Speaker (Tanya Hughes) presents a short monologue on self-discipline, framing it as a daily series of decisions reducible to two questions: (1) Can you force yourself to do something you should do but don't want to? and (2) Can you stop yourself from doing something you want but shouldn't? She argues that consistently making the right choice in those moments—editing your behavior to favor goal-aligned actions—lets you accomplish personal goals.
I'm talking about self discipline comes down to two questions. We make hundreds of decisions every day that come down to two questions. Here's something I know I'm supposed to do that I really don't want to do. Can you make yourself do it over here? There's something you know you're not supposed to do, but you want to do it. Can you keep yourself from it? If you can make those choices and decisions the right way, you're always going to stay on the path of being able to do the things you need to do to accomplish the goals that you have. It's how you have to edit your behavior to accomplish the goals that you have. You can't just do what you you feel like doing. You got to choose to do the things you need to do to accomplish the goals that you have. So in a nutshell, that's kind of how we try to do it.
