Discipline is Useless Without This

All discipline begins with motive. No person on earth has ever developed a habit without the motivation to do it. One of the reasons you might lack motivation or discipline is straight up fatigue and stress. We have to work on our emotional control, our social environment, and our biological energy. When we do this, we develop discipline. When we talk about skill development, of becoming more disciplined, there are five core areas that develop this skill. We're going to work through some of these concepts today, and once you get them, you'll never go back to guilting yourself or labeling yourself or falling into the idea that you have some kind of disorder or problem or challenge that is preventing you from developing the skill. Because it all starts with some simple things. Discipline starts with the skill set of motivation. Through the difficulties of life, we don't have the energy to aim ourselves. And so you don't have the energy. I don't really feel like it right now. I don't have the energy. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to sit on the couch and I'm going to scroll for an hour. I'm only going to scroll for five minutes, but it turns into an hour. And this is why learning this and learning these topics is everything. If you ever wanted to understand what you needed to develop greater discipline in your life, do me a favor. Screenshot. This right here, this is the skill set. Stack. If you're wondering what's the stack, Brendan, this is the stack. And it is specifically in this order of impact. Like, if we can work through these things, I promise you, these will give you the greatest levers. And it usually is in this order. But here's the one. If you're wondering what you have to master in your life, motivation. And I'm going to really emphasize this because so many of my peers have started disconnecting discipline and motivation. And they do that because they don't learn by psychology books, they learn by memes on the Internet. And it becomes a very good clickbait. One of the greatest clickbaits in my entire industry is saying, you don't need motivation, you just need discipline. And you're like, oh, I'm sorry, you're confused. You need motivation for discipline. In fact, you cannot have discipline without motivation. You need the motive to act. What they're saying is you don't need enthusiasm and excitement for discipline. That's what they're really saying. They're like, you don't need to feel it to do the behavior. Does that make sense? You don't need to feel energized, excited Enthusiastic like go, go, go, go. You don't need the drive and that impulse. It doesn't have to feel good. You just have to do the thing that's correct. It doesn't have to feel good. Right? Discipline. You can move forward and not feel good. None of this says you have to feel good to have discipline, but you do have to have motivation. You have to have cause for action or your body will literally not do anything. Everything you do has a cause to action. There is motive behind everything you do. It doesn't matter what you do. There's motive there. And this is why it's really important. Do not be the perpetuator of, of a dumb Internet meme that discipline is needed and motivation is not. The people who say that are saying because they literally have never studied the topic. And so it's important to understand these are absolutely necessary. There is no discipline without motivation, but there is discipline without enthusiasm. There is discipline without positivity. There is discipline without like that impulse to go, like, I gotta go, I'm excited. Excitement is not required for discipline, but motivation is. So let me recap really briefly. Discipline is the ability to control oneself to achieve goals, more specifically longer term goals. Despite the impulse to quit, or the impulses not to activate, or the immediate desire to say, do something else that I would feel like is good. Do something else. In other words, it's a way to overcome competing impulses and interests to do something that is important to me longer term, that is discipline. Discipline is a skill set that you build by learning to organize yourself, regulate yourself and reward yourself. If I don't organize myself, meaning focus my attentions and priorities towards the things I really want. If I don't regulate my immediate impulse or emotion, and if I don't reward myself once in a while to keep going, I won't have the discipline. How do you develop the skill of discipline? Because it is a skill. Well, we got to develop this stack. We got to work on our motivation, our habits. We have to work on our emotional control, our social environment and our biological energy. When we do this, we develop discipline.

Hey, my friend sun is going down behind me and I just want to thank you for watching my YouTube channel. You know, so many of my subscribers are always asking me, Brendan, how do I go to another level of my life and stay consistent in my personal development and really get progress? You know, we all want to be more motivated, more productive, more confident. We want to be better leaders. We want to be better at our craft. But how do you do that on A consistent basis. Well, that's why I built Growth Day. It's an app that you can use that builds your personal growth streak. That every day you come in and you do a series of actions and you listen to some inspirational training and life strategies that advances your life. It's very hard to stay consistent in your life. I know sometimes you watch a YouTube video, you read a book here, you listen to a podcast there, but you're not developing your habits, you're not scoring yourself. You're not finding real progress and insight that kind of wows you and opens up to, I say, the awe and the real agency that you have in life. So please go to Growth Day in the App Store. Just go to the App Store, go to Growth Day, or go to growthday.com and get growth day. I promise you, with your seven day free trial, you'll go through Growth Day. And in seven days you'll be like, totally, totally, like, feeling fired up. But also you'll find a new momentum. Because every day as you do your growth streak and you start to really discover what you're made of and we access different parts of your brain.

You're listing something inspirational, you're doing a.

Checklist or doing a journal prompt that blows your mind. You're scoring your habits and reflecting on your day in ways you've never done before. We're basically taking all of personal development and putting it into a streak that you'll get, like, totally addicted to. You'll be addicted to that progress, that growth, that joy and energy that you deserve to feel every day. Go to growthday.com or go to the App Store and just download the Growth Day app. Start your 7 day free trial and.

