365 Days With Self-Discipline Quotes

“I believe that if a person wants to reach their full potential, he or she can’t avoid discomfort. Doing things that might not be entirely pleasant is key to achieving long-term objectives”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Nobody likes to face obstacles, but it’s thanks to the obstacles you face today that you gain the ability to overcome other hardships in the future — ones that would possibly crush you if it weren’t for the experience you’re having today.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“In many aspects, your life is already incredible. You just need to remind yourself that you can lose it, so that you can relearn its value for you.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Amateurs think that if they were inspired all the time, they could be professionals. Professionals know that if they relied on inspiration, they’d be amateurs.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“To achieve your long-term goals, make sure that the satisfaction you get from what you want most is always much stronger than the satisfaction you can get from what you want now.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It’s the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation — do what’s right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It’s central, in fact, to civilization. —Roy Baumeister”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“If you allow yourself to have low standards, how are you supposed to ever achieve excellence? Exhibiting self-control is one of the most powerful demonstrations of having high standards; letting fleeting emotions and urges control your life — as most people do — is a sure-fire path to mediocrity.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Research suggests that it takes anywhere from 18 to 254 days21 to form a new habit, with 66 days being the average time (not 21 days, as the common knowledge goes).”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“A second line of research has shown that economic stress robs us of cognitive bandwidth. Worrying about bills, food or other problems, leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax. —Nicholas Kristof”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“How often do you avoid effort when it would have been beneficial to face it? If you’re content to live an easy, effortless life, are you also content to live your life without ever realizing your full potential as a human being that has evolved to thrive in a challenging environment?”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“There is just something wrong with getting up every day and moving through your existence with the least possible effort. If your expectations are always those of someone content to live without physical challenge, then when it comes time for mental, moral, or emotional challenge, you fail to meet it because you are out of practice. —Mark”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Reading thought-provoking and/or long titles conditions your brain to eschew mental laziness. When a book provides an intellectual challenge and you keep going, you train yourself to stay with problems for as long as necessary to figure them out instead of giving up — and that’s a habit that will surely help you in other endeavors, too.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Take advantage of the opportunity to improve your self-discipline by exposing yourself to other points of view and thinking for yourself.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Whenever you find yourself frustrated that you’re still a long way from the finish line, remember that it’s right now, at this very moment, that you’re collecting the biggest rewards. It’s the struggle in itself that improves you and makes you a more successful person.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“The only purpose of building self-discipline is to conquer yourself — your own urges, your own weaknesses, and your own self-sabotaging behaviors.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“When discouraged, remember that all struggles present opportunities that, given enough time, you can convert into successes or lessons that will aid you in other areas of life.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Whenever you get discouraged, or feel tired by how far you still have to go to accomplish your goals, remind yourself that everybody who has built self-discipline had to go through the same process — starting with little changes which then turned into habits, which then led to big lifestyle changes and identity shifts, and eventually, into successes.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Building self-discipline is similar to writing a novel. You might consider a disciplined person who always wakes up at four in the morning, is physically active every day, eats a healthy diet, is super productive, and is capable of balancing it all with their social life and family obligations as a superhuman. But in reality, this person, like the bestselling novelist, probably started with one simple change and kept building on top of it.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Periodically try living without something that you consider a necessity. You’ll benefit in several ways.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control. —Tim Ferriss4”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Each choice sets a precedent — and when you make the same wrong choice several times in a row, it becomes your standard modus operandi.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Even a relatively insignificant problem can become an insurmountable obstacle for a person who’s been living a sheltered life and always avoided what’s difficult or disagreeable.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“I believe that if a person wants to reach their full potential, he or she can’t avoid discomfort. Doing things that might not be entirely pleasant is key to achieving long-term objectives.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Another aspect of pride is stubbornly following the wrong path.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“The problem with mistaking luxuries for necessities is that it's impossible to develop powerful self-discipline if you need a lot just to function.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“For example, I always wash the cookware I used to cook my dinner before I eat my meal. This way I can eat my dinner without the unpleasant thought in the back of my mind that I’ll not only have to wash the dishes, but also the pots and pans I used for cooking. Small habits like that can help establish a habit of choosing to do the hard things now instead of letting all the hard tasks accumulate like a backlog at work.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Self-discipline means living your life the hard way: resisting temptations and instant gratification, in order to receive bigger and better rewards in the future.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“For this reason, as a great exercise for building self-discipline and mental resilience, I strongly suggest exposing yourself to difficult tasks. Embrace problems in your life and look at dealing with difficulties as training yourself to see problems as hurdles instead of barriers.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“If something scares you in an excited way, (something that *gives* you energy) — that’s a good sign. BUT IF SOMETHING IS MAKING YOU MISERABLE AND DRAINING YOUR ENERGY, PLEASE STOP.”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline

“Eat this greasy, high-calorie hamburger or prepare a healthy salad? Sleep in and barely get to work on time or wake up at 5 a.m. to work on your side business before going to work at your day job? Stop trying the moment you get rejected or swallow your pride and keep going, despite hearing “no” dozens of times?”
― Martin Meadows, 365 Days With Self-Discipline