Mastering Discipline

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Once you see what you actually are , that you're an infinite , limitless being , you'll see that nothing exists outside of you . I'm your host , derek Grant , and this is the pathway to your results podcast . Ladies and gentlemen , welcome back to the pathway you're . Let's try that again . Welcome to the Pathway to your Results Podcast . You see how I clean that up .

You just start over . I'm not going to delete it , I just had to start over real quick . Okay , here's my point . Sometimes this is what life is . Sometimes , this is what life is . You think life's going to go one way , you think it's going to start with some one way and then you got to start over again . That's okay . That is okay because here's the deal .

I don't want to call it like a series . This isn't a series . But people keep asking me about discipline , discipline , discipline . How do I stay disciplined , how do I stay motivated ? Which is why this isn't a shameless plug .

But this is why , in revamp 90 , what I'm going to break down and show you how to become disciplined , I never realized , because I've pretty much been an isolator . I've been a loner for most of my life . It's not that I don't like people , I just enjoy my time to myself .

I try not to take on people's perspective too much and I really kind of always been this way , unbeknownst to me . But I started to realize that a lot of people do struggle with discipline . The only frame of reference I've ever had was my parents and my brother . They're super disciplined . Nobody grew up in the military , but this is just how they were raised .

Discipline was kind of like a necessity of survival . You better be disciplined , you better do what you know you need to do or else you don't know what's going to happen . Growing up in the rural South Carolina during the 50s , discipline was something that was kind of ingrained into my DNA . But I'm realizing how many people really struggle with discipline .

This is why I want to do an episode on discipline to get you really to understand that discipline is not something that is like you're born with it . You're not born with discipline . Discipline is the love child , the offspring , the seed of two things . We have to first understand the faculty of mind that we refer to as willpower .

I say faculty of mind that just makes me sound really smart , but really just think of it as like a muscle . Your mind has six muscles . They are imagination , memory , intuition , reason , willpower and perception . These are the six mind muscles that you use to create your reality .

These are the six mind muscles that are being used to essentially architect I guess what is the word Create ? I'll just say it again Create your physical reality . What we don't get taught and we don't get told is how these faculties actually work .

I'm not going to go through all of them right now , but we're going to hover around this thing called willpower and understand what willpower is . Willpower is essentially the directive force that you use to control your mind . Willpower is what allows me to steer my thinking . I can sit here and steer my thinking .

I don't have to just think about the negative things if I don't want to , like I used to do when I had a weaker , atrophied willpower muscle around my programs . I can consciously choose how I look at myself , or maybe in a program or a paradigm , willpower is what allows you to steer your thinking . Here's the analogy , the visual that I will give you .

Then you have a water gun like a super soaker . Maybe you don't know what a super soaker is , but those used to be the coolest things back when we were kids . You have a super soaker . That water gun is going to shoot out water . Let's imagine that water is your thoughts . That's what the water is . It's your thinking . Sorry , not your thoughts .

It's your thinking . The water gun is willpower , so the water will shoot out wherever you are aiming that gun , meaning my thinking will be steered wherever you are aiming , my willpower is pointing it . So if I have a weak willpower muscle , it's going to be tough for me to steer my thinking .

So if you're willpower muscle and think of it like this , think of it like a muscle , if you don't use and exercise these six muscles that you have within your mind of imagination , memory , intuition , reason , willpower and perception if you do not consciously exercise these , they will become atrophied and just like any other muscle .

When , if you break your arm , you got your arm in a cast for six to eight weeks . When you take that cast off , the forearm muscles are going to be weaker . Do you see ? They're going to be not as strong . The same goes for your muscles in your mind . When you do not consciously use them , they are going to become weaker .

And here's what I learned with society , right , the education system . Hear me when I say this . I'm not against education . I'm not against education . I'm just not a fan of the system . I'm all for education , but the system is flawed . That's just my perspective , though . But what I've noticed with the education system ? The education system does not show you .

Number one , it doesn't teach you what these muscles are . Number two , it doesn't show you how to strengthen them . It doesn't show you how to develop them . So here's the analogy I will use . Imagine this you need to use your triceps , your biceps , your quads . You need to use all of these parts , your wrist .

