Intelligent & Intuitive Discipline over Controlling Discipline

Motivation gets you going, discipline keeps you growing

This week I am teaching an Integrated Meditation Course to a group of brilliant humans, and one of the things we are always discussing when building a meditation practice, or in our leadership programs is around Discipline.

Most people view discipline as painful, and therefore shy away from it. And there’s good reason for this, as it’s often presented as this gruelling, push yourself and Do The Thing at all costs type mentality. I think for example a lot of what Andrew Huberman shares is super helpful. But it can also get a little crazy, with massively lengthy lists of morning routines and an intensity that makes me shudder.

I speak with so many people that have injured themselves by not listening to their body, or are having a meltdown because they missed a few meditations, and are taking it all too harshly. We are humans, not machines, and the minute the ego convinces us otherwise we are making an appointment with disappointment.

We can instead embrace discipline as a pathway to self…