to phenomenal.
Yes, you ordinary.
You, you want to lose that wight.
You want to get a six-pack. You want to get that job promotion.
You want to graduate from college
with a bachelor's or master's or Ph.D.
You want to start that business, you want to make that team,
you want to become the best version of yourself.
You have to remember
" All success starts with self-discipline."
It starts with you.
Abraham Liconla said,
" Discipline is choosing between
what you want now and what you want most."
You only have two options,
suffer the pain of discipline
or suffer the pain of regret.
The choice is yours.