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The Discipline Delusion.

What do you think of when you hear the word ‘DISCIPLINE’? Or to ask a slightly more leading question, does it create positive or negative feelings?

For many, ‘DISCIPLINE’ conjures up many negative feelings and connotations of misery, deprivation and monastic living.

Why am I asking these questions? And why am I talking about ‘DISCIPLINE’?

Because I know through working directly with hundreds of men and women over the last 12 years that many think that to get where they want to get in terms of health, fitness, body weight, body shape, strength or performance would take a huge amount of ‘DISCIPLINE’.

A delusion is a fixed belief that is false, fanciful, or derived from deception. Which is why this article is entitled ‘The Discipline Delusion’.

This may be slightly controversial, but I wholeheartedly believe that to get where you truly want to be takes no discipline at all!

I will clarify what I mean. There is no doubt at all that if you are training for something because you have been PUSHED into it by someone else or because you feel like you SHOULD then it will take huge amounts of discipline. Because if the GOAL does not fit with your beliefs or is not in alignment with your values you will always be fighting with your true self to keep yourself on track (or more accurately off track!).

If you set yourself a GOAL that truly matches your wants, desires and beliefs AND is in alignment with your values you will be pulled towards it almost magnetically! It will not be a struggle to get up early to go for a run or go to the gym. You will choose to eat healthily rather than unhealthily and most importantly, when friends or family are living a life that is in alignment with THEIR values you will not feel as if you are MISSING OUT!

Those who flit from one momentary sensory high to the next without any strategy or plan find this hard to believe or understand.

Essentially you are playing the LONG GAME, you are clear about what it is you want to achieve and why you want to achieve it. You have commitment, passion and dedication towards living your dreams and that takes no ‘DISCIPLINE’ at all!

Yours in health,

James St Pierre