I’m in my young age and currently running a Monk Mode / high-performance routine. I’m less interested in motivation and more interested in the habits, routines, or uncomfortable behaviors that actually built discipline for you when you were still building and unknown
How did you create that work ethic
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Discipline wasn’t created by motivation; it came from constraint and repetition.
I ran into this early while juggling study, client work, and zero external validation.
What actually worked was engineering discomfort into daily defaults.
* Fixed start times and non-negotiable outputs, not goals (ship or fail publicly).
* Removing optionality: same workspace, limited tools, no decision fatigue.
* Tracking leading actions daily, ignoring outcomes until weeks later.
* Small self-imposed penalties for skipping, boring rewards for consistency.
Over time, identity followed behavior, not the other way around.
Happy to clarify if useful.
You have to enjoy the work like, 80% of the time. This usually means being really good at something. When you’re building, doing it well is addictive. When you can look at what you got done in a day, or a week, or a month and have that ‘fuck ya’ feeling, you will keep going.
So get really good at something and use it to build.
Know why you started and keep your focus. I know it will be hard with many distraction this days but always remember why you wanted to get started
It wasn’t Monk Mode for me, it was having something real on the line like a client or a deadline. Once I could see the cause and effect clearly, showing up stopped feeling dramatic and just became normal.
Consistency is louder than motivation. Show up for 20 minutes habit, non-negotiable, and treating every excuse like a pop-up: close it, do the rep, repeat.
Each night before bed figuring out the crucial task to do the next day and doing it first, then dealing with everything else.
Good routines around this – morning and evening, etc.
Meditating at least once every single day. Made the most difference when I do it in the morning before the day actually gets going.
I think you’re born with it or it’s ingrained very early on. I never knew that working wasn’t an option and always gave my all no matter what job I had. Served me well with my own business.
If you don’t have that mentality then you have to find something you love as then it won’t feel like work.
#SCHEDULING!
It is **THE** most important thing and makes everything else easy. People like to throw out the word ‘discipline’ but if they don’t mention actually setting a schedule alongside discipline, there’s a good chance they don’t know what discipline actually is.
Just so it’s out there: Discipline is the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior.
By far the easiest thing someone can do to establish discipline by having rules and a code such that they can achieve **anything** is to setup their schedule. On specific days, at specific times, for set durations, you do certain things. Then you just follow the schedule.
On $DAY at $TIME for $DURATION, I am doing $TASK.
Personally, this eliminates ephemeral things like motivation. I don’t have to be in the mood to do something or decide that I want to do something. I already scheduled it. I don’t have to think about it again. I just have to follow the schedule. The schedule is my rule, so I’m just following the rules.
So your rules to your behavior that constitute your discipline are:
1. Create a schedule. Pick a day, and a time as your designated scheduling time, and set your schedule.
2. Follow the schedule.
It definitely works, and you already know it works because it’s used all the time. If you’ve been to any school ever, or any job, you’ve seen and felt how powerful scheduling is. Did you wait to be “motivated” or in the “mood” to go to History class or Geometry? No. The bell rang and you fucking went. Did you have to be in the right headspace to make it to work by 9am every day? No. You just followed the schedule. People in their 30s still wake up in a cold sweat because they had a dream where they were late for a class they haven’t been to in 15 years. That’s how insanely powerful scheduling is.
Set your schedule, follow the schedule, and it will be difficult to fail.
trying to avoid brainrot as much as possible
For me it came from consistency, not intensity. Owning a small computer cafe early on forced me to show up daily even when I felt off, and that repetition built discipline more than motivation ever did. I focused on doing one small thing every day and letting time do the rest.