Unleashing Willpower: Strategies to Boost Your Self-Discipline

It's been a month since the relaunch and you guys have been so supportive and just present and so nice and I just I really , really , really appreciate all the kind words that I've received over the last couple of weeks and also guys .

I'm just so excited because I feel it in my bones that there's so many more cool things coming my way and I'm just so ready for the blessings and so grateful for them and I just can't wait until you guys see everything that is coming .

Well , my dear passengers , the time has come for you to buckle up your seatbelts as we head into the first stop of the day . That is the topic of the day , and today's topic is self-discipline . Self-discipline is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as the regulation or correction of oneself for the sake of improvement .

Now , I don't know about you , my dear passenger , but let me tell you I have struggled with self-discipline every single day of my life . Why ? Because it means that you have to constantly be correcting yourself . And who wants to do that ? Actually ? Who has time to do that ? Nobody . And yet we all have to do it .

But is there a way that it can be easier on us ? Absolutely , and that is exactly what this episode is going to be covering today . For today's episode , I will be using three articles that I found online to be super helpful when it came to developing my self-discipline .

The first article is by Forbes , and it's titled 8 Powerful Ways to Cultivate Extreme Self-Discipline . The second article is from Calm . com , and it's called How to Become More Disciplined . And the last article is from Score , and this one is titled 7 Simple Ways to Develop Daily Discipline Success .

As a reminder , I don't cover all three articles through and through , but I do put them on the episode's description , so that way , if you want to go and read them , you have the opportunity to go ahead and check them out .

For the podcast episode , the thing that I usually do is that I read the articles and I summarize them and combine them in a way that makes it easier for you and I to focus on the topic of the day . Let's get down to the first step . The first step is actually quite easy , in a way . I mean , it depends on how well you know yourself .

But the first step is determining what are your strengths and what are your weaknesses . Now , my dear passenger , for me , I can tell you my biggest strength and I can tell you my biggest weakness . My biggest strength is that I am a very determined individual .

When I set my mind on a goal , I put my everything I'm talking my time , my resources , my energy , my focus , everything . Why ? Because once I set my eyes on a goal , I want it and I'm going to do everything to get it . Now , what is my biggest weakness ? I leave everything for the end .

Yes , that is right , I am a huge procrastinator and even with this podcast episode , this specific one , I waited until the end to do it , even though I could have done it weeks ago . But you know what ?

This is the good thing about doing a podcast episode where I'm able to not only create content for you to feel related to , but also create content for myself , to inspire myself to do better , because , at the end of the day , that is the purpose of this podcast . Like , I want to help myself and I want to help you guys become better individuals .

The second step is also easy-ish . It depends . It depends on how you are , but it's to set clear , achievable goals . Okay , let me repeat that because this is very important Set clear and achievable goals . Now , why did I have to repeat that ?

Because I don't know about you , my dear passenger , but I have the tendency of setting goals that are ridiculous , not because I could never reach them , but sometimes I expect my goals to happen within a very small time frame , or I don't know , like I think that I am a superwoman and I'm going to be able to accomplish every single thing , and it's like that's

not realistic . I think that right now , our focus should be on becoming more realistic with ourselves , which is why it was important to know our strengths and our weaknesses , because by knowing our strengths and our weaknesses , we're better able to understand what we can realistically achieve right .

So for me , for example , some of the goals that I have is I want to write daily , I want to exercise daily , I want to meditate daily , I want to work daily and I also want to work on my creative projects daily . Is this realistic ? Absolutely not .

I think that , of all the things that I just mentioned , there's two things that I can do realistically every single day , and that is meditate and write . Those two . I'm pretty sure I can do them every single day , but when it comes to exercise , it's not like in the summer .

In the summer , I had all this free time and I could go to the gym every single day . Now I don't have that happening . So it's kind of hard to adjust myself to this new reality in terms of , like , wow , things change , but it doesn't mean that just because it changed , I can't make it work for me . I just have to fix those goals to make them achievable .

So now it's not going to look like I go to the gym every single day .

Now it just looks like I do something active every single day , and it might be walking , it might be swimming which , as you can tell , I'm wearing my swimsuit and I'm going to be swimming soon or it might be something as easy as jumping rope , which , by the way , apparently jumping rope is like super fun and also helps with , like , building your muscles .

So give it a shot . I haven't tried it yet , but I am going to . The third step is to develop a structured routine . Now . If you listened to last week's episode , you should have this down already .

If you haven't listened to last week's episode , this is my time to invite you to go ahead and listen to last week's episode , just because it goes a little bit more in depth than what I'm going to be doing right now But essentially , when you develop a structured routine , you want to look at what your current routine looks like and in what areas you're able to

adapt or change in order to accommodate , being able to seek those achievable goals that you have now set for yourself . So , for example again I'm using myself . I wake up every day around 5.30 am , and it used to be that during the summer , that time I would go to the gym and then I would come back and I would meditate and I would write .

