Discipline Has Nothing to Do With Success?
Summary
- Understand that success involves a combination of discipline and environment setup; it's about creating a supportive environment that naturally leads to good habits.
- If you aim to lose weight, don't rely on willpower alone; instead, prepare your food in advance to avoid tough decisions when you're most vulnerable.
- Emulate the approach of avoiding temptation, similar to how an alcoholic should stay away from bars, to improve any aspect of your life you're trying to change.
- It's crucial to craft your environment intentionally to make positive outcomes happen more effortlessly over time.
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How To Take Action
I would suggest implementing a smart environment set up for success. This means making it so easy to do the right thing, you don't even need discipline. For example, if you're trying to lose weight, prepare your meals ahead of time. This way, when you're hungry and tired, you won't have to make a tough decision—you just eat what you've already prepared.
Here's a step-by-step plan:
- Identify the change you want to make in your life.
- Figure out what tempts you to stray from your goal.
- Remove those temptations from your environment.
To make positive outcomes happen more effortlessly, you can do a weekly review of your environment. Ask yourself, "What made it hard to stick to my goals this week?" Once you identify the problem, find a way to eliminate that obstacle for next week.
For example, if you want to read more books, put a book on your nightstand. If you want to exercise in the morning, set out your workout clothes the night before. Make it as easy as possible to do the right thing.
Remember, it's not about toughing it out every time. It's about making the good choice the easy choice. That's how you craft an environment that supports the habits you want to create. Over time, this approach will help you succeed in any aspect of your life you're trying to improve.
Quotes by Alex Hormozi
"Discipline has a lot to do with success and it also has nothing to do with success"
– Alex Hormozi
"You need to use discipline to set up your environment such that you no longer need to use discipline"
– Alex Hormozi
"If you want to lose weight it's not about walking through a candy store every day and saying no"
– Alex Hormozi
"It's about having all the food that you need ahead of time so that you don't need to make the decision when it gets hard"
– Alex Hormozi
"We just want to create that environment deliberately so that we let it happen by accident"
– Alex Hormozi
Full Transcript
discipline has a lot to do with success and it also has nothing to do with success because you need to use discipline to set up your environment such that you no longer need to use discipline in order to continue doing things if you want to lose weight it's not about walking through a candy store every day and saying no it's about having all the food that you need ahead of time so that you don't need to make the decision when it gets hard and so it's like being an alcoholic don't go to bars same idea but like you can apply that to anything that you're trying to change we just want to create that environment deliberately so that we let it happen by accident from that going forward