If You're Feeling Over-Burdened With Training

September 13, 2025

If you feel like you have to discipline yourself to do the things that you're doing, then you haven't really made a clear choice or a clear distinction on what it is that you actually want to do.

And so an example of that — or what I mean by that — is before I changed the way that I ate. In terms of, I used to eat pretty good, but there would be like one or two days a week where I'd have this cheat meal, right? And I'd have to be like, "Okay, I'm going to take five or six days a week and I'm going to eat really good so that I can have my cheat meal on Sunday."

But what helped me to switch that or flip that to just not want that food anymore altogether, was that I actually made the decision of how do I want to be? How do I want to feel? What is the food that would actually be most pro-survival for me, right? What is the thing that I actually actively want to do? So it's not looking at the thing that you have to restrict and turn away from, but it's putting your attention on what is the way that you want to be? What is the thing that you actually want to do?

And so, discipline, I think, if it's used in a way in which you have to restrict something, just means that you're not clear on what it is that you actually want. You're not clear on what you're committing to. 

If you get clear on what you commit to and what it is that you actually want, the thing that you actually want to commit to, the thing that's the positive thing, the thing that's on the end of expansion, on the end of growth, if you commit to that thing, then the discipline to try to restrict yourself from those things that are "quote unquote" not good isn't even going to be there because all of your attention is on the active choice, on the active commitment and decision you're making towards the thing that you're going towards.