Terry Crews: How Self-Discipline Actually Works!

Good morning, Believe Nation. My name is Evan Carmichael. My one word is believe, and I believe that entrepreneurs are going to solve all of the world's major problems. So to help you on your journey today, we're going to learn how to build self-discipline. Over to you, Terry Crews. I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.

I wake up every morning The thing about self-discipline is that it is necessary for everything you do in your life. You have to be self-disciplined. If discipline comes from somewhere else, it's very, very hard to remain consistent because you tend to resist. It's wild because I see trainers and they're in the gym with people and, you know, the guy or girl that they're working out hates their workout, hates it, because the discipline is coming from somewhere else. It's something that you dread every time you go in, you don't really want to do it, it's like, uh, but oh no, my trainer's here, he's about to, you know, beat me up and make me feel crazy. Well, the truth is, every trainer should work his way out of your life. Anybody who's working you out, your teachers, your trainers, your people, they have to train you to get out of your life so you can go ahead, do your own workout, do your own thing, practice self-discipline.

Successful people have self-discipline, but you have to make sure you're focusing on the right things. You can only force yourself to do something that you don't like for so long until you quit. And so I think too many people have the wrong goals. Too many people don't have the self-awareness to know what they really should be doing and have a strong enough why to keep forcing them to do it. A lot of people who become entrepreneurs start a business because they look at the top 100 hottest companies to start this year, and that's what they want to go out and do because they think they're going to make a lot of money. Where if money is your only goal, it's never going to work out. Money, yes, is important, but there has to be something more important that you're striving for. If you look at the top people in any field, they have a deep passion for the work that they're doing. And because they love it so much, it helps enforce the self-discipline. So the best way that I found to stick to a schedule, to make sure that I am doing the work that I want to do, is one, make sure that I have a goal in mind that I really feel passionate about. But then two, create habits and a morning routine and a schedule that support me achieving that goal. So whatever goal you have, make sure that the work you're doing maps to you creating that goal. One of the hardest things that I find is when I have a goal and then I wake up and my schedule's thrown off, and this is gonna happen in life, right? It's why I try to create a no-crisis business, but your schedule will at some points be thrown off. You've gotta drive somebody to work, or you've gotta go to the hospital, or some crisis happens. I find it really hard to get back on schedule. Just like if you are trying to stick to a diet and you have that first chocolate bar, chances are the rest of your day is going to get totally thrown off. And so if you wake up and you set a morning routine that sets you up for you achieving your success, you're more likely to follow through. So as an example, if you want to learn how to be fit, you want to look— you want to learn how to take care of yourself, you want to learn how to be motivated, maybe waking up and watching some Terry Crews every morning is the thing you should be doing. Because maybe your friends don't support you, maybe your family doesn't support you, but you've got Terry, you watch him, he's motivating, you want to go out and do something bigger. For me, it's why I created the Top 10 series, it's why I created a lot of the videos on my channel, because I wanted to be surrounded with ultra-successful people that I may never meet, and some people have passed on, so there's never a chance to meet them, but I feel like I'm hanging around them. And by watching their videos in the morning, not at 5 o'clock in the evening and hoping to get motivated for the rest of the night, in the morning to start my day off so that I want to go off and do something bigger. So whatever that feeling is, you have your goal, and then whatever helps you get motivated and get that feeling that you can create on a consistent basis— watching a video, talking to somebody, reading a book, listening to a podcast, whatever it is— Start your day with that so you have the right environment around you to help you maintain the discipline to go out and achieve your goals. So the question of the day today is, I'm curious, what is one thing that you're doing that really helps you stay disciplined to achieving your goals? Leave it down in the comments below, really curious to find out. I also wanna give a quick shout out to Ajit from allionconsultants.com. Thank you so much for picking up a copy of my book, Your One Word. Really, really means a lot to me, and I hope you're enjoying the read. So thank you guys again for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. Much love, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of Enespresso. So Tony, one of the critics actually that I once met said, yeah, Tony's techniques, they were great for about a year and a half, and then they wore off.

What do you say to that, Paul?

It's real simple. If you don't work out, you don't get a muscle, right? So I always tell people, there's a daily practice like priming. If you don't do that, if you get up and you just have no discipline whatsoever, you get no value of anything. Diets don't work when you don't do them. Exercise doesn't work when you don't do them. But most of the people have some experiences that they want to shift, and once you shift those things, your whole life changes. But life is constant growth. My life isn't here because I went to one seminar one time and now my life is I work out, I train my mind, I train my body, and it becomes a lifestyle. It's not just like you're depending upon somebody else. I'm not here to become somebody's guru. I'm not here to give them a gift. I'm here for them to open up their own gifts, and that's really what my work has been.

