How To (Quickly) Unlock Insane Discipline

What if I told you that you were already disciplined, but you just didn’t know how to unlock it?

Well, I’m going to show you how you can quickly unlock insane discipline and build it into something that changes your life.

Back in university and before I started building anything online, I thought I was the most lazy and undisciplined person on the planet.

I struggled to do any of the work I knew I had to do. I constantly missed deadlines and although I hadnt started building anything online, I had planned to, but I just never got round to starting it.

And so I had this crippling anxiety around me having to find a normal job after university, live paycheck to paycheck and just be a massive fucking failure in life.

Instead of doing the work, I would spend most of my day productively procrastinating and watching Youtube, when one day I came across a video about a book.

I can’t remember what was said in the video, but I do remember how it made me feel.

It gave me hope that I could make a change.

I ordered the book and when it came I devoured it.

4 years later and here I am, I run a multi 6-figure business, I’ve won a British Weightlifting Championship and I crave hard work.

Now I know what you’re thinking “Ross what was the book?!?!”

The book was psycho-cybernetics and although the book isn’t about discipline it changed how I viewed hard work forever.

You see, imagine person a.

This person goes out every Saturday night and gets drunk.

This person never skips on watching Netflix every night or scrolling their phone every morning.

And this person never misses brushing their teeth.

Heck, that is one disciplined person.

They never miss anything.

Sure, a lot of the things they’re doing are the wrong things, but man are they disciplined in doing them.

When I read psycho cybernetics all those years ago, I realised that to some extent, everybody is like this.

Everybody is disciplined and nobody is lazy.

Really, the truth of the matter is that you’re just disciplined in the wrong things.

When this clicked in my head, everything changed.

I realised I didn’t have to build discipline, I just had to become disciplined in the right things.

But how do you do that? How can you change your vehicle of discipline?

Well here is the exact 4 step process that I followed that changed my life;

And to help with this I want you to imagine you’re a blacksmith.

Step 1: Choose The Metal 

The first step for a blacksmith is choosing the right metal - if you want to make a sword, you have to know what to make it out of so that it can serve its purpose.

Just like if you want to be disciplined in the right things, you have to figure out what the right things are.

The easiest way to do that is to do 2 things;

1. Figure out who you need to become and what habits they would have

2. Figure out what the main task you have to do every single day to move toward your goal is.

    

    

Step 2: Heat, Hammer, Cool and Refine 

Once a blacksmith has their materials, they figure out the process the metal needs to go through: heating, hammering, cooling, and refining.

Each step is meticulously planned and scheduled to ensure that it gets done and that it gets done in order of priority.

If you want to be disciplined, you need to make sure you find time to do the hard work that you need to do and the best way to do that is to schedule the things you need to do into your day.

Step 3: Overcome Resistance

When a blacksmith begins hammering their metal, they encounter resistance.

The metal resists the shape it’s being forced into, and so the blacksmith must overcome it.

Just as you must overcome the resistance to the hard work.

You see, your old identity is constantly clashing against the emergence of your new, disciplined self.

And for your new identity to be built, your old identity must die and so it creates resistance to the work in an effort to stop you from doing it and therefore stopping your new identity from being formed.

If you want to be disciplined, you need to understand that the things you’re doing aren’t that hard.

It’s not that hard to type on a keyboard.

It’s not that hard to lift a few weights.

It’s not that hard to send a few emails.

It’s not like you’re working in the damn mines.

And so realise resistance is just your old self resisting change and that it’s a sign of what you need to do, not what to avoid.

Step 4: Refine The Sword

Just as a blacksmith gradually increases the complexity and detail of the sword, starting with a rough outline and over time making it into a piece of art, so must you gradually increase your challenges.

Look, you can’t expect to be David Goggins in the morning.

You need to start small, start with something that you can handle, whether it’s just getting up 10 minutes earlier, hitting the gym, or doing 1 hour of work without your phone.

Different people will have different starting points here, but the main thing is that you start small with something that is just outside your grasp and increase the difficulty over time - each week make the things you do harder and do more hard things.

Trust me, I did this 4 years ago.

You take small steps and it feels like you’re not doing much at the start, but in 6 months you look back and your entire life has changed thanks to small, consistent and compounding efforts.

— Ross

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