Good morning. Welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. Justin Sua here, episode 1,839.

Today I want to talk about determination and discipline. If you're listening to this, the one thing I know about you is you are seeking self-improvement.

And chances are you have a high level of determination you're determined in whatever you're trying to pursue but one thing we often neglect

or we don't talk about too often or maybe we do talk about all the time is the combination

of determination and discipline.

Because if you don't have discipline, determination is, it's fickle.

And a lot of times what determination does, it creates so much ambition, so much energy,

so much excitement that you might find yourself chasing multiple pursuits, multiple priorities.

And as we discussed before, when you have many priorities, you have zero.

And so the purpose of discipline is that it protects you from getting distracted.

Lack of discipline leads to more distractions. Once you have the determination to go after what you want, create routines, create a system, have the discipline to stick with it

and it continue to pursue your path until you see it through. Now, you're going to have to identify

how long the path is going to be.

And that's the great thing about your path. You want to decide how long a race you want to run.

Is it going to be a marathon? Is it going to be a half marathon, a 5K? Is it going to be a mile? Is it going to be a sprint?

How far is a sprint going to go? How much effort are you going to put into it?

Because when you have the discipline and have this plan, then you can be frugal with your energy.

Oftentimes we talk about being frugal with our money, which is important.

But we also want to be frugal with our energy. We want to be frugal with our attention.

We want to be frugal with our time, meaning we don't want to waste it.

We don't want to give our time, attention, and our energy to things that are going to waste it,

that are going to, they're going to deplete those finite resources. And so today, my invitation

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