January 8, 2025 • 19 mins
What if the secret to personal growth isn't about waiting for a lightning bolt of motivation? Join us as we explore the profound difference between motivation and discipline in this eye-opening episode. We share our own struggles with maintaining simple habits, like staying hydrated or braving the cold for gym sessions, and reveal how discipline, much like training a muscle, can become a powerful autopilot for your life. Dive into stories of persistence that highlight how commitment to discipline not only enhances your health and sanity but also leads to genuine personal fulfillment.
We also tackle the idea of discipline as a profound form of self-respect. With personal anecdotes about using social media and habit trackers, we illustrate how these tools create an honest mirror for accountability, steering us away from excuses and toward growth. Discover practical strategies for planning habits into busy lives, ensuring consistency even when chaos strikes. We're here to show you why relying on discipline rather than motivation is the real game-changer for steady progress towards achieving your goals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh we could, we could fly.
Welcome to this new season ofthe have a Cup of Chahani
podcast.
So I want to title this newseason that I'm embarking on
with I'm growing, so this isgoing to be the season of growth
and that's what I'm going toshare with you throughout the
(00:20):
season.
So I thank you for coming overhere and sitting with me and I
hope you enjoy.
Hola vasitos, and welcome toanother wonderful episode of
have a Cup of Johnny podcast,where we sip, chat and dive into
the stuff that actually makeslife work.
Today we are getting real.
(00:41):
We're getting real about habits, not the fluffy oh I feel so
inspired kind of habits, but thegrit and grind kind, because,
let's face it, motivation isoverrated.
Don't come for me.
Don't come for me because I'mgoing to explain.
(01:01):
Discipline, my friends, iswhere the magic happens.
Are you ready?
Of course you are.
I mean, why else would you behere?
So let's brew this conversation.
Okay, show of hands.
(01:23):
How many of you have felt supermotivated on Monday, but by
Thursday it's like what happened?
That's motivation for you?
It's fickle, unreliable, to saythe least, and very much mood
(01:45):
dependent.
Take that from me.
Motivation feels awesome in themoment, but it's like fireworks
right, bright and exciting, butshort-lived.
On the other hand, though,discipline.
Discipline.
If you read romance book,that's low burn romance that
(02:07):
keeps the engine running evenwhen you don't feel like it.
So I'm going to use my hydrationhabit for a minute as an
example, and I'll use anotherhabit as well.
So I wake up every day excited.
In my mind, everything ishappening perfectly, but does it
(02:29):
?
Absolutely not.
When it comes to my hydrationhabits.
There are some days where I'drather pick up my coffee first,
or I'd rather pick up somethingelse that is going to give me
energy because I had a roughnight as opposed to water.
But here's a big but I knowwhat will happen if I skip it.
(02:51):
I know I have been there.
I have faced the consequences.
I have had headaches, bad moodsand just feeling sluggish and
without much energy.
So that's where disciplinekicks in, because it's not about
that.
I want to do it that everysingle day.
I want to grab my Stanley cupand drink all that water.
(03:14):
It's about doing itconsistently, because I know
it's good for me and I know it'sgonna make me feel better.
You see, when it comes to thegym, this is real life, ongoing
right now, as I'm sitting hererecording this, I have my car
warming up outside, becauseguess what I'm doing?
(03:36):
Right after I record this, I'mgoing to go hit the gym.
Do I feel like it?
Absolutely not.
It is 31 degrees here in goodold El Paso, which I don't know
what's going on, what gods wehave pissed off, but it's really
cold and if you know me or ifyou don't, I'm going to fill you
(03:57):
in I hate the cold.
I'm not a cold weather girly atall.
I'm from the Dominican Republic, folks.
I love my tropical climates,the reason why El Paso is one of
my favorite places to be andwhy I call El Paso home.
Yes, the summers are justdisrespectfully hot, but it's
(04:19):
constantly warm here and Iappreciate that quite a lot.
Whenever it's really cold, liketoday, it's hard for me to wake
up.
