How to Trick Your Brain into Liking Discipline

Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another episode. We put out episodes four times a week to help you learn and grow and improve yourself because if you can improve yourself, you can improve your life. So if you want to do that, hit that subscribe button. Today, I'm gonna talk about how to actually get yourself to enjoy taking action because you don't need another productivity hack. You already know what to do in your life, but somehow you're not doing it. You're still stuck. You're still hesitating. You're still scrolling. You're still quote, unquote, thinking about it. And deep down, like, you actually are starting to hate that you're becoming the type of person who keeps almost starting or who starts and then immediately gives up. But I wanna be really honest with you. You probably think you need more discipline. You probably think it's more action. You probably think all of that. But before you do any of that, it goes much, much deeper psychologically and neurologically into your brain and into the wiring of your safety mechanisms in your brain. And so today, we're gonna talk about how to outsmart those parts of your brain and even trick your brain into enjoying taking action. And I'm gonna dive into the three reasons why you're not disciplined in taking action and then talk about how to overcome them. So first one. Number one is fear. At its simplest form, your brain thinks that taking action equals danger. So whenever somebody comes to me and they're like, Rob, I'm procrastinating, or I need to take more action. I need more discipline, or I wanna do this thing and I'm not doing it, the very first question I always ask them is, what are you afraid of? Because at its simplest form, I wanna do something. I'm not doing it. At its simplest form, you're probably afraid of something. You know if you've been listening to this podcast for a while, your brain's number one job isn't productivity. It's not discipline. It's not taking action. It is survival. And that lazy voice that's in the back of your head, that's your limbic system just trying to keep you, quote, unquote, safe. But the only thing that's keeping you safe from is just a little bit of discomfort. And so inside of your brain, taking action, you might know consciously with the 5% of your mind that is your conscious mind that you're going to be taking action and sending an email or doing cold calls or growing your business. You're not gonna die doing it. But 95% of the thing that's running in the show, which is your subconscious mind, sees taking action as stepping into the unknown, doing something you've never done before. And your brain interprets the unknown as danger. Your brain interprets …