Now , however , because I have to be at work before 7 am , it doesn't look the same way . So I'm not able to wake up at 5.30 , go to the gym and do all of these things . Now .

For me , in a structured routine , it looks like waking up , getting ready for work , going to work and then , once I get back from work , taking that time to go to the gym or do something active and writing and meditating or whatever else I want to do . But you see how your reality is going to keep shifting as the time goes by .

But if you keep realistic goals , you will be able to adapt your routines to accommodate for them . Step four , my absolute favorite and the one that I do the worst in avoiding temptation . Oh my gosh , like I mentioned in one of the other episodes , when it comes to FOMO and YOLO , I have it .

I'm constantly have this fear of missing out and I also have this mentality of you only live once . So I want to do everything and anything and all that once , just like that movie , you know , and I just I love it . I love the fact that I'm so spontaneous and that I'm able to shift my mind from one thing to the other .

But , realistically speaking right going back to realistically speaking I do need to start avoiding my temptations , and it's because , a lot of times , what I don't realize is that when I am endorsing those temptations , I'm taking away time from focusing on the things that I really need to focus on .

So , for example , again like I mentioned earlier , this podcast episode , I left for the end . Up to this point , I had pre-recorded my episodes like weeks ahead of time , and now it's like I'm doing this the day before and I know it's still going to be a good podcast episode .

But the reality is , if I had avoided temptation temptation and if I had stuck to my schedule , then none of this would have happened and I could still endorse my desire to spend time with people and do fun things and cool things around town that I don't normally get to do or maybe I do normally get to do , but I want to do more of .

So I think it's important for us to sit down and really analyze what is tempting for me , like what is it that I cannot say no to ? I mean , you can , but you struggle to say no to . What is it that gives you a lot of instant gratification and might take you away from working on these goals that you also want to achieve ?

But they might take a little bit longer , and once you're able to have that list of things , you're better prepared to say no to them . Now I'm not saying that you're going to be able to say no to them all the time and that it's going to be perfect .

Because , again , look at this episode as a beautiful example of how I let temptation get me , but there will be times where you'll be able to kind of recenter yourself and say no , you know what ?

I do want to go to that drag show and I do want to spend time with my friends , but I know deep down that if I go to this event tonight , I'm not going to get some work done for my podcast , and that is also very important to me and that is what I need to start doing more of , and I will be doing it more of . Why ?

Because step number five seeking accountability from others and I know this is kind of questionable in a way because we want to be able to , like , determine for ourselves hey , I'm doing the things that I'm supposed to be doing , but that doesn't mean that we have to do it alone .

You can have friends and you can have family that help you along the way by doing things that will help you stay on track , like , for example , with me . Ellen is one of my closest friends and when it comes to the podcast , she'll ask me or she'll text me or she'll call me .

She has all these different ways to reach out to me , right , and she'll be like , hey , when's the new episode ? Or are you excited about the new episode ? Or hey , I've heard the new episode and I loved it . So that helps me stay grounded and it also helps keep me motivated to keep doing more stuff .

But , for example , when it comes to filmmaking , I have my friends Rebecca and Lily , and they literally will sometimes offer their help because I just procrastinate a lot when it comes to filmmaking . And they'll be like hey , do you need help with the script , do you need help with the storyboard , do you need help with this ?

And just having that type of support is so important , because sometimes I don't know about you , my dear passenger , but sometimes I want to give up . It's just human nature .

Sometimes it feels very overwhelming and feels very unachievable , but really what's happening is that when I have these friends check up on me and kind of push me forward , it allows me to give myself grace and also give myself that motivation and that determination to keep moving , because it's like it's not just me that is watching .

I have my friends and my family right behind me pushing me forward , telling me hey , keep going . No , no , don't even take a step back , girl . Don't even Just keep going , keep moving . You got this Well , my dear passenger , the time has come for the last stop of the day . That is recap time .

Today's episodes discuss self-discipline , which is the regulation of oneself for the sake of improvement . We now know that , in order to boost your self-discipline , you need to recognize and understand your strengths and your weaknesses . Why ?

Because , once you do , you're able to set clear and realistic expectations that will allow you to develop a structured routine that will then hopefully help you avoid temptations . And hey , if that doesn't work , having the accountability from your friends and family can always help you stay on track . Remember , self-growth is an endless journey towards self-improvement .

However , you don't ever have to do it alone . As your tour guide , my goal is to guide you with the best intentions and the best research available . Make sure to follow me on Instagram , facebook and TikTok at the Self-Growth Train Podcast , and to also follow my new website , theselfgrowthtrainpodcast . com .

As always , all the resources used today have been added to the episode's description . Well , until the next stop , dear passengers , safe travels . Bye !