This is my complete list of mental tools I apply daily to:

Perform tasks I genuinely do not want to do.

Resist things I desperately want to do.

Table of contents:

Part 1-

• Meditation (Discipline mini-workout)
• Motivational Awareness (Discipline Fuel)
• Adaptive Denial (Discipline Placebo)

Part 2-

• Urge Surfing (Discipline Lane Assist)
• Chunking (Discipline Rep Assist)
• Shame-free Analysis (Discipline Muscle repair)

I should note prior to attempting these, I highly recommend applying these for a MINIMUM of 30 days, like going to the gym, if you quit when you don’t have a 6-pack in a week you have unrealistic expectations.

Do it for 30 days, I guarantee you’ll see results and thank me.

Mediation

I used to hate meditation, then I saw so many people I admired doing it, and I kept hearing about it in peer reviewed studies so I tried it out.

This is what happened:

• I became aware of my cravings, but became aware I didn’t need to follow them.
• I’d feel powerful emotions, and not react to them.
• I was more present in my daily life and my interactions with others improved.
• I started sleeping better and worrying less.

How to do it: Literally for just 10 minutes every morning after you wake up, or as long as you can tolerate up to that, sit and try to focus on your breathing. When you notice yourself following a thought trial, gently, without criticizing yourself, come back to the breath. Overtime you get thought control and once you can control your thoughts, you can begin controlling your life.

Motivational awareness

I used to skip the gym consistently, that was until I identified the proper motivation. For me that was the awareness I lost someone I loved very much because I was a couch potato, glutton, and destroyed my self esteem.

So going to the gym = self esteem, health, and romantic success

Determine what you would miss dearly if you lost it?

Something you’d be other the moon if you acquired?

Look at who you envy, what do they have?

Is there a way you can connect your goals to that desire?

If you can do this you tend to stop making excuses and find a way through most of the obstacles you face in your life.

Adaptive denial

The brain is an extremely stupid organ**. It will in fact believe whatever it hears if repeated enough**, this is why advertisers bombard us with the same message 1000x even though we’ve already seen their commercial and didn’t care.

You can apply this to your own growth though, literally just practice saying what you want to be true to yourself daily.

For 26 years I was skinny and unathletic, I was the kid that failed PE.

I knew I could NEVERRRRRR get ripped.

Then one day I read psychocybernetics and decided to try out what the plastic surgeon delineated.

I said: “DK you’re yoked.”

Week 1: This is bullshit, I’ll never be yoked.

Week 2: We’re still skinny

Week 6: Still not yoked

Week 10: Wtf is that thing in the mirror?

Week 24: Bruhhhhh you starting to get yoked.

Week 60: I no longer have to manually tell myself I’m yoked, people tell me.

When you lie to yourself long enough, the internal lie eventually becomes spoken by those around you.

I’ll post part 2 tmro, I hope you guys enjoyed this.

Do you have a discipline stack, what does yours include?

Let me know if you have any questions or if I can help you with a goal that you’ve been struggling with.

DK-