You have to use all of these muscles to shoot a basketball . And then someone says , hey , go play basketball . Well , didn't nobody tell me how to use these muscles , nobody told me how to develop these muscles . So here I am now trying to shoot from deep , but I got a weak tricep so I can't even push the ball there .

Or I got a stiff wrist so I can't even have touch around the hoop . Do you see what happens ? These muscles and these tools that are used for me to be able to achieve this result , they're not developed . So I started to notice just through my own children . The educational system is not designed to show children how to play the game of life .

Those children grow up to become adolescents . Those adolescents grow up to become adults . And now here we are , 35 years old and I have no idea how to use these tools to build my life . I have no idea that I even have these muscles in my mind that need to be developed . I'm literally talking from real experience . Five years ago I'm like yo , what the fuck ?

What you mean to tell me ? I got six of my muscles that if I know how to use them , I can literally oh my , I was hot . I was so angry when I figured this out . And then I'm like yo , nobody else knows this . Why are we not teaching this ?

Why are we not teaching our children what these muscles are , so they can start to develop them and play the game of life . So here's my point One of those muscles is willpower , and willpower is , like I said , helps you steer your thinking . But here's the other thing . We have to have this thing that we will call inspiration .

I'm not gonna say motivation , because motivation is temporary . You actually have a spring , a well with inside of you that is infinite , that will constantly just keep giving you and giving you and giving you the resources , the fuel that you need to keep going . So stop looking at motivation and start looking at inspiration .

Motivation is a battery that has to be recharged . Motivation works great for that moment , but guess what ? Motivation will eventually be fleeting . Motivation will eventually die off , because it was just a battery . I need to find something Nikola Tesla referred to as this free energy .

I need to find the thing that never runs out , that's always there , and that , my friends , is what you call inspiration . So that's why I told you on the podcast before I hope I never motivate you , because if I'm motivating you , I'm setting you up for failure . Instead , it is about inspiration , and inspiration is already inside of you .

So here's my point Inspiration is the thing that lights you up . What inspires . You may be different than what inspires me . Maybe it's your family , maybe it's you have something inside of you that you know you have more . I'm gonna tell you my inspiration . Okay , here's my inspiration , and your inspiration will always be this link back to your spirit .

My inspiration is to help human beings remember what they are and what they were capable of before they forgot . That is my inspiration . So everything else is null and void after that . Everything else does not matter , because I'm living from the place of inspiration .

The reason why I have to say inspiration is because inspiration comes to you outside of space and time . You're only trying to hear me right now . Your inspiration did not come from this earth . Your inspiration did not come from this life . Your inspiration , inspiration , inspiration comes from outside of space and time .

So that's why , if you can find out what inspires you Good God Almighty , we got the fuel . We got the fuel source . Now , now that we have the fuel source , we can start to couple it with this thing that we call willpower . Here's what's going to happen . Good God Almighty , if you got kids , you might want to get them all .

Here's what's going to happen when I find my inspiration and if I have my willpower muscle that's developed enough . What's going to happen is these two are going to lay down together . They're going to lay down together .

They may court each other for a little bit , they may whisper sweet nothings , maybe they'll make catcalls at each other , but here's what's going to happen . There may be a little bit of you know , a little touching here and there , but they're going to start to fall in love with each other .

The inspiration will start fueling the willpower and the willpower will start saying inspiration , I need more of you . And the inspiration may say I can't do nothing without you , willpower . And the two will start to fall in love with each other . And when they fall in love with each other , they're going to lay down with each other .

And when they lay down with each other , the masculine energy of willpower and the feminine energy of inspiration are going to start to have this love child . And this love child is going to come out in this love child , my friends , is what we call discipline . Discipline is the byproduct of your inspiration and your willpower .

So I wake up every day and I know what I got to do and I'm going to do it , regardless if I feel good or not . I have a mission that transcends humanity . I have a mission that comes from outside of space and time . I have a mission , regardless of what people may think .

I have a mission that I tried for so many years to keep pushing away and pushing away , because it didn't fit the ego's paradigms of what I am . I have a mission that I can't sweep under the rug anymore . This mission came to me when I used to go sit out in the woods .

