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Summary
Ian Barseagle explores the intricate dynamics of motivation and discipline in his insightful video. He elaborates on creating motivation daily to push mental limits and make the most of journeys that are typically mundane without passion. Barseagle emphasizes the importance of finding motivation within oneself rather than relying on external factors, advocating for controlling one's emotions prior to workouts or challenging tasks. By sharing personal strategies, he highlights how a mindset shift towards positivity and resilience can significantly enhance both physical workout and overall lifestyle. His pragmatic advice pivots around self-created motivation that transforms obligatory tasks into enjoyable experiences, driven by deep personal contemplation.
Highlights
Motivation isn't just a feeling you wait for; you can create it anytime through deep focus 🎉.
Start your workouts with a motivational mindset session to perform better and enjoy more 🚀.
Positivity and mental resilience are cultivated by managing stress and negativity with intent 🌈.
Friends and surroundings have a big impact on your mindset; choose them wisely 👥.
Your brain solely controls your emotions, not any external events or people 🧘♀️.
Key Takeaways
Motivation can be self-generated by focusing deeply on personal goals and emotions 🎯.
A 10-20 minute pre-workout routine focusing on personal motivations can drastically enhance performance 🏋️♂️.
Thought control is essential; you decide how you feel and react, not external circumstances 🧠.
Viewing life’s challenges as average problems can lead to better stress management 💪.
Happiness is not feeling good, but about not feeling bad: deal with negativity effectively 😊.
Overview
In Ian Barseagle's exploration of motivation and discipline, he emphasizes a novel approach: the idea that motivation can be self-generated. He breaks down a personal technique involving deep focus before any significant task, like working out, which leads to an enhanced and enjoyable performance. By carving out 10-20 minutes to focus intently on what drives you—be it personal goals or life situations—you can harness a powerful, intrinsic motivation.
Ian draws from personal experience to highlight that emotional control is self-driven. He argues that most people are led by external factors, but true joy and productivity come from within. By actively choosing your emotional state, you command better outcomes in workouts and daily challenges. He maintains that seeing life's typical stressors as mere common problems and addressing them with resilience can transform your perspective and effectiveness.
A striking point Barseagle makes is about happiness and its misconceptions. He posits that happiness isn't about always chasing good feelings but managing bad ones efficiently. When you confront your problems with an attitude that blends acceptance and effort to improve, you're setting the stage for a richer life experience, whether in personal fitness or broader life goals. His advice encourages building a strong mental framework to propel you forward, deriving power from personal introspection and resilience.
Motivation Or Discipline? Ian Barseagle Transcription
00:00 - 00:30 so let me show a quick compilation of what I can do before I speak in case there's somebody who watches me that does not know me on who I am so quick video of my achievements enjoy it and then we get to the point cool let's [Music] go
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02:00 - 02:30 dishonesty and nature and [Music] tragedy I'm sure there's a lot of people who you look up to that you've heard speak about motivation and in most cases they say that motivation is not important and discipline is the main thing and it's very true and I agree with all of them but what if I tell you that you can have motivation you can
02:30 - 03:00 create motivation every time and what's the big benefit of that the big benefit of that is that you will mentally push to the limits and you will always enjoy what you're supposed to do so dedication is doing what you're supposed to do even when you don't feel like doing it but doing it with motivation is enjoying the process you enjoy everything more and the reason I speak about this and the reason I make a video about this out of all the things I could have spoken about I'll speak about this because this is
03:00 - 03:30 something that I've never heard anybody just speak about or know this information and with time I realize that this works and what exactly I'm speaking about so the way I get motivated is with very deep thoughts you need to go to a kind of dark place let's say and I don't mean that in a very bad way or a negative way is just before the workouts you need to have a 10 to 20 minute
03:30 - 04:00 window where you don't talk to anybody you only focus on this thing that I'm going to tell you you put your music on something that will isolate you from what's going on yeah whatever you need to do there's nothing you think about all you do is you put your music on you get in the mood and you start to think what you think about is about anything that's going on in your life you use anything that is happening around you as
