Hi, Wynand here.
I believe that discipline leads mindset.
And in this short post, I will try to explain my position.
My life has not been one big success story.
Far from it.
Like most humans, I have achieved pockets of success, be it personal or professional.
That said, the pockets of success that I have achieved, were all due to one very specific reason.
Shout out if you can guess it.
Hint, just look at the title…
Jokes aside.
Discipline.
(A word I struggle to type for some reason)
But yes, every time in my life when I was focused on achieving a higher level of success, it was due to discipline.
And discipline first.
Listen, I have read so many self-help books. Watched hours of videos and I know every basic angle of affirmations, manifestation, mindfulness, and reprogramming your brain. However, I have never had success in thinking or using my mind before.
Sure, true proponents of mind power (regardless of which capacity) would tell me that I have it totally wrong. That the idea is not to just sit and think about it, that it has to go over into action.
Sure, I get it.
The issue is a normal simpleton like me, and I would venture to guess a lot of others (sorry I am not saying you are a simpleton), is that no amount of thinking or mindset magic has ever given me any results.
Action does.
And consistent action requires discipline.
Take my body transformation challenge I am doing.
I made a decision.
Bought the ticket.
Am doing the challenge.
But I need a crap load of discipline to keep going.
Waking up every morning at 4 AM. Do my exercise and not half-ass it.
Keeping my food intake log.
Focusing on macros.
It takes consistent discipline.
And now my mindset is changing.
Now, since I am in the process, of seeing some modest first few weeks’ results, my mindset is turning towards visualizing the end goal.
Now my mind is dreaming.
Now my mind is manifesting.
Now I can start seeing the end result.
Now I want to push it further.
Only after I started did I get the discipline to continue.
So in my world discipline leads mindset.
Now discipline leads mindset and that leads to motivation.
I would have still been 6kg overweight, unfit (not that I am fit, but fitter as I write this), and totally lost in the sea of health despair if it was not for discipline.
See, we all know someone who was in the military. And yes, it is not everyone, but most veterans have a discipline in them that one can only admire. Yet few, if any joined the military because they thought, affirmed, or manifested it.
They went.
Got hammered by the drill sergeant.
Gained the discipline to survive in that situation.
and carried that discipline into their normal civilian lives and from there it might have led to a stronger mindset.
For me, it even begs a bigger question.
Is mindset at all necessary?
Listen, I am not a guru fanboy.
I get the whole manifestation world. I get it is big business. I get the Secret raked in millions.
But is it the only path to success?
So many people achieve massive success through the grind.
Day after day after day.
With unmatched discipline to continue.
Truthfully even those who claim success through manifestation had to buckle down with discipline.
Nothing happens without action.
So, my boys (I am writing this to you as always), if you want something in life, dare to do it. And then have the discipline to see it through. Over time you will see your mindset will follow.