This mission came to me when I used to sit in the lowliest place of my life , when I felt like I was alone , when I felt like I had nobody , when I felt like , even though I was in the world , I'm dead . I'm not here , no more .

I have to say this to you because your inspiration will come to you most likely in the least , in the way that you least expected . I literally was walking back to my car after sitting in the woods for two hours crying to the nature , to the universe , not knowing what the was going on .

I'm walking back to my car and I hear this voice on the right hemisphere of my head say you're here to help people remember what they are . You , my friend , are going to use your voice to do it . This is what you're seeing right now .

I kept putting off podcasts , speaking , etc . All of these things that would allow me to use my voice . I kept putting them off , putting them off and then , some reason , something would happen , this would happen , and it kept leading me back and then I realized , oh , my goodness , this is what I was supposed to be doing from the beginning .

Now that I have this inspiration , I can't put it down . You got to find your inspiration . Here's the deal . I can't tell you what your inspiration is . Nobody can tell you what your inspiration is . Your inspiration is your inspiration , and when you find it , you got to eff and own it . It's going to look crazy to the world at first .

It's going to look crazy because the inspiration didn't come from the world . Good God , almighty , you ain't trying to hear me the inspiration . I can use Jesus as an example . I can use Jesus as an example . I can use this story of Jesus .

I can use this metaphor , this analogy , if you want , the reason why he didn't make sense to the Pharisees , why he didn't make sense to the world because he transcended space and time . He was not coming from this world . His mission transcended anything that man said .

So that's why the Pharisees and everybody else there , the Pontius Pontus , they were looking at like what are you doing ? What are you doing healing people on days that it's not on the ? What are you doing doing the work on the Sabbath ? You're supposed to rest , what are you ? He's like nah , bro , nah , I got a mission .

I got a mission and the clock has started . I got to get this done . I got to get this done . This was the metaphor , the analogy of you . You have an inspiration that's laying deep inside of you , but maybe there's a fear . Maybe we're too worried about what people are going to think .

Maybe we're too worried that if I step into this , people may reject me . Maybe there's a fear of what ? Well , what if it doesn't work ? What if it doesn't make me money ? What if it doesn't get me followers ? What if it doesn't get me status ? What if ? What if , what if , what if , what if , what , if ?

You'll know when you find your inspiration , because it's going to come from a place of faith , it's going to come from a place of abundance , it's going to come from a place of oh , I'm going to do this . I don't know how , but I'm going to get it done . You will come from that energy .

Instead of coming from the place of lack , instead of coming from the place of reason with the intellect that the ego uses , you're going to come from this place , of this other higher faculty of your mind that we call intuition . Intuition it's going to come from your heart and it's going to speak oh so softly and once you find your inspiration .

It's about you now developing your willpower muscle . It's about you consciously moving towards and doing things that you really don't want to do in life . I make my bed up every single day . Whether I'm the first one out of bed or the last one out of bed , I make my bed up every single day .

And the reason why I make the bed up , it's not because I have to . I don't have to anymore . I can literally probably do whatever I want in my house . I can do whatever I want if I wanted to , because there's no parents above me telling me you better do this , you better do .

I can do whatever I want , but I do it now because I don't have to , nor do I necessarily want to . Do you see how this works ? Do you see how this works ? So now , if I can do something that I really don't want to , or I have to . Every time I do it , I'm hitting a rep on my willpower muscle .

Every time I do it I'm going to feel a little bit of burn in that place . Where I'm feeling that burn is that muscle of willpower . So I started working out , I started running miles , I started doing endurance stuff , I started going to sit in caves .

I started doing all of these things purposely , consciously , running towards the fires , the fears of my life in my own mind . The reason why is because I got to have a super developed willpower muscle . So this inspiration that has been fueling and swirling inside of me will have something to lay down with so we can have this baby called discipline .

And here's what happens when you have discipline . Now , when you have discipline , you will see that this was the necessary tool for you to bring everything into physical existence , for you to experience and for other people to experience . Discipline will be needed . I'm not sitting here telling you , like some of these people you may hear .

