13 Hacks to be 99.9% More Disciplined That Cost Nothing

0:00 I'm going to share the 13 hacks that can make anyone 99% more disciplined that cost nothing these are the strategies that I use to go from a distracted broke 23-year-old with ADHD to consistently crushing every hard task without fail and building $100 million Empire you can start using these hacks today even if you lack motivation so without further explaining it these are the 13 hacks to unlock more discipline starting with number one cancel your morning alarm I know a guy that literally has seven morning alarms he wakes up he hits the snooze button he wakes up again snooze button again and he's got a snooze alarm set every 15 minutes what are you doing why are you laying in bed do you know what you tell yourself when you do this is that life is a snooze and you're

0:45 better off just laying there than not getting up and attacking the day most of your problems could easily be solved if you just went to bed on time how do I get up at 4:00 a.m. every day without an alarm I just go to bed at 9:00 p.m. it's not that impressive I have an alarm to tell me when I go to bed if you want to wake up ready to attack the day if the first decision you get the chance to make is snoozing your alarm you've just lost the battle think about this if you just delete your alarm it will force you to think about your bedtime because you got to go to bed at a time where your body will naturally wake up so instead set a bedtime alarm that is different from what you will hear from everybody else it's more important to go to bed on time and let your body wake you up when it's done resting then for you to wake yourself up as out of bed because you

1:30 don't have a forcing function to go to bed on time see if you know you have to go to sleep because your body's going to wake up and you can't have an alarm intercept you won't allow yourself to watch another episode watch another episode watch another episode you will go to bed on time because you have to get the time in for your body to feel restful so that when you wake up you can attack it before we get to number two we've got a goal of hitting a million subscribers so if you haven't already hit subscribe which brings us to hack number two upgrade your TV to a library I remember listening to Jim ran who's like The Godfather person development a long time ago and he said most people that are broke have bigger TVs than they do libraries the average person has a 65 75 bazillion inch TV my invitation is have a bigger Library go invest in books when I buy books somebody says hey you should buy this book I buy that book

2:17 every other book the author has I see what's recommended to me I have an unlimited budget for my mind that belief will keep me disciplined and focus on achieving things that most people can there's a reason Supercar companies like Ferrari and Lamborghini don't run tv ads because the people who buy those cars don't watch TV they don't want to be advertised to they're out there creating their world not being sold on living a better world because they're already doing it your body is wired for dopamine and TV is very good at delivering it and if you get into it and addicted to it it will take over your life see most people that stop me when I'm driving one of my supercars they ask me what did you do to become rich I'll tell you what I didn't do I didn't sit around watching TV I fed my mind I I read books My Success is the

3:02 byproduct of feeding my mind of going all in on education education that nobody made me do I didn't sit in a classroom I wasn't forced to do homework I was self-educated because I wanted more for myself I just think having a bigger library is more important to have a bigger TV because if you actually focus on educating yourself that habit will create discipline which brings us to hack number three turn off all notifications you may not know this but the software companies in Silicon Valley are engineering the distractions and distractions destroy dreams even my buddy has a retail store and we called him at 5: in the morning to ask him a question he answered the phone and then he got mad at us for calling him at 5:00 in the morning I said dude you can put your phone and do not disturb he said well that must be nice for you but I have a store and an alarm goes through

3:48 to my phone so I have to be able to answer it okay so you're the only person in the history of the world that has a retail store that doesn't have your security alarm go to a professional most people don't realize that their need to always be in the loop thumb on the pulse of their business is actually distracting them from doing deep focused work and building that discipline muscle your goals should matter more than the notifications you're allowing you should design a life that's more interesting than the social media apps pulling you into be distracted the only person who can call me directly is my wife that is a special setting I set up on my phone everybody else unless I need the call I put my phone and do not disturb instead what I do is I schedule time to review my messages I plug in to slack to text messages to miss calls I decide when I

4:34 connect and that's why I don't even do my email inbox anymore I talk about it in my book buy back your time a lot of people brag about inbox zero what about zero inbox because I learned your email inbox is nothing more than a public to-do list of other people's priorities on your time turning off notifications is the key to unlocking discipline because stops you from being distracted when you are disciplined and you're in the zone and you're getting work done having a a vibration a noise interrupt you is crazy to me my doors closed in my office my kids aren't allowed to come and knock on the door they understand that when I do that that's a signal to everybody in the home that that's when I go and I do my deep work and out of respect unless it's an emergency please don't interrupt me you need to do that for yourself your focus needs to be

