Defining Discipline | Mindset Monday

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Tom Ferry

Education, Self-improvement, Business

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever tried defining discipline? It’s a simple one sentence mantra that can change your entire life by showing you what to prioritize in every moment. That’s what I’m talking about in this Mindset Monday.

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0:00.0	Discipline is prioritizing the needs of my future self in the present.
0:07.0	That's what it's about, right?
0:09.0	Discipline is prioritizing the needs of my future self in the present.
0:13.0	So if I do it now, my future self would be like, wow, Tom, thank you so much.
0:19.0	This was a conversation I was in with a bunch of my team clients and my good friend Chase Hughes.
0:23.6	If you don't call it, Chase, highly recommended that like a million subscribers on YouTube.
0:27.6	We were talking about discipline.
0:29.6	And he said to me, Tom, discipline is prioritizing the needs of your future self in the present.
0:35.6	Prioritizing the needs of my future self in the present.
0:39.3	He gave the example of something as simple as just laying out your wardrobe for the next day,
0:44.3	setting aside or getting your coffee ready in the morning.
0:47.3	And it wasn't just the act, that simple discipline,
0:50.3	prioritizing the needs of my future self.
0:53.3	He took it one step further.
0:54.7	He actually says, when I get up in the morning and I see that my coffee is already there,
0:58.8	I stop for a minute and I say, huh, thanks, Chase.
1:02.0	You're awesome.
1:03.2	I really appreciate that.
1:05.0	Reinforcing the discipline that he wants.

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