Elijah Bryant defines discipline as doing boring tasks over and over, no matter what. He builds low-friction routines like laying out gym clothes the night before so he doesn't have to decide in the morning. Real discipline isn't about forcing yourself, it's about making the work so easy it happens automatically.
All right, so someone recently just asked me, what does it mean to be disciplined? To me, discipline is the ability to repeat mundane tasks over and over no matter the circumstances. Google says discipline is the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience. In order to be disciplined, you have to be comfortable with doing the mundane tasks even when adversity hits. You have to limit friction in terms of your routines and system to be disciplined. You have to live in reality in terms of discipline. So what does that look like for me? Am I able to do my morning routine even though I have 2 kids? That's adversity. I have to be disciplined. If I'm trying to go to the gym in the morning, lay my clothes out. Why? Because then that's creating less friction in order for me to say, no, I don't want to go. Well, my clothes are already out, so I'm
