The secret to manifesting and mastering discipline
Summary
TLDRThis video offers practical advice on becoming disciplined, emphasizing the importance of accountability over motivation. The speaker explains that while motivation is temporary, discipline is built through consistent accountability. Key points include setting realistic goals, checking in with yourself regularly, and using tools like journaling to track progress. The speaker encourages viewers to stop waiting for the perfect moment and start taking action. By focusing on self-accountability, individuals can manifest discipline in their lives, leading to personal growth and success in their goals.
Takeaways
- 💡 Discipline is not a temporary feeling, unlike motivation, which is fleeting and comes in highs and lows.
- ⚡ Motivation signals what you want to do, but discipline is necessary to maintain consistency and dedication.
- 🧭 Accountability is key to developing discipline. Without accountability, it’s hard to stay disciplined toward any goal.
- 📅 External accountability, like deadlines from teachers or coaches, forces discipline, but self-accountability is essential for personal growth.
- 🎯 Many people fail to develop discipline because they rely on external forces like teachers, employers, or coaches to hold them accountable.
- 📝 Start by holding yourself accountable for small goals that you are motivated to achieve. Use this as a foundation for building discipline.
- 📖 Tools like journaling can help with accountability by tracking progress, identifying struggles, and reflecting on strengths and weaknesses.
- 🛠 Set realistic goals by using the SMART framework: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely.
- 🧠 Discipline requires regular self-reflection and adjustment. Checking in with yourself daily helps maintain progress and improve over time.
- 🌱 The journey to discipline is gradual and requires patience. It’s important to care for yourself and make adjustments as needed, rather than expecting an instant transformation.
Q & A
What is the main difference between motivation and discipline according to the script?
-Motivation is described as a temporary feeling, similar to emotions like happiness or anger, that comes and goes. Discipline, on the other hand, is a consistent practice that does not rely on fluctuating emotions.
How does accountability help in achieving discipline?
-Accountability is key to achieving discipline because it helps bridge the gap between motivation and discipline. It ensures that you follow through on your goals, even when you lack motivation.
Can you give an example from the script where accountability led to discipline?
-An example provided is in school settings: when a professor assigns a due date for homework, students are held accountable and are more likely to complete the assignment on time. Without a due date, many students would not do the work.
Why do people often struggle to hold themselves accountable?
-Many people struggle with self-accountability because they are used to external sources (teachers, employers, coaches) holding them accountable. Without these external pressures, people tend to lose discipline.
What practical step does the speaker suggest for improving self-accountability?
-The speaker suggests starting with small tasks that you have been wanting to do but haven't had the motivation for. This helps build the habit of accountability and discipline.
Why does the speaker recommend using a journal for accountability?
-The speaker recommends journaling as a tool for accountability because it helps track progress, reflect on challenges and successes, and hold yourself to a standard each day.
What is a SMART goal, and how does it help in setting realistic objectives?
-A SMART goal is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely. This framework helps create clear and realistic goals that are easier to manage and accomplish.
Why does the speaker caution against waiting for the 'perfect time' to start something?
-The speaker warns that waiting for the 'perfect time' is often an excuse to delay action. Perfection is rarely attainable, and waiting too long can prevent progress. Instead, it's important to start and improve along the way.
What benefit does the speaker highlight about checking in with yourself regularly?
-Regular self-check-ins help you become more self-aware, allowing you to reflect on your strengths and weaknesses, and adjust your approach to achieve your goals more effectively.
How can practicing accountability lead to greater self-awareness?
-Practicing accountability forces you to regularly evaluate your actions, identify areas for improvement, and understand how your habits impact your progress. This process naturally increases self-awareness and personal growth.
Outlines
💪 Understanding Discipline vs. Motivation
The speaker introduces the concept of discipline, emphasizing the difference between motivation and discipline. Motivation is described as a temporary feeling, akin to emotional highs and lows, while discipline is consistent and long-lasting. The speaker explains how relying solely on motivation can lead to burnout, whereas discipline ensures steady progress. Motivation hints at what interests you, but discipline, supported by accountability, is what helps you stay committed. Accountability bridges the gap between motivation and discipline.