I don't want to leave the house, but I went to bed yesterday
and I told my husband and thisis so, that way it stays in my
head I was like you know.
I know tomorrow is going to becold, but if I don't make my
(04:43):
third day going to the gym, Iwill lose my streak.
And today, Wednesday, is mythird day of going to the gym.
I already know tomorrow and thenext day is going to be super
busy, super hectic, so mostlikely I would not have time to
go to the gym and do that kindof workout.
I will have to condense it, yousee.
(05:05):
So I know for me to get mythree a week workouts, I need to
do it today, even if it'sabsolutely disrespectfully cold.
Today I'm doing it and you see,that is a discipline for you,
because it's like it's theautopilot that steps in when
(05:27):
motivation has gone AWOL.
And you have to look at it asdiscipline is a muscle, totally
a muscle.
The more you use it, thestronger it gets.
Just like I said, right, itbecomes just this thing that you
do without thinking, because,like any muscle, it just it
grows through repetition andresistance.
(05:47):
When I first started doing theseworkouts that I'm doing now,
where I do strength trainingthree times a week at the very
least, it was very hard.
I had more misses than I hadhits and I remember even at one
point I had such a long streakand then I fell down that rabbit
hole again and I lost my streakand I started back at zero and
(06:11):
that was so demoralizing workoutshoes and have gone back to the
gym.
It was discipline that got meto get back on that metaphorical
horse and continue on going,because I know that this is a
(06:34):
habit, this is one of my corehabits.
That is good for me, that keepsme healthy, that keeps me sane
and, for my vanity sake, itkeeps me looking good.
So you see, so the firstworkouts for me were awful.
I totally didn't get it.
I was not a weightlifter or astrength trainer at all, like.
(06:56):
My workouts consisted of mostlyrunning and ab work.
I've always run, run, run, run,run, run.
It's a solitary thing, it'slike my favorite thing to do.
I don't need any sort of likesuper complex techniques.
Yes, there are techniques torun, but not like don't whip
this this way or you pull amuscle, kind of thing.
(07:18):
You know, as I stuck to it, tothe strength training routine,
and I kind of disciplined andlike bulldozed my way into doing
it more often than not.
Then, that discipline, musclestarted growing and then I
started building momentum, yousee, and that momentum then got
(07:43):
me motivated, you see.
So motivation did not comefirst in this equation.
Discipline came first.
Joannie telling herself you gotto get up because you know you
want to do this and you knowthis is good for you.
That's discipline, that's whatgot me up, even when it's hard,
(08:03):
even when it's 31 degreesoutside.
And now that I've been doing itfor so long, it has become
easier to stick to them.
It has become automatic, and toa point where, if I don't do it
, I feel lost, disarranged in away.
(08:24):
I know something is missing ifI miss any one of these core
habits that I have because I'vebeen sticking to them for so
long.
So it's become an automaticthing.
And you may be asking yourselfso how do you build discipline?
Let's break it down.
(08:45):
You start small, and you heardme say this on the last episode
about starting small.
Right, you can dream big, dreambig people, okay, but start
small, because you don't want tooverhaul your entire life
overnight.
Pick one habit, pick one habitfirst.
(09:05):
My first habit that I pickedwas drinking water as soon as I
got up.
So instead of grabbing my phone, I grabbed my bottle of water.
That was the first habit that Iput into play, and once I got
consistent with that, then Iincorporated the writing habit,
and I did it, for let's justwrite 10 minutes every day
(09:28):
before you go to work.
So then I started with drinkingmy water right, that first
bottle of water and then goingover to my computer and then
typing for 10 minutes onwhatever work in progress I was
doing, and then I startedstacking the other ones.
Now the next thing that youshould do is create systems, not
(09:53):
goals.
Goals are great for direction.
Goals tell you where you shouldbe heading, but systems are the
things that get you there.
So, for example, instead ofsaying I want to be healthier
okay, it's a little vague, right, but that's a direction, that's
(10:15):
a goal.