5:20 protected your energy needs to be protected your attention needs to be protected give it to the work which brings us to number four hack your algorithm this idea will probably mess you up but I spend millions of dollars every year to buy back my time to then get work done throughout the day to scroll social media at night I probably scroll three hours a day of Tik Tok why because I've actually curated my social feed to feed my mind every video I've liked I've searched I've added to it I'm learning about AI media success and motivation and my feed is actually a mini University I've designed don't let the algorithm d drag you down mindless distractions curate it unfollow people don't look at stuff that triggers you I

6:06 think we live in this beautiful world where you can decide who you want to learn from people that have been there that are closer to your goals and your current friends and then you can actually unfollow people and refollow the folks that are going to support you you're allowed to do this a lot of you are scared to do it just mute them just say less of this like when something shows up in my feed and I don't want that I just say give me less and you can curate your feed that way it costs you nothing it'll change your whole psychology your focus your ability to create your ability to stay disciplined just click on those three dots and say recommend posts like this or not interested which brings us to hack number five master your list the other day somebody asked me Dan do you have a system for and I stopped them I said yes they're like you don't even know what I asked I have a system for packing I have

6:52 a system for my food prep I have a system for travel I have a system for everything I have list upon list upon list why cuz if I was ever going to do it once I'm going to write it down so that the next time it's easier on me and I don't forget anything and as I build them I can then give them to somebody else so they can do them for me to buy back my time checklists are the key to getting more time checklists are the way that you stay disciplined in your work so that you don't get distracted by things that you don't have to do the most disciplined people aren't super human they just write everything down they take everything in their mind and put it on the list because your brain is not meant to remember things your brain is meant to be used used to solve massive problems you want to keep it empty so that the Cycles are available not trying to keep all these open Loops going so you don't forget anything see

7:37 your lack of discipline is actually a lack of clarity because it's clogged up and foggy trying to remember all these things that you should just write down get it out of your brain it makes everything else easier and once you have everything out it's a sequence of what to attack and what I've learned is you're sequencing equals success if you get it out of your brain you put it on paper and you sort it and you attack it in the right order that's how you start to build momentum which brings us to number six stack your habits every once in a while I'll get a client that comes into my world and they're like I want to redesign everything I want to get this and change my business and do all this stuff and they literally do everything and they take Massive Action cuz they read about this but what they really are doing is they're setting themselves up to fail how many people you know that like decide to get into fitness and then

8:23 all of a sudden they go to the gym twice in one day and they start running and then they're not eating properly and then they crash and then they give up that happens all the time see I'm much more of a fan of Massive Action consistently I'm more of a fan of saying hey let's stack our habits let's lock one in but a big one maybe it's nutrition maybe it's working out maybe it's getting up earlier but once we lock it in then we can stack it once we plug in one we can add another one easier once there's built consistency James Clear said it best he said habits are the compounding interest of self-improvement the best way to actually install a new habit to have discipline long term is to ask yourself what do you already do automatically how can you use that as a trigger and add the new habit to it put your new habit beside that one until it becomes

9:09 automatic if you have a habit of brushing your teeth and you want to remember to take your vitamins then take those vitamins and place it next to your toothpaste if you want to have a habit of reading your book and you know that every morning you grab a cup of coffee put your Kindle or your book next to the coffee maker so that you grab both at the same time the highest level of habit is when it becomes your identity see I'm pretty sure if you don't smoke last week you did not tell yourself 14,000 times not to stop and buy cigarettes why cuz you don't smoke and as soon as you build a habit into who you are that's how easy it becomes you don't think about it it's just what you do so for example for me working out daily takes no discipline anymore why cuz it's just who I am sweat every day has been my mantra for years I need to work out if I don't it's just as weird as walking around not wearing any

9:55 pants like it's weird so I work out I feel better it's who I am habits need to be stacked so that it just becomes your identity which brings us to hack number seven commit to someone the other day I was at the gym and this guy named Jack on my team came to me and he was like hey man I want to produce more content I said no you don't he say yes I do I said prove it he said how I said you ready for this goes yeah I said commit to doing two a day commit to doing two a day if you do you get to bring your girlfriend to a spa if you don't you have to run a marathon with no prep and you have to go post on social media and tell everybody about it and then he shook my hand that is commitment cuz he made the commitment to me he made the commitment to his girlfriend cuz she wanted to go to the spa and he made a commitment to all of his friends on social media there's zero chance he's not going to hit it and I'm happy to report he's 16 17 days in hasn't missed

10:41 to a day and I guarantee he's not going to miss here's why people will do more for others than they'll ever do for themselves you'll do more for your dog than you'll do for yourself I've seen people that gives the dog a prescription there's a h 100 days of pills two pills a day and that person never misses one of those pills for those 100 days and yet the doctor gives them a prescription for some kind of flu or whatever they got and they might fill out 75% of it consistently having somebody else you're committed to is how you create discipline finding a mentor or a coach to hold you accountable that is the purpose of those people in your life scheduling your gym time with a buddy that's how you ensure you show up cuz I guarantee you'll be less likely to cancel on a friend that went out of their way to change their time to match yours so you guys can go get your pump on the way you build discipline is

