July 7, 2025 • 10 mins
Christian ; Follower of GOD Servant of CHRIST
Decorated Combat VeteranCorporate; U.S. Marine Corps Urban Warfare Instrictor;
S.R.T. Commander Active Shooter Response Team
Law Enforcement Los Angeles Police (L.A.P.D.) Police Officer / Fugitive Recovery
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Competition Shooter; Multi Time State Rifle Pistol Champion
Hunting; Life Long Hunter Proffessional Hunter and Guide
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Decorated Combat VeteranCorporate; U.S. Marine Corps Urban Warfare Instrictor;
S.R.T. Commander Active Shooter Response Team
Law Enforcement Los Angeles Police (L.A.P.D.) Police Officer / Fugitive Recovery
F.B.I. Instructor N.R.A Instructor
Competition Shooter; Multi Time State Rifle Pistol Champion
Hunting; Life Long Hunter Proffessional Hunter and Guide
Private Security Contractor; Several Agencies, Current.
GOD Provides / JESUS Saves
Patreon
https://bit.ly/3jcLDuZ
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, man. Today we're going to talk about discipline, self discipline,
and how you can develop that. Welcome to Alpha Male Podcast,
the podcast where we talk about what it means to
be a man the right way, with God at the center,
Judeo Christian values and real world firsthand experience. Let us
(00:25):
talk about discipline. I am gonna propose that discipline is
like many other muscles, like many other things that you develop.
How does one develop discipline, fortitude, grit by exercising it?
(00:47):
How does one build large biceps by exercising them? And
exercising them is often almost never fun in the moment.
Right you are literally you know the process for working out,
but you literally tear your muscles apart, and they heal back,
(01:08):
filling in the tears and get bigger. You're literally ripping
yourself apart when you're lifting heavy at the gym. It
is not fun at the time, but you reap the
rewards long after and continually in the long term. If
you will go through some suffering, some hardship, some amount
(01:29):
of pain in the short term, I would submit to
you that discipline is like that as well. Consider it
a muscle. If you want to be well disciplined, well,
you must perform with discipline. You must exercise discipline. How
(01:51):
do you get more disciplined in diet? A thing I
think a lot of Americans struggle with. While you get
more disciplined and diet by exercising that discipline. When somebody
comes to your office with cake or donuts, you say no,
thank you. A lot of people act like that is
getting drawn and quartered or whipped with a cat of
(02:14):
nine tails. You simply have to say no, thank you.
It's a very small example of how to exercise your
discipline muscle. When you're really, really hungry and you're on
your way home from work and you realize that, yeah,
I'm hungry, but I'm not going to die. I'm not
even close. I will be okay. I Am going to
(02:36):
wait till I get home and eat something healthy rather
than pull in some abomination drive through and get some
coronary special with extra fries. Exercising your discipline muscle. We
talked about diet, but discipline is applicable in so many
areas of a men's life today. Being disciplined in what
(02:59):
you were going to look at how many men today
are looking at just really perverse And I'm gonna say,
perverse as in a sexual nature, and I mean by
that anything outside of you and your wife, a husband
(03:20):
and a wife. How do you develop that discipline to
not go down that road. Well, the more you exercise
that discipline, the more disciplined you'll be, the stronger your
discipline will become. Now, I am not perfect to this.
I don't know where the line is. I, as a man,
enjoy looking at a beautiful woman. Women, to me are
(03:42):
some of the most beautiful things in all of God's creation.
They are beautiful like a sunset. They are beautiful like
many other things. But we are not Jesus says, if
we look at a woman with lust in her heart,
we've already committed aultree with her. I don't know where
that line is between enjoying a woman's beauty and coveting.
(04:03):
I'm not perfect at that. But men, if you're honest
with yourself, you probably know when you go too far,
when you look too long, when it goes from enjoying
beauty to coveting beauty. Jesus says, the lamp of the
body is the eye. Right, look at what you should
(04:25):
be looking at, and don't look at things you're not
supposed to look at exercise discipline. I'll give you an example.
