And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you

can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this episode episode is titled, Self-Discipline.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

All right, everybody, peeps.

Welcome to a new month.

It's nearly Easter, so we've got a bank holiday weekend at the end of the month.

Good to know about that in advance. Because I've got certain jobs in my diary on repeat,

on Fridays and Mondays, that I need to make sure I've moved to other days throughout the month.

Otherwise, I'll book in my therapy clients and suddenly find

that there's no room for all my podcast work. So we need to stick to a plan. Otherwise, I'm going to run

out of time at the end of the month and then get stressed. But sticking to a plan isn't always easy.

We know what to do, but we often get distracted, don't we? Well, I do. Or we prioritise the wrong thing,

and that's where self-discipline and willpower has to come in. It's the same for choosing an

apple over a cabri's cream egg, isn't it? You know what's the right thing to do, but the pull of

what you want right now is usually greater

than the desire to look after the future you, because future you doesn't really exist, does it?

If you ask someone if they want £10 now or £20 in a year's time, almost everyone takes the

£10 now, even if if the 20 quid is absolutely

100% guaranteed. Future you in a year's time doesn't even exist yet. So it's hard to do the right

thing. It takes proper discipline. But it pays off. It really does. Having control over yourself, being disciplined

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