Ep. 185 - Discipline Needs Carrots and Sticks [Business 300]

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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When the potential accomplishment is in the distant future, it's helpful to set up relevant progress tracking on a daily or weekly basis where you can see the work accomplished. Instead of having 1 large completion, break up the completion into smaller chunks that you can see getting done. The reward for doing the work is seeing it get done. And the punishment for not doing it, is seeing it pile up. Set up immediate, relevant, and visible carrots and sticks to prod yourself towards self-control and discipline, on your way towards eventual completion. Start tracking the days you did and didn't do what you needed to, so that you can see the progress.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Business 300.
0:10.0	My name is Philip Kulenshov and this is 300 seconds about business.
0:13.0	We're all a busy people, so I have five minutes or less to get my point across.
0:38.2	Here we are again. Last time I talked about the need for self-control and discipline if we want to consistently drive results. Outside pressure is helpful. Sticks against our back do encourage you to keep going. And moments of enthusiasm are invigorating. Carats are good. But external pressure from external threats and rewards aren't in our control. Even our internal feelings aren't in our control. We can't
0:43.2	really make ourselves feel motivated or excited. What is in our control are our actions. We can
0:48.8	control what we do, whether or not we have any external pressure. We can control what we do
0:53.4	independent from how we feel.
0:55.3	And then we make our feelings submit to us instead of us to them. Self-rule is what is needed?
1:00.7	So the question is, is there a place for carrots and sticks in our pursuit to getting things done?
1:05.9	Should we want to have external forces helping us to produce? Or should we, like a good Stoic, have no emotional
1:12.1	involvement in our actions? Should we simply do what must be done out of a sense of duty,
1:16.6	responsibility, and character without any consideration of consequences? Is there a place for
1:21.6	carrots and sticks in our pursuit for disciplined action? Our maker says there is. The Bible,
1:26.9	both old and New Testament, is full of
1:28.6	warnings of both immediate and eternal consequences as well as conditional promises for both
1:33.4	temporal and transcendent rewards. God uses carrots and sticks, so it's godly to do so. Self-control
1:40.4	isn't raw, emotionless action without any consideration of consequences.
1:44.7	The wise man uses threats and rewards as tools to drive his disciplined action.
1:49.4	It's important to consider the long-term outcome of what we do and don't do today.
1:53.7	That's partly why people are most motivated to act after the new year
1:57.0	when they reflect on their past year and future year and consider where they'd like to be.
2:01.3	Considering the future drives today's action.
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