This content provides practical, faith-based strategies for developing self-discipline, emphasizing that true discipline comes from God's grace and strength, not just personal effort, to live a life aligned with one's calling.
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discipline
doing what needs to be done when you
don't feel like doing it
so many of us want to have the
motivation to wake up early
work out read the bible but we keep
finding ourselves hitting our alarm
clocks skipping our workouts and
scrolling on our phones over reading our
bibles how do we get out of this rut of
doing all the things we don't want to do
so we can start living the life god has
called us to watch this video to learn
how to be more disciplined so you can
live the life he created you to live and
be the woman of god he created you to be
the best day to start
is today hey guys welcome back to my
youtube channel i'm ashley today we are
going to talk about
how to be more disciplined from so many
of you i heard
ashley i want to wake up early but i
don't know how to wake up early i keep
sleeping until 8 a.m actually i want to
develop healthy habits but i'm not
really sure how to actually i want to
get into the bible but it just feels
like every time i sit down i have no
motivation to read it and then i end up
just scrolling on my phone and looking
at social media if that is you today i'm
so glad to have you here for this video
because that's what we're going to talk
about but before we get into it click
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reach your full potential in the lord
tip number one
lean into grace you probably didn't
think that i would start with grace as
the first thing in self-discipline but
we are christians here
and the world says pick yourself up by
the bootstraps but god says lean into
grace i was getting into a habit of
sleeping in till like 8 30. it was
slowly creeping into my life so i was
like ah it's okay if i sleep in a little
bit it's okay well then it started to
become like a thing that i was doing i'm
like okay i gotta get back to my routine
of waking up at 5 30.
well then i set my alarm and planned on
waking up at 5 30 and i freaking slept
in until 8 30.
and i was so bummed i was so upset with
myself because i hate waking up late i
find that my whole day and i'm sure you
feel this too your whole day is just
like starting later and then you just
feel unorganized and yeah i was a little
upset with myself but i thought the lord
remind me like ash lean into grace like
you can start again
tomorrow so then today i set like
10 alarms y'all and i eventually woke up
but i didn't wake up at 5 30 i woke up
at 7.
so you got to pick and choose your
battles not every day you're going to
wake up at 6 00 a.m or 5 30 but just
lean into grace because it's going to be
so easy for you to beat yourself up
after you fail it's really important on
your journey of self-discipline to be
like okay lord i failed i'm not gonna
identify myself with that failure i'm
going to identify myself with your grace
i know that you don't love me because of
my performance and i know that i can
always try again tomorrow okay next
thing is to not bank on your feelings i
hear this a lot and i'm going to call it
out it's not good for us to think like
this people will say
if i don't feel like doing it i just
won't do it or if i didn't feel like it
was the right time if i didn't feel like
it if i didn't have a good feeling then
i just then i just don't do it then they
just end up not doing anything because
they never actually feel like it very
rarely do you feel like doing the things
that you need to be doing so here's what
you need to do you need to do the thing
before you feel like doing the thing
because once you do the thing you will
feel great but before you do the thing
you might not feel like doing the thing
here's an example before i wake up in
the morning as my head is is resting on
my pillow and it's that alarm is going
off do you think i feel like waking up
absolutely not
but after i get up after i am you know
drinking my coffee and it's 6 a.m and i
have a whole morning ahead of me to do
whatever i want
then i feel good something that i hear a
lot is like actually i don't always feel
like opening my bible well same
literally same there are so many days
where i am about to open my bible i'm
like i could be doing so many other
things right now
but i still flip it to my to what i'm
supposed to read that day in my devo plan
plan
and i read and even if it's hard to
focus and even if i am struggling to pay
attention after i read my bible i feel
so much more connected to the father
than if i just were to skip it because i
didn't feel like it
what about when we don't feel like
working out okay i don't there will be
days where i live i just don't even feel
like going to the gym right i don't feel
like it but then after i get that run in
i have all those endorphins i'm like man
i feel great so your feelings are not a
good indicator of what you should be
doing you need to do the thing before
you feel like doing the thing and then
you will feel better after doing the
thing number three
ask god to help you i think we forget
that god wants to help us with
self-discipline he says in 2 timothy 1 7
for i have not given you a spirit of
fear but of power love and self
discipline fam if god is the one giving
us self-discipline then we need to be
the one asking for self-discipline from him
him
we're not going to muster it up in our
own strength that's what the world tells
us that's what like self-help tells us
is you know just do better like okay
that doesn't really help when we pray
and we say lord give me the discipline
to read my bible lord give me the
discipline to wake up early and because
i know a proverbs 31 woman she wakes up
