dreams you are the creator of your
reality I think it’s not just how good
you are now I think it’s how good you’re
gonna be that really matters 1962 at
Rice University
JFK told the country about a dream he
had a dream to put a person on the moon
by the end of the decade the eponymous
moonshot no one knew if it was possible
to do but he made sure a plan was put in
place to do it if it was possible that’s
how great dreams are great dreams aren’t
just visions their visions couple the
strategies for making them real I think
the word discipline has kind of gotten a
bad name we think about it in terms of
punishment I’m not talking about
discipline in that way I’m talking about
discipline in the sense that you you
forego immediate pleasure for the
exchange of long-term self-respect if
you want to be happy you have to love
yourself which means you have to
discipline your behavior the road to
sustained happiness is through
disciplining your behavior
easy choices hard life hard choices easy
life
the hard choices what we most fear doing
asking saying these are very often
exactly what we most need to do and the
biggest challenges and problems we face
will never be solved with comfortable
conversations whether it’s in your own
head or with other people most people
stop at the suffering but if you keep
there are numerous problems in making it
on your own you don’t recognize the
issues that are standing in your way or
if you do you don’t necessarily know how
to fix them and the result is that
somewhere along the way you stop
improving we’re so afraid of the future
and the only thing that should scare us
is repeating the past it takes a high
level of psychological courage to admit
when we’re in the wrong thing because
it’d be easy for us to be vulnerable and
say wow I’m so stupid I can’t believe I
spent so many years here but how did the
high performers have because they quit
the wrong things they couldn’t fast and
it wasn’t because they’re quitters it’s
because they were focused on that which
really matters I will be acting just
like you 99% of people that say stuff
like that are not willing to do what it
takes to make their dreams come true
the Marines have a saying everybody
wants to go to heaven but nobody wants
to die and that’s just real at the
center of bringing any dream into
fruition is self discipline you know
something as simple as food and
it’s not about your body as much as it
is about your mind it’s getting command
of your mind to be able to choose
actions that are in your own best
entrance every day we are choosing shit
that’s not in our own best interest
right so if the world is attacking you
and the world wants to fight you in the
world’s trying to hold you down so you
gonna kick yourself in the balls so you
will stop yourself from getting what you
dream self-discipline is the center of
all material success you cannot win the
war against the world if you can’t win
Road to power is in taking
responsibility your heart your life your
happiness is your responsibility and
your responsibility alone hold yourself
accountable for every moment every
thought every detail see beyond your
fears recognize your assumptions harness
your internal strength silence our
internal critic correct your
misconceptions about luck and about
success accept your strengths and your
weaknesses and understand the difference
open your hearts to your bountiful
blessings your fears your critics your
heroes your villains they are your
excuses rationalizations shortcuts
justifications your surrender
they are fictions you perceive as
reality
choose to see through them choose to let
them go you are the creator of your reality