instead of going with the flow and letting others  decide your life, you decide to take things in  

control and shape your life the way you want. It is the ultimate level of freedom where you  

decide what you end up becoming,  and that's why it is so important.  

You can accomplish in a single year more by  being disciplined than you can in 10 years  

without discipline. By the end of this video, you  will learn how exactly you can become disciplined.  

I will share with you how I personally built my  discipline. If you are ready, let's start with  

the first step. 
 


 Number 1 create a sense of accomplishment. 


 It's difficult,  

if not impossible, to keep yourself motivated  when you don't see your progress. Often  

that's the main reason why people give up,  although they might be close to their goals.  

The best way to visualize your progress  is to write it down. I know that you have  

heard countless times that you should create  a to-do list, but that is the best way to see  

your progress right in front of you. After having your morning routine,  

Take a piece of paper and a pen and create a list  of what you have to accomplish throughout the day  

to consider the day productive and successful.  I typically have something between 5 to 6. 


 I know that you  

can do it in your phone or a computer but think  about how much of a distraction is your phone,  

how much unnecessary things you do when you turn  on your computer. It's far more productive to  

rely on traditional tools such as a pen and  a black note. And every time you accomplish  

an important task, don't move to another until  you properly rest and tick the box that you have  

accomplished it. 
 

Keep the list always around you so that every  time you get distracted, it will remind you of the  

important things you have to take care of. 
 

And at the end of the day, if you end up ticking  all the boxes, you will see your accomplishments  

right in front of you and it will give you the  motivation to keep moving, to accomplish more  

tomorrow, to have another productive day. 
2. Don't push too hard. 

One of the places I spend a lot of time is the  gym because I just love lifting weights and always  

being in shape. My friends often ask me to help  them out to get in shape, and I see this problem  

all the time. They come to the gym and go all  in. As much as I tell them “don't push too hard,  

it's your first day, you shouldn't exercise for  more than half an hour and should take minimum  

weight” - they don't listen. 
 

He is motivated, and he wants to take  the maximum weight he possibly can. What  

ends up happening is that the next day,  every muscle in his body is in pain. He  

gets exhausted and never visits the gym again. It happens all the time with everything. I get it,  

you watched a motivational video, you are  inspired, but that's not sustainable. If you  

push too hard, you will get exhausted and give  up. So start with something extremely small,  

one habit at a time. It doesn't matter  if it takes you an entire year to build  

self-discipline, that's much better than  going all in and giving up the next day. 


3. Number 3, Long term benefits  should outweigh short term pleasures. 


 This is the golden point of this video.  

If I would offer you a thousand dollars today or  1010 dollars next month. What would you chose?most  

people will choose a thousand dollars today,  because waiting an entire month for extra 10  

dollars doesn't worth?   

But what if it was a thousand dollars today  or 2000 dollars next month. Most people would  

rather wait for another couple of weeks and get an  extra 2000 dollars. The time frame didn't change,  

but the reward is substantial more. The only  reason you are willing to control your temptations  

from getting that thousand dollars now is because  you will get twice that amount if you just wait a  

little longer. 
 

And that's how your brain always  thinks. It always compares  

long term benefits with short-term pleasures.  The only way to discipline yourself is to make  

it clear to your brain that long term benefits  are significantly higher than short term gains. 

So before you push yourself to wake up early,  work more hours, or start going to the gym,  

ask yourself, why do you want to  do that? What is the final goal? 


 Let's say you want to be financially  

independent. And the path to it might be to save  more, live frugally and hustle for 4 or 5 years.  

Next time before wasting your money on unnecessary  thing, your brain is going to compare weather it  

worth to spend a few hundred dollars on a pair  of sneakers that you don't need and delay your  

goal of attaining financial independence or not. And if financial independence is more important  

for you, then you are going  to make the right decision. 


4. Self-Discipline is much easier than you think. 
 

At first glance, self-discipline seems  hard. It takes an unbelievable amount of  

willpower and commitment. In some ways, that's  true. However, that's just part of the story  

because the other part is that discipline  means you are limiting your daily choices. 

One of the things that consume a lot of your  energy is the number of choices you have to make  

on a daily basis, and discipline simply  tells you that, you no longer have to decide;  

you have already made a choice to commit  to doing this and that every single day. 


 You don't have to decide what you gotta  

do first thing int he morning because you have to  go for a jog, Friday evening? Should you hang out  

with friends? Watch Netflix at home or play video  games? None! Because you have to hit the gym. 


 Discipline means having  

a strict daily routine. It's only difficult in the  beginning; once you incorporate it into your life,  

life just gets easier. You will do  what you are supposed to do by default.  

Overall, you will be more satisfied with your  life since you will be accomplishing your goals.  


 5. Find out what's holding you back.  


 Discipline basically means getting rid  

of bad habits and replacing them with good habits  that will eventually lead to great outcomes down  

the read. But before you start, you have to figure  out all of your bad habits that you want to stop. 

Be it smoking, wasting time, buying unnecessary  things, eating unhealthy, doesn't matter. Create  

a list, write them down. You are not going  to get rid of them in one or one month.  

It might take you a year or more but having  them written in front of you makes it much  

easier. Create another column beside it and write  what habits are you going to replace them with. 

Binge-watching on Netflix with working  out. Unhealthy burgers with salads,  

snacks with fruits. write them on a big board  and stick that board in your room or office,  

make sure it's always visible to you. 


6. Deadlines  
 

Have you ever heard the saying that "a goal is a  dream with a deadline"? Whatever you want to do  

or accomplish, if it doesn't have a deadline, it's  just wishful thinking. And the deadline should be  

reasonable and specific. Even if you are starting  with small incremental steps, it's important that  

you set a deadline for it. Even if you end up  missing it, set another deadline. Of course,  

the point isn't to set a deadline in order  to miss them. But without a clear time frame,  

you will end up procrastinating.  
 


 And lastly,  

Failure is part of the process. 
 

Don't expect yourself to be hyperproductive  every single day. Just because you couldn't do  

it today doesn't mean you shouldn't try again. Cheat days are part of the process. As someone  

who works out regularly and tries to eat  healthy all the time. I have cheat days too,  

sometimes I would have fast food, I know that's  wrong, but I don't hold my self to it. The next  

day I would try harder to stick to my diet. If you couldn't wake up early enough, it's fine.  

Try again, tomorrow. The most important thing is  - never give up. And you will certainly make it! 

Here you go, this is your secret recipe for  building self-discipline. I know that they  

work because I used them to discipline myself. It  was not easy, but eventually, I made, and since  

them my life has only changed for the better,  and I am confident that yours will be as well. 

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