What does it take to really make the changes starting tomorrow?
It takes more than philosophical pronouncement. It also takes more than enthusiasm.
There are some things you’ve got to do or it isn’t going to change. You can get all excited about lifting two hundred pounds till you get to the gym and then you need a new excitement. And the new excitement is called discipline.
Discipline is the major step to human progress.
Discipline is the one thing to get excited over. That’s it!
Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things. What will you make yourself do starting tomorrow that would change it all. Now that’s exciting that on any given day you can massively change the direction of your life.
Murder is a clear example that any one person on any given day can forever alter the course of their life, it just happens to be a negative act. But just as sure as you can commit a negative act you can also commit a positive act and forever alter your life whenever you wish. That’s exciting and whatever that might be it changes your life.
The guy finally takes a shotgun to his car and blows out every window, destroys every tire, put the hundred rounds in this shabby old thing. He says "I have driven this embarrassing thing for the last time; and not only will I never drive it again, nobody else will ever drive it again". And he lets that shuddering thing stand there for a while as a monument. He declares, "today my life changes".
Who can do that? Anybody. When can you do it? Whatever day you pick.
Here’s the key to discipline – start with the little disciplines, get excited over the little disciplines and get right on those because those will lead to the big ones. You can’t handle the big challenges in life unless you take on the little ones. Make a list of all the things you can do and get right on those. Discipline yourself for those, both for the results and for the muscle and for the practice. So when life hands you some big challenges you’ll be ready, you’ll have the muscle.
If you don’t handle a small challenge, you can’t take care of the big ones.
Here’s what else it takes for life change
Self Motivation.
It’s really the only kind of there is – you’ve got to motivate yourself. You can’t change people, they can change themselves. Good people are not trained, they’re found. You find good people, you don’t make them good, you find them. Good training really is for the purpose of finding good people. You don’t need much instruction for a good person. Too much training probably means you got the wrong people. So you got to find the right people – that’s the key to getting a good job done.
One of the major things management lessons teach is that don’t send your ducks to Eagle school because it won’t help. It won’t help no matter how good your school is. A little Eagle badge, a little Eagle hat – it won’t help it. When the school is over, the duck will go for his first rabbit and make him a friend.

It takes self motivation to really alter your life and you don’t want to give self motivation away to somebody else and make it somebody else motivating you.
If you’re excited and you’re ready to change here are the three steps to start – they can change your life, your personality, your lifestyle, everything can change.