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    The Self-Discipline Blueprint: A Simple Guide to Beat Procrastination, Achieve Your Goals, and Get the Life You Want: The Good Life Blueprint Series, #2
    The Self-Discipline Blueprint: A Simple Guide to Beat Procrastination, Achieve Your Goals, and Get the Life You Want: The Good Life Blueprint Series, #2
    The Self-Discipline Blueprint: A Simple Guide to Beat Procrastination, Achieve Your Goals, and Get the Life You Want: The Good Life Blueprint Series, #2
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    The Self-Discipline Blueprint: A Simple Guide to Beat Procrastination, Achieve Your Goals, and Get the Life You Want: The Good Life Blueprint Series, #2

    By Patrik Edblad

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    Achieve Anything You Set Your Mind To Without Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed!

    What if a few simple habits and strategies could help you stop putting things off and start getting things done? What if you kept every promise you made to yourself? What if you could enjoy guilt-free leisure at the end of each day?

    Mental trainer Patrik Edblad has helped hundreds of coaching clients and thousands of readers beat procrastination and achieve their goals. In this book, he lays out the complete step-by-step guide to developing relentless self-discipline. You'll discover:

    • The four fundamental "keystone habits" of self-discipline

    • How to change your mindset to cultivate success

    • How to establish your mission in life using The Hedgehog Concept

    • How to find your unique "why" using The Golden Circle

    • How to get laser-focused on the right things by defining your Circle of Competence

    • How to biologically reshape your mind and body for success by creating a Winner Effect

    • Several research-backed strategies to radically transform your behavior

    • BONUS: The Self-Discipline Blueprint Workbook — A complimentary resource you can use to easily put everything you learn into immediate action

    Get your copy now and start building your self-discipline today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatrik Edblad
    Release dateJan 16, 2018
    ISBN9781386975397
    The Self-Discipline Blueprint: A Simple Guide to Beat Procrastination, Achieve Your Goals, and Get the Life You Want: The Good Life Blueprint Series, #2

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    The Self-Discipline Blueprint - Patrik Edblad

    Foreword

    Our society loves the myth of the overnight success. This is the person who achieves amazing success with what appears to be minimal effort.

    This myth is so popular because it creates hope. Hope that it can happen to anybody. Hope that you too might strike it rich. And hope that you don’t have to work hard to get what you want.

    Unfortunately, the reality is much different from this myth.

    Success is not easy. It usually requires long hours, hard work, and making lots of mistakes along the way. Moreover, if you want to achieve success in any field, you often have to commit to working at it daily.

    This means you’ll need to build specific habits that separate yourself from everyone else.

    And that’s why I was excited to read The Self-Discipline Blueprint by Patrik Edblad.

    There are three reasons why I love this book.

    First, Patrik emphasizes the importance of being disciplined enough to form what are called keystone habits. It’s been my experience that success in any endeavor happens when you’re willing to do the same thing every single day. It might be boring, but it always works!

    As Patrik says in his book, Success almost always requires you to ignore something easy in favor of doing something hard.

    Second, I appreciate how Patrik simplified the self-discipline process by only recommending four core habits. You’ve probably heard of these habits before, but do you actually do them every day?

    Each of the four habits include many small actions that are incredibly easy to add to your busy schedule. This means you won’t feel overwhelmed as you start to become more disciplined.

    The third and final reason I like The Self-Discipline Blueprint is because of Patrik’s idea of relentless iteration. He feels that you should treat all your goal-achievement efforts as a work in progress. Instead of beating yourself up whenever you experience failure, you should treat these mistakes as a learning opportunity.

    The Self-Discipline Blueprint is the kind of book that I wish I read years ago. It’s chock-full of actionable advice that you can implement today. I’m confident that in following pages, you will discover a treasure trove of habits that will help you achieve success with any goal.

    —Steve Scott, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Habit Stacking: 127 Small Changes to Improve Your Health, Wealth, and Happiness

    PART 1: INTRODUCTION

    The Power of Self-Discipline

    Back in 1940, insurance industry executive Albert Gray delivered a speech that has since become very popular.

