If your day relies on feeling motivated, if your goals rely on feeling motivated, then you're

already behind because motivation is unreliable.

Most people think that discipline is about being tough or having the crazy ability to suffer

more than everybody else.

But that is not discipline.

That is suffering for the sake of suffering when it's actually not necessary to achieve your

goals.

I want to break down what

discipline actually is. And spoiler alert, it is not about willpower and it's not about grit.

Here's the thing. Discipline is not in your DNA. You're not born with it. It is in your design.

It's about making success easier than failure by designing your environment to do the heavy lifting for you.

Discipline is not a personality trait. It's a system. When I was 19, I was 100 pounds overweight.

I was failing out of school. I didn't have the friends that I wanted. I didn't have the body I wanted.

And I was just a mess. And I thought to myself, oh, I'm just not a disciplined person. But then here's

the thing. Once I installed systems into my environment to make it easier to lose weight than to stay

overweight, to make it easier to have the right friends than to have the wrong friends, and to make

it easier to work hard than to be lazy, suddenly

I looked really disciplined.

For example, I took out all the junk food in my house, and if I wanted junk food, I would

have to literally walk to the store because I didn't have a car.

And that's when I realized that being disciplined sucks in the moment, but not being disciplined

sucks later and for the rest of your life. Most people aren't

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