Mental toughness is making the commitment to do the best you can with what you have wherever you are. Full stop. We don't need to make it any more complicated than that. You want to show me someone that is mentally tough and I'll show you someone who does the best they can with what they have wherever they are. The are welcome back to the quote of the day show i'm your host sean croxton at shon croxton

dot com we got speaker, author, and performance

expert, Alan Stein Jr., back on the show today. Today, Alan's going to talk about the difference

between motivation and discipline. He's also going to talk about a filter through which you can make

your decisions.

And lastly, he's going to tell you what it means to be mentally tough.

Alenstein Jr. is coming up.

But let's talk about the things you need to do to show up as the best version of yourself.

First, I want to address something that I think causes confusion with a lot of people, and that's the difference between motivation and discipline.

Motivation is a feeling, discipline is a decision.

Contrary to popular belief, we don't actually control how we feel. Now, we control how we choose to respond to our feelings and emotions, but we don't control how we feel,

which means motivation as a feeling is going to ebb and flow.

And you don't have control over it.

Compared to the average human beings walking the earth, I imagine you guys skewed more towards

being motivated individuals. I know I do. But not every person in this room is motivated

every moment of every day. And if you only choose to perform when you're feeling motivated,

then by definition you will be inconsistent. So we can't rely on motivation.

When you are feeling motivated, double down on it.

That's just fuel.

That's some extra gas on the fire.

That's great.

But I don't want you to worry about motivation.

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