| Practice meditation: - Learn meditation - Go to meditation retreat - Keep practicing meditation. Use it as an exercise in focus. - Sit and study. When you feel bored, close your eyes, take a deep breathe in and out, meditate for a bit. After a couple (or a few) minutes (maybe even get up for a stroll or a little break), then, continue work. Re-Program your mind: - Listen to motivational speeches & music daily on youtube and spotify - Example Channels: Eric Thomas, David Goggins, Motiversity, Fearless Motivation. Lastly: Exercise If you're don't 1. have a focus practice, and if you aren't 2. actively programming your mind to create positive, optimistic though cycles, and aren't 3. exercising, then these are three important things that I recommend to you, which really helped me develop my discipline skill. |
I already meditate almost daily. I exercise every day and also walk ~4 miles each day.
I am sure you are well meaning, but I disagree with you on the motivational speeches part. I find those guys to be awfully filled with themselves, and annoying. They are in the sole business of selling motivation. If your life's biggest achievement is selling motivational speeches as events/books/courses, then I am going to pass. I found motivational speeches helpful when I was maybe 12.
Many people also suffer from survivorship bias and lack nuance and extremely hot-gas-full for my taste.
I am more motivated by people I know achieving highly, or true stories of people fighting adversity to make it big in life. E.g. the project head of India's moon lander mission supposedly didn't have electricity growing up (according to an HN comment a few days ago).