Transforming Motivation Into Discipline

10/05/23 • 16 min

Today’s topic is actually one that was requested by Greg. In the last episode, I mentioned at the end that if anyone had any topic suggestions that they wanted to share, please do so. You can comment below on this episode page and share your thoughts or suggestions!
At first, I wasn’t sure about this topic of motivation over discipline. My brain immediately went to “avoiding procrastination” and I think that’s a very high-level and over-discussed topic.
We all know to procrastinate less and put in more work, right?
I’m also a pretty disciplined person. I always have been. So my first thoughts were also that maybe I'm not the person to help here when it comes easily to me. But then I realized... Wait, it's not always easy for me.
So, I thought about how I feel when I'm struggling with discipline. What DO I feel and WHY do I feel it? What’s hindering my discipline?
Maybe this is different for everyone, but I do think that what I'm sharing in this episode can help everyone in some way.
We're here today because motivation is the easy part. It's easy to get motivated for a new diet, to learn a new language, or to even start a business.
What's not so easy is turning that motivation into discipline to follow through on your desires and intentions. Sure, having a plan helps tremendously. But it's more than that.
That's what we're discussing in today's episode.
Episode Highlights

Motivation for starting something new
Why that motivation wanes
How to turn motivation into discipline
Why getting fired up for your business is so important

For more information and resources, check out the podcast page on our website.

Motivation for starting something new
Why that motivation wanes
How to turn motivation into discipline
Why getting fired up for your business is so important

For more information and resources, check out the podcast page on our website.

Previous Episode

Business Sustainability in an AI-Get-Rich-Quick World

Finding some stability in your online business can be really tough in a get-rich-quick-ai-enhanced world.
It seems like there are 5 billion side hustles out there and every 5 minutes, you're getting an ad or a post from someone making $5,000 doing something online. But what does this mean for business sustainability?
A lot of these side hustles and platforms provide income and traffic that come in waves.
But what happens when the wave crashes? Sure, you can pivot to the next hustle. Been there, done that. It can be really profitable, but if you don't do it right, it's certainly not going to be sustainable.
We're very much living in a time right now of quantity over quality and I think it sucks. There is way too much shitty content on the internet and on our phones and on our TVs, and it's because of us. It's because we spend too much time on these devices and this is what makes others profitable.
How do we ensure that we are building our business in a sustainable way that is going to survive the next 2-5 years and beyond?
That's the real question and this is what I'm talking about in the latest episode of the podcast.

Episode Highlights:

Income and traffic waves
New game of quantity over quality
Hustle and bust culture
How to focus more on sustainability

Additional resources and show notes

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Next Episode

Changes in the SEO Landscape: AI, EEAT, and More

We have something exciting to share with you today - our first ever VIDEO podcast!
You can watch the video on YouTube here.

As many of y'all know, we've been spending the last couple of months updating our blogging courses - from scratch.

These updates feature us fully on camera for the first time. In honor of these content upgrades, I think it's only fitting that we finally record one of our podcast episodes on video too!

As I was thinking about these updates, I thought it would be great to get Noah back on the podcast to talk about some of the updates in the SEO world - ahead of our SEO course updates.

Consider it a little sneak peak of sorts.

The rise of AI writing tools like Jasper (our favorite) has brought with it a need for change in the Google algorithm.

Now that everyone and their grandmother can write blog posts about any topic in the world, in a fraction of the time, Google needs to be even better at making sure helpful content stays at the top.

Their Helpful Content Update was designed to do just that with these two key components:

EEAT
making sure content is as helpful as possible

Sounds pretty obvious while also being pretty vague, right?

Watch or listen to our latest podcast episode to learn more about the helpful content update and what this means for the current and future SEO landscape.
Episode Highlights

Current changes in the SEO landscape
Using AI in your content and how it relates to SEO
Helpful Content Update: two key items to consider
EEAT: what's new

For more information and resources, check out the podcast page on our website.