Episode 237: You Don’t Lack Discipline, You Lack Motivation. There’s a Difference (FS237)

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

As indie entrepreneurs we live and die by the execution of our ideas. Without the right focus and motivation, discipline alone won’t save you.

I find it’s very common for creatives and business builders to feel they lack discipline. We think if we had more discipline then we’d be making more progress on our idea.

I don’t agree. You don’t lack discipline, you lack motivation. You lack the internal drive, the clarity and focus of desire, that would make being disciplined almost easy.

As I said before, us indie biz people live and die off the ideas we execute. Not the ideas we capture in our Moleskine notebooks, but the ideas we execute.

And if you’ve got issue with motivation (or discipline, if you insist), then you’ve got big problems with execution.

But here’s what I believe: you deserve to bring your idea to life. You deserve it. You’re not sitting on your ass doing NOTHING; you’re doing things to make it happen… it just sometimes feels like, you know, you don’t do enough, you couldn’t do enough, you’re not enough and you’re never enough.

Again, that’s all false. You just haven’t learned how to turn on motivation and channel it at whatever project you want.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.
0:07.0	Bam, beaum, boom, boom, boom.
0:13.0	That's the Fizzle Show song right there.
0:17.0	I made that song and it gets me pumped up.
0:20.0	And I get pumped up because we're talking about stuff that's interesting to indie entrepreneurs.
0:25.9	That's what we're doing.
0:27.0	This is the fizzle show.
0:28.3	Most business ideas fizzle out.
0:30.8	But we live at an age where you can make a business so much easier than you've ever been able to before.
0:36.9	The tools, the access, the resources, the education, all of it is readily available to you.
0:43.8	And yet, this is not an easy thing.
0:47.8	We make this show for people who can't help but want to create their own living doing something that they care about.
0:56.4	People who are building businesses, projects, passion projects, creative endeavors,
1:02.5	that's what we exist for, to help you learn how to get it off the ground in a way
1:07.0	that keeps it sustainably flying in hopes that it when you know obviously the main
1:12.6	goal here is i for me i want to support my family i want to keep i want to well i what i really want to
1:16.8	do is is i've got my business partner corbett bar on corbitt say hi corbett hey everybody
1:21.1	i want to make corbett rich that's my little that's i got to do that with my life that's my that's my
1:27.2	you know and then I also have to...
1:28.4	My wife, she needs...
1:30.3	She's like a doula,
1:31.4	and she's way into birthing stuff.
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