Ever wondered why some people seem to be so effortlessly disciplined, whilst others fail to make any real progress
See, I used to be so undisciplined and lazy, and it made me feel so weak
Spending hours a night in my crusty little chair, wasting my life away gaming
Everything that I ever needed doing got put off until the last minute. And then when I first got into self-improvement, nothing really changed
I continued to indulge in whatever cheap dopamine I could get my hands on
Now I'm guessing if you clicked on this video, you're probably a lazy b***h, just like I was
Or you're struggling to make any real progress and take action. So in this video, I'm going to teach you exactly how I got out of the opposition
stopped procrastinating, and built super high levels of discipline. Just like in a video game, I want you to view discipline as a skill that can be levelled up
Let's compare trying to build discipline to defeating the Ender Dragon in Minecraft
So get to the point where you finally kill the ultimate boss, you complete the game and kill the Ender Dragon
It takes lots of small actions before that, slowly progressing, building up towards the final big event
You don't just spawn in and within like 30 seconds you've killed it and the game's finished
You know, there would be no point in it whatsoever. It takes time and progression
And this is similar to discipline, you can't just build ultra-discipline in one step
And if you've ever been told that, it's a lie. It's nowhere near as easy as that
What it takes is you going away, working on a skill and a goal every single day
and then maybe in 6 or 12 months you can call yourself disciplined. This is the reality of it, it's not a quick fix
It takes consistent action every day. You start off at level 1 and then you level up and level up and keep levelling up over time
So how do we level this skill up? How do we go from leather to iron to diamond to netherite
I think I'm remembering that correctly. How do you go all the way up and progress to becoming super disciplined
Well, let me share with you the first step to doing this. This involves removing everything else that's unnecessary and focusing down on one key element
If you're lazy and undisciplined, let's be honest, you aren't just going to go from playing 8 hours of video games to playing none, just like that
It takes lots of small steps. So the first thing that I want you to do right now is to choose your one key discipline element
This is the one thing that you're going to spend the next week working on and becoming ultra-productive in
Just one thing and ignoring everything else. This could be cold showers, meditation, running, weightlifting, anything, literally anything
Just one thing that you're going to become super consistent and disciplined in that
This makes it easy to become disciplined in one area. And then once that's become part of your identity and you're consistently doing it and you've got it at a good, consistent level
then you can move on to the next skill, perfect that, then the next skill, perfect that
Instead of just trying to ram down cold showers, meditation, walking, journaling, going to the gym, running, working on a business, studying
all these different things at once, trying to be disciplined in that, that's going to lead to failure
That's going to lead to you getting burnt out. If you just do one step at a time, slowly, progressively building on each one, then you'll build long-lasting and consistent discipline
In Minecraft, you build your first house and then you spend a little bit of time there, you gather resources
and then you go to your next base and then you spend a little bit of time there and build on that
and then you go to a bigger base and you keep progressing it, but you have these little down periods where you just build on what you've got
I cannot lose if I do not quit. The next step to building discipline is something I call damage limitation
Pushing through the moments when you're demotivated, you really don't feel like it and you feel like quitting
that's when you make real progress. Not when you feel like it, not when you're motivated to do something and you have the energy to do work
That's not when you make real progress, that's easy to do. It's when you really, really do not feel like doing it
So what is damage limitation? Well, it's basically like an agreement that you make with yourself
where, like on your worst days where you know you're not going to get anything done, you go
okay, I know the conditions are set up for me to procrastinate, I know I'm not going to have a great day
so what can I do to limit the damage as much as possible
What can I do to make it not as bad as it could be? Still bad, but nowhere near as bad as it could be
So then you try your hardest to do the hard tasks, even if it's in a super small amount
On the days where I really do not feel like getting into the cold shower, I get into it for like half the time
On the days where I don't feel like scripting a YouTube video, well, I script like the intro and leave the rest of it for another day
See, most people give up when their conditions aren't perfect. And on these days, you should fight your absolute hardest to stay somewhat disciplined
even if it's not a good amount, just a little bit disciplined
And this is so good because it builds consistency and momentum. And then on the days where you really do feel like it, you've got a bit of motivation
it's so much easier, you can do even more than you usually would, because you slowly build on that momentum
It's like hair, but then on the days where you don't feel like it, instead of going all the way down to hair, it only goes down to hair a little bit
Building your identity and self-image is something that I've spoken about so much on this channel
And it's basically the idea that the more disciplined actions you do, the more you associate yourself with a disciplined person
the more you become disciplined, and it's like a spiral getting better and better. But I want to tell you something that I haven't really spoken about before
That's the disciplined stack. This is basically where you have a small period in your day
where you try and stack as many disciplined habits onto each other as possible
And this is something that I find particularly effective to use in the morning, but it could be used any time throughout the day
So for me in the morning, I wake up, I cold shower, I meditate, I do affirmations
and I do a deep work block for 90 minutes. That's a stack of five hard tasks that I don't really feel like doing
But because I've got a lot of energy in the morning, I try and get all these things done, all at once, and I don't go on my phone
And if something distorts this discipline stack, then I usually don't have as productive of a day as I usually do
I don't know why it is, but it's almost like if I do it in the morning, it sets my day off really well
and then I can continue building on the disciplined habits I did earlier on. And using this energy that you have in the morning is so much better to build momentum
do disciplined habits, instead of scrolling on your phone for two hours and wasting
wasting away, you know, wasting all the energy that you give it. Sometimes I'll also use this at night
I will read, journal, meditate, plan my next day, and then sleep
in like a stack like that. So everything gets done in these short little bursts of discipline
And this helps you build the identity of a disciplined person. Do more disciplined actions, become more disciplined
and like I said before, spiral, spiral, get better at being disciplined, until you're at the position that I'm in, where discipline is just effortless
If you want to know how you can break your bad habits, check out the first link in the description