How To Unlock Insane Discipline On Command

What if I told you that this 1 idea could help you build so much discipline, that in 6 months time your entire life would be unrecognizable?

Because that’s what it did for me.

I went from procrastinating every work block, skipping the gym and not having an ounce of discipline in my body to winning a British Weightlifting championship and building a 6 figure business, all thanks to this 1 idea that helped me effortlessly unlock insane discipline on command.

In today’s Self-Mastery Letter I’ll show you:

• How you can also build insane discipline on command

• And the 1 idea that will make it effortless

But the secret to unlocking discipline all starts with you understanding why you struggle with discipline in the first place, otherwise you’ll never be able to build it.

Imagine everyone has to wear a pair of glasses.

But these glasses are tinted.

Some people have red glasses, some people have blue glasses, some people have green glasses.

Well, imagine you come across a sign that when it’s red, you have to stop and wait for it to turn green before you can move.

If you’re wearing red glasses, that sign is always going to be red and therefore you’re always going to be stuck standing there, waiting for it to change colours.

You believe you’re doing the right thing because to you the sign always looks red, but yet, you’re wrong - your red glasses just don’t let you see the sign change to green.

And so you’ll never move.

You’ll continue to stand there because the way you see the world, which is red, makes you believe you have to stay there.

This is exactly why nobody could run a 4-minute mile until Roger Bannister came along and did it in 1954.

Since then over 1700 people have officially ran a sub-4 minute mile.

You see, nobody could run a 4 minute before Roger Bannister because they thought it was impossible.

They believed they couldn’t do it, just like your red tinted glasses make you believe the sign is red and you have to stand there.

The point here is this, you cannot act outside of what you believe to be true

But how does this tie into you not being disciplined?

Well, think of it like this.

If you’re trying to build a business, but you believe money to be scarce and that there’s not a lot of it out there, how can you expect to build a successful business?

Every action you take and every decision you make will be through the tinted lens of your belief that there’s not a lot of money out there and that only a few lucky people ever get it.

And so you will self-sabotage to make sure you never get any money and to prove to yourself that your belief is true.

Discipline is no different.

Your actions are limited by the beliefs you have around yourself, or in other words, your identity.

If you struggle to be disciplined, it’s because you believe you are and that you have the identity of someone who is undisciplined or someone who hates hard work or someone who can’t focus, and so you will act in accordance with that belief.

Any time you try to do anything disciplined you will sabotage yourself and procrastinate or run back to your vices and bad habits, just to prove to yourself that your belief about yourself and the world is true.

You are wearing a pair of tinted glasses that tell you the world and yourself is this certain way and in turn limits the actions you can take.

Your red glasses limit you to standing still because you believe the sign is still red.

And that is why you’re not disciplined.

You believe, for whatever reason, that you’re not disciplined or that discipline is hard and so you act accordingly.

And so, the secret to effortlessly unlocking insane discipline on command is taking off those damn red glasses.

You have to change your beliefs around yourself and shift your identity.

And look, I know that’s quite an abstract concept so I’m not just going to leave you hanging like that, I’m going to give you 2 simple steps that you can do right now to help you shift your identity and unlock insane discipline on command.

Step 1

This first step is one that should be pretty obvious, you need to swap out your glasses.

You see, you’re wearing red glasses right now but you can’t just take them off and not wear any glasses - because you’re human.

Remember your glasses represent your identity, or in other words, your beliefs about yourself and the world.

And as a human, you’re always going to have beliefs and certain perceptions about how things work - so we can’t just take the glasses off.

But what we can do is swap them out.

And so you need to swap your red glasses for a pair of green glasses, so that damn sign is green you can start going somewhere.

So how do you do that?

Well, obviously as it’s not as simple as finding a pair of green glasses.

No we need to shift our identity into a more advantageous light, we need an identity that believes we can be disciplined and that discipline and doing hard work is easy, so that you can stop sabotaging yourself and actually act in a disciplined way thats in aligned with your beliefs.

And the best thing about this is that you can use this technique for anything, not just discipline.

Remember, if you think money is scarce and you’re doomed to be broke forever, you will act accordingly and keep sabotaging yourself to keep yourself broke and confirm your beliefs.

But you can just shift your identity to become someone who thinks money is abundant and it’s only a matter of time before you become rich.

And so what you want you to do here is ask yourself, 1 specific question;

“If I was disciplined, what would that look like?”

Then you want to write about the best version of you that you could be in that context, what would the most disciplined version of you look like?

But write about yourself in the 3rd person and as if you already are that person.

For example;

Ross Harkness is a disciplined, driven, focused and successful entrepreneur.

