I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment for this week, where we are talking about mastering the art of discipline. I think discipline gets a bad rap, and you know what a weird thing to say, But what I mean by that, I think we have such a negative connotation towards towards discipline because we feel like if there's discipline involved, I must be missing out on something, I must be giving up something, I must be sacrificing in some way. The reality is the upside to discipline
far outweighs the bad side. I mean, it's almost an extension of anything worthwhile doing in this world. Anything it's going to give you a sense of gratification, There's going to be a level of hard work or sacrifice required, and it's very rare that you have one without the other.
In fact, I can't even think of an example where you do all of the best things that happen in your life, whether it's becoming a parent or getting a degree, or building a successful business or whatever, it doesn't matter. There's going to be some blood, sweat, and tears and sacrifice involved to do that. But you never get to the end of it and go, oh, none of it was worth it. It's very rare that you ever think to
yourself that wasn't worth it. In fact, I can't even think of an example where I have made such sacrifices and ever regretted them. So it's the same with discipline. I mean, discipline is just a key component of building
out these worthwhile experiences or achievements in our life. I'm in the middle of an eight week challenge at the moment that I'm doing with all of my twenty eight ers, and sometimes you just have to tell the hard truth, and that is there's going to need to be a certain amount of willpower and discipline that you are going to need to exude throughout these eight weeks, you know, sugar cravings and not snacking after dinner and maybe getting up a little bit earlier when the sun's not up yet,
and doing your workout. I promise you it will all be worth it. As I said before, the upside is always better than the downside. So let's flip the script. Let's stop thinking about discipline as a bad thing. Let's think about discipline as something we're super proud of. And something that I always tell people is you can train yourself to be disciplined. It's like a muscle. You don't
start off curling the forty kilo dumbbells. You start off curling the two kilo dumbbells, and then, when you're strong enough to curl them, the three kilo dumbers and the four killer and so on. It's the same with discipline. Don't say to yourself, if you love it drink, I'm gonna have a year off drinking. Say to yourself, I'm
gonna have two weeks off drinking. Test yourself baby steps, Build up your willpower, build up your discipline, Prove to yourself mentally more than anything, how good it makes you feel, and that you can do it. And then you build it up in layers, one layer at a time, until I'm really happy with what I've achieved, rather than trying to build the whole thing in one big mess and it not actually turning out the way I thought it was going to turn out. My little is the task
for you all. What is something that you do that you know holds you back, that you have said to yourself, probably on more than one occasion, I wish I had the discipline not to do that, because that's a real throw away comment like someone else controls your discipline level, they don't. The buck stops with you. You need to own that. You need to take control of your own life. You need to be responsible for what you do and
don't do. So I want you to think, have a good, deep, hard think over the next day and find something that you have said that probably on more occasion. Oh, I wish I had the discipline to not drink every weekend. I wish I had the discipline to go to the gym for more than two days in a row. I wish I had the discipline to drink three letters of
water a day. You get my point. There's often these things that we just tell ourselves perpetually, like there's nothing we can do about it, and there's absolutely everything we can do about it. So my listener to us this week, identify the thing that you've always said you wish I had the discipline to do it, and do it just for seven days. See how it makes you feel, and I promise you to be a game judger