Hello everybody, welcome to NAP Eclipse episode number four. My name is Jody Moore. This is how to start living with the habits you wish came naturally.

When I was in junior high, there was a motivational speaker that came to our school.

And he, I loved him. I love all motivational speakers and I still do.

And his message really stuck with me. I don't remember a lot of what he said, but what I do remember is that he said that self discipline is the key to success.

He even gave us a little yellow plastic keychain that I carried around for a long time that had that stamped right on it. It said self discipline is the key to success.

And his message really made sense to me. I can see that somebody who's a world class athlete, for example, has a lot of self discipline.

They exercise a lot. They practice really hard. They do all the things necessary to maintain or get better at the sport that they play.

If you look at people who tend to be healthy, they have discipline around exercising regularly and around nutrition and eating the right kinds of foods.

And they are what we would consider successful when it comes to health many times, right, with regards to the things that are in their control anyway.

Today, those are things that I still think are important and that I would love to be successful at and want to continue to get better at.

There's also other habits that I would really like to improve upon and that I know many of you would like to improve upon because I hear from you about these topics all the time.

So even things as simple as keeping up on the house. I feel like I talk about the housework and the condition of the house in every podcast.

But the reason why is it comes up with all of my clients and it seems like such a small thing but it really has a huge impact on our psyche overall.

And so it's a subject that I know I throw in here a lot and I don't mean to only focus on that.

But I think it's such a big one that we sometimes just brush aside because it feels meaningless.

But if you want to be more self-disciplined in keeping up on the housework, then there are some things I want to offer today that go beyond self-discipline.

Okay. So if you think about that word discipline and let me back up for a minute and say that that particular mantra self-discipline is the key to success has served me really well through a lot of my life.

I'm not always as disciplined as I wish I was but if there's an area that I really want to be successful at, I know that I can if I just discipline myself enough.

So I want to kind of define discipline for a minute here and then I want to offer that there's kind of a level two.

I was in junior high when that speaker came to my school and not that his advice isn't still great. I really think it is.

But I think there's a next level that can make things a lot easier that I want to share with you in just a moment.

So first of all, if you go to Wikipedia, they will tell you that discipline is the suppression of base desires and is usually understood to be synonymous with self-control.

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