There is one secret, without which you will fail to achieve your dreams. No matter how hard you try, everything will be mediocre, with mediocre results. I know because I’ve done it. For 10 years I tried to build an affiliate marketing business, and failed.
Looking back, it’s easy to see what I done wrong. I told my parents everything that I was doing and planned to achieve. I should have kept it to myself, because it extinguished my fire of motivation, time and time again. But the big secret to achieving your wildest dreams and transforming your life is this…
Self-discipline.
It sounds simple, but the difference between writing that article and not writing it when you have zero motivation is self-discipline. The difference between working out or not is self-discipline. The difference between waking up early or not is self-discipline. In fact, for anything you want to achieve in life, you need self-discipline.
You cannot rely on motivation.
Motivation comes and goes. It is like the wind. Some days you will be feeling motivated, and if so, great! But most of the time that motivation will allude you. The solution?
Build insane levels of self-discipline.
Think about it. What is stopping you from building the life of your dreams? Dream career? Dream income? Dream body?
Self-discipline will enable you to achieve all of these things.
So how do I build self-discipline?
By consistently doing things that make you feel uncomfortable.
For example:
- Waking up at 5am every morning.
- Eating something healthy when you want fast food.
- Going to the gym each morning before work.
- Making a smoothie instead of drinking soda.
- Sleeping on the floor at night instead of in bed.
- Brushing your teeth every morning.
- Taking a cold shower instead of a warm one.
- Doing 10 pressups every morning.
As you can see, there are various ways of increasing your self-discipline. If you want to be extreme, go sleep on the streets at night as if you are homeless (but I don’t recommend it).
I didn’t realise the importance of self-discipline until I began studying Stoicism. For the stoics, self-discipline was necessary to leading a happy and fulfilling life. Self-discipline was one of the virtues, the four being:
- Wisdom
- Courage
- Justice
- Temperance (Self-control)
And the stoics claimed that if you exercise these four virtues, it will lead to a happy life. Notice that temperance, or self-discipline, is one of them. And without self-discipline, you will inevitably waste your life and be full of regret in old age.
We want to avoid that. How?
Start building your self-discipline. Hit the gym.
The gym is hands-down the BEST way to become disciplined.
Lifting heavy weights until failure will motivate you AND make you a disciplined man. I started lifting weights seriously 5 months ago, and it has all snowballed from there. Lifting weights is the best thing that you can do to build self-discipline.
And once you succeed at the gym, it makes taking the next step easy, which is starting a business. You need to have a business and other income streams if you want to be able to eventually quit your job. Most people resign themselves to working a job for the rest of their life.
My goal on this blog is to help you become an entrepreneur – and to be one, you need a radical change of mindset. The right book can also do that for you. For now, just focus on hitting the gym. That’s almost always the first step to becoming wildly successful in life. What the gym will teach you – how to build a body.
It makes sense that the next step is how to build a business. Heck, you can even market your body to sell products on Instagram. Whatever your goal in life, the first step is the gym. Self-discipline comes naturally from there, as well as practicing other things.
The secret to a successful life is to find a way to build the levels of discipline required to achieve it.
So that you won’t give up. So that you won’t fail, and will persevere. For example, being a true Christian is a great way to become stronger and more self-controlled in life. But that’s not what this article is about.
If you feel lost in life and don’t know what the next step is, the gym is your answer.
Everything will make sense from there.
Until next time,
-Aaron
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