You want to be healthier okay,but what system have you built
to achieve that?
And then that system should behabits.
You see what I'm saying.
So do you have a system ofprepping your meals on Sunday?
Do you have a system of a dailystep count or a daily climbing
(10:38):
count?
Do you go up the stairs asopposed to the elevator?
So goals are great, but youwant systems underneath, as the
foundation, to get you toachieve those goals.
Then you want to focus onconsistency over perfection, and
(11:01):
that's something that I had tolet go of, because I am such a
perfectionist that I tend tohave an all or nothing mindset
or way of thinking and as I grewolder, I saw that as something
that I needed to overcome, towork on, because I noticed how
(11:24):
many missed opportunities I washaving because I just I wanted
things to be perfect as opposedto just done.
And you heard me talk about thegym and how it was so hard,
when I lost that streak, to getback on that metaphorical horse,
because I have aperfectionistic tendency and I
(11:45):
know that about myself.
So I had to talk myself throughthat.
Okay, you lost the streak, getup, you're going to try again.
You see, and that wasdiscipline talking to me.
That was discipline pushing meto continue on and telling me
(12:05):
that consistency matters more,because discipline is not about
being perfect, it's about beingpersistent.
You know, like being this, thisbull, this stubborn bull, that
no matter what, you're going tocontinue on, that's discipline.
(12:26):
So if you're like me, I'm goingto warn you don't hold on to
perfectionism.
Okay, that's not discipline.
Discipline is just you keepgoing, trying again, being
persistent, getting after yourhabits, your systems.
That should be the foundationof your goals.
(12:48):
And finally, I will say getaccountability, whether it's a
friend, your partner, even yoursocial media followers.
I remember I used to do thechallenges online and say, like
the ab challenges and all ofthat, and say, like day one is
done and I'll put in there theexercises that I did for day one
(13:10):
, sometimes I will take apicture of me in the gym to show
.
And that was my accountability.
Now you have heard me say Ihave a habit tracker that I X
out or I fill in the days whereI have completed my habits.
That's kind of like myaccountability.
That's how I keep track ofthese habits, because when
(13:35):
others or when this spreadsheettells on me, it's kind of harder
to lie to yourself.
You know, it's harder to skipout because you're like either
your friend knows or yourpartner knows, or your social
media followers know, or caughton that you have missed a day or
(13:58):
two or a week or whatnot.
Or when you look at your habittracker, you're like, oh shoot,
have this entire line like blank, it shows, it shows.
And when you do that, when youleverage accountability, you
can't turn away from the hardtruth.
And that's what you need.
Okay, that's what you need tokeep going, that truth, so that
(14:23):
way you can step outside of yourcomfort zone, face it, know
what you need to fix and then,boom, get back in and do it
again.
Because here's the thingdiscipline isn't punishment.
And you may have heard me talkabout how my discipline, that
(14:44):
voice kind of talks to me, but Iwill tell you that it doesn't
talk to me in a demeaning way.
It talks to me in a respectfulway, reminding me why this is
good for me and why this is goodfor future.
Johanny, because when you honoryour commitments to yourself,
you're saying I value mywell-being, I value my goals, I
(15:08):
value my growth and that mindset.
It's empowering, you see.
So discipline is not aboutbelittling, bullying yourself or
punishing yourself.
It's self-respect.
You're doing this because yourespect yourself, you respect
(15:28):
your body, you respect your soul, your mind.
Every time you choosediscipline over excuses, you're
proving to yourself that you canhandle discomfort, you can
overcome resistance or 31 degreeweathers and prioritize what
truly matters to you.
Because, let's be real, you'regoing to need that.
(15:51):
Life is going to get chaotic,chaotic and we can talk about
how you can tailor habits whenlife does get chaotic so that
way you can continue doing themand sustaining them.
But it is what it is.
Life will be lifing.