11:27 design the game to be easy to play if you want to get something done tell somebody you respect cuz then they'll hold you accountable which brings us to number eight clean out your pantry I believe it's easier to avoid the dragon than to slay it so many of my fitness clients couldn't stick to the plan so many of them sabotage ate some crap made bad decisions and I just kept saying go into your house take all the food out of there tell your family you need them to be on board for the next 90 days stop blaming them if you need to get a locked cabinet that your spouse has the key to do that but I'm telling you the best way to win in the discipline game is to just avoid having to make the decision set the standard in your house don't have it as an option get it out of your view and it'll be way easier for you to pull off

12:13 here's a big idea your environment will always win over your willpower if you want to make good decisions you have to make good choices and the only choices are available it's not hard to have discipline and make good choices if the only choices available to you are good Cho choices make good choices the only choices available I mean the same can be applied to your phone clean out all the distracting app just delete them only check your social media on your computer if you have to or video games you're allowed to move them out of your home put them at your friend's house hey man I just bought you a new game console but I'm going to come over and play it on weekends is that okay okay cool get it out of your home it's way easier to avoid the dragon than to slay it which brings us a hack number nine make failure painful this was actually painful but the best decision I've ever made my firsts business coach was 1,500

13:00 bucks a month I didn't have the money I figured if he's so good within a couple months he should be able to help me make money to pay for him but not doing the work was the pain not showing up would have been painful not taking deep amounts of notes would have been the most costly thing not the money it's not getting the results that would have been the painful thing and that's why I set up the game so that the pain is something I don't want to feel so I'm willing to do the work to avoid it most people don't pay so they don't pay attention they don't real realize that the transformation they're looking for happens at the transaction because in that moment they say to themselves I want to get my money's worth people will always work harder to avoid pain than to gain pleasure so here's a few ideas to make sure that it builds your discipline first off always have Stakes involved

13:46 anytime you make a commitment you should create a scenario where if you don't achieve it there's pain in your life have the stakes there put your money on the line if you're like how do I make this painful I would make a donation to an organiz ation you hate maybe it's the opposite political party you believe in or whatever it is but if you don't achieve the thing you want then you have to give a large amount of money to that organization or you can have some fun and say hey if I don't do this I'm going to give you $1,000 if I don't follow through I wouldn't even give it to a friend I would actually give it to an enemy what if you made a commitment to your friend to give $1,000 to your enemy somebody you actually despise if you don't achieve your goal do you think you're going to want to do that no PID number three embarrassment can also be a great one you know when I decided to do project VIs ible ABS which is 90 days and I went from like 17% body fat down

14:33 to 5% the stakes I put on the line was entering a fitness competition as is dadbod no tan No Shave chest if I didn't achieve it motivated that's not even the right word highly motivated oh and then some there was zero chance I wasn't going to hit I would have sat there for 13 days and not ate any food to hit my goal which brings us to number 10 start with the big Domino most people believe that we build momentum I think it's a complete lie I think the best thing you can do is start your day with the hardest problems that's where you have your most creativity and it always for me goes first in my day that momentum though then gets built to the other Stu but I'm not like trying to do little wins I'm trying to get a massive one early in the next biggest one and the next biggest one before I deplete my

15:19 ability to think creatively the truth is the hardest task is to stop picking the easiest task in many ways people's dreams to a bigger life are usually derailed because there's an easier path to a smaller goal most people could have bigger lives if they allowed themselves to pick hard things and stick to them not just take a path that's easier so how do we do that we put the big ones first and the other ones just fall into place in practice your biggest commitments are first in the calendar I put them literally in the calendar I honor my calendar sometimes we have this thing this test this presentation we have to give in the future and instead of just attacking the work today we put it off and it creates anxiety and frustration and we're not nice to the people around us and they don't know why and you know it's cuz you're upset at yourself but you take it out on everybody all around you that's not fair

16:07 decide to do the hardest thing first and build that momentum in your life which brings us to hack number 11 delete useless decisions do you want to take the guess what's in my closet the blue shirt a blue shirt I only wear blue shirts I have thousands of blue shirts I have a lot why I don't want to have to think when I sat down a long time ago and said hey I know I got a get dress every day I didn't want to have to take any cognitive overhead to actually make those decisions I decided to wear the same color pattern with the same clothes with the same brand every day and then that way it doesn't become decision fatigue I just believe to decide once then dream bigger make the decision don't repeat yourself it's called dry and then move on to bigger problems see most people they keep making the same little decisions all the time and they

