How do you stay disciplined?

I find getting to work harder when I am making money than when I was not.

What keeps you guys disciplined?

Having a rest helps me.

The fear of failure is my biggest motivation. Just realize a bit of fear will kill procrastination.

Mrnewbie said:

The fear of failure is my biggest motivation. Just realize a bit of fear will kill procrastination.

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Can you elaborate? I'm interested.
For most people the fear of failure leads to procrastination.

Mrnewbie said:

The fear of failure is my biggest motivation. Just realize a bit of fear will kill procrastination.

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Funny because a lot of people experience a "fear of success" in this world. I know I am in that situation

Ever had this feeling that you had an ultimate goal in life and when you reach it, it feels totally... pointless, with no direction anymore...

I have this feeling in me.

I don't. Life is short, I don't let this concern me too much until it starts to noticeably negatively impact me.

Willyfish said:

Ever had this feeling that you had an ultimate goal in life and when you reach it, it feels totally... pointless, with no direction anymore...

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Totally, when I was making more money than I ever had before in my life I fell into a state of depression.

MrSponge said:

Can you elaborate? I'm interested.
For most people the fear of failure leads to procrastination.

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The fear keeps me from slacking or "taking it easy ". We are all wired differently so what might work for myself might not for the next person. Sorry I am on my phone so its hard to go extremely in depth but I think you get the gist of it.

Don't Worry, Life will teach you that by giving some punishment at right time.

You can never "reach" something and hope that it will just stay there.
For example, if you finally made $5k a month, and then you slack off, you will find yourself seeing that $5k a month isn't $5k a month anymore.

Always have goals to keep driving you forward.

I was speaking to Willy yesterday about the same thing, this is what I told him, have weekly/biweekly goals set up.
Have a Jar of money, each week, you put x amount inside, betting on yourself that you will reach your main mileage goal.
If you fail to reach it, you put double the amount in, motivating yourself to reach it.
That jar of money will keep piling up until you reach that mileage goal you set for yourself.
Once you do, you may potentially feel a sense of accomplishment.
On top of reaching your goal, you may also feel like you made a extra bit of cash too. (You can think of it as a investment turned out good, or a bonus for good work)

Rinse and repeat, have your goals clearly outlined, use a whiteboard, excel file, calendar, planner etc
Tick it off each time you finish something.

Not only that helped me stay productive, it also organized myself too.

I fear failure so much, so that keeps me disciplined. I've hit rock bottom before so I know what it feels like and I don't want that to ever happen again so I make sure I stay disciplined.

I stay disciplined because, like Mr Manson here, i didnt have anything else to do anyway

For me discipline is like muscle, the harder you train it, the bigger and stronger it becomes. I've made some things clear in my mind, for example the side effects of Sugars, Junk Food, Pornograpghy, Social Medias, etc...
If you just say I won't eat junk food anymore, I can guarantee you will eat junk food again. But If you make things clear about why you shouldn't eat junk food it will become much easier to follow what you have said. Everytime you fail, start from the beginning.

xReminisce said:

You can never "reach" something and hope that it will just stay there.
For example, if you finally made $5k a month, and then you slack off, you will find yourself seeing that $5k a month isn't $5k a month anymore.

Always have goals to keep driving you forward.

I was speaking to Willy yesterday about the same thing, this is what I told him, have weekly/biweekly goals set up.
Have a Jar of money, each week, you put x amount inside, betting on yourself that you will reach your main mileage goal.
If you fail to reach it, you put double the amount in, motivating yourself to reach it.
That jar of money will keep piling up until you reach that mileage goal you set for yourself.
Once you do, you may potentially feel a sense of accomplishment.
On top of reaching your goal, you may also feel like you made a extra bit of cash too. (You can think of it as a investment turned out good, or a bonus for good work)

Rinse and repeat, have your goals clearly outlined, use a whiteboard, excel file, calendar, planner etc
Tick it off each time you finish something.

Not only that helped me stay productive, it also organized myself too.

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Damn man, thanks for this.
Just made a weekly objective board on my Notion

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