Don’t ever be content with your life. Be happy, yes. Be excited, yes. Feel joy and pleasure and all those good things, yes... but never be content.
If you’re content, that means you have no ambition to grow or to get better. If you’re content, that means you’re okay with staying in the same place. It means you don’t want to give any more effort than you’re currently giving.
Let me ask you a question, why would you not want to grow? Build mental toughness? Get better every day? Look better? Feel better? Live longer? Have more money? Be happier in your career?
The only way you can truly strengthen your mind in order to do those things is through physical discipline.
This can come in the form of meditating, working out, waking up early, taking a cold shower, reading, running, operating on a strict schedule, making your bed, doing the dishes, to name a few.
All of these activities require your physical body to take action. They require you to put yourself into an uncomfortable situation and figure out how to get to the end of it.
Do you think if you spent 20 minutes meditating every day that you wouldn’t grow stronger mentally? What if you went for a 30-minute walk every day? What if you took a cold shower every morning? What if you made your bed as soon as you got up? Of course, these are going to build your mental toughness!
The name of this post is “Physical Discipline leads to Mental Excellence”. The most important word being “Discipline”.
Without discipline, NONE of this works.
If you want to actually strengthen your mind, discipline is required from you every. single. day.
If you can push through a grueling 30-minute walk in the cold and wind, what else can you do?
If you can have the discipline to read for 30 minutes every single day, what else can you do?
These physical tasks are a way for you to directly see and feel what it’s like to accomplish your goals every day. Seeing yourself go for a 30-minute run every day proves to you that as long as you have the discipline and the desire, you can do anything you want in life.
Choose one physical activity to focus on for the next week. The more physically demanding it is, the better. The more you dislike doing it, the better. Do that activity to the best of your ability every single day for the next week. Check in with yourself after one week of this discipline and consistency. Do you feel better? Look better? Are you happier?
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