Speaker 1: I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment for
Speaker 1: this week, where we are talking about mastering the art
Speaker 1: of discipline. I think discipline gets a bad rap, and
Speaker 1: you know what a weird thing to say, But what
Speaker 1: I mean by that, I think we have such a
Speaker 1: negative connotation towards towards discipline because we feel like if
Speaker 1: there's discipline involved, I must be missing out on something,
Speaker 1: I must be giving up something, I must be sacrificing
Speaker 1: in some way. The reality is the upside to discipline
Speaker 1: far outweighs the bad side. I mean, it's almost an
Speaker 1: extension of anything worthwhile doing in this world. Anything it's
Speaker 1: going to give you a sense of gratification, There's going
Speaker 1: to be a level of hard work or sacrifice required,
Speaker 1: and it's very rare that you have one without the other.
Speaker 1: In fact, I can't even think of an example where
Speaker 1: you do all of the best things that happen in
Speaker 1: your life, whether it's becoming a parent or getting a degree,
Speaker 1: or building a successful business or whatever, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: There's going to be some blood, sweat, and tears and
Speaker 1: sacrifice involved to do that. But you never get to
Speaker 1: the end of it and go, oh, none of it
Speaker 1: was worth it. It's very rare that you ever think to
Speaker 1: yourself that wasn't worth it. In fact, I can't even
Speaker 1: think of an example where I have made such sacrifices
Speaker 1: and ever regretted them. So it's the same with discipline.
Speaker 1: I mean, discipline is just a key component of building
Speaker 1: out these worthwhile experiences or achievements in our life. I'm
Speaker 1: in the middle of an eight week challenge at the
Speaker 1: moment that I'm doing with all of my twenty eight ers,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you just have to tell the hard truth,
Speaker 1: and that is there's going to need to be a
Speaker 1: certain amount of willpower and discipline that you are going
Speaker 1: to need to exude throughout these eight weeks, you know,
Speaker 1: sugar cravings and not snacking after dinner and maybe getting
Speaker 1: up a little bit earlier when the sun's not up yet,
Speaker 1: and doing your workout. I promise you it will all
Speaker 1: be worth it. As I said before, the upside is
Speaker 1: always better than the downside. So let's flip the script.
Speaker 1: Let's stop thinking about discipline as a bad thing. Let's
Speaker 1: think about discipline as something we're super proud of. And
Speaker 1: something that I always tell people is you can train
Speaker 1: yourself to be disciplined. It's like a muscle. You don't
Speaker 1: start off curling the forty kilo dumbbells. You start off
Speaker 1: curling the two kilo dumbbells, and then, when you're strong
Speaker 1: enough to curl them, the three kilo dumbers and the
Speaker 1: four killer and so on. It's the same with discipline.
Speaker 1: Don't say to yourself, if you love it drink, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have a year off drinking. Say to yourself, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have two weeks off drinking. Test yourself baby steps,
Speaker 1: Build up your willpower, build up your discipline, Prove to
Speaker 1: yourself mentally more than anything, how good it makes you feel,
Speaker 1: and that you can do it. And then you build
Speaker 1: it up in layers, one layer at a time, until
Speaker 1: I'm really happy with what I've achieved, rather than trying
Speaker 1: to build the whole thing in one big mess and
Speaker 1: it not actually turning out the way I thought it
Speaker 1: was going to turn out. My little is the task
Speaker 1: for you all. What is something that you do that
Speaker 1: you know holds you back, that you have said to yourself,
Speaker 1: probably on more than one occasion, I wish I had
Speaker 1: the discipline not to do that, because that's a real
Speaker 1: throw away comment like someone else controls your discipline level,
Speaker 1: they don't. The buck stops with you. You need to
Speaker 1: own that. You need to take control of your own life.
Speaker 1: You need to be responsible for what you do and
Speaker 1: don't do. So I want you to think, have a good, deep,
Speaker 1: hard think over the next day and find something that
Speaker 1: you have said that probably on more occasion. Oh, I
Speaker 1: wish I had the discipline to not drink every weekend.
Speaker 1: I wish I had the discipline to go to the
Speaker 1: gym for more than two days in a row. I
Speaker 1: wish I had the discipline to drink three letters of
Speaker 1: water a day. You get my point. There's often these
Speaker 1: things that we just tell ourselves perpetually, like there's nothing
Speaker 1: we can do about it, and there's absolutely everything we
Speaker 1: can do about it. So my listener to us this week,
Speaker 1: identify the thing that you've always said you wish I
Speaker 1: had the discipline to do it, and do it just
Speaker 1: for seven days. See how it makes you feel, and
Speaker 1: I promise you to be a game judger