{"id":37757,"date":"2025-03-04T03:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T02:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalent.pro\/en\/?p=37757"},"modified":"2025-03-05T02:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T01:05:02","slug":"want-discipline-then-get-ready-for-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mentalent.pro\/en\/mindset\/want-discipline-then-get-ready-for-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Want Discipline? Then Get Ready For What&#8217;s Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<article style=\"\" class=\"widget  iron_widget_radio playlist_enabled iron_podcast_player srt_player-container\" data-skin=\"podcast\">        \r\n        \r\n      <div class=\"iron-audioplayer   show-playlist   \" id=\"arbitrary-instance-69e5504dd33dc\" data-shuffle=\"\" data-soundwave=\"0\" data-autoplay=\"\" data-albums=\"37767\" data-url-playlist=\"https:\/\/mentalent.pro\/en\/?load=playlist.json&#038;title=Tienda%20del%20CURSO%20MenTalent&#038;albums=37767\" data-no-track-skip=\" \" >\r\n            <div class=\"artwork-col\">\r\n\r\n\r\n                            <div class=\"sonaar-Artwort-box\">\r\n                <div class=\"album\">\r\n                  <div class=\"album-art\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mentalent.pro\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/sonaar\/images\/defaultpx.png\" alt=\"album-art\" title=\"\"><\/div>\r\n                  <div class=\"metadata\">\r\n                    <div class=\"track-name\"><\/div>\r\n                    <div class=\"album-title\"><\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n              <\/div>\r\n              \r\n              <div class=\"playlist-col\">\r\n                <div class=\"playlist\">\r\n\r\n                                  \r\n                                                    <ul><li data-audiopath=\"\/\/mentalent.pro\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Post-Discipline-Full.mp3\"  data-selected=\"selected\" data-showloading=\"1\"  data-albumTitle=\"\" data-albumArt=\"https:\/\/mentalent.pro\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/listen-song-1-404x559.webp\"data-trackartists=\"\"data-releasedate=\"March 5, 2025\" data-trackTitle=\"PostBeats: Want Discipline? 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Then get ready for what&#8217;s coming<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes I imagine that discipline is like that person we know is good to have around, but who we avoid like an insurance salesman with our address on the pad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We like the idea of being disciplined people, just like we like the idea of having energy in the morning, a bank account full of money and the ability to say &#8220;no&#8221; to the last drink when we know we have to get up early tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when push comes to shove&#8230; alas, how good procrastination tastes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You start with the intention of getting up early and eating the world, but you end up negotiating with your cell phone alarm as if it were a hostage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is where the story begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>When motivation goes, discipline pays the bill<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There was a time when I thought discipline was a superpower reserved for Buddhist monks and Olympic athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People with different genetics, with an iron will that would not be overcome by the temptations of the modern world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then I understood that no, it&#8217;s not that they are different: it&#8217;s that they have been<strong> mentally trained first <\/strong>to do what needs to be done, whether they feel like it or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s that crude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you only do things when you feel like it, you will be a slave to your moods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today you feel like it, fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow you don&#8217;t, so nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day after tomorrow you remember that you have to do something, but you say to yourself &#8220;I&#8217;d better start well on Monday&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so on, in an infinite loop of justifications called excuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you train your brain with scientific self-talk to understand that <strong>doing what you have to do is non-negotiable<\/strong>, then things change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motivation is that party friend who shows up when everything is going well, but disappears when the dirty dishes need to be picked up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discipline is the person who stays up doing the dishes while everyone else sleeps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s the one who really makes things happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Excuses are stories well told<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>People who don&#8217;t achieve what they want are not because they can&#8217;t, but because they have told themselves a very convincing story about why they can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;I don&#8217;t have the time. I don&#8217;t have the life.&#8221;<br>&#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m just more about working for inspiration.&#8221;<br>&#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m not one for habits, I flow.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds like I&#8217;m reading your mind, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look, nobody has time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody likes to get up early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one feels like training after a long day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if every time an obstacle appears you use it as a justification for not doing what you have to do, the only thing you are training is your mind, yes, but in the opposite direction to <strong>postpone what is important<\/strong> and thus not achieve your desires or goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key to discipline is not to make great heroic efforts, it is to <strong>make small daily decisions, in the form of self-talk, that prepare your mind to get you closer to where you want to be<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the writer who sits down to write even when she doesn&#8217;t feel like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are the entrepreneurial person who keeps selling even when they are told not to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are athletes who train in winter when no one is watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Discipline is choosing the &#8220;hard&#8221; path (without the right self-talk) when no one is forcing you to do it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>how do you train discipline? 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It&#8217;s part of the plan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the numbers will turn around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of 10 attempts, 6 will be sabotages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then it will be only 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until day 10 of 10 arrives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then the months, years, etc. will come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The habit takes away the need to depend on motivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because if there is one thing we know for sure, it is that motivation comes and goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But discipline, when you train, is a marriage for life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s that kind of &#8220;friendship&#8221; that never leaves you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Having discipline is not boring, it&#8217;s being free.<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. 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