How do I fix my discipline if I'm an ill-disciplined person?

Understanding what discipline is is the most critical element.

And I define this differently than most people.

So I define discipline as your ability to prioritize the needs of your future self ahead of your own, present self. And that's it. That's all the

discipline is. I'm prioritizing the needs of future me. You're trying to think of a, in the

exception. No, I was thinking of two scenarios. The scenario one is I go home tonight, right? Because I go to sleep, I get to bed

early. And there's this other thing I'm thinking about doing after this, which is going to the gym.

Yeah. And I'm like, I was just, as you're saying, I was thinking, both help future me.

Yeah. I was proud. So I was like, which one is discipline? I think they would both be

discipline. Okay. So the moment that we start understanding that, if I could just make decisions that are

prioritizing future me, then we go back to where am I getting my dopamine from?

And I want past tense me to be a source of dopamine for present tense me. Because most of us look back with regret.

I shouldn't have drank that much. I shouldn't have mouthed off at the family reunion.

You know, whatever it is. I shouldn't have overslept. If I can start looking backwards with

gratitude, that's the fastest way to make discipline dopamine generating.

So the tricks are to start small.

So like when I go to bed at night, I will pop open the little curig coffee thing and stick

the thing in there, put a cup under there.

Everything's like ready to go.

So when I wake up in the

morning, I just go, bam, and everything's ready. I'll get my clothes out. Everything kind of lined up,

ready to put on for the next day. So I'm lowering the threshold of how much attention I'm spending.

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