Discipline Is Impossible Until You Learn This Rule

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Brendon Burchard

Education, Business, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0	If your motivation is low, it's because you're not thinking about doing the pragmatic, tactical, tangible thing.
0:07.9	You're stuck in idea land.
0:09.7	That's why you're not motivated.
0:11.1	You have to convince yourself things have utilitarian value.
0:14.5	I have to go, this will make a practical difference.
0:18.2	This is something I'm going to do because it will make a practical,
0:21.3	real-world difference. I need to do that. If you're trying to develop real depth in motivation
0:33.0	and discipline, I think this scorecard could really serve you.
0:38.8	Let's work through.
0:50.8	Number one, I always want you to score your sense of connection with future identity.
1:01.0	So if I finish the day, I'm like, you know, I just didn't feel motivated today.
1:10.0	A way to increase performance in this area tomorrow is to go, well, what was my future identity connection? Was I like, what did I think about my future identity?
1:14.8	If I didn't think about it at all, that's zero.
1:17.4	Well, guess what?
1:18.0	If I don't think about my future identity, I didn't activate what?
1:23.5	Ambition.
1:24.4	My future identity is tied to what else?
1:28.1	Esteem. Oh, oh, okay. Esteem and ambition. Oh, right, right. Brendan, these are all coming together.
1:34.1	My future identity, I didn't see it. I didn't have vision to it. I didn't think about, is what I am doing today tied to my future identity?
1:43.4	Did I tie it or align to it so that my future identity
1:47.7	can be manifested? So let me give you another way of thinking about the scorecard right now.
1:52.2	If you take action or not, it's tied to whether or not you believe that that action
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