Work deadlines will occur,family responsibilities or
(16:13):
emergencies will erupt out ofnowhere and other unexpected
curveballs can throw off yourroutine, but discipline is what
keeps you grounded On thosehectic days.
Sometimes I don't stick to myhabits perfectly, sometimes
(16:34):
they're sporadic throughout thedays, sometimes I come up short
on drinking eight cups of water,but I make sure that I do the
bare minimum or I tailor it Likewhen I get really hectic.
In the next three days, myworkout is not going to be the
(16:54):
one hour long workout that I do.
It's going to be shorterworkout.
It's going to be a workoutwhere I don't need free weights,
so it's going to be a bodyweight workout, you see.
So there are certain thingsthat you can do and it's good to
plan ahead as well.
If you know that certain thingswill happen or if you don't know
(17:17):
certain things will happenbecause that's what happens with
chaos sometimes and withunexpected things at least have
in the back of your mind or yourjournal how you would tailor
your habits when you get busy,before you get busy, and that
can be your break class kind ofthing that you use.
So on those days, on thoseepocas or eras where life is
(17:44):
lifing, you go to your minimumhabits and all the other days
where life is quote unquotenormal for you, right?
Or what is normal for you, oraverage for you.
Then you're back onto yourregular habits, your regular
(18:06):
scheduled programming, you know,kind of like that.
But think about it becausesmall wins whether you tailor
your habits when life is lifingor you do the full-on habits,
you are winning.
You are winning because you aresustaining those habits that
you know you need and you'rekeeping the momentum alive.
(18:28):
So here's your takeaway,vasitos Do not wait for
motivation to show up.
If you didn't get anything outof this, get that.
Don't wait for motivation toshow up.
Show up for yourself withdiscipline, whether it's
drinking water, writing thatbook or showing up to the gym.
(18:49):
Remember, it's not about howyou feel in the moment.
It's not.
It's about who you're becomingin the process, about who you're
becoming in the process.
Thank you so much for hangingout with me on have a Cup of
Johnny podcast.
If this episode gave you thatextra push to prioritize
(19:12):
discipline, share it with afriend who needs it.
And, hey, dm me what's onehabit you're committing to this
week?
I'd love to hear it.
Until next time, staydisciplined, stay hydrated and,
as always, keep growing.
See you next Wednesday.
Bye, thank you so much forlistening.
(19:37):
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Leave me a comment.
Do a rating, if you can.
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I want to hear from you.
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Do a rating if you can on thepodcast.
Share it with somebody you love, but, most importantly, come
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Bye.
Oh we could, we could fly.
Welcome to this new season ofthe have a Cup of Chahani
podcast.
So I want to title this newseason that I'm embarking on
with I'm growing, so this isgoing to be the season of growth
and that's what I'm going toshare with you throughout the
(00:20):
season.
So I thank you for coming overhere and sitting with me and I
hope you enjoy.
Hola vasitos, and welcome toanother wonderful episode of
have a Cup of Johnny podcast,where we sip, chat and dive into
the stuff that actually makeslife work.
Today we are getting real.
(00:41):
We're getting real about habits, not the fluffy oh I feel so
inspired kind of habits, but thegrit and grind kind, because,
let's face it, motivation isoverrated.
Don't come for me.
Don't come for me because I'mgoing to explain.
(01:01):
Discipline, my friends, iswhere the magic happens.
Are you ready?
Of course you are.
I mean, why else would you behere?
So let's brew this conversation.
Okay, show of hands.
(01:23):
How many of you have felt supermotivated on Monday, but by
Thursday it's like what happened?
That's motivation for you?
It's fickle, unreliable, to saythe least, and very much mood
(01:45):
dependent.
Take that from me.
Motivation feels awesome in themoment, but it's like fireworks
right, bright and exciting, butshort-lived.
On the other hand, though,discipline.
Discipline.
If you read romance book,that's low burn romance that
(02:07):
keeps the engine running evenwhen you don't feel like it.
So I'm going to use my hydrationhabit for a minute as an
example, and I'll use anotherhabit as well.