before dawn like give me that discipline
to be like a proverbs 31 woman let's ask
god for self-discipline he wants to help
us i've been doing this in my workouts
because lately i've just been in a
workout rut where i'm just not really
feeling my workouts but i will literally
go to the gym and before i even work out
i pray say lord would you give me the
discipline today to do this workout just
pray and guys i feel like the days that
i pray that prayer for some reason like
the holy spirit just gives me this
stamina where i'm able to do
my lunches and my burpees a lot easier
than if i hadn't prayed that prayer
because our self-discipline doesn't come
from ourselves it comes from the spirit
of god so pray for self-discipline
number four
do it for the you five years from now
the daily disciplines that you do today
might not look like they make a big
difference in today but five years from
now they will make a huge difference
something that i'm learning is the
compound effect which basically means
that if you do the right things every
single day like it you're getting like
one percent better each day and over
time that one percent it doesn't look
like anything in that day like that day
it was just one percent but if you do
365 days a whole year where you're
focusing on doing one percent better
each day well then boom bana bang you're
gonna have that curve and that's what we want
want so
so
focus on just
doing the disciplines for the you five
years from now not where you're at right
now number five get a habit tracker what
i've been doing is i actually have
several habit trackers which is so me
have an app called habit and i will
literally put in like five habits that i
want to work on for that season and i
will just cross them off throughout the
day they're not huge habits they're like
i want to get in a 15-minute prayer walk
every day because i find that when i
just stop in the middle of the day out
of my regular routine and i get outside
and i pray like i'm able to just
approach my day with so much more mental
clarity and i just feel more empowered
to step into my day so get a habit
tracker i also have a free habit tracker
that you guys can get in the description
below it's also going to help you start
doing healthy habits so this brings me
to set realistic goals many of you guys
are gonna turn off this video and you're
gonna go okay i'm ready to go ash like
i'm gonna just hit 20 different goals 20
different disciplines and 20 different
habits and i'm just going to go for it
what's going to happen
is just like when i woke up at literally
8 30 after setting like an ungodly
amount of alarms at 5 30 a.m i felt like poo
poo
i don't want that for you the other day
i was carrying my groceries into
the apartment
and i literally was thinking okay how
many groceries can i put on my because i
live the apartment life and so literally
with groceries you have to go up elevate
an elevator to actually get your
groceries in the in your room but i was
thinking i'm like okay how many
groceries can i get on these two arms
without having any of them fall
and i literally
was able
to get them all up the ele like all of
the elevator all my publix bags right
however it was exhausting to try to
carry all of those bags
versus if i had just tried to carry a
few bags at a time it wasn't as exhausting
exhausting
moral of the story pick like five things
that you want to grow in this season and
set realistic goals for those things
again you don't want to be having all
these bags on your two arms you don't
want to be having like 20 different
habits in your habit tracker that you
want to focus on because let me just
tell you before you even try you're
going to fail
you're going to fail if you try to
accomplish everything you cannot
accomplish anything but you can't
accomplish anything but you can't
accomplish everything so consider what
are the things that i really want to
grow in what are those things
what do i want to have more discipline
in is it waking up early is it reading
my bible is it working out and going to
the gym what is it that i actually want
to put into my life to have more
discipline in and then
put it on your habit tracker
and set realistic goals for those things
so if it is for instance waking up
earlier okay is it realistic for you to
go we've been waking up at 8 a.m like
for years
is it realistic to say okay tomorrow 5
30 a.m grind time
that's not realistic what's realistic is
for you to go okay you know what i'm
gonna wake up at 7 30 tomorrow
7 30 just make a 30 minute difference
that's already going to be that one
percent better right
then the next day go okay 30 more minutes
minutes
7 a.m
okay wow you're really making progress
eventually you make it to 5 30 and then you
you
you stick with that
and you ask the lord for self-discipline
to stick with it because that's the kind
of person that you want to be and that's
the kind of life that you want to lead
guys actually want to start reading the
bible and developing a consistent
routine and discipline of spending time
with god every day and you're so sick of
being distracted or just feeling like
you don't have a good discipline and
routine with the lord i want to invite
you to join my community the tree i give
you a daily bible reading plan where
it's going to help you go through
everything that you need to do that day
to spend time with the lord it's going
to give you a road map to spending time
with him every single day that is not
intimidating and not overwhelming so go
to the link in my description to join
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faith and reaching your god-given
potential thank you so much for hanging
out with me and i hope that this helps
you be more disciplined and i can't wait
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