In this podcast: the constant state of anxiety and stress that you have become familiar with is unnatural. Learn a powerful lifestyle framework that can help you to protect your psychology & physiology from the demands and inevitable hardships life presents. CONTENT TO REF: Social Media Addiction & Your Mental Demise | Podcast #223 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-223 9 MIN "The more you learn about the what and the why, the easier and more effective the how becomes." - Joe Dispenza

In this podcast: how this one common tendency prevents you from accomplishing your goals and how you can get rid of it. RELATED PODCAST: Mastering The Mundane / Cure Boredom | Podcast # 217 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-217 8 min "The glory is not in starting something new, as much as it is in making what you've already started work." - Alexa Taylor

In this podcast: how you can stop letting social media use you, but instead, create fixed rules and routines around it. Attention must always be directed and budgeted. Rules and timing things matters. Do not rely on your biology—it cannot be relied on. Discoveries in neuroscience have shown that you get pleasure from potentiality and not actuality. Social media companies know this, and they construct their platforms in a way that encourages compulsive behavior. Potentiality in social media show up as likes, comments, notifications, live streams, etc. Make sure you have rules around when and how long you use it. Extend that practice to any and all areas of your life that are susceptible to abuse. PODCAST REFERENCED: How Setting Parameters Will Reduce Your Stress | Podcast #221 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-221 6 MIN “Resisting temptation and instilling self-control are general human goals, and repeatedly failing to achieve them is a source of much of our misery.” ― Dan Ariely

In this podcast: I discuss a quote I heard the other day, and why I think its incredibly powerful. The quote was: "You Get Paid Twice For Doing The Work" What do you think about when you hear that? I think this quote can increase confidence and enthusiasm on your goal pursuit. MORE PODCASTS ON MINDSET: http://www.taylordiscipline.com/mindset "The attitude must precede the accomplishment." - Earl Nightingale

In this podcast: Parameters are measurable factors that define the conditions under which a thing operates.The power of having parameters set on your behavior is incredible. There is a common misconception that rules and boundaries are a bad thing; according to psychology, that's completely false...Rules (i.e. parameters) provide more freedom and certainty. It is certainty that tends to bring joy to life. I explain further in today's podcast. MORE PODCASTS ON PRODUCTIVITY: www.taylordiscipline.com/category/productivity "Freedom is adherence to self formulated rules." - Aristotle

In this podcast: why you should avoid people who are overly willing to sacrifice themselves for you in your relationship. MORE PODCASTS ON RELATIONSHIPS @ link = http://www.ichooseselfdiscipline.com/category/audio-posts/ “It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.” ― Voltaire

In this podcast: How you can protect your identity and as a result learn to persevere in the face of obstacles and push-back. RELATED PODCAST: How to Build an Unstoppable Identity | Podcast # 210: https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-210 Podcast Length = 8 MIN RESEARCH REFERENCED: Eyes on the Prize: The Preference to Invest Resources in Goals Over Means: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ayelet.fishbach/research/Investing%20in%20Goals.pdf The process is about doing the right things, right now. Not worrying about what might happen later, or the results, or the whole picture. - Ryan Holiday

In this podcast: why the key to success in life is to master sticking to things even when they at first feel mundane or boring. You can do this by creating novelty. I further in depth in this episode. RELATED PODCAST: Get Comfortable With Boredom | Podcast # 48 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-48 “To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish” ― David Foster Wallace

In this podcast: The importance of cultivating your identity to gain an advantage in your field, and why its more important to "rust out" versus "wear out" to cultivate resilience. RELATED PODCAST: Why Struggle Is Necessary for You To Be Happy | Podcast #215 http://www.ichooseselfdiscipline.com/podcast-215 "A man must exercise his will and improve it by labour so as to make it conformable to nature and free." - Epictetus

In this podcast: why its important to practice aversion regularly AND how it prepares you for larger aversive circumstances that life presents on its own terms. RELATED PODCAST: Incessant Struggle Is The Name Of The Game | Podcast #169 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-169 “If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky