Name: モチベーションとセルフディシプリネ｜人生をデザインする (MOTIVATION vs. SELF-DISCIPLINE | designing your life)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T11:00:55.000Z
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Hello wonderful humans, welcome back to The Bliss Bean! So I get a lot of

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questions that sound something like "How do you stay motivated to be so

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productive all the time? How do you not run out of motivation?" and initially when

I wanted to make this video titled "motivation vs. self-discipline"

I was just basically going to say that you need to develop your self discipline

because motivation won't always be there for you, and that is like the most cliche

message ever, so thank goodness I didn't end up making the video that way, because

what happened was, the more I thought about it the more I realized that I

don't actually use that much self-discipline in my day-to-day life.

Sure, there are things that I do that require self-discipline, like not

checking notifications in the morning, eating healthily, or waking up early

every morning. But for every single one of those acts of willpower I can also

tell you how I've designed my life to make that better choice easier to make.

Before I go to bed I set my phone to Do Not Disturb so that I don't see any

notifications on my lock screen in the morning. I have a bunch of favorite

healthy recipes that I love to make and eat, and I have a morning routine that

actually kind of makes me want to get out of bed because I know that I can

enjoy some quiet time in the morning before I get into doing any kind of work.

So I realized that it's not just discipline and motivation, it's not one

or the other, there's a whole third layer to this question and that's what this

video is about, so in this video we're going to break down - what is motivation?

what is self-discipline? how do they work? and how do we design a life that

maximizes our motivation, and minimizes our need to rely on self-discipline? So

let's start with motivation. Feeling motivated is pretty amazing, I'm sure I

don't have to tell you that. That burst of energy that you get when you get a

new idea for a new project, or that feeling after you get a good night's

sleep and you just feel ready to take on the world.

Motivation combined with focused action can create some serious magic, so it's

definitely worth taking some time to learn and understand the patterns of

your own motivation. For example, I study languages in the morning because that's

when I consistently feel the most motivated to do it, and I work out in the afternoon

or evening because I do not feel motivated to do that in the morning at

all. So yeah, a lot of people on the internet wake up at the crack of dawn to

do morning workouts, but I know that this works for me, so I choose to do something

different. As you go through life, I encourage you to have almost the

attitude of a scientist. If you notice that you never feel motivated to clean

the house Sunday evening, this week maybe try doing it Saturday morning. Maybe you'll

just realize you were too tired on Sunday evenings and now you'll no longer

have to force yourself to clean. If you notice you dread going on runs,

maybe it's the activity you're not motivated about, and you can find a

different path to the same end goal, which is fitness, and maybe try a group

exercise class or something. Motivation, however, is also a very fleeting thing.

Oftentimes we have no idea why it comes and goes at certain times and sometimes

even our favorite activities suddenly become the last thing that we want to do,

so relying solely on motivation to power you through life is not the best idea.

Once that initial spark of energy fades, you'll give up on your good progress and

just end up feeling bad again because you gave up. So may I introduce you to

our good friend self-discipline. Self-discipline comes in when you are

lacking motivation. Self-discipline is not a very fun word because it generally

implies doing not fun things because you logically know that they are good for

you. I think a better, more empowering way to think of self-discipline is as a tool

that will help you get to your goals and get you to your dream life, so try to

really pay attention to how you feel after practicing self-discipline. For

example, after a workout that maybe you really didn't feel like doing, how

amazing does it feel to be riding that endorphin high afterwards, feeling really

proud of yourself? Maybe even write that down so that then in the future you can

call on that feeling and think about how that simple act of self-discipline will

make you feel really good in the near or far future. Another tip for exercising

self-discipline is to give yourself as little time to negotiate with yourself

as possible. A great summary of this is the five-second rule by Mel Robbins. In

her book, The Five-Second Rule, she explains - "The moment you have an instinct

to act on a goal you must five-four-three-two-one and physically

move or your brain will stop you." That's what it takes to get what you want.

Not big scary beeps once a year, it takes small but irritating moves every single

day. But as much as self-discipline can make you accomplish some pretty amazing

things, we also can't rely a hundred percent on self-discipline. I think this

is very similar to decision fatigue - the deteriorating quality of decisions made

by an individual after a long session of decision-making. So similarly, with

practicing self-discipline, if you're going through your day making good

choices over and over, but really having to like force yourself to do every

single one of those things, you're probably gonna end the day feeling a

little bit drained. So if motivation doesn't do the trick

and neither does self-discipline, what do we do, Beatrice? I'm glad you asked. I

think a good term for it is "life design". The key to living a life where you're

motivated as often as possible and have to rely on your self-discipline as

rarely as possible, is designing your surroundings, your environment, your

schedule, etc, so that making the good decisions is as easy as possible. I think

the best way to demonstrate this is with a few examples of common goals that

people have, so first off, healthy eating. So I don't mind eating healthy because I

absolutely love the food that I eat, and I don't talk about that often because I

don't want people to be like okay we get it, Beatrice, you like eating

vegetables, wow you're sooooo healthy *rolls eyes* But I just think the mindset that

healthy food has to be less delicious is so harmful. Rather than just accepting

that changing our eating habits means exercising our self-discipline and

crying over a dry bowl of salad every day for the rest of our lives, how can we

instead design a life where healthy eating is not just easy, but, dare I say

it, enjoyable? For one, you can find recipes that are delicious to you, they

definitely exist. There are healthy dishes that I don't enjoy eating,

anything with celery, for example, so I just don't eat that and there are a gajillion

other foods that are healthy that I love. We can also work on changing

our eating preferences through what I like to call an "initial

investment of self-discipline". I did the Whole30 eating challenge back in

February, and yes, it did take some self-discipline to complete, but I feel

like now I'm reaping the rewards of it, because I used to be someone who loved

any breakfast that was sweet and grain-based, but now I actually wake up

every morning craving eggs with vegetables and avocado on toast.

I couldn't have toast on the Whole30, but whatever, but the point is

that because I used some self-discipline initially to get myself to like the food,

I now just feel motivated to eat that kind of food. Another thing we can do is

remove temptations by not buying unhealthy treats at the store. When I was

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