2898: Discipline Ripples by Steve Pavlina on New Habit Building & Self-Control

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[00:00:53] This is Optimal Finance Daily. Discipline Ripples. By Steve Pavlina of StevePavlina.com.

[00:01:01] And I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana Merriam.

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[00:01:39] Discipline Ripples by Steve Pavlina of StevePavlina.com.

[00:01:44] A nice side effect of my daily blogging challenge is that it's helping me become more disciplined in other areas of life.

[00:01:52] This in turn increases my capacity to get more done because I can trust that I'll have abundant discipline to flow through more tasks and projects.

[00:02:02] I expected that there would be some discipline ripples, but I'm pleased that they're better than I anticipated.

[00:02:09] Staying caffeine free feels easier than ever.

[00:02:12] I'm also easily avoiding other stimulants like many forms of chocolate, caffeinated tea, etc.

[00:02:19] Feels like the part of my brain that recognizes and wants to avoid addictive patterns has been strengthened.

[00:02:26] Maintaining my early riser habit feels easier than ever, and I'm often getting up earlier than my usual 5am alarm.

[00:02:33] This morning I got up at 4.30, which is happening more often.

[00:02:36] I've noticed that I feel less inclined to linger in bed even if I could justify that it's not time to get up yet.

[00:02:44] When my body feels awake, it wants to get up and move, not stay in bed longer than it needs to.

[00:02:50] On average, I'm running for about an hour each morning.

[00:02:53] This morning's run was 70 minutes.

[00:02:55] It used to feel like a long run.

[00:02:57] Now it feels like a normal, everyday type of run.

[00:03:00] The minimum I run is 45 minutes, since anything less feels like it's too little.

[00:03:05] With the increased running, I'm flowing through many more non-fiction audiobooks, finishing 2-3 per week,

[00:03:11] so that'll add up to 100-150 audiobooks per year at this rate.

[00:03:16] I just finished League of Denial yesterday, and this morning I started Big Magic.

[00:03:21] I'll finish Big Magic tomorrow and start another audiobook on Sunday.

[00:03:25] Work projects are flowing very nicely.

[00:03:27] I'm doing a better job of staying organized and completing projects in an intelligent order.

[00:03:33] I'm not perfect at this, but I noticed that instead of feeling driven to choose the work for each day

[00:03:39] based on intuition or emotional impulses,

[00:03:42] I'm more easily flowing into the most rational project to work on next.

[00:03:47] And when I sit down to work on it, the discipline is there to stick with it for hours.

[00:03:52] I've already written more blog articles this year than I did in 2019, 2018, and 2017 combined.

[00:03:59] By the end of June, you'll be able to add 2016 to that as well.

[00:04:03] So that will be like doing four years of blogging in six months.

[00:04:08] The interesting thing about 365-day challenges

[00:04:11] is that initially they're hard, but eventually they become easy.

[00:04:17] I'd say that happens somewhere around day 45-75.

[00:04:21] After six or nine weeks into such a challenge,

[00:04:24] the resistance crumbles and the training effect begins to take hold.

[00:04:29] By enduring that long and not missing a single day, you've grown stronger.

[00:04:34] It's easier to keep going because now you get to do the rest of the challenge with a stronger,

[00:04:39] more aligned, less resistant mind.

[00:04:42] It's hard to stretch ourselves to tackle discipline-building challenges,

[00:04:46] but note that it does get easier as your mind grows stronger.

[00:04:51] The mind that whines about getting up early

[00:04:54] isn't the same as the mind that's already gotten up before dawn for many weeks in a row.

[00:04:59] The new mind thinks the old mind is a wimp for whining about such an easily maintainable

[00:05:05] and personally beneficial habit.

[00:05:07] The mind that whines about giving up chocolate

[00:05:10] isn't the same as the mind that's free of that addiction

[00:05:13] and recognizes it as an unnecessary weakness.

