You want freedom, I want freedom, we all want freedom.
Maybe it's the freedom to wake up every day and do what you want, when you want without having to worry about money
or maybe it's the freedom to wake up every day and know your health is in good order
Whatever it is, everything we truly want in life comes down to having freedom.
But, like anything that's valuable in life, freedom comes at a price and it is paid with discipline.
If you want financial freedom, you have to be disciplined with money - how you get it, how you spend it, and what you do with it when you have it.
If you want freedom of health, you have to be disciplined with diet and exercise - how you workout, what you eat, how much you eat.
Discipline is the price you pay for Freedom and it must be paid daily.
2. Consistent work > Hard work
Want to know why most people never succeed?
Because they try to hustle and grind, work as hard as possible, sleep later and wake up earlier.
They do this for about 2 weeks before they quit out of boredom and frustration.
"eh I can't be bothered, it takes too long."
Discipline teaches you that IT TAKES AS LONG AS IT TAKES.
When you are disciplined, you build the consistency muscle and success will just happen to you "by luck."
Consistency and patience are the only two traits you need to succeed.
Discipline will help you develop these two traits.
3. You are a programmable computer. Discipline allows you to program yourself for success.
Whether you like it or not, you are a computer that's been pre-programmed to fulfill a goal.
Just as a doctor has programed himself to be studious enough to get through 7 years of medical school in order to reach his position,
you too can program yourself to make more money, become a successful painter, lose 38 pounds etc
All you need is a vision, discipline and patience.
4. Discipline prepares you for Success
"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation." - Zig Ziglar
When Mr. Ziglar said preparation, he was referring to discipline in sales, but nevertheless discipline.
People like to say success is mostly luck because they want an excuse to not do the necessary work.
Successful people understand that luck without discipline is worthless.
Over 90% of lottery winners go broke because they got lucky without financial discipline.
On the other hand, if you are disciplined, you will sometimes "get lucky" when the right opportunity appears and you use your discipline to ride that opportunity to success
This is exactly how Ray Kroc, a struggling salesman managed to turn a local hamburger joint into McDonalds
5. You can apply it to any are of your life that needs Improving
Discipline is the most important skill to success because you can use it to become successful at anything.
This is the power of discipline.
If success to you in health means having no belly fat, discipline will get you there.
If success to you means working from home and spending every day with your family, discipline will make that happen.
If success to you means being rich, discipline will make that happen.
6. Bonus: So why is Discipline undervalued?
Because it cannot be bought with any amount of money.
This is why people will spend $497 on a course about how to make money doing X because they are looking to buy their way to success.
People roll their eyes at Discipline because you cannot buy it with what's in your wallet.
It's totally FREE in monetary terms.
You can only buy it with sweat and patience.
People value their iPhone because it cost them $1000 but you can't put a price tag on Discipline.
Just because you can't put a price on it, doesn't mean it doesn't have any value.
We don't put a price tag on our family because they are invaluable.
Treat Discipline with the same level of importance and Success will be yours.
After experimenting with multiple tactics, reading several books, consulting with numerous gurus and testing every single app you can imagine
I finally overcame it.
It came down to 5 things:
Just to be clear
I am not a productivity or performance coach
I'm a writer who's struggled with procrastination my whole life
This 5 step process was discovered out of sheer necessity:
To crush procrastination:
1) Optimise your physical health 2) Align your task with your purpose 3) Use a timer 4) Give yourself permission to play 5) Impose a strict deadline and obey it