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Compassionate Self-Discipline: All Self-Discipline is NOT the Same
Too many people go to the gym simply because they hate themselves. In direct opposition to this, I teach something that I call compassionate self-discipline, which is a much healthier, more realistic, and more empowering way to look at achieving your goals and becoming happier.
The idea is transformative, for sure, but it also calls for you to maintain two different, conflicting ideas in your head at the same time.
Most people have difficulty with this, but it’s not impossible, and it will change the way you think about self-discipline forever.
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The first idea that you need to plant firmly inside your mind is that there is nothing “wrong” with you at all.
Forgive the amateur poetry, but you are every much a perfect, astonishing miracle of nature as a bright cloud formation in a clear blue sky, as an imposing mountainside bursting upward through the solid earth, or as the infinitude of blistering stars above. You are perfect in every way.
And yet…