[00:05:17] The mind that would whine about running for an hour each day

[00:05:20] isn't the same as the mind that's been doing it for weeks,

[00:05:23] thinks it's normal and suspects that 75-minute daily runs would probably be no big deal either.

[00:05:30] You've gotten used to your current level of self-discipline,

[00:05:33] but you could train yourself to go beyond that and create a new normal for yourself.

[00:05:38] Your new normal may yield much better results than your old normal.

[00:05:42] The transition may be difficult,

[00:05:44] but once you've locked in your new normal,

[00:05:47] it's really no more difficult than your old normal.

[00:05:50] Raising your standards is hard.

[00:05:52] Keeping them raised is much easier.

[00:05:55] When you train up your discipline and then apply it to your life,

[00:05:58] you don't suffer every day because the rewards of discipline

[00:06:01] are greater than the temporary pleasures of an undisciplined life.

[00:06:06] Life without chocolate isn't a sad life.

[00:06:09] It's a more focused and mentally stable life

[00:06:12] since the body no longer has to deal with the ups and downs of the stimulant effect.

[00:06:16] The sad life is that of the stimulant addict who's in denial about their addiction.

[00:06:22] The sad life is a life without daily exercise and its many neurological benefits.

[00:06:27] The sad life is that of the person who has to suffer with the results of undisciplined habits

[00:06:32] taking their toll year after year.

[00:06:35] Training up your discipline is hard, yes.

[00:06:38] But not training up your discipline is way, way, way harder.

[00:06:44] Imagine what more you could experience and enjoy with more discipline.

[00:06:49] The ability to get yourself to take rational actions

[00:06:51] that create desirable results again and again.

[00:06:55] That's worth some challenging training

[00:06:57] so you can access those long-term benefits.

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[00:08:44] Thank you to Steve.

[00:08:46] I thought it was an interesting take, how he relates his daily blogging challenge to a

[00:08:51] discipline ripple effect that moves on to other things like staying caffeine-free, waking

[00:08:56] up early, running every day, and more.

[00:08:59] It made me pause to think about my own life.

[00:09:02] I've been working on this podcast every day pretty much, and I can't say with certainty

[00:09:07] that my discipline has improved a lot from that.

[00:09:10] But the interesting thing is, for productivity and really just sanity and practical reasons,

[00:09:17] I can't record every single day.

[00:09:20] And to keep everything on track and not at the last minute, I have to record a bit ahead

[00:09:25] of schedule in case something happens.

[00:09:27] So maybe I can't actually use this as an example since I don't actually record every single day.

[00:09:33] I have to instead think of something different that I started doing really every single day

[00:09:39] more recently, and whether or not I felt ripple effects from that.

[00:09:44] And in that case, I do think it's true.

[00:09:47] When I started my pre-shower exercise routine, which I talked about a little while ago,

[00:09:52] I stuck with it and then added in, ending my showers with cold water.

[00:09:57] Which, by the way, is not recommended for everyone because it might not be right for people

[00:10:01] with certain conditions, and the jury is still out on whether there's actually a ton of benefit

[00:10:06] from doing it in the first place.

[00:10:07] But I seem to enjoy it.

[00:10:10] Anyway, those both ended up happening pretty close in succession, and I've been able to

[00:10:16] stick with them both, and also curb my sugar intake or dessert cravings as well after.

[00:10:21] Just like you said, it feels like it's almost a ripple effect of good habits and discipline.

[00:10:27] One thing I'll caution, though, is that if you try to do all these things at once, it almost

[00:10:32] certainly will result in burnouts or giving up, or anything along those lines, and feeling

[00:10:37] like you have to start all over again.

[00:10:39] So baby steps is always key.

[00:10:42] But I'll back him up and say that I actually believe it.

[00:10:45] With just one addition of something, even pretty small, the effects will be seen in many

[00:10:50] different areas of life.

[00:10:52] So take those steps today.

[00:10:53] Hope you have a great Friday if you're listening in real time.

[00:10:55] Thank you for listening, and I'll see you tomorrow over the weekend, where your optimal life

[00:11:00] awaits.