Elevate Your Standards with Derrick Lawter

When pursuing your desires, it is important to understand the difference between motivation and discipline. The general society thinks that the driven individual is motivated and possesses some innate skill that can not be taught. In reality, most successful people are where they are in life because they developed extreme discipline that allows them to work towards their desires even when the motivation is gone. 

Do you listen to other people to understand their points, or are you usually just thinking about what you are going to say in response? Most people use the time while others are talking to formulate their next point in their heads. If you can learn to listen with the goal of truly understanding and seeing their point of view, you will quickly become one of the best conversationalists your friends and family know.  How much potential life-changing information are you missing by not actively listening to other people?

Today’s society is full of people wanting to do just enough to fit in and create a comfort zone to live inside. Worst of all, these same people usually shame anyone who is willing to step outside the comfort zone and chase anything different than the status quo. It’s time to embrace the hate and take pride in being different. While everyone else is relaxed in their comfort zone, true warriors continue to push outside that dangerous circle regardless of the reactions that may cause in others. No more wishing that you could enjoy an easy life. To all my warriors out there, let’s push out if the comfort zone and take pride in being different. 

Have you ever thought about your workouts being for your mental toughness and not just physical gains? Too many people go to the gym with one goal in mind: improve their body. While physical health is extremely important, the desire for physical appearance is rarely strong enough to keep people motivated. That is why so many people quit before their workout plan is complete. What if working out is about learning to push yourself mentally, not physically? If you consistently push yourself further than your mind thinks it can go, the physical gains will be a natural byproduct of the mental toughness you develop. 

How much better of a father, husband, friend, or leader could you be if you learned to observe instead of reacting? Too many times in life, we react without taking the time to step back and make the best possible decision. How many times have you made a spontaneous reaction to a situation that you later regretted? The key to removing yourself from regret and impulse is to delay your emotional reaction time. 

In order to win the day and be as effective as possible, it is critical to win the morning. But what exactly does that mean, and why is it so important? Crafting a morning routine to follow and get your day started is one of the first steps to earning the sunrise and setting yourself up for a killer day. Learn the tools and techniques that help people around the world become early birds and optimize their time. 

What does it mean to you to have elevated standards? Are you settling for less than you should in any facets of your life? This episode is all about taking an honest account of where your standards are at today. How do they line up with the expectations you have for your life? If there is a big gap, you might have some work to do.