🔑 The Importance of Accountability
Accountability is presented as the key to achieving discipline. The speaker argues that without accountability, it's impossible to be disciplined. They use examples from school, where students complete assignments because of deadlines set by teachers, and sports, where coaches hold athletes accountable for attending practice. Without these external forces, many would not complete tasks. The speaker stresses that people are too dependent on others for accountability and that this reliance results in a lack of self-discipline. They suggest reflecting on how others have kept us disciplined and how we need to build self-accountability.
🏃♀️ Start Small to Build Self-Discipline
To foster self-discipline, the speaker encourages starting small. They recommend choosing something you've always wanted to do but lack motivation for and using it as a challenge to build accountability. Starting a fitness journey is used as an example. The speaker highlights the common mistake of waiting for the perfect moment to begin and emphasizes that there's no perfect time. Instead, they advocate for starting now, setting a date, and just doing it. The speaker advises against overthinking and encourages taking immediate action towards goals.
📝 Tools for Accountability and Journaling
The speaker shares practical advice on how to hold oneself accountable, recommending the use of tools such as journaling. They discuss their own use of multiple journals, each dedicated to a different area of life: content creation, deep thinking, self-reflection, professionalism, and personal growth. The speaker explains that documenting daily progress helps identify strengths and weaknesses, allowing for continuous improvement. They advocate for journaling as a way to track performance, hold oneself to a higher standard, and ensure personal accountability.
🎯 Setting Realistic Goals with SMART Framework
The speaker introduces SMART goals as an effective method for setting realistic and achievable objectives. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely. They explain that following this framework helps ensure that goals are grounded in reality and more likely to be accomplished. The speaker references a previous video for a deeper dive into SMART goals and promises that applying this system will significantly help in setting and reaching realistic goals.
🧘♀️ Self-Reflection and Accountability Check-ins
The speaker emphasizes the importance of regularly checking in with yourself during the journey toward accountability and discipline. They advocate for self-reflection to identify what worked, what didn’t, and how to improve for the next day. This process of continual self-awareness leads to greater discipline and self-understanding. The speaker reminds viewers that discipline is a gradual process, not something that happens overnight. By checking in with oneself, learning from each experience, and journaling regularly, you can become more disciplined over time.
🧠 Final Thoughts on Discipline and Accountability
In the conclusion, the speaker reiterates the importance of holding yourself accountable as the foundation for developing discipline. They stress that accountability helps build self-awareness and strengthens discipline over time. The key takeaway is that self-accountability is essential for achieving discipline, and the speaker hopes the advice provided has given viewers a realistic path to follow. They encourage viewers to focus on accountability as a daily practice and promise that this will lead to becoming more disciplined in all areas of life.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Discipline
💡Motivation
💡Accountability
💡SMART goals
💡Self-accountability
💡Journaling
💡External accountability
💡Procrastination
💡Realistic goals
💡Self-awareness
Highlights
Discipline is not a temporary feeling, unlike motivation, which is short-lived and fluctuates.
Motivation can indicate what you're interested in, but it's discipline that keeps you committed to achieving your goals.
Accountability bridges the gap between discipline and motivation. Without accountability, discipline cannot be sustained.
Most people fail at discipline because they don't hold themselves accountable or set realistic goals.
External accountability, like from teachers or coaches, often leads to discipline. For example, students submit work on time due to deadlines.
In many aspects of life, we're used to someone else holding us accountable, which leads to a lack of self-discipline.
People often don't hold themselves accountable for personal goals, which contributes to a lack of discipline in today's society.
Start with small, manageable goals that you've always wanted to achieve but lacked motivation to complete.
It's important to stop waiting for the 'perfect moment' and take action now, even if you don't feel fully prepared.
Using tools like journals to track progress can help you stay accountable and focused on your goals.
The speaker uses five different journals to track various aspects of life, such as content creation, personal growth, and self-reflection.
SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely) are crucial for setting realistic objectives.
Regular self-check-ins and reflection help build discipline by increasing self-awareness and identifying areas for improvement.
Accountability is the foundation of discipline and can lead to greater self-awareness and growth.
