The Secret to Becoming More Disciplined – Dave Ramsey Rant
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🗓️ 28 April 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:06.5 | So when I was growing up, a little redneck kid outside of Nashville in the burbs, these little |
| 0:15.4 | houses all in a row, had a neighborhood full of kids, and the we would run in and out of the house and in |
| 0:22.1 | and out of the house all day long and leave the door open and my mother would say classic things |
| 0:26.6 | like were you raised in a barn like I know I was raised on suburbia but yeah and so um but |
| 0:33.3 | finally somewhere in the heat of the summer and the air conditioning having all spilled out of the |
| 0:40.2 | house the heat is now filled the house and it filled her head too and her frustration level would |
| 0:45.9 | reach it and she would say that's it the worm has turned we had no idea what that meant except that the beatings were about to begin. |
| 0:56.9 | And so we would all get scarce real fast and no more in and out of the house. We were just |
| 1:02.3 | out of the house at that point. The worm has, I didn't even know what it meant. I found out later |
| 1:06.5 | it was Shakespeare. Who knew mom knew Shakespeare? Your mom was a, The worm has turned. I'm like, what does that mean? |
| 1:14.2 | Except things are about to get ugly. So, yeah, but you know, that's what happens. This is the |
| 1:18.7 | secret of how you become disciplined. The worm has turned. That's it. Less Brown, the great |
| 1:24.4 | motivator used to say people change their lives when they finally say, |
| 1:28.0 | I've had it. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. And that's changing your life is not a, |
| 1:37.5 | changing your habits, becoming suddenly disciplined and something you weren't is not an intellectual |
| 1:43.4 | exercise. It's an emotional, |
| 1:45.8 | spiritual exercise. Well, and nowadays we have so much access to so many opinions, informed, |
| 1:52.4 | and uninformed. We have countless plans. And so we delude ourselves by researching a bunch. |
| 2:01.2 | If I, like, there's been seasons, Dave, when the time I spent researching the right workout, |
| 2:06.9 | if I just went down and worked out, it would have been less time than I spent just trying |
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