You Build The Life You Repeat Daily

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And you build the life that you repeatedly do daily.

Like you build the life.

You repeat on a daily basis.

The discipline, the growth, the inner voice, the toughness, the habits, all that stuff

is something that you're doing daily.

Excuse me, I'm a little tabbed under the weather today.

But long term success, and really if you're thinking success, you gotta think long term.

You can't think that everybody wants it super fast.

But long term success is built through daily discipline, daily habits, personal ownership.

What does that mean?

You can ownership over the way that you eat, the way that you sleep, the way that you

think, the way that you respond, personal ownership, and then mental toughness.

Not talent or motivation alone.

Like you can only be talented only for so long.

And you really can only be motivated for so long.

I think this is what hangs people up is that they lose motivation and they're just like,

how do you stay motivated?

I mean, you're not gonna be motivated all the time.

You just gotta take ownership, you gotta have some mental toughness.

And one of my favorite definitions of mental toughness is what does it take to break you?

The Nick Saban explanation of what does it take to break you?

But just either way, the old John Maxwell that stands out to me is that you'll never change

your life until you change something that you're doing with your daily routine.

You'll never change your life until you change what you do daily.

So I want you to just take a peek at what are your daily habits?

What is your daily routine like an athlete, like a, if you're playing basketball and you

watch somebody dribble with the free throw line?

If you watch somebody shoot a free throw and they shoot, they dribble three times, spin

the ball and shoot.

That's probably what they do every time.

They dribble the ball three times, spin the ball and shoot.

They're not gonna dribble one time, spin it and shoot.

Then the next time they dribble three times, spin it and shoot.

It's a habit.

It's a routine that they get themselves in.

That's what I mean for your daily, like what is your daily habit?

Your habits are a preview of your future.

So what my habit is to do daily leads me to my week, which leads me to my month, which

leads me to the future.

These small daily wins is what compounds for you into the massive long-term results.

Consistency beats your intensity over time, every time.

I mean, you got to, I love intensity.

I love bringing intensity.

But I think a person that's just consistent for four years straight is gonna beat the

person that just is intense and brings intensity a couple days a week, four days a week, whatever

it is or one month intense, the other month not intense.

The consistency over the long haul is usually what's gonna win.

I think to encourage or discourage people depends on how you look at it.

People overestimate what they could do in a day, but they underestimate what they could

do in a year with consistency.

So I think what does that mean?

Man, I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

I'm doing everything I can today and I'm gonna work really hard and I want to get this

result today in sales, right, or whatever it is.

And you could do all that and then not have a good day because you overestimate it,

what bringing that level of intensity would do in a day.

But if you could do that for 12 months straight, if you could do it for 52 weeks, if you could

do it for six or seven days a week, I think you'd be shocked at how far you can get in

12 months.

Because people underestimate what they could do in a year if they were just consistent.

Motivation isn't always gonna be there though, if you want to be consistent.

Motivation comes and goes, fades, depends on how you're feeling, which sleep was like, which

a day was like, what the sun is shining, like others, it's not always gonna be there when

you want it to be there, but your habits are gonna be there regardless.

The systems that you build for your life and the habits that you build for your life

are gonna be there regardless of the motivation is there or not there.

So really it comes down to that discipline.

And the discipline is just, you know, you hear it, discipline is choosing what you want

most over what you want right now.

That's a good way to think of discipline, it's choosing what you want most versus what

you want right now.

And that you don't rise, you won't level up and go just because you got a goal, you won't

rise to those goals, you're gonna fall to the level of your standards, discipline, consistency,

and habits.

That's what's gonna take you to where you want to go.

And the growth is gonna feel like to grow, you're gonna, it's just gonna always require

you to do things you don't feel like knowing.

And that's the discipline, that's another Sabin.

You know, I'm gonna hit you with two Sabins, you know, him, him, him, I saw an interview

and him describing discipline and he said, well, it's this, this the way I explain it,

is there's something that I don't want to do that I know that I should do.

Is this gonna make me better?

Can I get myself to do it, even though I don't want to do it.

And then on the other hand, there's something that I don't want to do or excuse me, there's

something that I want to do that I know that I should not do because it might hurt me.

Can I get myself to not do it?

That's the discipline.

And then you go into the toughness because no matter how talented that you are, you got

to develop some level of toughness, whether you're in sports or in business.

Now sometimes people think toughness is only physical, it's mental to win long term.

And you know, again, Sabin, he described it, I mean, I love this analogy where he said,

you know, when you, when you live on the water and you get windows, you get hurricane windows,

the price of those windows is due to the toughness and they describe the windows, the window

company, he said, describes it as the toughness as what does it take to break this window?

That's how tough the window is.

And so same thing can be said for us.

It's no matter how talented that you are, what does it take to break you?

Because you got to develop toughness.

And so ask yourself, what does it take to break me?

How easily do I break when things around me aren't going great, when things around me

aren't going perfect, when I have obstacles, when I have adversity?

What does it take to break me?

And if you're somebody that is like, well, I'm locked in and feel like I take hits and

nothing breaks me.

Good, you're on the right track to greatness.

And if you know, man, argument with your girlfriend or you got a cold or this one quit on

you, this one thing, and it's already, you know, every week, you know, whatever that'll

break your week or break your month, you better get a hold of that fast.

Because if you get broken easily from a toughness standpoint, it's going to be hard for you

to accomplish anything great.

Right?

So it's these internal things, taking responsibility and ownership of where you want to go.

And self-control, like to not eat this, not say that, not do that.

That self-control is the foundation for self-respect.

What do I mean by that?

Well, I think whether you say it or not, when you lose yourself control, you start to lose

respect for yourself a lot.

Like, man, I knew I shouldn't have ate that but I ate it anyway.

Or I knew I shouldn't have did that but I did it anyway.

I mean, I wanted to get up at this time but I didn't get up at that time.

Whatever it is, when you lose the control, self-control, controlling of yourself, that's

the foundation of self-respect, discipline.

And if you want to be great and continue to grow, you got to stop blaming other people

and take ownership because ownership is everything.

Take an ownership over to circumstances is how you go to the next level.

And I heard John Maxwell say before, like, until you get over yourself, you can't really

be truly successful.

And I remember the analogy of him saying, when I learned to speak to an audience and get

the response I want, it was when I got over myself, that it wasn't about me, it was about

the audience.

What did they want to hear?

How could I make them feel good?

That's the thing in leadership.

Whatever it is, until you get over yourself, it's going to be hard for you to be truly successful.

And so on the process of growing, if you're looking to build a life that you want to build

and you know it's in the repeated actions daily, I think, you know, if you could just find

your why, why do you want to do what it is that you're doing.

And really take the time to think about it.

Don't just keep going through the motions.

What is my goal and why is that my goal?

Why am I doing?

Because if you find your why, then it's a little bit easier to find your will.

And to be great at something and to move, you're going to have to persevere.

In order to persevere, you've got to have will power.

And I think one thing leads into another.

So if I know my why, then I can find my will.

And if I have my why and my will, it's not that it's going to be any easier.

But the road is at least your vision is going to be clear on why you're doing what you're

doing.

And then you're going to be able to start to control a little bit more because it's going

to take a lot to break you because I got that will power.

And that's what it takes on the journey and on the climb.

And you're going to build the life that you take ownership of, that you will yourself

to victory to go out there and get through your discipline, mental toughness, daily habits,

things of that nature.

And so let's just focus on the next seven days, right?

This week till I get to hang with you again next time.

Let's focus on the next seven days that what can we do to win the day because remember,

we build the life that we repeat on a daily basis.

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