Self-discipline is easy, actually

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Look around.

Everyone is stressed out of their minds.

We all want to achieve big things, but it is becoming infinitely more difficult to focus on those big things… so they never get done.

Our mind is flooded with:

• The risk of pursuing your own goals instead of the ones your parents (or friends, or partner, or boss) want for you.
• Being told what to care about — skills to learn, countries to support, foods to avoid — by people with goals that don’t align with your own.
• Thoughts about the job you have to show up to, how much time you are going to waste, and all of the things you won’t be able to do.
• What people will think if you decide to go your own way and take control of your life. What will they think?

These are not easy thoughts to deal with.

If your friends or parents don’t support you — or even try to stop you — that can become incredibly painful. You may lose people from your life. You may lose a part of your identity. That hurts.

The problem is that they don’t know what you know.

They haven’t been exposed to the same information, education, and potential, so they don’t see…