The speaker emphasizes that discipline is built gradually, not overnight, and requires consistent self-reflection and adjustment.
Transcripts
so you want to stop being a lazy bum and
you want to learn how to be disciplined
well this is the video for you my goal
at the end of this video is to actually
provide you with legit advice realistic
advice for you to be disciplined I feel
like there's so much advice on the
internet when it comes to discipline but
no one's giving something that's
realistic and my goal here is by the end
of this video in less than 10 minutes
you have the realistic advice for you so
let's get started first of all we need
to identify the difference between
motivation and discipline motivation is
obviously a temporary feeling and
discipline is not a temporary feeling
when you think of motivation think of it
as the feeling of like when you're angry
at someone or when you're so so happy
those feelings you get a high you get a
low and then you're back to neutral
State it's the same thing with
motivation you get this extremely high
and then now you're on this streak for 3
4 days and then you burnt yourself out
you're at this low and now you have to
wait a long period until you reach
neutral state to go back to motivation
State that's why you never rely on
motivation now motivation can give you a
hint saying that what you want to do is
actually something that you want to do
so your motivation is going to tell you
what you are interested in and what you
will put dedication into but it's the
discipline that you're missing that's
going to allow you to be dedicated to
the thing that you're motivated to do
now what can bridge the gap between
discipline and motivation is
accountability accountability is key to
achieving discipline accountability
manifests discipline and without without
accountability you cannot be disciplined
and that's where a lot of people get
stuck when they're trying to be
disciplined to a goal they are not
holding themselves accountable and
number two their goal and the things
that they're doing to achieve these
goals are too much for them to handle
you're not setting a realistic goal and
later in this video I'm going to talk
about smart goals to help you better
make realistic goals anyway the
manifestation of discipline is
accountability and I want you to think
about every area in your life where
someone has held you accountable and you
became disciplined because someone held
you accountable think about school the
professor says that you have a due date
on Sunday at 11:59 this week the
professor has held you accountable you
don't want to do the assignment if the
professor never had a due date I bet
maybe about 60 70% of that class will
not do that assignment but because the
professor because the teacher put a due
date on it you're going to get 80% 90%
of that class who's going to turn in
that assignment and do it on time that
is because there's accountability you
have something that's holding you
accountable for this goal now let's be
for real how many times has a teacher in
your past given you a packet to do over
the summer and they said it's optional
it's going to help you become a better
student and learn better about the
subject did you actually do the packet
no why because it wasn't graded nothing
was holding you accountable so you
didn't care about learning more about
math you didn't care learning more about
English you threw the packet in the
garbage that is because the teacher has
now put accountability on you you are
accountable to learn math better you are
now accountable to learn English better
and if you want to enter the next grade
with prior knowledge to what you're
going to learn in the course this packet
is for you and if you don't do it not
necessarily you're going to be behind
but it may be a little bit harder and
it's the same thing with sports you need
to attend practice every single day at a
certain time your coach is the one
holding you accountable and I bet
there's maybe one day out of the week
where you're so motivated to go to
practice and then the other five
practices you have no motivation but
because your coach is holding you
accountable you're going to practice and
you have the discipline to go to
practice now imagine there wasn't a
coach would you go to practice would you
practice the sport no you wouldn't
unless you have mastered self
accountability and you're willing to
teach a sport to yourself sure but how
realistic is that it's the same thing at
work your employer is holding you
accountable to do a certain project do a
certain askask one do you think the
business would be successful two do you
think you would even be excelling in
your job three do you even think that
you're going to be doing the project
that you're supposed to be doing no
because no one is holding you
accountable and that is the problem with
today's society we are used to everyone
holding us accountable but when is the
last time you held yourself accountable
to something that only you can see to
something that you can only measure not
that much we don't hold ourselves
accountable a lot and that's why why a
lot of people in this world lack
discipline cuz we're so used to someone
holding her hand in every way of life it
might not seem like it but that is the
truth your employer is holding your hand
your professor your teacher is holding
your hand your mom your dad your sibling
is holding your hand if you eliminate
all these people that are helping you
hold yourself accountable to do the
things that you do every single day
would you still do the things that you
