Where Motivation And Discipline Meet

I’ve been reaping the benefits of discipline the last couple of days. It’s helping me return to the 80/10/10 raw food diet. And to be honest, it’s not really a big issue at all. It has changed my thinking and attitude and I’m finding that it really is easy to stretch my raw food “day” past breakfast.

I made a comment about this in Roger Haeske’s private raw food coaching forum and Roger made a comment back that I found to be quite insightful. He said that discipline is great, of course, but what prompted me to take a more disciplined approach in the first place? It was my DESIRE to return to an all raw food diet!

Desire. Motivation. “Want”. Call it whatever you like, I was motivated to return to the raw food diet but that motivation wasn’t quite strong enough to actually make we want to actually eat raw rood. So what I really did was to take this desire, add a bit of discipline, and “make it happen”.

Desire is a great thing. Wanting something is a powerful force. However, quite often it’s not powerful enough to really bring about change.

Discipline by itself isn’t really much good either. OK, I’m disciplined to do SOMETHING, but what is that SOMETHING? Desire can provide that “something” for Discipline to work on.

There’s one other important element that I’m only going to touch on, and that’s Knowledge. Desire and Discipline are wonderful tools, but if you don’t know WHAT to do, you’ll most likely not make any progress towards your goals — or even worse, you can end up hurting yourself. You need to know what you are doing and ensure that the source of your information is properly qualified and vetted.

As I like to remind people from time to time, you should get a good mentor to help teach you if you want to switch to an all raw food diet (Roger Haeske is a good one, and his membership site makes it very affordable) and you should also consult with a medical professional before deciding to switch (but keep in mind that you may need to find one who is more in tune with natural health than “better living through chemicals”). Your health and your life are much too precious to trust to the subjective ramblings you read on some amateur’s blog (and yes, I’m talking about this one!). My job is motivation and encouragement; you need to do the rest and consult with the proper professionals before doing it.

So thanks, Roger, for pointing out how Desire and Discipline fit nicely together and get much better results than either can on its own (and thanks for the great help you always give). Both Desire AND Discipline are great ways to make a positive lifestyle change, and when properly combined, together they can really help you progress towards your goals.

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