How to Develop Discipline

Hello my friends. I'm Brendon Burchard, host of the Brendon show and founder of growthday.com and I'm honored to be your high performance coach today. I believe that every day we can be inspired. We can live with intention and purpose. We can bring the joy and honor the struggles of each day to push ourselves to grow, to serve, to be a role model, to lead extraordinary lives. I believe that every day is a great day to grow. That's why I started my company, growthday.com it's an online personal growth platform where you can get me and the world's best personal development teachers live coaching you every week, sharing our wisdom, keeping you motivated and accountable, encouraging you to find the aliveness and the connection and meaning of life that we're all after. If you're not a member yet, please go sign up@growthday.com and join our huge worldwide community of achievers. For less than a dollar a day, you get the world's best teachers live every week. And look, you've probably known for a long time that you needed some expert guidance and inspired community and life changing tools. So please, your breakthrough awaits you@growthday.com now let's get to today's episode. My friends, please listen closely. Maybe you take some notes so you remember these insights of personal growth and share this episode with three of your friends because we all have to share more positive messages in the world today. So share this with three friends just like you who are committed to their personal growth. And also be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram. Rendon Burchard, join our million plus community there on Instagram so I can say hi, thanks again for listening. Now let's begin.

Discipline. I'm going to share four ideas with you today. How do I stay so disciplined? And I'm not saying that for me because I'm like, I'm so disciplined and perfect. I get asked this by all of my clients. They're like, gosh, I need more discipline in my life. I'm like, okay, well let's talk through what that means and how you achieve it. If you want to show up for something, be consistent, be committed to something. How do you develop that discipline for something? I think there's four simple things. Number one, you must know your outcome. How can you possibly focused on disciplined if you don't know the outcome you're after? Most people don't lack focus or discipline. They lack clarity. That would give them the focus and the discipline. That's why the first high performance habits is seek clarity. We learned it from our research. Right. Well, an outcome. What am I after here? What's the goal? What's the tangible or intangible thing that I know when I get there, when I see that, feel that, experience that, achieve that? That's what I'm after here. Some kind of outcome. You won't stay disciplined unless you can see, feel, sense, acknowledge intellectually what the outcome is we're after. If you're not disciplined on a consistent basis, it's because you don't know what you want. So don't beat yourself up that you're lazy. You just need to make a decision. You need to make a decision about what it is that you want. And it doesn't have to be what you want for your whole life. Your ultimate grand purpose in the cosmos of the destiny of universe. No, no. What do you want by Friday? What do you want by the end of the month? What do you want this quarter? It's like. Start there. If you're really confused about the next five years of your life, please start with the next five weeks of your life. Come on. People don't understand. Clarity is built upon. You don't have the epiphany where everything is perfect. Very few people ever have a complete perfect picture, epiphany moment of everything coming together in life. Very few people. Very few people. Instead, usually what happens is as we move throughout our lives, we get a little more clarity. What we like and what we don't like. What draws passion and strength and contribution and what doesn't. Know your outcome. You want discipline, Know your outcomes. Number two, schedule. There is no discipline without a schedule. It's so easy. If your calendar doesn't have anything in it. The next six weeks. Don't be mad at yourself for lacking discipline. No one shows up on day go. It's discipline day and has nothing to do. Discipline requires the schedule. So fill out your schedule. Work the schedule. Fill out the schedule. Work the schedule. Fill out the schedule. Work. As you fill out your schedule and you work the schedule, you get more self trust. With that self trust comes confidence. From that confidence comes more competence. We gain more mastery and we're in the game more. We feel good about ourselves. The progress mind loves it. Eats it up. It's like, hey, we're doing it. We said we were gonna do it. We did it. We move towards our outcome today with a schedule. What an idea, right?

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Number three. You want to be more disciplined, you're going to have to delegate more. You want to be more disciplined to what really matters for you. You're going to ask for assistance, for help. You're going to have to build the team. You have to socially engage people to support your focus. It's just real. Like every writer I know who's become a major writer has assistance, meaning they get some of their spouse, their partner, their agent, a personal assistant, somebody is helping with the part of their life so they can focus on that thing. It's hard to be a disciplined writer if you're doing everything under the sun. You need time to be able to write, which means there's some things you can't handle by yourself. And you're going to have to delegate that. And if you're like, well, Brennan, I don't have anyone to delegate to, then I'm like, then stop saying yes to everything under the sun. Stop putting more and more on your plate when you can't handle what you already got. Babe, we got to go. No, no, no. If I want to be disciplined, I got to choose a few things, say no to the rest, delegate the rest, and do what is here. You don't lack discipline. You're taking on too much. And last thing is, often we don't have discipline because we've set up no reward in reflection in our life. And what I am always trying to tell my highest performers, reflection is a reward. Reflection, it is a reward like sitting down and allowing your processing mind to think of all that you have been through and how beautiful it was and how grateful you are for it. We don't lack discipline because discipline feels like always the grind. Unless we stop the grind once in a while, look back and go, wow, look how far I came. Let me celebrate this small win. Let me take myself out to dinner tonight. Let me write down a few of the things I've learned and share them. Let me give thanks or prayer or meditation towards the great things that have been happening for me. I think as soon as we realize that, it's just a whole different experience of life. I'm disciplined because to me, being disciplined doesn't sound like I'm disciplining myself. What it means is I am reflecting and rewarding myself for my progress. It's so important for you to hear me say this. If you're lacking discipline, probably is because you've never rewarded yourself. You've never reflected on how far you've come. You still think you're the same as you were in your 20s and your 30s. It's like you've come so far. And you, you're still thinking like that kid, because you let your protecting mind, your processing mind, your progressing mind run rampant without the peace practices, without that, those moments of purpose. If you want to be disciplined this month, know your outcome, put it on the schedule, delegate it, or say no. And fourth, reflect, Reward yourself. I do my again with my high performance planner. I do my weekly reflection in every major area of my life. I just look at it and I think, oh, what a blessing this is going good. Or, oh, I could do better here. And the reward is the reflection. The reward to me is learning. The reward is developing competency. Reward doesn't have to mean I have this much more in my bank account or these many more people following me. The reward is I'm growing growth days. To me, discipline requires growth days, having the growth days and rewarding and Celebrating, reflecting upon the growth days. I am disciplined because I have gotten so many hits of joy and learning by pushing myself as a growth day. But reflecting on those growth days to do all that, that was a good day. What did I learn about myself? And I'm growing every day. So discipline gets easier. Discipline gets way easier as you engage growth more. Discipline gets hard. When you went a season without even thinking about yourself, taking care of yourself, not sleeping, poisoning your body, not engaging in personal development instead of just engaging everybody's dramas. And now you're exhausted. You know when it's hard to be disciplined when you're exhausted. So you take care of yourself. You recognize it, you reward it, you delegate it or say no. All of these things I hope will help you have an awesome march.

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