If You Integrate These 15 Unproductive Habits, You’re Actually Disciplined

Redefining discipline and people’s capacity to be disciplined

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Most people think disciplined people:

• Workout daily

• Are super healthy and fit

• Are consistently productive

• Wake up at 4–5 am every day

• Set goals and accomplish them without fail

• Usually, implement habits that lead to successful outcomes and ultimately have all their shit together

Though this might be true, other thoughts about discipline and its meaning are worth exploring.

Let’s start with a more general definition of a disciplined person: someone who is consistent with their habits.

What does this mean for you? Well, believe it or not, if you don’t feel like you are disciplined, you are. In fact, everyone is a disciplined person.

15 Examples of Disciplined Habits

1. People who routinely smoke 

2. People routinely eat out

3. People who routinely live above their means

4. People who routinely watch television or stream content

5. People who routinely drink alcohol

6. People who routinely oversleep

7. People who routinely don’t work

8. People who routinely don’t make progress on their goals

9. People who routinely watch porn

10. People who routinely watch the news

11. People who routinely think negatively or pessimistically 

12. People who routinely spend more than they earn

13. People who routinely don’t invest to build wealth

14. People who routinely don’t read, learn, or grow

15. People who routinely allow others to cross their boundaries

Do you routinely integrate any of these fifteen habits into your life? If so, congratulations, you are a disciplined person.

All fifteen of these habits consistently lead to a specific outcome. Is the outcome productive? Probably not. But it does not take away the fact that these people know how to be consistent, and if you know how to be consistent, you know how to be disciplined. 

Everyone has the capacity to be disciplined, consistent, and productive with the habits they decide to live by. The question should not be how disciplined a person can be but which habits a person will choose to be disciplined in.

If you think you lack discipline, think again.

If you consider yourself to struggle with implementing consistency in specific areas of your life, think again. 

If you can be disciplined in one area of your life, you can apply this discipline to another (or multiple) area(s) of your life. 

Someone at the gym recently gave me a perfect example.

He mentioned that if a person can be disciplined to wake up and go to work at 9–5 every day or go to school and complete classes, they can apply the same level of discipline to their health, finances, or any other area of their life. It’s a choice, and the only blocker to integrating discipline in one area into another is you.

You can no longer say you are an undisciplined person or don’t have the mentality of a disciplined person; this excuse is now classified as total bullshit.

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