Next Level Daily

Everyone loves the feeling of being motivated. Having that spark of wanting to change everything overnight. Start going to the gym, build a business, eat healthy.

But the truth about it is: It’s unreliable, it’s only a feeling, and when it fades, most people are back on square one.

When you only take action when you feel motivated, you will never build consistant habits, except quitting. This is where discipline comes in, it is what keeps you moving long after the spark of motivation fades.

I’m gonna teach you how to make that shift, from feeling motivated to being disciplined.

It starts with you.

There is a choice to make here, letting emotions control you, or go the structural way of building a system and setting yourself up in a way which makes it hard to fail.

Having a system is crucial for success. If you give yourself too much freedom, bad habits will creep up eventually. The fewer decisions you have to make, the easier being disciplined becomes. Some examples:

• Packing your gym bag the night before.
• Turn your phone off during work, or leave it in another room.
• Have a day for preparing meals for the week.
• Write/read something everyday, a book, a gratitude journal. Etc.

Discipline is a muscle.

You wouldn’t go to the gym once and expect results.. Same goes for discipline, it has to be trained. And the easy way to do that is through micro-actions, consistantly every day. Some examples:

• Write for 5 minutes
• Even when tired, go do 5 pushups.
• Force yourself to rise when the first alarm goes off.

It’s about small actions compounding over time. Training your brain that you are infact reliable, and that builds internal momentum, and later in time, consistancy becomes a default.

Motivation is the spark. Discipline is the engine.

When you start to act disciplined, such as; eating clean, going to the gym and doing your chores consistantly, you start to create that motivational spark again.

Action → progress → motivation → more action.

And that becomes a cycle as long as you stick to it. The next time you tell yourself: “I don’t feel motivated”, remind yourself: You don’t need motivation to move, you just need to move.

Because that’s what discipline is: It’s doing the things you are supposed to do, even when you don’t want to.

Thanks for stopping by Next Level Daily.
I hope this post gave you a push to stay consistent even when motivation runs out.