I am a happily married man. I love my wife.
I wouldn't trade her for a dozen Victoria's Secret Models.
But I am a man. Sometimes when I'm at the gym,
there's some woman wearing something scandalous, like where you can
see every outline of her body doing hip thrusters right
(04:48):
in front of me. Now is a general rule at
the gym. I don't like being on my phone. I
think it's a distraction. I don't like it. I don't
like spending a ton of time on my screen. But
if I'm doing a particularercise, I can either just quit
and go do another exercise if that woman's right in
front of me grunting doing hip thrusters, or in that case,
I can put in headphones and you know, look at
(05:09):
my phone in between sets. By exercising discipline, if we
are to pray, lead me not into temptation, we are
not then to lead ourselves into temptation and wonder why
we are in trouble. Exercise your discipline muscle. You could
be going down the highway. Everything's fine on your motorcycle,
(05:34):
right cranking it up going eighty miles an hour and
everything seemingly fine, and you could hit a rock and
you could be skidding on the asphalt before you know it.
I don't think that adultery is like that, And by
God's grace, I've never cheated on my wife, and I hope,
by God's grace that I never ever do. But adultery
is not like that. Man, you probably start sliding, and
(05:56):
you have plenty of chances to recover if you're being honest,
but you keep going down the wrong path. You keep slipping,
and you don't correct it. You don't exercise that discipline muscle,
and you don't exercise that discipline muscle until there's more
and more egregious mistakes, and before you know it, you
can't correct and you do lack any discipline because you
(06:21):
made a lot of choices where you didn't exercise your
discipline muscle in the short term, starting out with flirting
or looking too long or coveting or whatever it is,
and before you know it, you are an adultery. And
it probably didn't come suddenly, So I would submit to you.
(06:42):
Discipline is like many other muscles. To exercise it regularly
and it doesn't matter if you want to or not it.
Going back to working out, you know how often I
feel like waking up and riving the muscles open? You
know how often I feel like getting up at four
point thirty in the morning to go work out? Almost never.
(07:02):
That ties into discipline and disimpline ties into that the
more you do it, the stronger you will be at it.
People like to debate all this thing, and I'll just
she's working out. Example. You know, is it better to
do four sets of four heavyweight or three sets of
ten or you know German volume training. Okay, that makes small,
(07:25):
little differences. Well, what makes a big difference is showing
up and actually doing it and lifting something that is
by far more important. I'm into guns and competition shooting.
If you guys listen to the other podcast, Gunfighter Life.
People will debate this platform versus that platform, and there
are some differences, there are some percentage gains and one
system versus another, but all that pales in comparison to
(07:49):
getting out to the range and putting rounds down range
and dry firing when it's boring, when you don't want to,
when it's hot, when it's cold. Right, All that makes
a way bigger difference. How do you get better at
shooting by dry firing and shooting and training the skills
that go into that that culminate into a match or
a score. How do you stay physically fit? You exercise
(08:13):
different muscle groups and cardio, and then when you put
them together, you are physically fit. How do you exercise
and grow in discipline and be a strong, well disciplined
man by exercising discipline and those areas we've heretofore discussed,
and so much more in what you look at, in
(08:35):
what you do, in what you refuse to do because
it's bad, by saying no, and diet and exercise. In relationship,
here's a big one. In your thoughts. You can control
what you think about now you can't. I can't control
everything that pops into my head, but I can control
(08:57):
what I let nest in my brain. I can control
what I ruminate on mentally, I can control that, and
so can you. And the more you do it, the
better you will be at it. The Bible says no
man can tame the tongue, and nobody can completely tame
the tongue. I say horrible, I say the stupid thing
to my wife. The other day we were fighting. Then
I regret saying like nobody is perfect at it. But
(09:19):
the more you exercise discipline in what you say, the
better you will be at it. I don't think you'll
ever be perfect at it, but you will be much
better at discipline in your speech, not saying something you
shouldn't say, not you know, gossiping or talking trash about
somebody when you shouldn't. The more you decide I'm going
(09:40):
to keep my mouth shut when this doesn't pertain to me,
or I don't I should. It's not my place to
have an opinion. Even if I have it, it's not
my place to voice it. The more you do that,
the better you will be at it. Again, discipline is
a muscle, so if you want to be well disciplined,
then exercise it. And although this is not going be
a long episode, I think I have hammered that point.
