Day 9: Structure and Discipline = Freedom

I remember hearing this phrase ‘structure and discipline equals freedom’. It is very true when breaking down what it means to guide oneself by applying structure and discipline, then leading to self-mastery. Everyone needs a structure to guide ourselves into, and everyone initially needs the discipline to follow it, with the hope (meaning expectation and desire) of achieving more internal and external freedom, and the only freedom is to choose that which is best for everyone and everything here, without allowing personal limitations in perspective to cause us to choose otherwise.

Without structure nothing would exist. Without self-discipline, you never teach yourself, without being a disciple, you never learn. And without ever learning, you never become a master (having or showing very great skill or proficiency), of yourself, the skill, the habit. In other words, being and becoming self-competent, being the personal directive principle of yourself, and using that to master real life skills and things that are useful.

I have no real structure other than the fact that I brush my teeth daily, I use TechnoTutor daily (even if it’s just for a moment), I write regularly – but not every day, I eat everyday – but not at scheduled times or a set amount of meals or food each day. I am doing interviews and presentations almost weekly, I’ll miss a week here and there due to changes we are making on the interview side of things or I just do not book a presentation that week on the presentation side of things, but most weeks I’ll do interviews and presentations.

If I really look at it, this business, my life, any business really, any child, any relationship, anything, it won’t be developed passively – it would die before that, especially in the beginning phases.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fail in planning and creating, following and implementing a solid, ruthless, relentless structure for myself to build a solid foundation of self-trust and to build that in others through the world buy sharing myself and my process with them. In this I would be creating some type of structured routine where I can keep myself accountable and where I use TT, write self-forgiveness, I study information and have fun, I read, I focus a dedicated period of time to reach out to people to build my business (focus on and grow my 20, 6, or 1), I follow up with people, present to them, and close them.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not trust the process, as I have not yet trusted myself to walk it effectively and consistently to take apart my own fears and limitations, and to build my understanding of the world and how reality works, and do so by applying a basic structure to myself and my day, week, month, quarter and year, just like a company would for their managers, and workers, and me being the owner of myself, where I need to do ‘the work’, manage things, and have the vision of a leader and owner all at the same time.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that if I follow someone as a disciple now, their proven method or system, I fear that I will be a follower forever and a slave forever, as within my mind I try to maintain this high-ground where I don’t need anyone and I can do it all on my own and figure it out on my own. Not trusting that I will be able to see the flaws, outpoints and mistakes, so I can perfect the process and that’s where I create it as my own, pronouncing my resonant signature of personal responsibility that I’ve developed that’ll attract a certain group to come into my life longer term, those who want to change, and propel us where we change together in our process, where we can then implement solutions to change this world for what is best.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see how by not having structure and the discipline to follow it initially, is self abuse, when I have created that structure to support myself in building consistency and leveling up within self-trust and my process, and using all of that to support others and supporting others through building my business and sharing the tools of change I have and am using for myself to change for real.