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Okay, have you guys ever felt like you just really struggle with motivation, right? Like, you know all the good stuff you're supposed to do, but you really struggle to do it. If so, I want to share with you guys one of the best little tricks that I learned years ago on how to overcome that. So this is what happened when I was 22, 23 ish, I really wanted to learn Spanish. I started studying, I'm doing the duolingo, I'm doing the Rosetta stone. I was, I mean, I was doing everything I could think of trying to learn Spanish. And and after I don't know, maybe a year of like passively trying to learn Spanish, I could pretty much say Donde esta la biblioteca, right? That was about as much Spanish as I actually had and so I realized like this actually this actually sucks Like this is completely unproductive. It doesn't work at all And so what I did is I start talking to friends and I was like, you know what? Why don't I just like go move to somewhere that speaks Spanish and try to learn Spanish along the way? So I talked to a few friends next thing I know I'm on a flight headed to Guatemala and I have no plans like when I get there I'm just gonna land and figure it out. I show up. I go meet with these different people. I go find this Spanish school They have actually host families next thing. I know I'm living with a host family who does not speak English and Then going and spending three hours a day learning Spanish Taking private classes with a Spanish tutor. And everyone's like, Oh, that's so cool. Like if only I could afford that. And I'm like, it was cheaper than living in the U S including the lessons, including food, everything. It was way cheaper than living in the U S and I was able to come back three months later, speaking pretty decent Spanish. So what I learned from that was this is the core of like what I'm going to be sharing with you guys. If you can put yourself in environments or create systems, That completely take away your need to be motivated or your need to be disciplined. I think discipline is an amazing virtue to cultivate guys. I'll be honest. I am one of the laziest people that I know, but I like to think of myself as very intelligently lazy, right? I try to hack the system. If there's an easier way to do it, you can bet your bottom dollar. I will find it. Even as a kid, I grew up in a hobby farming and I was always spending so much time thinking, okay, how could I not do that thing? But still get the same overall result. As a result of that, I tend to make my parents and brothers quite angry at times, but I did often, like I learned good skills. I learned how to like, think differently about a problem and still achieve the result that I wanted. So that's the same thing with what I do today. If ever there's something that I want to get better at, I want to improve on whatever, I don't just say I'm going to go and just like tough it out and make it happen. I always try to find a system or a society. That I can put myself in to get this, to get the achieved result. So this leads to a whole bunch of different places like in fitness is the exact same thing. Everyone knows that fitness is important yet. I don't have the motivation to just do like 500 pushups a day, like in my mom's basement, right? Or whatever, or go to like my little home gym and. And go crank out some, you know, like an hour long grueling workout. And for those of you that can do that, I applaud you. That's amazing. I'm not one of those. So I do CrossFit. And it's not because I'm like trying to become a competitive CrossFitter. It's because I can show up, the workout has been pre planned for me, and they yell at me for a whole 60 minutes straight. I end the workout. And I don't quit the whole time because there's 45 year old moms who are doing it with me and I can't be the weak link, right? So I will finish that workout or I will die trying. For me, I get the results that I wanted. It didn't require almost any motivation except the decision to drive to the gym. This is not a plug for CrossFit. This can be whatever. The point being, put yourself in situations where it is easier to succeed than it is to fail. Say that again. Put yourself in situations where it is easier to succeed. Than it is to fail. If you can do that, you've, you've cracked the code about really upgrading and, and, and personal development, everything else that you want to achieve. Another example, I wanted to learn how to fight. I could go watch a bunch of YouTube videos. I could be doing like karate in my backyard with boards and stuff. And I said, no, that's like, I'm not going to get anywhere. And frankly, I will burn out very quickly. So I bought flights for three months to go spend time in Thailand. Did it. and study at a gym. I go there now twice a day. I'm actually in Thailand right now. And I study and guess what? I've gotten decently good at Muay Thai in, you know, two and a half months that I've been training. So it's about putting yourself in situations where it's easy. Okay, so here's a really simple framework that will help you guys put this into action, right? If you have something you want to work on, just pick anything. This could be your business, this could be a new hobby, this could be a skill, this could be something that's like a deep, you know, meditation style, whatever. Try to create systems or situations in which that thing will be easier to succeed than it will be to fail. A good example would be this. If you are trying to work on the spiritual part of your, of your core development and this is where I'm a little bit controversial, right? I'm a huge believer in religion. Doesn't mean I judge those that don't have religion. I'm a huge believer in religion, and the core reason for that is the exact same thing as the gym. It is so much easier to draw close to your spiritual root, God, the universe, whatever you want to call it, inside a society that holds you to certain values and ideals. Never until it's like, Oh, but Brunson, like, religion does a lot of super toxic things. Then don't do those things like it is. It's not rocket science. If you don't agree with certain like toxic behaviors in religion, then don't do those things, but take the best that is there. And what I find, and I go to church pretty much every Sunday, is I can show up. I'm surrounded by people who share a common idea about traditional values, and those things help root me to bigger ideas. I can tell you for a fact, I would not live those standards if I did not go to church every Sunday. And everyone's like, well then maybe you shouldn't do those. I don't know. I'm very happy with a lot of the things that I don't do because of my religion. Now, I put myself in situations pretty much once a week where it becomes easier to succeed than to fail at these goals that I have. Everyone can say, hey listen, I don't want to drink, I don't want to smoke, whatever, right? If you do that, that's cool. But let's say that you, you really don't want to do those things. I can promise you, Going to a Mormon church every Sunday will make this 1, 000 times easier Than just saying you don't want to do that. That's what I do I'm not saying this you have to do and and maybe maybe a Christian church is even vibe with you then go find any church But if you say you want to work on spirituality Go find a situation in which it's easier to succeed at that than fail Be around people that will hold you to higher standards If you want to get fit and you've just always struggled with self motivating to go to the gym Then stop trying to self motivate go put yourself into a situation Go get a bunch of buddies to sign up together, go hire a personal trainer, go do whatever it takes to put yourself in a situation where it's going to be easier to succeed than to fail. If you want to learn language, a new language, I tell everyone, I'm like, listen, find a way to get a few months off of work or whatever else you have to do. If you really are committed to this, go to the place and it'll become very, very easy to learn French. Sure. You can do, you can do Dualingo and I think it's fantastic. And I'm not by any means bashing people that are studying languages on their own. That's a fantastic, but I will tell you, I applaud you for being able to do that. I cannot, if I want to learn the language for real, I have to go live in the country. I've learned Russian and Spanish so far. I've had to live in the country to actually be able to speak the language. I've dabbled in other languages and I just can't, it just doesn't work for me. So full recap here. If you want to be successful at something, create systems and society. So that it's easier to succeed than to fail. That's it. Be creative about it. Find different ways around it. And for those of you that are thinking like, oh man, I don't have money for some of this stuff. That's cool. If you can't afford to go live in Spain, then don't. Do the next best thing. Go get a bunch of people who speak Spanish and tell them, hey, listen, I'll cook dinner once a week and you guys can all come over and we only speak Spanish at the table. for a whole two hours, right? And then we'll go watch a Spanish movie afterwards. And we'll have dessert, and all this other stuff, and no one's allowed to speak one word of English, no matter what. If you did that, I promise you, your Spanish would just level up super fast. And that's what I do still. I wanted to learn how to dance. I didn't just go watch YouTube videos. I started going to dances, and failing, and struggling, and, and fighting my way through, and eventually I became a pretty decent dancer, because it was, I was in a situation where it was easier to succeed than it was to fail. There's the thoughts for the day, folks. Go out there, do the thing, and you shall find the power.