(10:03):
Exercise your discipline muscle. Thanks for listening, and have a
blessed day,
Hello, man. Today we're going to talk about discipline, self discipline,
and how you can develop that. Welcome to Alpha Male Podcast,
the podcast where we talk about what it means to
be a man the right way, with God at the center,
Judeo Christian values and real world firsthand experience. Let us
(00:25):
talk about discipline. I am gonna propose that discipline is
like many other muscles, like many other things that you develop.
How does one develop discipline, fortitude, grit by exercising it?
(00:47):
How does one build large biceps by exercising them? And
exercising them is often almost never fun in the moment.
Right you are literally you know the process for working out,
but you literally tear your muscles apart, and they heal back,
(01:08):
filling in the tears and get bigger. You're literally ripping
yourself apart when you're lifting heavy at the gym. It
is not fun at the time, but you reap the
rewards long after and continually in the long term. If
you will go through some suffering, some hardship, some amount
(01:29):
of pain in the short term, I would submit to
you that discipline is like that as well. Consider it
a muscle. If you want to be well disciplined, well,
you must perform with discipline. You must exercise discipline. How
(01:51):
do you get more disciplined in diet? A thing I
think a lot of Americans struggle with. While you get
more disciplined and diet by exercising that discipline. When somebody
comes to your office with cake or donuts, you say no,
thank you. A lot of people act like that is
getting drawn and quartered or whipped with a cat of
(02:14):
nine tails. You simply have to say no, thank you.
It's a very small example of how to exercise your
discipline muscle. When you're really, really hungry and you're on
your way home from work and you realize that, yeah,
I'm hungry, but I'm not going to die. I'm not
even close. I will be okay. I Am going to
(02:36):
wait till I get home and eat something healthy rather
than pull in some abomination drive through and get some
coronary special with extra fries. Exercising your discipline muscle. We
talked about diet, but discipline is applicable in so many
areas of a men's life today. Being disciplined in what
(02:59):
you were going to look at how many men today
are looking at just really perverse And I'm gonna say,
perverse as in a sexual nature, and I mean by
that anything outside of you and your wife, a husband
(03:20):
and a wife. How do you develop that discipline to
not go down that road. Well, the more you exercise
that discipline, the more disciplined you'll be, the stronger your
discipline will become. Now, I am not perfect to this.
I don't know where the line is. I, as a man,
enjoy looking at a beautiful woman. Women, to me are
(03:42):
some of the most beautiful things in all of God's creation.
They are beautiful like a sunset. They are beautiful like
many other things. But we are not Jesus says, if
we look at a woman with lust in her heart,
we've already committed aultree with her. I don't know where
that line is between enjoying a woman's beauty and coveting.
(04:03):
I'm not perfect at that. But men, if you're honest
with yourself, you probably know when you go too far,
when you look too long, when it goes from enjoying
beauty to coveting beauty. Jesus says, the lamp of the
body is the eye. Right, look at what you should
(04:25):
be looking at, and don't look at things you're not
supposed to look at exercise discipline. I'll give you an example.
I am a happily married man. I love my wife.
I wouldn't trade her for a dozen Victoria's Secret Models.