You got to get up at four o'clock in the morning . You got to do this . You got to no , no , no , no , no . You got to get up at four o'clock , then you got to get up at four o'clock . Instead of looking at instead of looking at what time I got to get up or what I got to do instead can I consciously do something that I really don't want to do ?

So now , everything that you do in the physical world is really just so you can develop everything in the mental world , as as above , so below , as within . So , without meaning , as I am on the mental plane , I will be on the physical plane . Do you see how this works ? So here's my advice to you in 2024 , revamp 90 , right , revamp 90 .

It's about you developing this discipline , rearing this child , because discipline was going to be needed along this 90-day journey . Discipline was going to be needed for you to be a better husband , a better mother , a better father , a better wife . Discipline was going to be needed for you to get that entrepreneurship , that business , off the ground .

Discipline was going to be needed for you to heal yourself and move yourself out of the vibration of lack and fear and regret and shame and guilt and move into the relationship with abundance of love , of peace , of unity . Do you see how this works ?

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Enroll today at LifeIsMentalDGMindsetcom and take the first step towards a better you . But we cannot have discipline without developing a muscle of willpower and having the courage to live from our inspiration . Understand this . If you have not found what inspires you yet , just keep going . Set the intention what inspires me ? What inspires me ? What inspires me ?

What inspires me ? Just keep asking that question , because the answer exists out there already . You just can't see it yet . You see , that station was already playing on 99.3 . I just couldn't hear it playing because I was on 89.1 . But when I moved my tuner , I got to hear that song . That was on 99.3 . It was already there , it was already playing .

But just because I couldn't hear it didn't mean that it existed . The same goes for you , my friend . The same goes for you and your inspiration . Just because you don't know it doesn't mean it doesn't already exist . You have to set the intention by you asking the quest , john , go on a quest , find out what inspires you .

And here's the beauty of life , the way life works . Life is always kind , trying to help you move closer to what inspires you , because this is your divine nature . Inspiration comes from the spirit , the divinity within you , the one thing that all that is .

Whatever you want to refer to it as , universal consciousness , god , source , creator , I don't care what you call it . This is what inspiration is . It wants to express itself and live itself out through you . So it's already there . Here's what you do . You give yourself permission . Give yourself permission and stop waiting for other people to inspire .

You Give yourself permission to inspire yourself . And when you start inspiring yourself now here's what's going to happen Now this fuel of inspiration will start to spiral inside of you and start to coagulate . And now here's what's going to end up happening . It's going to start to ooze out of your pores . Now , here's what's going to happen .

You will see that life was leading you all along to get to this point of recognition of realization . I look at my life right now . Look at what I'm doing . If you knew me six , seven , eight years ago , you'd be like , oh , that's the same dude , that's the same guy .

He does this , but he's , and I realize , playing for the globetrotters , traveling the world , going to college , playing here , doing all of these things that I thought I was .

They were just stepping stones to get me to the place of realization of what my inspiration was , and my inspiration was directly linked back to this thing that we would refer to as my passion . So your passion is what inspires you . What inspires you is your passion .

So when , people , you send me these DMs , you send me these emails , you hit these comments , what is my purpose ? Stop looking for your purpose and start looking for your passions . When you find your passion , when you find what lights you up , you will then find what inspires you . And when you find what inspires you now , you will have the fuel .

And when you have the fuel now you can start to develop this muscle of willpower , because you won't care how hard it is . I got to do this . This has happened on a soul level . I gots to do this , my wife said to me . She said she's like we still talk about the cave , let me go on that darkness retreat . She was like I couldn't do it .

I'm like , yes , you could . She's like , no , I couldn't . That in her mind . She's like I , there's no way . She's like that's literally the worst thing for me to sit in isolation and not talk to anyone and sit with myself . And I said , okay , well , you know , I hear you , but things that she has in her life she does . That I just can't do .

Because we're two different souls , we have two different passions , we have two different modes of inspiration . So because my inspiration is to help humanity to figure out truly what they're capable of , I don't give a what that looks like If that means I go sitting in cave for five days . I go sit in a cave for five days .

If that means I got to go fast for a week , I'll fast for whatever it takes , because my inspiration transcends space or time . So the reason why I'm saying this is because your inspiration is coming from your soul . When you find what inspires you , you will find your purpose . And when you live out your purpose , you will see the point of life .