    In his talk, Gray explain that he wanted to find out what makes successful people successful. And he wanted it so badly that he set out on a decade-long quest to find the answer.

    He began by reviewing the research on topics like motivation, behavior, performance, and job satisfaction.

    Next, he read thousands of books, magazines, and biographies.

    And finally, he spent over twenty years conducting empirical research on the subject.

    In the end, his conclusion was as simple as it was profound: The common denominator of success—the secret of success of every person who has ever been successful—lies in the fact that they formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.

    The Marshmallow Test

    A couple of decades later, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, psychologist Walter Mischel ran a series of experiments.

    He and his research team examined children’s self-control with a simple test. They began by presenting each preschooler with a plate of treats, such as marshmallows.

    Each child was then told that the researcher had to leave the room for a few minutes. Before they left, they gave the child two options: If you wait until I come back you’ll get two marshmallows. If you can’t wait, you can ring a bell, and I will come back immediately, but then you can only have the marshmallow in front of you.

    As you can imagine, the children responded in a lot of different ways to those instructions. Some kids got up and ate the marshmallow the second the researcher closed the door.

    Others did everything they could think of to resist the treat. They wiggled, bounced, and scooted their chairs, but they eventually gave in to temptation.

    And, in the end, only a few children managed to wait until the researchers returned with the second marshmallow.

    What a Plate of Treats Can Teach Us about Success

    The purpose of the experiment wasn’t to study the children’s strategies to resist marshmallows (although, as you can imagine, it did provide some pretty great entertainment).

    It wasn’t until years later, when Mischel revisited the children in his study, that he got his results and made a groundbreaking discovery.

    When interviewing the participants, who were now in their teens, Mischel and his team found that the kids who had waited longer in the marshmallow test were more likely to have higher grades in school.

    Their parents also rated them better at planning, handling stress, having self-control in frustrating situations, and concentrating without getting distracted.

    It turned out that Mischel’s simple marshmallow test, in many ways, could predict how successful the children would be later in life.

    The One Thing Successful People Do Differently

    According to Albert Gray, what distinguishes successful people is their ability to do things that others don’t like to do.

    And that’s exactly what separated the participants in Walter Mischel’s experiment.

    The children who managed to resist the urge to eat their marshmallow—doing what the other kids didn’t want to do—ended up more successful.

    That is the one thing successful people do differently: they do what they need to do to get the results they want—whether they feel like it or not. And because they consistently do what others don’t do, they get results other people don’t.

    Success Requires Self-Discipline

    No matter what you want to achieve, you need to have the ability to be disciplined and take action instead of being distracted and doing what’s easy. Success almost always requires you to ignore something easy in favor of doing something hard. And the good news is that if you feel like you’re not very good at doing that right now, you can train yourself to become better.

    In this book, I’m going to show you how to become more disciplined. I’ll lay out all the fundamental habits and strategies you need to develop a strong self-discipline. What you’ll discover are the exact same routines and tactics I use every day and that I’ve used to help hundreds of coaching clients and thousands of readers create the self-discipline they needed to achieve their goals.

    I’ll take your hand and guide you through everything step-by-step. All you have to do is follow along and implement the action steps at the end of each chapter.

    A Good Life Is a Disciplined Life

    Now, despite all the talk about success so far, this book is about something deeper.

    Imagine for a moment that you were the kind of person who could do what you needed to do, when you needed to do it, whether you felt like it or not. What would it feel like to:

    rise without snoozing in the morning;

    consistently follow the morning routine you’ve always wanted;

    always be on time;

    begin each workday completing the most difficult task right away;

    eat healthy throughout the day;

    show up at the gym as planned;

    always keep your promises to yourself and the people close to you?

    It would feel pretty great, wouldn’t it? That’s because you, and every other human being, have a need to self-actualize—to express your latent abilities and live your full potential. That’s why self-discipline is so critical. Not because it leads to success (although that’s a nice side benefit), but because it’s a prerequisite for a happy and fulfilling life.

    And

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