I need to record a video for Français Authentique. I don't really feel like it actually. Why do I have to do it? To get views on YouTube. Phew... that doesn't really motivate me. To help the members of the Français Authentique family improve their lives. Oh yeah! I'm going.
Hi! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for joining me for this new personal development video from Français Authentique. So, you got it, today, we're going to talk about discipline, how to be disciplined. And the reason I chose this topic is that discipline plays a vital role in our lives. It plays a super important role in our professional lives, we need discipline. Sometimes, we don't feel like doing something at work, but we have to do it. So, discipline is important for work.
Discipline is also very important for our personal lives, again. To maintain the house or apartment, to serve our loved ones, to sometimes help our friends, we need discipline in our personal lives too. And of course, you who are learning French, you need discipline. Discipline is a primordial and indispensable quality for someone who is learning a new language.
The problem with discipline is that we often lack it, we all lack it very often. Even people who say they are super disciplined lack discipline at some point in their day. The reason is very simple, discipline is like a tank. You imagine that you have a tank. Just like you have a tank to put gasoline in your car, you have a tank of discipline laos whatsapp number data inside you. And every time you do something that you don't want to do, well you're going to take a little discipline from that tank. And after a while, your tank of discipline is going to be empty. And at that point, you won't have any discipline at all and you won't be able to count on it anymore. So, it works like any resource that we ultimately consume as we go through our days.
And besides, we often talk about everything related to time management efficiency, but in my opinion... this is what I understood after all these years after spending hours studying productivity, efficiency... in my opinion, the management of motivation and energy is even more important than the management of our time.
So what do you do when you lack discipline?
Before I tell you what works best for me and what I think is most likely to help you, let me share with you the wrong solution, the thing that unfortunately we see a lot on the internet.
When we lack discipline, well, we're going to be told "force yourself, push yourself". It's the no pain no gain philosophy , which many entrepreneurs, especially Americans, tend to advocate. We're going to tell you: "You have to force yourself. If you lack discipline, it's your fault. So, you have to hurt yourself, you have to force yourself, always force yourself, push yourself, push yourself, push yourself, push yourself. If you're not in pain, if you're not suffering, then it's not good".
So, of course, there is some truth in that. It's always good to get out of your comfort zone. And when you don't feel like doing something, it's always good to push yourself a little bit. I'm not here to say "you just have to listen and do what you want to do", no. But I find this approach based on strength much too extreme and even dangerous, because it leads to putting limiting beliefs in us. A limiting belief is something that you believe and that will limit your potential.
And for example, many people I talk to in the context of Authentic French have the limiting belief that "I don't have much motivation", because these people have tried to push themselves, to force themselves, and we end up failing or we end up giving up because we can't force ourselves in the long term. So, be careful with this false solution. It's not by constantly pushing yourself that we can have more discipline.
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So, we've already talked about discipline and motivation on this channel. This isn't the first time I've done it. For example, I invite you to watch the video "The secret to staying motivated in your French learning" right after. We'll put the link in the "i" for info and in the description. But today, I'd like to go a little further and go a little deeper. I really think that to have discipline, to be motivated, we have to find a source of motivation that is deep within us.
I talked about this a bit in the April 17 episode of the podcast Marchez Avec Johan, "a higher level of discipline" , but I would like to take an example from the podcast in this video. You will see the logic of this example.