Eric Thomas

If you do what is easy, your life will be hard.

But if you do what is hard, keep coming back again and again and again.

If you do what is hard, approaching strangers, talking to people in shopping malls, get up dressed every day, going out prospecting, knowing some way, somehow, with a spirit of expectation, somebody's out here looking for an opportunity.

And if you do that over and over and over again, somebody's going to show up.

Somebody's going to say, I'm the one.

You say, the emotionally immature man seeks out motivation to do something hard one time.

The emotionally mature man uses discipline to do something hard a thousand times.

Why is emotional maturity related to motivation and discipline?

Because when you have emotional maturity, you realize that some days you're not going to sleep well.

Some days you're going to wake up and you've got your schedule and everything's planned out and the poop hits the fan.

And whether things go well or not that day, the emotionally mature man will still do what he has to do to stack his wins.

to focus on his purpose.

Whereas the emotionally immature man will say, well, I didn't sleep well.

I had nightmares, so I'll stay in bed.

It's raining outside.

It's cold outside.

I don't feel good.

You have to stay the course no matter what.

And it takes a high level of emotional maturity because your emotions dictate your motion, like what you're going to do.

And so if you have emotional maturity, you're more likely to lean into discipline when things are suboptimal.