But I am a man. Sometimes when I'm at the gym,
there's some woman wearing something scandalous, like where you can
see every outline of her body doing hip thrusters right
(04:48):
in front of me. Now is a general rule at
the gym. I don't like being on my phone. I
think it's a distraction. I don't like it. I don't
like spending a ton of time on my screen. But
if I'm doing a particularercise, I can either just quit
and go do another exercise if that woman's right in
front of me grunting doing hip thrusters, or in that case,
I can put in headphones and you know, look at
(05:09):
my phone in between sets. By exercising discipline, if we
are to pray, lead me not into temptation, we are
not then to lead ourselves into temptation and wonder why
we are in trouble. Exercise your discipline muscle. You could
be going down the highway. Everything's fine on your motorcycle,
(05:34):
right cranking it up going eighty miles an hour and
everything seemingly fine, and you could hit a rock and
you could be skidding on the asphalt before you know it.
I don't think that adultery is like that, And by
God's grace, I've never cheated on my wife, and I hope,
by God's grace that I never ever do. But adultery
is not like that. Man, you probably start sliding, and
(05:56):
you have plenty of chances to recover if you're being honest,
but you keep going down the wrong path. You keep slipping,
and you don't correct it. You don't exercise that discipline muscle,
and you don't exercise that discipline muscle until there's more
and more egregious mistakes, and before you know it, you
can't correct and you do lack any discipline because you
(06:21):
made a lot of choices where you didn't exercise your
discipline muscle in the short term, starting out with flirting
or looking too long or coveting or whatever it is,
and before you know it, you are an adultery. And
it probably didn't come suddenly, So I would submit to you.
(06:42):
Discipline is like many other muscles. To exercise it regularly
and it doesn't matter if you want to or not it.
Going back to working out, you know how often I
feel like waking up and riving the muscles open? You
know how often I feel like getting up at four
point thirty in the morning to go work out? Almost never.
(07:02):
That ties into discipline and disimpline ties into that the
more you do it, the stronger you will be at it.
People like to debate all this thing, and I'll just
she's working out. Example. You know, is it better to
do four sets of four heavyweight or three sets of
ten or you know German volume training. Okay, that makes small,
(07:25):
little differences. Well, what makes a big difference is showing
up and actually doing it and lifting something that is
by far more important. I'm into guns and competition shooting.
If you guys listen to the other podcast, Gunfighter Life.
People will debate this platform versus that platform, and there
are some differences, there are some percentage gains and one
system versus another, but all that pales in comparison to
(07:49):
getting out to the range and putting rounds down range
and dry firing when it's boring, when you don't want to,
when it's hot, when it's cold. Right, All that makes
a way bigger difference. How do you get better at
shooting by dry firing and shooting and training the skills
that go into that that culminate into a match or
a score. How do you stay physically fit? You exercise
(08:13):
different muscle groups and cardio, and then when you put
them together, you are physically fit. How do you exercise
and grow in discipline and be a strong, well disciplined
man by exercising discipline and those areas we've heretofore discussed,
and so much more in what you look at, in
(08:35):
what you do, in what you refuse to do because
it's bad, by saying no, and diet and exercise. In relationship,
here's a big one. In your thoughts. You can control
what you think about now you can't. I can't control
everything that pops into my head, but I can control
(08:57):
what I let nest in my brain. I can control
what I ruminate on mentally, I can control that, and
so can you. And the more you do it, the
better you will be at it. The Bible says no
man can tame the tongue, and nobody can completely tame
the tongue. I say horrible, I say the stupid thing
to my wife. The other day we were fighting. Then
I regret saying like nobody is perfect at it. But
(09:19):
the more you exercise discipline in what you say, the
better you will be at it. I don't think you'll
ever be perfect at it, but you will be much
better at discipline in your speech, not saying something you
shouldn't say, not you know, gossiping or talking trash about
somebody when you shouldn't. The more you decide I'm going
(09:40):
to keep my mouth shut when this doesn't pertain to me,
or I don't I should. It's not my place to
have an opinion. Even if I have it, it's not
my place to voice it. The more you do that,
the better you will be at it. Again, discipline is
a muscle, so if you want to be well disciplined,
then exercise it. And although this is not going be
a long episode, I think I have hammered that point.
(10:03):
Exercise your discipline muscle. Thanks for listening, and have a
blessed day,
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