In this episode, we discuss the importance of being disciplined with your life and how it can give you freedom.
Full Transcript
Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons on how to grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually so you can have better careers, better relationships, and better personal finances.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we’re are going to talk about discipline creates freedom. Think about it, the more you’re disciplined with your health with you’re younger, the more freedom you will have in the future. You’ll be less likely to have medical problems and medical problems are expensive. They cost you time and money. Getting a heart attack could cause you not to go to work and you might have a lot of medical expenses to deal with.
I know when I’m in my golden years, I don’t want to be stuck in a hospital all the time so I’m going to make sure that I’m working out and eating well now so that I don’t have to worry about having that future. Since this is ingrain in my head, I stay disciplined with my workouts.
The same thing applies to my personal finances. The more I am disciplined with saving and investing while managing my debt, the more options that I will have in the future. The last thing I want for my future self is to be stuck. When you’re stuck, that is when feelings of stress and hopelessness creep in and it just causes you to become miserable.
There are a lot of other things that I need to stay disciplined and I do that because I want freedom. I don’t want to be a slave to my circumstances. If I want to do something, then I go out and do it.
There are some sacrifices that I have to make now, but the price of going to the gym is so much cheaper than dealing with a health issue in the future.
Right now I work a lot of hours on this Grow With Joe Business because I want the financial and time freedom of having my own business in the future. I work 60-70 hour weeks because I know that is required to give me the future that I want. Once I get my client based established and I get better at running the business, then I can do anything I want. One of the things that made me want to start my own business is the freedom to choose my day. Right now I work from a Co-worker space but I choose my hours but I can pretty much work from anywhere.
I’m about to go spend a month in Chicago visiting my sister and to go to a financial planning conference. Since I work for myself, I have that flexibility. My goal is to also go live in Latin America for two years to go learn Spanish by Jan 2020.
In order to have this flexibility over my life, I have to stay disciplined with my Grow With Joe business. I have to make sure I’m doing things to generate revenue and not get distracted by the other things in life. If I can do this, then I can go live in Latin America and see a different part of life.
You don’t have to live the same life as to be but you need to be disciplined with your career, your mind, and your career so you have had freedom in the future. To be discipline requires hard choices and like I’ve said in the past, hard choices, easy life; easy choices, hard life.
It is so easy to skip the gym to sleep in, or to watch television. It’s easy not to work on that project at work to clear out your inbox. It’s easy to get take out instead of making your healthy lunch. It is so easy to do all of these things, but if you do for long enough, you will get a future that won’t have freedom in it. You’ll be stuck with what life gives you and most likely you won’t like what life gives you. This is a future that I don’t want.
One of the biggest fears for me is to go to state-run long term care facilities. Long-term care is a big concern for a lot of people, where about 70% of people will need it in retirement. To get on long term care provided by the government, you basically have to get rid of all of your assets and you might not like the facility you’re in but since you don’t have any other options, then you’re stuck. I know I have to take control over my future and to get the control I have to stay disciplined with my actions today.
This doesn’t mean I’m a robot at all times but you have to find the balance between work and play. I eat hamburgers and fries occasionally and some days I don’t go to the gym, but the idea is that I don’t make the same mistake twice in a row. There are still some great things to enjoy today and you want to make sure take some time to enjoy it because once the time is gone it’s gone forever. As I said, it’s a balancing act between enjoying today and preparing for the future.
So make sure you have your goals written down and that you know who you want to be as a person and that you’re actually being that person you want to be. Know your identity as a person and stay disciplined in being that person. I know I want to be healthy and be a successful financial planner in the future, so I’m going to do things today that help me be that person. I don’t want to wake up one day and regret the life I lived because you’ll never get that time back, so live life the way you want to live and be disciplined about it. Not everything is important in this world, you just have to decide what things actually are.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, discipline creates freedom. Every action that you take today will help you either get closer to the life you want to live or will create more distance to the life you want to live. So every day when you do the activities that will make you a stronger person physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, you’ll get one percent closer to absolute freedom for yourself. When you don’t, you’ll get one percent farther from absolute freedom. The choice is yours, just make sure you’re making the right choice.
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