You will see it and I'm not going to tell you what it is , because you have to go on your own journey and find it . But you'll see that it was all connected . We were all one . So I hope this podcast helped you .

I hope it at least gave you a little bit of insight of really this thing of discipline , what's needed for you to continue to revamp and shift your life . Because I'm telling you , 2024 , we are here . We are here . We are here . We are here . We are here . Ain't no more playing games , ain't no more playing small anymore .

We talked about abundance and lack mindset . We've done . You going to need discipline . You're going to need discipline to keep moving , to keep moving even when it doesn't look like it's working . You're going to need discipline .

You're going to need discipline to show up every day , get your journal out , write down and dump your thoughts and your emotions of how you feel . To keep moving towards your fears , to keep moving towards your traumas , to keep moving towards your abuse , to keep healing generational traumas . It's going to take some discipline .

It's going to take some discipline for you to keep doing that .

You won't care if it's easy , you won't care if it's hard , you won't care if it feels good , because now you're operating from the energy of discipline , and discipline was a byproduct of willpower , inspiration , and because this inspires you , you won't care , because it's transcending anything on this physical plane . Do you see how this works ?

So I'm just telling you this Revamp 90 . 90 days . See how disciplined you can become . I'm not telling you you have to hang by your feet , upside down , and do a thousand setups and go run 150 miles in two hours . I'm not telling you that . That that isn't that . That that is not it . That's not it .

What I'm telling you is why I'm trying to get you to understand . You know , let's develop our mind , let's develop our willpower muscle , let's start doing things that we really don't want to do . Maybe that's working out . Maybe it's getting up earlier to work out . Maybe that's means you not eating more than what your stomach probably can hold .

Maybe that means you walking away from the table to figure out what's going on . You know you're not going to be able to walk away from the table to figure out what's hard and go do it . Just try it . And hard is relative . It's going to remember what we said about hard , though .

Hard is going to take more energy , it's going to take more effort , but just try and see if you can do this . Just try it and you're going to start to see but , wow , I did it once . Well , you can do it once . You can do it a billion times .

So I this is part of my , you know my challenge to you . I'm not trying to turn you into David Goggins or Jaco Willing . That's not what I'm , that's not the intention here . Not when I say like this is what a lot of people maybe will think no , no , no . I'm saying can you step into that space ? That makes you a better person . What you're saying .

I mean , I'm not trying to turn you into David Goggins or Jaco Willing . That's not what I'm , that's not the intention here . Not when I say like this is what a lot of people maybe will think no , no , no . That's not the intention here . No , no , no , no , no . This is part of my challenge . I'm going to take out this .

This is part of my challenge , because you're going to see this . This is part of my challenge . It's going to be in the space that makes you uncomfortable , because every time that you do that , you're going to find out more about yourself . And that , my friends , was all the game was .

It was the game Of how , aware of this self , have to say this and put this out there and create a ripple here in space and time . Truly , from the bottom of my heart , I cannot thank you enough for taking time out of your busy life , for taking time out of space and time to listen to this .

I cannot thank you enough for the comments that you leave on , you know posts that I make , or the reshares or all that like , not for myself , not for the vanity of the ego , but because you are showing up and you're just merely using me as a resource to help yourself and help the world . It was never about me in your world .

It was about you in your world , and the same goes for me . You are the only thing that existed in your universe , whatever that looks like . However , your means of inspiration or finding your inspiration or what keeps you going , figure that out .

If it's me , I'm unbelievably grateful that you have chosen me for me to just be a guide , to help you figure out how to fix yourself , because I cannot do it for you .

Believe you me , if I could , I would break myself off into eight billion pieces and I would go and do it , but I cannot do the work for somebody else , but I'm unbelievably grateful to be along your side , with you , whether it's in close proximity or not , to help you along this journey , so you can start to remember all that you're truly capable of .

Know that your journey matters . Know that you're loved . You are , whether you feel like it or not . Love is all around you . I know you know one thing you got love coming from me . I do Keep going and , as always , I wish you nothing but the best on the pathway to your results .