NAVY SEAL Shares How To NEVER Be LAZY AGAIN | Rich Diviney

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

0:15How do we train our minds and our body to be motivated towards a goal and not stay lazy? Well, at first, it's know thyself because we're all different. So one of the attributes I talk about in the book is discipline. And what I had to do with discipline was actively separate discipline from self-discipline. The difference is that self-discipline is internally focused. Self-discipline is about managing oneself, and it has very little to do with external requirements. So you or I can decide to get in shape, for example, and we can change our diet, we can work out every day. The external environment doesn't have a lot of say in that, in us achieving that accomplishment.

0:54So self-discipline is about managing the internal. Discipline, the way I talk about in the book, is about achieving that long-term goal. These are those long-term goals that are going to take a while to achieve, and the external world has a say. So getting that promotion, writing that book, becoming the famous singer, becoming an A.B. SEAL, right? The external world has a say in whether or not you do that. And the discipline that is required to move through those wicked takes adaptability. It takes flexibility. It takes the ability to not get seduced by the highs, the successes, and not get crushed by the failures.

1:30and continue to move towards that goal. I'm a very unself-disciplined person. I don't have a lot, right? And so I had to separate this because I've been able to achieve a lot of goals in my life. I said, well, what's the difference? So those with very high self-discipline, sometimes, this is not exclusive, but sometimes have trouble achieving long-term goals because the achievement of long-term goals often takes an ability and by necessity to march into the unknown, into uncertainty, which is going to throw you off routine and throw you out of certainty. The self-disciplined person, the very self-disciplined person, likes routine, likes certainty.

2:05That's how it's structured. I mean, that's what it is. And so moving towards a goal like that takes oftentimes being able to adapt out of structure. The best, the most successful people are those who have both self-discipline and discipline. In terms of staying motivated for a goal, the way I would do it by knowing myself is I would, understanding I'm not a very self-disciplined person, I would simply try to chunk a goal into smaller pieces. The way one stays motivated towards a goal is highly subjective, but it would, in my, kind of through my thought process and my experience, involve one to actively map out a reward system that helps someone move through that.

2:45So creating a reward system first for the goal in order to help you stay motivated. Depending on how you show up. Not to say, like, okay, my goal is to achieve this thing. It's going to take me three years to accomplish it. Right. And that's the only reward I'm going to get in those three years. But how can I reward myself every day for an action I take, every month for a milestone every year if we're getting closer? So focusing on the reward system. And this is neurobiological because dopamine, the neurotransmitter, is you get hits of dopamine as a reward when you achieve things. You know, there's many ways you get dopamine.

3:22One of the ways is when you achieve things. So if you're able to effectively create a reward system that means something to you, it can't be kind of inert, right? So if I don't run a marathon and I can barely run to my mailbox, right, then maybe buying some running shoes and putting them on one morning is enough of a reward system to get a dopamine hit. As someone who runs, just putting on our shoes one morning is probably not going to give us that dopamine hit. We've got to extend that task a little bit so that they're— accomplish a lot of something, you have to push beyond it. You have to push beyond it to get that reward system.

3:56So it becomes subjective.

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