So I wake up every day excited.
In my mind, everything ishappening perfectly, but does it
(02:29):
?
Absolutely not.
When it comes to my hydrationhabits.
There are some days where I'drather pick up my coffee first,
or I'd rather pick up somethingelse that is going to give me
energy because I had a roughnight as opposed to water.
But here's a big but I knowwhat will happen if I skip it.
(02:51):
I know I have been there.
I have faced the consequences.
I have had headaches, bad moodsand just feeling sluggish and
without much energy.
So that's where disciplinekicks in, because it's not about
that.
I want to do it that everysingle day.
I want to grab my Stanley cupand drink all that water.
(03:14):
It's about doing itconsistently, because I know
it's good for me and I know it'sgonna make me feel better.
You see, when it comes to thegym, this is real life, ongoing
right now, as I'm sitting hererecording this, I have my car
warming up outside, becauseguess what I'm doing?
(03:36):
Right after I record this, I'mgoing to go hit the gym.
Do I feel like it?
Absolutely not.
It is 31 degrees here in goodold El Paso, which I don't know
what's going on, what gods wehave pissed off, but it's really
cold and if you know me or ifyou don't, I'm going to fill you
(03:57):
in I hate the cold.
I'm not a cold weather girly atall.
I'm from the Dominican Republic, folks.
I love my tropical climates,the reason why El Paso is one of
my favorite places to be andwhy I call El Paso home.
Yes, the summers are justdisrespectfully hot, but it's
(04:19):
constantly warm here and Iappreciate that quite a lot.
Whenever it's really cold, liketoday, it's hard for me to wake
up.
I don't want to leave the house, but I went to bed yesterday
and I told my husband and thisis so, that way it stays in my
head I was like you know.
I know tomorrow is going to becold, but if I don't make my
(04:43):
third day going to the gym, Iwill lose my streak.
And today, Wednesday, is mythird day of going to the gym.
I already know tomorrow and thenext day is going to be super
busy, super hectic, so mostlikely I would not have time to
go to the gym and do that kindof workout.
I will have to condense it, yousee.
(05:05):
So I know for me to get mythree a week workouts, I need to
do it today, even if it'sabsolutely disrespectfully cold.
Today I'm doing it and you see,that is a discipline for you,
because it's like it's theautopilot that steps in when
(05:27):
motivation has gone AWOL.
And you have to look at it asdiscipline is a muscle, totally
a muscle.
The more you use it, thestronger it gets.
Just like I said, right, itbecomes just this thing that you
do without thinking, because,like any muscle, it just it
grows through repetition andresistance.
(05:47):
When I first started doing theseworkouts that I'm doing now,
where I do strength trainingthree times a week at the very
least, it was very hard.
I had more misses than I hadhits and I remember even at one
point I had such a long streakand then I fell down that rabbit
hole again and I lost my streakand I started back at zero and
(06:11):
that was so demoralizing workoutshoes and have gone back to the
gym.
It was discipline that got meto get back on that metaphorical
horse and continue on going,because I know that this is a
(06:34):
habit, this is one of my corehabits.
That is good for me, that keepsme healthy, that keeps me sane
and, for my vanity sake, itkeeps me looking good.
So you see, so the firstworkouts for me were awful.
I totally didn't get it.
I was not a weightlifter or astrength trainer at all, like.
(06:56):
My workouts consisted of mostlyrunning and ab work.
I've always run, run, run, run,run, run.
It's a solitary thing, it'slike my favorite thing to do.
I don't need any sort of likesuper complex techniques.
Yes, there are techniques torun, but not like don't whip
this this way or you pull amuscle, kind of thing.
(07:18):
You know, as I stuck to it, tothe strength training routine,
and I kind of disciplined andlike bulldozed my way into doing
it more often than not.
Then, that discipline, musclestarted growing and then I
started building momentum, yousee, and that momentum then got
(07:43):
me motivated, you see.
So motivation did not comefirst in this equation.