“He finds doing hard things and being disciplined easy and natural, discipline is his natural state and ignoring impulses and cheap pleasure is easy, so easy he doesn’t even consider them.

Ross is the master of himself and his mind, making discipline the obvious option in every situation - he hits the gym without a 2nd thought, he does hours of deep work without hesitation and he enjoys every second off it.”

And you would write about the disciplined version of you in the most detail you could.

Step 2:

But doing this alone isn’t going to shift your identity, and so you need to combine it with step 2.

Imagine your identity is like a container.

That container can only hold so much liquid.

When you start this process, your container is full of liquid a, your old identity.

And as you follow step 2, you add liquid b, your new identity, to the container, forcing out your old identity until eventually, your container is full of your new identity.

Meaning you can then act entirely in accordance with your beliefs, you can now be disciplined.

So what is step 2?

Well first you need to understand how identities are formed, otherwise step 2 won’t work for you.

Your identity is just a collection of beliefs you have about yourself and the world.

These beliefs are formed through either trauma - which I hate that word, I think it’s overused - or repeated experience.

So if you had the repeated experience as a child of your parents telling you that they couldn’t afford to pay the bills, that repeated experience will make you believe money is scarce and that you’re doomed to be broke and struggle to pay the bills.

Hence, you will act in accordance and sabotage yourself with that belief and end up being broke, struggling to pay the bills. This is a large reason, you see repeating cycles through generations.

But, with knowing beliefs are formed through repeated experience, you know how to build new beliefs that favour you.

Step 2 is to create your reprogramming protocol.

This has 2 parts.

Part 1 requires you to understand placebos.

A placebo occurs when you have split a group of people into 2 groups.

You give group 1 a pill that has a certain effect.

You give group 2 a pill that has sugar in it, but tell them it’s the same pill as group 1.

And so what happens is that group 2 who got a pill with sugar in it, gets the same effects as group 1.

Now how does this happen?

Well it’s because you act in accordance with your beliefs, if you believe you got the real pill with these certain effects, your body will create those effects simply because, you act in accordance with your beliefs, whether those beliefs are true or not.

When the people in group 2 get a sugar pill, they imagined that they got the real pill.

You see, your subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a real experience - otherwise placebos could not exist.

So part 1 of your reprogramming protocol is to read the document that you created in step 1 every morning and every night.

No this isn’t some hippie manifestation bull shit.

This is psychology.

You are giving yourself a repeated experience by telling yourself who you are each time you read this document.

And remember your mind cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a real experience and so it will take this experience as true.

When you repeat this daily, you start to build new beliefs, you start add some of liquid b, your new identity, to the container.

When you combine this with the second part of your reprogramming protocol, becoming a disciplined person is inevitable.

Underneath your document about who you are, you need to write down “training plan”

In this area, write down all the habits that the disciplined version of you that you wrote about in step 1 would have.

If you work out, write it down.

If you do outreach for your business, first thing in the morning, write it down.

Write down every single habit, whether it’s 3 habits or 26 habits, write them all down.

Let’s say you wrote down 10 habits, you then want to make a 10 week training plan.

Where in week 1, you focus every single day on building the first habit

In week 2, you focus every single day on building habit 1 and habit 2

In week 3, you focus every single day on building habit 1, 2, and 3

Essentially, each week you build a new habit aligned with your new identity and the person you need to become.

And so if you had 10 habits, you would have a 10 week training plan.

If you had 22 habits, you would have a 22 week training plan.

But it doesn’t stop there.

Underneath your training plan, write down the word “evidence”.

Every single time you do anything that the person you need to become would do, you write it down here.

Whether it’s doing the habits in your training plan, whether it’s walking past the chocolate muffin sitting in your kitchen, whether it’s turning your phone off to do some undistracted work on your business, write it down.

And if you notice that you’re writing down the same things every single day, thats good, because what you’re doing here by following this training plan and stacking the evidence is creating repeated experiences.

You’re proving to yourself that this identity is now because you’re doing the habits that the disciplined version of you would do and you’re noting down the proof of it, you’re not just adding drops of your new identity into the container, you’re fucking pouring it.

When you create this document, when you read it every morning and every night, when you follow this training plan, and when you stack evidence every single day that you are this person you’re creating proof and repeated experience that you are this disciplined person.

And I can guarantee you that by the end of the training plan, whether it’s 4 weeks, 10 weeks or 35 weeks, you will have completely shifted your identity into being this disciplined person and discipline will now be effortless.

This is step 1 to becoming the person you need to become and achieving Self-Mastery.

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- Ross