16:53 don't have the mental capacity to attack the big stuff I would much rather you focus your discipline and willpower on important decisions Jeff bezo said this a long time ago he said when I wake up I read the newspaper I Putter and I get to work and I only have to make two to three big decisions in the day and usually before 11:00 a.m. and after that I'm good those big decisions require your focus if you take that mind power and that creativity Away by making little decisions that you don't need to make it takes away from your ability to do big things pretty much everything in my life the way I think about it is my existence meals I do meal prep I eat the same macros workouts I go to the same place same time people I interact with same people clothes I wear my weekly schedule my rhythm of existence they're

17:39 all the same I've decided to make my decision a while ago follow the process if it's not broken I keep it going because I want to add big things not get distracted by little things which brings us to number 12 find disciplined friends when I decided to leave my small town and go explore what the world had for me I also knew I was looking to surround myself with people that were closer to my goals than closer to me and that's a big question you should ask yourself are the folks you're spending time with going to support you encourage you or does it make it harder for you to go after what you want to create it's interesting because when I think of the list of things that I do to be successful and then I think of a person's name I just have to ask myself does this person make it more likely that I'll do those things or less likely

18:25 if it's less likely why would I involve them in my life at the way I'm doing right now maybe I just got to create some space maybe I can love them from a distance I mean you've heard this before but you become the average of The Five People You spend the most time with but the way I think about it is you become the average of The Five People You allow to influence you the cool part is you can get influenced by people on social media as I mentioned and by other people that you read about that inspire you here's what I've learned is discipline is contagious being around other people that have discipline that track their macros that work out every day it makes your life to make good decisions so much easier now if that requires you to do a friend ventory where you sit down and you actually say here are my goals what kind of people would I want to spend time with that are going to help me get those goals faster and then maybe make a

19:11 list of your current friends and go is this somebody I see supporting my future holding me back and it doesn't mean just because you've known somebody since high school or you're sat next to somebody in math class that you have to be friends with them forever but some people you do like one of my best friends Marty I've known him since I was 13 he works at the government and he is still my biggest fan I love Marty I have all the time in the world for Marty when I interviewed Dana White the first person I called afterwards was Marty but the people in my life today are definitely closer to my goals and dreams than closer to me some of you might feel really lonely you might not feel like you have any friends just find virtual mentors find mentors in the form of books coaching online podcasts I mean I'm assuming it's why you're listening to this you want to find people that are going to show you the world that you know you want to

19:57 create so that you can learn from them their beliefs or their points of view to adopt those to make your life easier which brings us to the last hack number 13 visualize your goals guess how many times I look at my goals yearly monthly weekly no at least three times a day three times a day I have 12 power goals that I've decided for the year that I review to ask myself am I investing my calendar my bank account towards those goals appropriately and is my calendar a reflection of those priorities and if they're not what phone calls do I need to make what projects do I need to stop or start and that to me is how throughout the year I'm able to get to about 75 to 80% of those goals not 100% because they're massive but 65 75% of

20:42 big goals 12 of them for the year I wouldn't be able to do it if I didn't review them with that frequency so if you're struggling with discipline it's really just a test and the test is this do you want it as bad as you say you do because if you do you're willing to do the work and the way you get the work done is by reviewing the work by setting the goal by visualizing the goal by attacking it it's not enough to just have goals you have to have the goals and be in the energy of receiving them so I call this the rule of 300 you need to have 100% Clarity know exactly to the decimal to the detail to the specificity of the goal you need to have 100% belief that you can achieve it even if it makes no sense you've never done it before you have to believe in your soul 100% that you can do it and then you have to have 100% belief 100% Clarity 100% of the

21:28 time most people don't have Clarity don't have belief or they can't even believe it 100% of time they might be inspired for a minute but then self-doubt Creeps in I'm just asking myself to what degree do I have Clarity do I believe it and can I hold that belief true to the degree I can do that the 300% rule I can create or pull into my life that outcome you need to feel it you need to smell it it needs to be part of your identity that's why it's so important to shop your dreams if you want to buy a car go sit in that car smell the leather hold the steering wheel get a photo of you sitting in that car not a picture from the internet you in that car in that house in that hotel in that group of friends I need you to go there to shop your dream so that you can make it part of your reality the whole point of being disciplined is

22:16 because you're creating yourself to be ready to achieve the thing you want discipline is a means to a process of you becoming of you getting ready to receive all the dreams and goals you've been asking asking for and if you don't visualize where you want to get to if you don't make it about other people if in that process you don't see how your effort is contributing to other people then it's going to make it really hard to be disciplined to be consistent and I will tell you the most powerful thing that you can have is Clarity around your vision and once you have that you have that aim everything else just fits into place and it becomes so much easier if you want to learn the nine steps to get your together click here and I'll see you on the other side