Discipline came first.
Joannie telling herself you gotto get up because you know you
want to do this and you knowthis is good for you.
That's discipline, that's whatgot me up, even when it's hard,
(08:03):
even when it's 31 degreesoutside.
And now that I've been doing itfor so long, it has become
easier to stick to them.
It has become automatic, and toa point where, if I don't do it
, I feel lost, disarranged in away.
(08:24):
I know something is missing ifI miss any one of these core
habits that I have because I'vebeen sticking to them for so
long.
So it's become an automaticthing.
And you may be asking yourselfso how do you build discipline?
Let's break it down.
(08:45):
You start small, and you heardme say this on the last episode
about starting small.
Right, you can dream big, dreambig people, okay, but start
small, because you don't want tooverhaul your entire life
overnight.
Pick one habit, pick one habitfirst.
(09:05):
My first habit that I pickedwas drinking water as soon as I
got up.
So instead of grabbing my phone, I grabbed my bottle of water.
That was the first habit that Iput into play, and once I got
consistent with that, then Iincorporated the writing habit,
and I did it, for let's justwrite 10 minutes every day
(09:28):
before you go to work.
So then I started with drinkingmy water right, that first
bottle of water and then goingover to my computer and then
typing for 10 minutes onwhatever work in progress I was
doing, and then I startedstacking the other ones.
Now the next thing that youshould do is create systems, not
(09:53):
goals.
Goals are great for direction.
Goals tell you where you shouldbe heading, but systems are the
things that get you there.
So, for example, instead ofsaying I want to be healthier
okay, it's a little vague, right, but that's a direction, that's
(10:15):
a goal.
You want to be healthier okay,but what system have you built
to achieve that?
And then that system should behabits.
You see what I'm saying.
So do you have a system ofprepping your meals on Sunday?
Do you have a system of a dailystep count or a daily climbing
(10:38):
count?
Do you go up the stairs asopposed to the elevator?
So goals are great, but youwant systems underneath, as the
foundation, to get you toachieve those goals.
Then you want to focus onconsistency over perfection, and
(11:01):
that's something that I had tolet go of, because I am such a
perfectionist that I tend tohave an all or nothing mindset
or way of thinking and as I grewolder, I saw that as something
that I needed to overcome, towork on, because I noticed how
(11:24):
many missed opportunities I washaving because I just I wanted
things to be perfect as opposedto just done.
And you heard me talk about thegym and how it was so hard,
when I lost that streak, to getback on that metaphorical horse,
because I have aperfectionistic tendency and I
(11:45):
know that about myself.
So I had to talk myself throughthat.
Okay, you lost the streak, getup, you're going to try again.
You see, and that wasdiscipline talking to me.
That was discipline pushing meto continue on and telling me
(12:05):
that consistency matters more,because discipline is not about
being perfect, it's about beingpersistent.
You know, like being this, thisbull, this stubborn bull, that
no matter what, you're going tocontinue on, that's discipline.
(12:26):
So if you're like me, I'm goingto warn you don't hold on to
perfectionism.
Okay, that's not discipline.
Discipline is just you keepgoing, trying again, being
persistent, getting after yourhabits, your systems.
That should be the foundationof your goals.
(12:48):
And finally, I will say getaccountability, whether it's a
friend, your partner, even yoursocial media followers.
I remember I used to do thechallenges online and say, like
the ab challenges and all ofthat, and say, like day one is
done and I'll put in there theexercises that I did for day one
(13:10):
, sometimes I will take apicture of me in the gym to show
.
And that was my accountability.
Now you have heard me say Ihave a habit tracker that I X
out or I fill in the days whereI have completed my habits.
That's kind of like myaccountability.
That's how I keep track ofthese habits, because when
(13:35):
others or when this spreadsheettells on me, it's kind of harder
to lie to yourself.
You know, it's harder to skipout because you're like either
your friend knows or yourpartner knows, or your social
media followers know, or caughton that you have missed a day or
(13:58):
two or a week or whatnot.
