Rob Lipsett argues self-awareness beats rigid discipline. When you choose to work out, eat, and wake up because it makes you feel alive rather than because you have to, you're celebrating life instead of forcing it. Awareness should guide your actions, not obligation.
I don't want to live my life with discipline to force myself every day to train. That's not life. Awareness. I choose to move my ass to work out because it makes me feel good. I choose to eat this way because it makes me feel— I choose to wake up at this time and live this way because it makes me feel alive. Which would you rather? Or force myself, alarm, get up, discipline, discipline. I have a chapter in my book called Awareness Over Discipline. There's nothing wrong with discipline per se, right? Life is about living every single day. And that's why, again, the world wants you to celebrate Halloween, celebrate Christmas, celebrate New Year's. Every day should feel like a— I guarantee you wake up here every day, you feel like you're celebrating a bit.