Episode Transcript

What’s up guys, welcome back to THE a.m. Welcome back. I appreciate you all for tuning in. Hope you’re doing good, hope life’s treating you well.

Well today, guys, I actually want to talk about something super relevant to me, how a decision is not an emotion, and a decision is really a choice that oftentimes has to be made without having an emotion to back it up, and then you have follow through with action.

And part of that is, is where I’m at, even currently today. Like, I didn’t want to record, but I know that I made a promise to myself, like, hey, I want to release one piece of content every day, seven days a week, and that’s the discipline, and that’s part of the promise of myself. And so even sitting here going, awesome, I gotta record again, and it’s like, Oh, what am I going to talk about? I don’t know. Why don’t I just talk about exactly what’s happening right now,

And this pattern of having to make a decision and the emotion not being there to back it up is everywhere in life. This is how when you if you want to start waking up early, this is how you got out of bed early, because you are going to be tired and you’re going to have all the wrong emotions. And I think it’s interesting, because growing up is very easy to disguise desire with a decision, and mix those up and desires, the emotion, right? Desire, the I want something, and this is what I want, and it’s that emotional side of that, but that’s not a decision. And most people wait for the desire to come, and then the actions take place. And that’s not how it works, because the desire actually follows your decision.

Oftentimes, you learn to love the discipline, especially after you’ve done something hard. Think about the Think about the hardest things you’ve ever done in life. Those are most likely the proudest moments you’ve had people. And we as people when we’ve done something hard, when we’ve done something that we didn’t want to do, and then we have the discipline to follow through with it. That’s where we’re proud of ourselves. That’s where this sense of accomplishment comes in. And it’s interesting because it that goes hand in hand with a decision, not being emotional and an action not being emotional. And so oftentimes, when you’re beginning something new, when you’re beginning to break out of a cycle, and you’re beginning to move forward and improve in an area there is no emotional backing for you to do what you’re going to do like it doesn’t feel great to go from not working out to working out. It doesn’t feel great from sleeping in all the time and going through and staying up late and all this, and then going through the process to wake up early and get out of bed when you don’t want to, it doesn’t feel good and it doesn’t feel good emotionally, and then it also doesn’t feel good physically, oftentimes.

And so your decision, though, and the action and the discipline behind that has to be stronger and has to outweigh that emotional aspect of it. And it’s interesting, because oftentimes we will not actually follow through the way we need to, and we let our emotions override what should be done. As a result, a lot of things fall through, and a lot of things that we want to have happen don’t happen because we’re emotion being emotionally driven versus decision driven. And most of the things in my life that have come about, that have produced great things or have been awesome and amazing in life have all come about because of decisions I’ve made, despite the feelings that are exactly opposite of wanting to do what I need to do and what I should do. And this comes out with processing.

So when you’re when you’re building and creating, there’s going to be a lot of things you want to do that you need to say no to one, because you’re not there yet with whatever stage you are in life, whatever you’re trying to create, you’re out of order, and you want to naturally skip to the fun things. For instance, I had one of my piano teachers. He was like, Hey, you don’t practice. You play. I was like, What do you mean? He’s like, Oh, you play all the music that you that you already know, and it’s fun for you. And that’s not what practice is. Practice is learning new skill sets for how to play better. And if you got to learn new skill sets, it doesn’t mean that you play and have fun. And it’s like, Oh, that’s great. And that’s how it is oftentimes with building is you’re going to you have to go through those moments of I have to delay what I want to do, what I find fun.

Now, if you’re in a place in life, to where you can delegate most of the things you don’t like to do out great, but if you’re not, then you’ve got to do the things that you don’t want to do. And do. In life, oftentimes, is made up more of what you don’t want to do than what you do want to do. And it’s interesting to find that there’s an inverse balance to a lot of that, and part of the journey of life is really loving the things that you don’t want to do, loving the hard things, loving the things that you don’t love at first, but growing to love them, like exercise, waking up early, right? Having self discipline with food, all of these different areas, and that’s really where, you know, growing and moving forward in the discipline and learning to love the discipline and celebrate the discipline really comes in.

So anyways, guys, that’s it for today. I’ll catch you later. Peace