04:00 - 04:30 motivation whatever it is your goals think about your goals think about your family think about your future think about your past everything that is happening use it as only motivation whether it's negative feelings whether it's annoying feelings whether it's positive use everything as motivation to do what you're supposed to do in 10 to 20 minutes this 10 to 20 minutes window before a training is so important to the point where if I don't have this 10 to 20 minutes window where I just focus on
04:30 - 05:00 getting motivated my workout is going way worse than it's supposed to so first of all I perform worse second of all I don't enjoy it at all but when I get to this deep State of Mind where I have zero emotions but deep inside of me some crazy stuff is happening crazy stuff in a way like I get to again a dark place even though I'm a very happy person I never have any problems I never stress I was never in my life depressed and I can
05:00 - 05:30 never in my life become depressed because of a good mindset and I'll get to that a bit later so it's just helping you a lot to do what you're supposed to do yeah and one thing and the important thing before you do this stuff is first of all there's no choice of skipping yeah so again first of all you need to get to a point where you always do what you're supposed to do yeah so it's you basically if you have a workout today you definitely do it this trick is just going to help you enjoy it more and do
05:30 - 06:00 it more effectively okay this is the difference and this is the benefit of adding this into your schedule okay or into your whole system of training and believe me this is something very very beneficial and every morning when I wake up I feel like zero zero motivation nothing is going on I don't feel like I need to train and usually in my case I train within 1 hour or 1 hour 30 minutes minutes after I wake up and again I
06:00 - 06:30 never feel like it never but I am the one who creates this motivation and what I mean by this is get in the mood start to get in the mood put the music on start maybe dancing a little bit maybe start singing with the song maybe I don't know start to think more deep do all these things energetically and a bit aggressively and start to get in the mood you are the one who controls how you feel nobody else you should not rely
06:30 - 07:00 on someone else on how you feel how you feel is all up to you it's not to up to somebody else okay so you decide how you feel before a workout not life you know and honestly I hear very often one thing and I don't even talk to people about this because usually they don't get it or usually they don't even want to hear an advice but often I hear from people that they feel a bit off today they don't feel like working out they had a bad day all this stuff too many things that affect their training and because
07:00 - 07:30 of this feeling that they have they don't do everything to the maximum like they were supposed to you understand and this is one benefit of training in the morning so if you can I will definitely suggest you to train in the mornings because when you train in the mornings nothing gets in your way okay apart from bad sleep so if the sleep is good actually there are studies that show you that if you usually sleep good and one day you have a bad sleep if you act like you had a good sleep so even if you had
07:30 - 08:00 a bad sleep act like you had a good sleep trick your brain into thinking that you don't care and you feel good and you will feel good but as they say and doctors say and people who made these studies say that do not use this trick too often because if you sleep bad often and you do it by purpose for some random reason and I don't know what could be a good reason for you to skip sleep because sleep is that important they say do not use this trick too often because you will feel good you will feel like you slip good when you didn't so
08:00 - 08:30 you will start doing this by purpose just to feel good when you sleep not good so focus on your sleep because probably all the diseases that exist in the world they get worse if you sleep bad okay and even when it comes to stress the worst thing about stress is sleeping bad okay you sleep bad that's the worst thing about stress there's nothing worse about stress than your sleep you understand if you if you look at depression which is what is so famous in America unfortunately
08:30 - 09:00 it's the worst thing about it is definitely the sleep because if you're a person who's very stressed or depressed all you do before you go sleep you think about something and usually actually those things are so normal like I notice some people are very stressed or depressed from some average problems in life like very very average things their girlfriend left them their car broke down some family problems where's the stress you're
09:00 - 09:30 dealing with something that everybody in this world is dealing with so why you let that ruin you so much when everybody is dealing with that so when I start to look at things as average problems I don't feel them anymore you know and even with some people who I coach I asked him how's your sleep because he had a problem in his training and we got to the point of sleep how is he sleep I asked him he said oh I fall asleep but and sometimes I wake up during the night and I knew something is wrong once he said that to me I knew something is
