Success Sleeps Early

Count money, man.

Count money, man.

That gritch is fine.

I told him, I'm a beast, but...

What's up, gang?

Welcome back to another episode of The Grindcast.

Get ready.

It's a new day.

Success, sleeps, early.

We got disciplines over distraction.

We got to have discipline over the distractions.

And I saw an interview with Muhammad Ali

and they were asking him questions about

what was some of the hardest things that he's had to do.

How did he get to where he wanted to go?

What were the things that he could look back on?

He said...

The central part of your training?

Is it running?

Is it sparring?

The central part is dodging the night clubs

and the parties and the girls.

You want the truth?

And being in the bed by yourself at 9 o'clock at night.

Another thing?

If you can get by that you'll make it.

The central part of training was dodging the night clubs

and the parties and the women and being in bed by yourself

at 9 o'clock at night.

Man, that ain't that the truth?

He said, if you can get...

If you can get by that then you're going to make it.

Now that's the truth.

That's what he said.

And so the same goes for us in business.

It may not be every single detail that he said.

But the key is this, people don't fail

because they lack talent often.

It's because they lack focus and discipline.

The hardest things isn't even the hardest things.

It's the hardest things you gotta say no to

on a weekly and daily basis.

Sometimes people can't trade the long term

where they're going to be long term.

They can't trade the long term for the short term pleasure.

They want the greatness but the greatness has to come long term

if you give up the short term pleasure.

Success doesn't require genius, it requires discipline.

People think that to be successful,

it's all this rocket science.

Really it just boils down to discipline.

Choosing your future over how you feel right now.

A lot of people that have greatness inside them

became average because they chased parties.

They chased attention.

And they chased these temporary highs

in excitement that'll give them some fun

right now that they can't sacrifice

but they could have been so much further.

Winners separate themselves by chasing

the things that are a little bit difficult.

They chase getting sleep.

They chase preparation.

They chase purpose

versus all these short term fun things.

Late nights are expensive.

Not just bottle service and you know it's like,

it's not expensive, it costs a lot of money.

But late nights are expensive.

It's not just in money but in lost time.

Loss energy the next day.

Loss momentum towards your goals.

Being behind the competition.

Partying feeds the ego in the fun right now

but it ain't going to feed the future.

Temporary fun is never going to replace

long term achievement where you want to be.

Pleasure destroys purpose.

Like wish your mission.

What's the reason?

What's the things that you're after?

Those who can't control their urges

can't control their destiny.

Parties and clubs and fun.

Those are all, that stuff's always going to be there.

But opportunity sometimes got an expiration date on it.

Like we got to go get it right now.

It expires.

Sometimes you get an opportunity of a lifetime

but you got to take advantage of it during the lifetime

of the opportunity and your opportunity might be right now.

Like these next five years, that's your opportunity

to make it happen.

Five years can seem like a long time but

when you go out and buy a car,

typically a car if you buy it and you don't buy it and cash,

the loan payment is a five year car.

That's the car note.

Five years.

Average.

So if you buy a car by the time the car is paid off in five years,

like that might be your window right now.

The next five years, greatness is built

oftentimes in isolation by yourself in the quiet,

in the dark.

Quiet nights alone or where the focus is sharp

and in the dreams are built.

Self-respect comes from having self-control.

Like you can't respect yourself as much as you want to respect yourself

if you don't have any self-control.

Telling yourself, no, to things that you know you want to say,

yes, too, that starts to build your self-respect,

starts to build your self-confidence.

And reminder, you can't pour from an empty cup.

When you're trying to lead yourself to the promised land

or you're trying to lead other people to the promised land,

it starts out with mentally, physically, spiritually pouring into yourself,

mentally, physically, and spiritually pouring into your self-breeds,

consistent high performance.

How do you do it all?

The question I get, how do you fit it all in?

You got to schedule your time out.

You got to have a schedule.

You got to have a plan.

This is when I'm going to work.

This is when I'm going to train.

This is when I'm going to rest.

This is when I'm going to pour into myself and have a schedule

and stick to that schedule.

But again, it goes back to that discipline.

And I think to have really, really good days to start stacking

really, really good days, you got to guard your nights.

You got to be careful with how you handle most of your evenings.

I'm not saying once in a while, you can't go out and do something,

but the majority of your time, 90%, 99%,

depending on how urgent this goal is.

You got to guard your nights and you got to protect your mornings.

Distractions, destroy habits,

and habits compound over time.

Those things are what determine your success.

The habits that you have over and over and over again

and the discipline is what's going to separate you

from where you're at and where you want to be.

Success, love, boring routines.

People don't love boring routines.

But success, love, boring routines.

So if you want to be great, you better get into a routine

and sometimes that routine is going to be boring

and we got to be consistent because consistency beats chaos.

Excellence is going to thrive in structure.

You got to provide structure to your life,

structure to what it is that you're trying to build if you want to be excellent.

That's where you're going to strive at and oh, by the way,

show me your friends and I'll show you your future.

The people that you're hanging around.

If you're hanging around undisciplined people,

it's going to be difficult for you to be disciplined.

Legacy ain't going to be built at the night clubs.

Legacy ain't going to be built because you're hanging out

and having so much fun all the time.

That ain't where legacy is built.

That's where other people's pockets are built

that are sucking up your time.

You got to surround yourself with people that are on the grind.

Surround yourself with people that are moving in the same direction as you.

That's going to make it a lot easier on you when you're on the grind,

when you're on the hustle and you got to supply discipline to your life

because your future is going to demand sacrifice.

What are you willing to give up?

What are you willing to give up to go to the next level?

If you want to have this unbelievable life but you ain't willing to give up things.

If you're not willing to give up and try and make some certain trade-offs,

that ain't going to happen.

Every great life is built on trade-offs.

You got to give up to go up.

You control your nights and you own your mornings.

When you win your mornings, you start to dominate your days.

When you start to dominate your days, you build a life far beyond anything

that a party could ever give you.

It's all wanted to take the lesson from one of the greats of all time.

If you don't want to take it from me or you don't want to take it from your other lives,

from your other leaders out there, take it from Muhammad Ali,

one of the greatest boxers of all time.

You got to choose that discipline over these distractions that they try to deal you on a daily basis.

And if you do, we're going to see you at the top.

As always, we appreciate you guys joining us on another episode of the Grindcast.

Get ready. It's a new day.