do every single day most likely not that
is why we lack discipline in today's
society and that is most likely why you
are lacking discipline so in order for
you to manifest having discipline in
your life you need to start holding
yourself accountable and start holding
yourself to a certain standard every
single day and if that is something that
you struggle with I highly recommend you
start with something small what is
something that you have been always
wanting to do but you just don't have
the motivation to do it all the time but
you want to do it so bad you're going to
go and do that and that is going going
to be your challenge of how you can
navigate accountability have fun with it
if you starting a fitness journey relax
with it don't take it too seriously
you're new so educate yourself build
realistic goals find people that can
give you credible advice do the research
while you're on the journey don't wait
for the perfect time and that's also
another problem too we wait a lot for
the perfect time we wait until we're all
educated we wait until we know what
we're doing when real it we don't know
what the hell we're doing and you have
to stop waiting for these things stop
waiting to educate yourself stop waiting
for someone to hold your hand and take
you to the gym or whatever goal you're
trying to accomplish stop waiting set a
date for yourself and start doing it on
that day it's all in the process and
that's what we all forget to do we wait
for the perfect moment and when the
perfect moment happens and it's not
perfect as what we imagined it in our
head we don't want to do it anymore and
that is your problem okay so stop
waiting for this perfect moment and just
do it get out of bed and just do it now
when it comes to holding yourself
accountable find the tools that you need
that can set you up for Success you want
to make sure that you have the tools
that will allow you to hold yourself
accountable one tool that I'm using
right now for my content creation
journey is a journal I have a journal
that's specifically just for Content
creation and in this journal every
single day I write what I did I write
exactly what I did what I struggled with
and what I did good at so when I wake up
the next day and I work on my content
creation I can look at this journal and
be like all right today I need to work
on what I struggled with yesterday and I
repeat the same process I am holding
myself to a standard and I'm holding
myself accountable it's the same thing
that you guys need to do whatever you
are trying to accomplish in life I
highly recommend having a journal that
you can write in and document in and
guys this is even more crazy I have five
journals that I write in I have a big
journal for deep thinking I I have my
content creation Journal I have my
self-reflection journal that I write in
every single day just about what I did
that day and then I have a professional
Journal so anything that involves career
growth professionalism and how I worked
on that and then I have my personal
growth so that includes like my social
anxiety or like stuff like that and
lastly I want to talk about setting
realistic goals I have made an in-depth
video of this before so that'll be
linked below and it'll be linked at the
end of this video for you to check out
but anyway you want to set up something
that's called smart goals these are
specific measurable achievable relevant
and timely goals and you want to follow
that system when it comes to creating
realistic goals for yourself in order
for you to set yourself up for success
and again watch that video for a more
in-depth explanation of these smart
goals and I promise it's going to help
you guys a lot and to end this video I
do want to say that when you're on this
journey of holding yourself accountable
I highly recommend that you always check
in with yourself I think when you are on
a journey of holding yourself
accountable and practicing discipline
and becoming more a disciplined person
you start to reflect a lot on who you
are and you learn a lot about yourself I
recommend journaling because you get to
see your strength and weaknesses and you
get to see who you are check in with
yourself take care of yourself when
you're trying to hold yourself
accountable and that is the biggest
thing that a lot of us we really get
stuck on we think that this is a journey
that we have to start and go and our
mind just flips and all of a sudden
we're in this disciplined mode no that
is not it and that is not realistic what
is realistic is that you're checking up
on yourself every single day if what you
did was was related to the goal that
you're trying to achieve or let's say
you did work out today but you didn't
perform your best what can I do tomorrow
to make sure that I perform better do I
need to sleep a little earlier do I need
to eat more carbs before my workout what
is it that you need to do and it helps
you build more self-awareness practicing
accountability just teaches you so much
about yourself and you start having just
a greater self-awareness and you build
your discipline and I just highly
recommend that that you guys focus on
accountability because that is what's
going to manifest discipline in your
life now I hope this video gave you guys
an explanation on how to become more of
a disciplined person and the biggest
takeaway I want you guys to have is just
make sure that you're holding yourself
accountable and I hope I provided you a
realistic view on how you can hold
yourself accountable but other than that
I will see you guys in the next video
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