Well, that was fast.
Only a week ago, my Instagram feed was full of hopes and aspirations.
Things were really looking up.
Then, all of a sudden, my feed got taken over by ridiculous memes from a 3-hour Katt Williams interview.
For millions of people (around 35 million at last count), one man single-handedly brought the collective “New Year, New Me” momentum to a dead stop.
Right back to life as usual.
But how can this be?
How can so many people fall off so fast?
It has to do with something I talked about on the podcast last week…
Most people only do what they FEEL like doing. At the very beginning of any year, motivation is sky-high. Simply put, people feel like losing the weight, reading the books, tackling the projects.
They’re motivated.
But here’s the thing about motivation…
It’s fleeting. It’s here one minute, gone the next. And once motivation takes flight, you’re on your own. You’re here in the present, imagining a glorious future that you’ll only accomplish by doing a bunch of incredibly uncomfortable stuff requiring immediate sacrifice and delayed gratification.
Yuck.
On this 8th day of 2024, motivation is long gone for most people. The only thing they can lean on now is DISCIPLINE.
Discipline has you driving to the gym at 5am … even when you don’t feel like it. It turns off the TV and picks up the book. Puts down the phone and takes the course. Closes the door and writes the business plan. Ignores the text message and creates the sales system. Puts down the donut and eats the apple.
Getting to the next level of life involves reaching another level of self-discipline.
BEING more self-disciplined keeps you DOING the things that will eventually lead you to HAVING the life you want.
So, how can you be more disciplined?
On today’s episode, Vusi Thembekwayo shares a brilliant analogy about how discipline works and why motivation is overrated.
Source: Powerful message by Vusi Thembekwayo
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