Let'S level you up.

Every day is a great day to grow, but you have to stay consistent to get real progress and to really change your Life. Go to growthday.com or go to the App Store and get the Growth Day app right now.

Environment. It's hard to get healthy if everybody in your house eats terrible stuff. It's hard to be motivated if everybody else around you never learned that skill set. It's hard to achieve your dreams if nobody else around you is stretching themselves for great things. So as we understand social environment, it really does impact your ability to learn these skills. And so often the reality is, because we don't have a good education in psychology or performance in our schools, most people never learn any of this. And so they don't even know how to structure their relationships and the expectations in those relationships. So that they could even have what they want. And I always tell people like, this is a simple one. Is the structure and the expectancy of the people around you set up for you to actually do the things that you want to do. If it's not, then we're going to have to talk about this conversation. Okay. Fifth area we have to explore today is biological energy. Because you and I both know that one of the reasons you might lack motivation or discipline is straight up fatigue and stress that you could do all this right? Many of you done this. If I come into your house, your pantry is so organized and it looks so good. You know, you get up in the morning, you do your gratitude journal and your gratitude walk, your morning workout to get yourself in a good place. You're inspired. You know how to reward yourself with that end of week cheat day. You know, you've got amazing things set.

Up in your life.

Like everything is set up. It's organized.

You know how to regulate.

You know how to do all of these things. And yet you also continue doing the things that super stress you out or steal from your sleep or your mental health that you can have all the cause in the world. You have the great habits. You've read all the habit books, high performance habits. You have your emotional control ability. You're like, brendan, I cannot eat the cookie. I cannot eat the cookie. I cannot eat the cookie. You have good people around you, but.

Your biology is off.

You're just exhausted or wrong that you haven't managed the storehouse, you haven't taken care of the temple, that you're so depleted energetically, mentally, emotionally, biologically, spiritually in some way that we just don't have the energy to push through the difficulties of life. We don't have the energy to aim ourselves. And so you don't have the energy. I don't really feel like it right now. I don't have the energy. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to sit on the couch and I'm going to scroll for an hour. I'm only going to scroll for five minutes, but it turns into an hour. And this is why learning this and learning these topics is everything. If you ever wanted to understand what you needed to develop greater discipline, greater in your life, do me a favor. Screenshot. This right here, this is the skill set stack. If you're wondering what's the stack, Brendon, this is the stack. And it is specifically in this order of impact. Like, if we can work through these things, I promise you these will give you the greatest levers. And it usually is in this order. But here's the one. If you're wondering what you have to master in your life. Motivation. And I'm going to really emphasize this because so many of my peers have started disconnecting discipline and motivation. And they do that because they don't learn by psychology books. They learn by means on the Internet. And it becomes a very good clickbait. One of the greatest clickbaits in my entire industry is saying, you don't need motivation, you just need discipline. And you're like, oh, I'm sorry, you're confused. Discipline. Discipline is a skill set that you build by learning to organize yourself, regulate yourself and reward yourself. If I don't organize myself, meaning focus my attentions and priorities towards the things I really want. If I don't regulate my immediate impulse or emotion, and if I don't reward myself once in a while to keep going, I won't have the discipline. How do you develop the skill of discipline? Because it is a skill. Well, we got to develop this stack. We got to work on our motivation, our habits. We have to work on our emotional control, our social environment, and our biological energy. When we do this, we develop discipline.

Hey, my friend, sun is going down behind me and I just want to thank you for watching my YouTube channel. You know, so many of my subscribers are always asking me, brendan, how do I go to another level of my life and stay consistent, my personal development and really get progress? You know, we all want to be more motivated, more productive, more confident. We want to be better leaders. We want to be better at our craft. But how do you do that on a consistent basis? Well, that's why I built Growth Day. It's an app that you can use that builds your personal growth streak, that every day you come in and you do a series of actions and you listen to some inspirational training and life strategies that advances your life. It's very hard to stay consistent in your life. I know sometimes you watch a YouTube video, you read a book here, you listen to a podcast there, but you're not developing your habits, you're not scoring yourself. You're not finding real progress and insight that kind of wows you and opens up to, I say, the awe and the real agency that you have in life. So please go to Growth Day in the App Store. Just go to the App Store, go to Growth Day, or go to growthday.com and get growth day. I promise you, with your seven day free trial, you'll go through growth day and in seven days, you'll be like, totally, totally, like, feeling fired up.

But also you'll find a new momentum.

Because every day, as you do your growth streak, you start to really discover what you're made of. And we access different parts of your brain.

You're listing something inspirational.

You're doing a checklist or doing a journal prompt that blows your mind. You're scoring your habits and reflecting on your day in ways you've never done before. We're basically taking all the personal development and putting it into a streak that you'll get, like, totally addicted to. You'll be addicted to that progress, that growth, that joy and energy that you deserve to feel every day. Go to growthday.com or go to the App Store and just download the Growth Day app. Start, start your seven day free trial.

And let's level you up.

Every day is a great day to grow, but you have to stay consistent to get real progress and to really change your Life. Go to growthday.com or go to the App Store and get the Growth Day app right now.