Discipline Mastery: Build Mental Strength with Hulse

Motivation gets you going. Discipline. Commitment. Strong habits is what gets things done.

Right? It's all up here. Wow, I feel good. When it comes time to bring it into practice,

grounded action is what gets things done. When you have built a habit, it's ingrained in your

nervous system in such a way that the brain doesn't even have to consider whether or not it'll get

done. It just gets done because you commit it. Commit once. This is important. You guys need to

write that down. Commit once. You don't need to commit more than once. You commit once to the

thing that you're going to do and then you do it every single day.

So whatever it is that you're trying to achieve in life, the critical component is getting things

done and getting things done in a systematic way. Building the character that's associated with

getting things done in a systematic way requires that you become disciplined. Often time people will

come to me for advice on fitness, on building their businesses, and their relationships,

whatever case may be, and often the place that they're dropping the ball is in bad habits or

not building productive habits. Because it's very difficult to just get up and change your life,

just change the way you do things. People like to say that all the time, hey, just stop doing this or

start doing that. They like to give advice, but the underlying factors that our friend, our

individual, whoever's asking the question is not disciplined enough to actually put that thing

in action, get that thing done. So the thing that I have always told my students and my clients

is to start with a small win, begin with something small. So for example, if you want to lose weight,

I often tell people just start walking every single morning. Don't worry about counting

counts. Don't worry about complex workout ideas. Don't worry about anything that anyone is selling

you. Just get up and walk every morning, right? Now it's not the walking that's actually going to

make that person successful. Now it will add to your success because getting up and walking,

fresh air and exercise is going to support you in losing weight. But we all know that there's far

more factors to consider. But what it will do is create the virtue of discipline, commitment,

the fact that that small win associated with getting up every single morning is under your belt,

you're going to feel the courage, the confidence, and you will have the ability to begin adding other

things to your ability to grow stronger. So now that you know, it's been 60 days, 90 days,

and it's like you got that pattern down pack, you get up every morning, you just walk it's it,

you don't think about it, it's become a habit. You now can use that tool of creating habits and

instilling discipline with the next one. Basically what you're doing, and I've mentioned

this in videos before, is you're getting comfortable with discomfort. You've got to get comfortable

in getting uncomfortable. And the minute that discomfort begins to woo you, you are no longer

in control now the circumstances are. So put yourself purposefully in uncomfortable situation.

There's no virtue is developed in a vacuum. Essentially, no virtue is developed in the absence

of the practice, the expression, you got to do the thing to have the power. Otherwise you would

have reached 10 years. You're not a goal person, and I'll end to be quite frank, it's difficult

for you and myself at times. If I don't have something to be in my ass, I don't like the laugh

to something. You've got to really, like, brainwash yourself to do that. It's a create a situation

where you think you sink or swim. You'll learn how to swim. You've got to place yourself in the

midst of a storm, and it's got to be a self-created storm. Otherwise, you know, most people have

the wings until the ship comes troubling down before they take action in life. I'm inviting you to

create a storm for yourself so that you will be motivated by the wolf crying in the door by

the dog nipping at your ass, by the fire under your ass.

But the thing is that information, ideas, do not help transform a person, because if it

did, we would all be jacked, right? How many bodybuilding channels do you watch? How many books

have you read? How many magazines have you read? How many TV shows? How many seminars? How much have

you bombarded your mind with ideas about strength and fitness? And you know what? You don't mean

that you actually got it, right? Because ideas don't help people. What helps people? This is why I

talked the way I do, is showing them a way that perhaps they could transform their character,

who they are is more important than what they know and what they do. The way they see themselves,

their character, it literally requires a brainwashing of yourself to see yourself in a different

light, affirmations, visualization, meditation. These are all forms of mental transformation.

See, we have these experiences in our life that are not fun, that are difficult. You know,

you lose a loved one, you lose a limb. You get really sick. See, these are the easy ones,

but you're going to experience it in life. You're going to experience some tough, tough, I mean,

you can lose your parents, you can lose your children. Like I said, you can lose your limbs,

you could be flat, broken and hungry. There are so many different experiences that you're probably

going to experience in life. You know, getting in an accident, there's so much. And each one of those,

each one of those aren't arbitrary. Think about how bad it can possibly become. That is not

arbitrary. It is purposeful. It is set there for your growth, right? That's what life is about.

Life is engaging in all of those really difficult situations for your growth because always on

the other end of that pain is a stronger version of yourself. That's why that pain is there.

Like we weight training the weight group. You know what? It's very painful to the body. We

subject our body to the pain of it. Let's weight it up. The thing waits in order to experience

the growth that's on the other end of the pain. Life is that knowledge between cannibalic and

cannibalic is the big group. Cannibalic is the bounce back associated with going through

a certain sense. Go do something that forces you to look the ugliness in the face so that you can

deal with it so that you can grow past it so that you become a stronger version of yourself.

Every time you back away from any of these challenges, these circumstances,

these fail you. So those are things that fail you. You didn't lose that basketball game

because you're failing. You didn't drop out of school. You didn't have the experience that

caused you to drop out of school because you're a failure. And those circumstances

post you in order for you to grow stronger. Even if you fail and fail and fail, you get knocked

in your face 10 times. You're not a failure until you quit mother. I guarantee you that after

90 days of tiny wins and the revamping of your character, you will be the type of person that

can get anything done at any time. And the long time perspective is going to be a successful one

for you. Start small, have big wins with these little things and then use that new version of

yourself, that new character tool to attack bigger and more advanced things until you reach your

goal. Good luck.

You