Or when you look at your habittracker, you're like, oh shoot,
have this entire line like blank, it shows, it shows.
And when you do that, when youleverage accountability, you
can't turn away from the hardtruth.
And that's what you need.
Okay, that's what you need tokeep going, that truth, so that
(14:23):
way you can step outside of yourcomfort zone, face it, know
what you need to fix and then,boom, get back in and do it
again.
Because here's the thingdiscipline isn't punishment.
And you may have heard me talkabout how my discipline, that
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voice kind of talks to me, but Iwill tell you that it doesn't
talk to me in a demeaning way.
It talks to me in a respectfulway, reminding me why this is
good for me and why this is goodfor future.
Johanny, because when you honoryour commitments to yourself,
you're saying I value mywell-being, I value my goals, I
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value my growth and that mindset.
It's empowering, you see.
So discipline is not aboutbelittling, bullying yourself or
punishing yourself.
It's self-respect.
You're doing this because yourespect yourself, you respect
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your body, you respect your soul, your mind.
Every time you choosediscipline over excuses, you're
proving to yourself that you canhandle discomfort, you can
overcome resistance or 31 degreeweathers and prioritize what
truly matters to you.
Because, let's be real, you'regoing to need that.
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Life is going to get chaotic,chaotic and we can talk about
how you can tailor habits whenlife does get chaotic so that
way you can continue doing themand sustaining them.
But it is what it is.
Life will be lifing.
Work deadlines will occur,family responsibilities or
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emergencies will erupt out ofnowhere and other unexpected
curveballs can throw off yourroutine, but discipline is what
keeps you grounded On thosehectic days.
Sometimes I don't stick to myhabits perfectly, sometimes
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they're sporadic throughout thedays, sometimes I come up short
on drinking eight cups of water,but I make sure that I do the
bare minimum or I tailor it Likewhen I get really hectic.
In the next three days, myworkout is not going to be the
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one hour long workout that I do.
It's going to be shorterworkout.
It's going to be a workoutwhere I don't need free weights,
so it's going to be a bodyweight workout, you see.
So there are certain thingsthat you can do and it's good to
plan ahead as well.
If you know that certain thingswill happen or if you don't know
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certain things will happenbecause that's what happens with
chaos sometimes and withunexpected things at least have
in the back of your mind or yourjournal how you would tailor
your habits when you get busy,before you get busy, and that
can be your break class kind ofthing that you use.
So on those days, on thoseepocas or eras where life is
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lifing, you go to your minimumhabits and all the other days
where life is quote unquotenormal for you, right?
Or what is normal for you, oraverage for you.
Then you're back onto yourregular habits, your regular
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scheduled programming, you know,kind of like that.
But think about it becausesmall wins whether you tailor
your habits when life is lifingor you do the full-on habits,
you are winning.
You are winning because you aresustaining those habits that
you know you need and you'rekeeping the momentum alive.
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So here's your takeaway,vasitos Do not wait for
motivation to show up.
If you didn't get anything outof this, get that.
Don't wait for motivation toshow up.
Show up for yourself withdiscipline, whether it's
drinking water, writing thatbook or showing up to the gym.
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Remember, it's not about howyou feel in the moment.
It's not.
It's about who you're becomingin the process, about who you're
becoming in the process.
Thank you so much for hangingout with me on have a Cup of
Johnny podcast.
If this episode gave you thatextra push to prioritize
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discipline, share it with afriend who needs it.
And, hey, dm me what's onehabit you're committing to this
week?
I'd love to hear it.
Until next time, staydisciplined, stay hydrated and,
as always, keep growing.
See you next Wednesday.
Bye, thank you so much forlistening.
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I want to hear from you.
Leave me a comment.
Do a rating, if you can.
Much for listening.
I want to hear from you.
Leave me a comment.
Do a rating if you can on thepodcast.
Share it with somebody you love, but, most importantly, come
back.
See you next time.
Bye.
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