I've never met a person who was not successful that didn't have a great amount of self-discipline within their life. Self-discipline and being able to perform and being able to keep your life on schedule and being able to keep commitments and promises and meet deadlines is essential to success. None of us, none of us can afford to have a life that is controlled by someone else or a life that is basically controlled by our emotions. I learned many years ago that there are two kinds of people. There's the type of person who says, "I'm going to wait till I feel like it before I do it." And then there's a person who says, "I've got to do it so that I feel like it." One will never get anything done because they're still waiting to feel the moment to move, and the other person says, no, I need to move and then I will begin to feel the moment. Sonia, self-discipline is essential in your life and in my life if we're going to get things done. So I have a challenge for every one of you this weekend. The challenge is simple. As you go through your weekend, and sometimes it's kind of a hopefully an easier time of your week, ask yourself, am I practicing self-discipline in my life? Am I doing the things that I should do because I need to do them, or am I kind of waiting to feel the moment? Do like our friends Nike say, just do it.

When I was in high school, I must have been maybe 16 or 17 years old, And I went rock climbing in Eldorado Canyon near where I grew up in Boulder. I'd been climbing about 3 or 4 years. And I went to do a climb called T2. Now, at the time, T2 was a relatively difficult climb. And I went at it with a kind of an arrogant lack of preparation. And I hadn't prepared for being able to do certain kinds of finger cracks. I figured, I'll figure it out when I get there. And I also didn't pause— this is that thing about boldness and discipline— I didn't pause to really double-check all my systems. OK. So I'm on the 4th pitch. I'm about 400 feet above the ground. I'm going across this slanting crack system that I started to have trouble with. My forearm started to engorge with blood and lactic acid. Which means at some point, even if you're on a big hold, your hands are going to melt off. And I'm about to fall. I'm 400 feet above the ground. But it should be OK because there's protection. I'm tied into the rope. I may take a fall, but I'll get caught. For some reason, and to this day I still don't know why, my brain triggered that I should look at my knot. And I looked down at my knot. My knot had come untied. I had made the mistake of never really thinking about the best knot for certain types of situations, and I tied him with what's a bowline. Now the advantage of a bowline is it's easy to untie, right? The disadvantage of a bowline is it's easy to untie. It had come untied. As I kept moving across. And it is just hanging in my harness. I'm seconds away from falling. Only now I will die. I will die if I fall off. My forearms are melting. And the knot had come untied. And so I called down to my partner. I said, my knot came untied. What is he going to do? He can't do anything. He'll just watch me fall to my death. And there was an old fixed piton. In the rock that we put there from the first ascent, an old soft iron piton. And I looked at it and I probably had 15, 20 seconds before my hands would unwrap, if that, maybe 10. I took a runner and I clipped it into the piton. I clipped the piton into my harness, that runner into my harness, and just went, please hold. And I let go. And it held. I put in a backup. I grabbed the knot, retied it, went to the ledge. I didn't convulse. I was very calm at that moment. I got to the ledge, I went into convulsive shaking. I was sick to my stomach for days because of whatever happens chemically. What I learned from that is two things. The first is that when you're in an unforgiving world, when gravity is unforgiving, it doesn't care. It never takes a day off, ever. And if you make one mistake, it can kill you, if it's the wrong kind of mistake. And what I learned is that sense of, yeah, I want to do adventurous things. I want to climb rocks. I want to be in Yosemite. I want to do things that get my adrenaline going. But I need the discipline to always do all the right preparation, to always think about the right knots, to always be cross-checking my systems so that I can do those bold things and stay alive in an unforgiving environment. And as you and I spoke about earlier today, I think that's the rest of— I think we're all heading into an unforgiving environment where we're going to have to be both bold and disciplined. The second thing I learned, what if that python had not been there? We might not be here together. It was just by chance that that python was right there. And what you realize when you rewind the tape of your own life is that there are these crucial moments where if the luck had gone the other way, you might have gotten killed. And so what you have to do is to always be putting those extra disciplines in place, because I was lucky to live. And what I took from that is I never want to have to be lucky to live again. I want to live because of my discipline, not because of my luck.