Discipline Won’t Make You Successful

Summary

• I believe that success doesn't come from discipline alone, it comes from structuring your environment to make winning easier.
• Remember this: "Make it as easy as possible to work as hard as you can."
• For fitness goals, choose a convenient gym close to you with trainers you enjoy to increase your chances of sticking with it.
• Make your goals convenient to achieve; the easier it is, the more likely you'll succeed.
• It's not about having a lot of willpower; it's about smart planning and setting yourself up for success.

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How To Take Action

To start making progress towards success, I would suggest playing it smart. It's not just about toughing it out with discipline, but about cleverly designing your surroundings. Here's a practical way to do it:

First, look at your goals. If it's fitness you're after, pick a gym that's so close it's almost too easy to get to. Make sure they have trainers that you don't just tolerate, but actually like. This makes showing up not just a must-do, but a want-to-do.

For other goals, think about how you can cut down on hurdles. If you want to read more, put books in places you can't overlook them—like the bathroom or next to your bed. If you're aiming to eat healthier, prep meals in advance so when you're hungry, the good choice is the easy choice.

Remember, it's about setting up your life in a way that winning is not a battle of willpower, it's just the path of least resistance. Make your targets hard to miss and you'll hit them more often. So, identify one thing right now that you can shift in your environment to make your goal feel like it's on autopilot.

This approach is low on cost, but high on value, because it leverages what's already around you. Small tweaks, big results—that's how you play it. Keep it simple, use what you have, and watch how your daily actions start moving you closer to where you want to be.

Quotes by Alex Hormozi

"Make it as easy as possible to work as hard as you can"

– Alex Hormozi

"If you want to get into fitness, don't pick a gym that's really far away with trainers that you hate"

– Alex Hormozi

"Pick one that's right downstairs with people that you like"

– Alex Hormozi

"The more convenient you make it to hit your goals, the more likely you are to hit them"

– Alex Hormozi

"It's not about willpower, it's about planning"

– Alex Hormozi

Full Transcript

you don't need to be disciplined to be successful you need to be able to change your environment to make it easier to win and so one of my favorite quotes around this is make it as easy as possible to work as hard as you can if you want to get into fitness don't pick a gym that's really far away with trainers that you hate pick one that's right downstairs with people that you like same goal way easier the more convenient you make it to hit your goals the more likely you are to hit them and so it's not about willpower it's about planning