From Decision to Desire | Pastor Michael Todd EP 563

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12Once you get that discipline, somewhere around the consistency being all the time, even when you don't want to, it turns into a desire. You literally go from a decision to a discipline to a desire, and that desire continued will change your destiny. You can apply that to any area of your life. You can apply it to relationships, money. You can apply it to what we were talking about earlier, health. and working out. But I'm telling you, this is the formula for life. It is a decision. I don't want to, but I'm going to do it. That turns into a discipline. I don't feel like it, but I'm going to do it, which then one day turns into a desire.

0:50Man, I actually want to do this. And then it changes your destiny. And if you can apply that to any area of your life with consistency, you will take every trauma situation and it has to turn into triumph. Every single one. and that's something you've been doing in your health journey over the last year now, year and a half? About two years. Two years. I think it was about two years ago when I saw you last. Yeah, I was a little fluffier, bro. I was a little more packed on. I had a little extra weight on you. You had some extra love on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what allowed you to make a decision with your health to optimize health?

1:27Because it's been a two-year journey. You've been disciplined on this journey of health. Was there a trauma holding you back? Was there an old pattern holding you back? I'ma be hot, humble, open, and transparent. The truth of the matter was I was an emotional eater. If we won, I ate. If we lost, I ate. If somebody died, I ate. If somebody had a baby, I ate. Like, it was like, what do you do that you are in control of that makes you feel good? Cookies and cream ice cream, Blue Bill. all that i mean burgers with cheese and like and it didn't matter what time of night i find myself two o 'clock in the morning like what's open ice cream ice cream like and i was an emotional eater that i never addressed it i i never even thought about it when i begin to gain another level of success responsibility all of these different things now it gets magnified because i'm feeling it all the time like I'm responsible for this many people's uh livelihoods and people are depending on me to be inspired and be drawn closer to God and all this other stuff and you start feeling that pressure and what do you do you need to release food I was eating well I got up to 270 pounds I was 270 pounds I was slow I was trying to hide I was insecure which tapped into another trigger another trauma of mine of being insecure about how I looked and how I felt and all that other stuff from young and so I literally got to a point where I was looking at myself and I was like you're not going to be able to do everything that you were put on this earth to do if you do not do something about this issue your current identity did not fulfill your future vision see bro you talking my language right now my I'll say it like this my future self could not get there without my present self.

3:20Right. And my present self was killing me. Right. Like it was literally destroying all of the opportunity, all of the thing. And I was like, I got to do something about this. Right. And so I started on a journey, bro. And literally I couldn't do five pushups. Like I'm going to, I'm going to put it out there for every person that's like, no, I should be able to do more than this. I was 35 years old. I could not do five pushups. I had to start with five and ten dumbbell weights. I was out of shape. I could not run for more than five minutes. Like it was horrible. And everybody laughing right now.

3:57Just OK. Hold your horses because now it's a whole different thing. Like literally for a two year process, I turned my garage into a gym. The trainer comes to my house six days a week. Wow. Like I invested money. I invested in equipment. I stopped buying cars and stopped doing all the other stuff because what good is it to have a vehicle that I can drive that looks good and the vehicle God gave me is trash. Think about it. How many people are driving in luxury cars and the one vehicle that you get and you can't trade out and you can't lease out, you are literally riding around or walking around in a hoopty.

4:31And I was like, no, I'm going to put this into this. And literally I've lost over 50 pounds. I'm stronger than I've ever been in my whole life. But the truth of the matter is the least thing that happened to me is the physical transformation. It's what happened to my mind. It's what happened to my emotions. I am more confident in my word now than I have ever been in your word in my word Because a lot of times we say stuff and the reason it doesn't happen is because we don't believe what we say A lot of times. It's not anybody external. It's like i'm gonna make a million dollars And it's like I don't even believe that like hopefully it happens But like you don't believe your own word and the person that you need to trust the most when it comes to doing what you need to do is yourself.

5:12We know how many times we break our promises to ourselves. I'm not going to eat the cake and 10 minutes later you're eating the cake. I'm not going to talk to her or I'm not going to make that business deal. It's too much money. We know that the person, if you really evaluate the person who is broken their promise to you more than anybody is you. So what happens when you don't trust you? It makes you approach other people differently. And so for me, this process has made me trust myself. I know when I did 75 hard. That's hard. It's hard. Two a days. Two a days. One has to be outside a gallon of water.

5:50Read 10 pages of books. You got the whole thing. I did it. And I did it not in this shape. I did it a year ago. Oh, man, that's even harder. But when I finish that, this is not a season anymore. This is my lifestyle. doing the physical work with the emotional and spiritual work, I feel like a new person. Wow. I have literally turned into a different person with the same values, but a different vehicle. That's incredible. And that is what I desire for everybody. It was like my life was in black and white and now it's in full HD color. And I believe that those three components, the spiritual side connection with God, the physical side connection with yourself and the emotional side, the connection with everything that's happened to you.

6:35If you do the hard work in those areas, the quality of life that you will live is off the charts.

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