NO EXCUSES, STICK TO THE PLAN. - The Most Powerful Motivational Speeches Compilation
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Why is 'sticking to the plan' the single toughest part of success?
Stick to your plan. Anticipate. Don't improvise. Trust. No one, never yield an advantage. Fight only the battle you're paid to fight. Each and every step of the way, ask yourself, what's in it for me? This is what it takes.
Choosing the plan isn't hard.
Doing the plan isn't hard. Sticking to the plan is hard. The money isn't made in the buy and it's not made in the sell. It's made in the wait. Like, I just feel like that's such an elegant way of thinking about it. It's like the hard part about the plan is sticking to the plan. Like the plan wasn't bad. Your first plan was good because it's easy to go say, I'm going to work out three days a week for the next year. And it's a good plan. It's a pretty good plan. And the interesting thing is that like a mediocre plan that's stuck to always outperforms an amazing and perfect plan that you never stick with to begin with. And I know this obviously from the fitness world, but applies to everything. And so like the stick to it muscle is the one that you have to flex.
And that's why, like, if you're going through things, especially in the earlier days, like I remember I used to start and stop and start and stop. And I try this thing. I try that thing. It's normal because you haven't been reinforced enough of sticking with something.
If you feel like right now you're looking around and you're lost or directionless, I would take about 15 minutes and figure out what the hell you want to do with your life. And I would start getting after it. You see, you take things in your own hands and you push against it and you push against it until it's upright. And you stick it. I heard a thing about Bill Walsh. He would script his first 15 plays of the game. It was irrelevant what was happening in the world because he had his plan. Now, that might have made him a little unflexible in some ways, but it also meant that if something went wrong, he wasn't scrambling. He wasn't looking for order and direction because there was a plan and all he had to do was stick to the plan.
You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go according to plan Even if the plan is horrifying.
But here's the thing. Once something's important to you, it never leaves your mind. If you always dreamt about being a singer-songwriter and you never did it, you will be haunted by that at the age of 70. Because it's still right here, stored in the back of your mind. It's something that's meant for you, that's trying to call to you. You see, your dreams, you either pursue them or they fucking haunt you.
You stick to what you put there on paper. You take your time, you make the plan, and unless you really are sick or have some type of higher excuse, you just do what you have committed to.
How does commitment beat perfection when choosing and executing a plan?
And this struggling of, there are still so many distractions now, but you stick to the plan. I don't adapt anything. I stick with the plan. Stick with the plan. The highest form of discipline is the ability to adjust and be flexible and adapt. You're building the muscle either way. You're either building the muscle that says, I do what I say. I keep the commitments that I make. Or you're building the muscle that says, I make excuses. I don't do what I say. I can't be counted on, right? And so when we think about discipline, it's really about what promises are you going to keep? And the tricky thing is you're keeping promises to yourself that nobody even knows that you made.
Discipline is kind of the gateway drug to everything else in authority. And it's the gateway to composure, for sure. But getting your discipline modified is one of the fastest ways to make everything else change.
And how do I fix my discipline if I'm an ill-disciplined person?
Understanding what discipline is is the most critical element. And I define this differently than most people. So I define discipline as your ability to prioritize the needs of your future self ahead of your own present self. And that's it. That's all that discipline is. I'm prioritizing the needs of future me.
The first question I ask is, how do I want to spend my days?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why is 'sticking to the plan' the single toughest part of success?
0:00–2:43
2
How does commitment beat perfection when choosing and executing a plan?
2:43–4:17
3
What practical steps can you take right now if you feel lost or directionless?
4:17–14:24
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How is discipline defined as prioritizing your future self over your present self?
14:24–25:07
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