Motivation VS DisciplineLunch & Learn - February 11th, 2015

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MOTIVATION

MOTIVATION, KEY TO SUCCESS?

MOTIVATION, KEY TO SUCCESS?

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TWO WAYS OF GTD

Motivation Need a feeling, an emotional state to complete a task

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Discipline Separate work from moods and feelings but because it is a good idea to complete task

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MOTIVATION

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MOTIVATION

• Not everything task will bring you motivation

• Emptying the trash

• Filling administrative documents

• Motivation has a tiny shelf life

• Research says it takes 66 days to form a habit

• Might get a surge of energy for a particular event, but on a day to day basis this won’t work.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MOTIVATION

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MOTIVATION

“If you waste resources trying to decide when or where to work, you’ll impede your capacity to do the work.” — The Guardian

DISCIPLINE: JUST DO IT

• You don’t wait until you’re in olympic form to start training. You train to get into olympic form.

• “To do good, you actually have to do something.” — Yvon Chouinard

• You just have to do it, require no mental states, "I will do this even if I would prefer to do something else”

• Feeling food aftermath

• Successful completions of task

• Feeling of accomplishment

DISCIPLINE: ADAPT & LEARN

• Don’t punish yourself

• learn, adapt, make your discipline evolve

• Allow yourself to create junk

• Proactive & in control

• Self discipline: conscious, unemotional choice you made

• Don’t take shortcut, appreciate the journey.

• Being capable of pushing your own limit

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MOTIVATION

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” — Aristotle

DISCIPLINE: A SYSTEM

• The schedule is the system that makes your goals a reality. It gives you better odd.

• Goals are not discipline

• Start with repetitions not goals

• Put consistent work, earn from mistakes, progress is the result

• Show up and do the tiniest thing

• Ceramic teacher story

• Chain (Jerry Seinfield)

DISCIPLINE & HABIT BUILDING

• Consistency of the system will help develop the habit

• Discipline is a system set from a conscious choice that the user is committing to

• Internal trigger already defined

• To reduce user’s pain or gain happiness/pleasure

• Paradigm shift

• Weekly checkin frequency project

• External trigger

• Define a system, suggest the discipline

CONCLUSION

• Focus on being disciplined instead of waiting to be motivated.

• For consistent, long-term results, discipline trumps motivation

• Motivation is a plus on top of your discipline.

• Even the smallest discipline task require a minimum of motivation

• Consistency as a core value

• To help exposure & consistency you need to be exposed to the system (external trigger)