Discipline Hack

There is so much more to transforming your body than following a meal plan and doing some exercise. 

If it was that easy, everybody would be their ideal shape and at optimal health. Heck, there wouldn't be a trillion dollar fitness industry and I wouldn't even have a job if it were that easy!

We can't neglect the psychology of it all.

Our purpose for transformation needs to be meaningful.

Our mindset clear and positive.

Old, unhealthy habits broken.

Emotional connections to food and unhealthy vices resolved.

Sometimes we even need to rearrange our priorities and make a few sacrifices along the way...

...and to do much of this, we'll also need some discipline skills!

Here's my advice to start building, or brushing up on your discipline: start small & slow.
 

Set a small and simple task to follow through with. It doesn't even have to be fitness- or health-related. And follow through!

For example, make your bed every day for a week. Or read 3 pages of a book daily. Or have a handful of raw veggies at lunch every day next week.

Setting and achieving small goals primes our brains to be able to take on our bigger, more challenging goals.

Eventually you can wake up, make a to-do list with 3-5 simple tasks that you have to do that day, cross them off your list as you complete them (physically with a pen!), and build that momentum and will to take on a fitness goal you've been wanting to achieve!

Warning: don't set your tasks and goals too big!

Setting an unrealistic goal will be too overwhelming and your brain will say 'NOPE!' Or even worse, you'll work towards your goal for a few days, veer off track after that, and your confidence will crumble, flooding your brain with the negative "I can't" thoughts... or worse.

Let's use my email campaigns for example. I promised you guys I would send weekly blogs on Fridays for four weeks straight. Doable. And I did it! And here we are on week five and I'm eager and excited to send this email. Before I know it, it'll be a habit.

...but had I committed to writing three blog posts every week for all of 2021... I probably wouldn't even had made it to post #2! The thought of that is overwhelming and in fact discouraging. It would feel forced and I probably would dread and hate every minute of it!

Committing to a smaller and simpler task has allowed me to build the confidence to write weekly blogs effortlessly and build the momentum to execute discipline in other areas of life too.

So here's your disciple hack: start small. Keep it simple. Make note when you achieve small goals, allow them to become habits, and use that momentum to set bigger goals!