Let’s be honest. We all want a better life for ourselves. We all want to be in a place better than where we are now. We all have something that we want to either stop or start doing.
If you can relate to any of the above sentences, then ask yourself this. “What am I doing to make this change I want happen?”
How many times have you watched that one TikTok or YouTube video titled “How to turn your life around in 2026,” “You won’t goof around after watching this video,” or “How to study better,” or something else like that?
80% of the time, these videos don’t change anything, and it all keeps going downhill from there. The thing is, if you are really trying to change, then you have to first be disciplined.
Your discipline is one of the greatest shields you have to have up against whatever is stopping you from doing what you want to do. When you don’t discipline yourself, it is easy to get swept away by what other people are doing, or what is going on in your environment.
Put yourself in a situation where you cannot be swept away. Keep your phone away from yourself. Shift away from anyone who will distract you. Once you do this, your focus will improve tremendously, and you will be closer to this change that you want for yourself.
Of course, this isn’t to say that when you just “discipline yourself,” everything will come together. It doesn’t work like that. The next step should be to get yourself an accountability partner.
An accountability partner should be someone who is right on your tail about what you should do. This person should not be someone “convenient.” If it is convenient for you, then it is wrong.
This accountability partner should be able to get you up and send you wherever you need to go to do what you need to do. You cannot have someone who is as laid-back as you accounting for you, both of you will fail.
With these two steps I’ve outlined, you should be able to move from square zero to… square one at least, all things being equal. Its a new month, and you can already feel that the year is running out. Let's get back at it!