09:30 - 10:00 wrong and I told him okay bro tell me what happened tell me tell me he told me three things and it's similar to the things that I told you now and then what did I tell him I'm I'm being honest with him and I told him so that's it you call this problem it's like I know that if I would be in C situation deal with them if there's nothing you can do about a situation in life move on move on simple it should be simple as that do not think about it moving on is do not think about it who's in control of your brain you
10:00 - 10:30 don't think about it simple if you think about it bully yourself in your own mind to not think about it until you do that 100 times and you never think about it anymore that's how the system works and I noticed many many people don't understand what happiness is about happiness is not about feeling good it's not about chasing good feelings it's about not feeling bad and there is a big difference actually so it's about dealing very well with bad things so whatever is going on in your life that
10:30 - 11:00 gives you negative thoughts or makes you feel bad you just need to deal with those situations good so remember happiness is not about feeling good it's about not feeling bad so deal with that if a situation that you're in has no solution you cannot do anything about it move on stop caring about it why would you care about it just move on all it's going to do is going to ruin you with time and you it's only going to get worse so move on from things and believe me I
11:00 - 11:30 say that somebody who had a very intense past because I come from a very poor family so even up to the age of like maybe 7 years old there were a lot of too many times when it's not like it was tough with money it was no food to eat for a very long time so I know what this kind of life is like and this is why I guess I can never in my life be depressed because problems I can have now are nothing compared to what I could
11:30 - 12:00 have before and the situations I had before so that's why you need to probably remind yourself that there are people in some crazy crazy situations and if you tell them your problems they would look at you and spit you in your face because of what you're dealing with it's usually nothing and if you speak English usually and you listen to me now and you have a phone there's already no chance for you to be depressed and some people can probably tell me that oh this happened this happened oh look at your problem s and be like bro please don't
12:00 - 12:30 talk to me because you will probably just pull me down you'll make me more sensitive I don't usually tend to be around people who are very weak-minded because you become one of them so look at your circle if your circle the people you're with are like this you have to cut that off you know because with the people I am around we never speak about negative things we never have negative things going on or we never speak about negative things be POS positive and you
12:30 - 13:00 will have positive things happening look at things from the best way possible and that's how you solve problems you understand but yeah I went off topic a little bit because I had to mention this stuff because I see too much sensitivity nowadays from nothing your life is too good that's why you're becoming sensitive so I don't understand actually because I see this happening very often so we're getting back to the motivation before training everything that's important in your life think about it and use it only as motivation use it as
13:00 - 13:30 a form of like aggression to why you're not where you want to be aggression not sadness not stress not depression again we cut that off okay use it as motivation to do what you're supposed to do in that day and I'm sure you can use this technique for many things you need to do maybe studying maybe a business you're working on or anything get motivated have that 10 to 20 minute window where you put your music on and you focus and you just start to think deep to why you're doing this and just
13:30 - 14:00 get aggressive in a way of motivation okay and yeah this is the tip I wanted to share because once you sort yourself mentally physically you will achieve greatness you know so yeah this is the message for today and by the way when it comes to knowledge I shared some very valuable knowledge in a free guide so you can get it for free just click this link and you'll get some valuable knowledge and valuable tips but in general when it comes to posting content
14:00 - 14:30 now my main goal is to focus on achieving my full potential so what content I'll post how much I'll post of it I will see it all depends on how my training is going so the main focus is my training now that's my main thing not content creation content creation is something I just randomly do when I have a good idea or when I want to record something but I will never prioritize content more than my own progress okay I
14:30 - 15:00 focus on myself and then other things Okay so