A short motivational YouTube talk by Phil Powis (uploaded Feb 14, 2024) arguing that discipline, not motivation, sustains creative projects and helps creators overcome plateaus. The speaker cites John Maxwell ('motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing'), warns that relying on motivation causes people to stop or repeatedly change direction, and urges listeners to 'build the discipline muscle' by continuing practices (e.g., publishing newsletters) even when results or audience response are low. The talk references Sacred Business Flow and positions discipline as one of its 'nine fundamental frequencies.'
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Are you feeling excited and motivated about creating something new? That's really nice. We see people all the time sharing great new ideas and all their excitement about manifesting them. However, it's very unfortunately that often people give up their dreams or they keep changing directions because they can't sustain that level of motivation and excitement they had at the beginning. So this is actually what's keeping them in the same cycle of creation. They can't follow through the excitement and the motivation towards discipline. So I love the quote by John Maxwell that says motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. And if you feel that you have reached a plateau, maybe that's exactly what it is. If you keep creating in the same way and needing motivation to keep you going, you will always reach, you can be successful. But you're going to be like, up to here. What takes you above your plateau is actually discipline. So I just want to remind you, like, if you feel like giving up or if you had an amazing idea for a while and you're like, you're trying and it's just not like coming together, it might not be that the idea is not a good thing. It's just because you're seeking for motivation. So you're just using the wrong energy to expand or to pass the creation and actually sustain that idea so you can reach something above the levels that you're used to. So if you feel like giving up, don't give up. If you feel like, oh, nobody's watching this, I'm gonna skip my newsletter today, or I'm not gonna do my message, or I'm not gonna, there's nobody watching it, don't do that. You are doing for yourself. You're building up the discipline muscle. And that muscle and this energy is what's going to take you to the next level. That's why discipline is one of the nine fundamental frequencies. And at Sacred Business Flow, we take that very seriously because we know that motivation will not take you to the next level. We really need discipline.
