Patrik Edblad - The Self-Discipline Blueprint: A Simple Guide to Beat Procrastination, Achieve Your Goals, and Get the Life You Want

The Self-Discipline Blueprint

A Simple Guide to Beat Procrastination, Achieve Your Goals, and Realize Your Potential

By Patrik Edblad

www.Selfication.com

Copyright 2018 by Patrik Edblad

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Contents

Foreword

Our society loves the myth of the overnight success. This is the person who achieves amazing success with what appears to be minimal effort.

This myth is so popular because it creates hope. Hope that it can happen to anybody. Hope that you too might strike it rich. And hope that you dont have to work hard to get what you want.

Unfortunately, the reality is much different from this myth.

Success is not easy. It usually requires long hours, hard work, and making lots of mistakes along the way. Moreover, if you want to achieve success in any field, you often have to commit to working at it daily.

This means youll need to build specific habits that separate yourself from everyone else.

And thats why I was excited to read The Self-Discipline Blueprint by Patrik Edblad.

There are three reasons why I love this book.

First, Patrik emphasizes the importance of being disciplined enough to form what are called keystone habits. Its been my experience that success in any endeavor happens when youre willing to do the same thing every single day . It might be boring, but it always works!

As Patrik says in his book, Success almost always requires you to ignore something easy in favor of doing something hard.

Second, I appreciate how Patrik simplified the self-discipline process by only recommending four core habits. Youve probably heard of these habits before, but do you actually do them every day?

Each of the four habits include many small actions that are incredibly easy to add to your busy schedule. This means you wont feel overwhelmed as you start to become more disciplined.

The third and final reason I like The Self-Discipline Blueprint is because of Patriks idea of relentless iteration. He feels that you should treat all your goal-achievement efforts as a work in progress. Instead of beating yourself up whenever you experience failure, you should treat these mistakes as a learning opportunity.

The Self-Discipline Blueprint is the kind of book that I wish I read years ago. Its chock-full of actionable advice that you can implement today. Im confident that in following pages, you will discover a treasure trove of habits that will help you achieve success with any goal.

Steve Scott, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Habit Stacking: 127 Small Changes to Improve Your Health, Wealth, and Happiness

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

The Power of Self-Discipline

Back in 1940, insurance industry executive Albert Gray delivered a speech that has since become very popular.

In his talk, Gray explained that he wanted to find out what makes successful people successful. And he wanted it so badly that he set out on a decade-long quest to find the answer.

He began by reviewing the research on topics like motivation, behavior, performance, and job satisfaction.

Next, he read thousands of books, magazines, and biographies.

And finally, he spent over twenty years conducting empirical research on the subject.

In the end, his conclusion was as simple as it was profound: The common denominator of successthe secret of success of every person who has ever been successfullies in the fact that they formed the habit of doing things that failures dont like to do.

The Marshmallow Test

A couple of decades later, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, psychologist Walter Mischel ran a series of experiments .

He and his research team examined childrens self-control with a simple test. They began by presenting each preschooler with a plate of treats, such as marshmallows.

Each child was then told that the researcher had to leave the room for a few minutes. Before they left, they gave the child two options: If you wait until I come back youll get two marshmallows. If you cant wait, you can ring a bell, and I will come back immediately, but then you can only have the marshmallow in front of you.

As you can imagine, the children responded in a lot of different ways to those instructions. Some kids got up and ate the marshmallow the second the researcher closed the door.

Others did everything they could think of to resist the treat. They wiggled, bounced, and scooted their chairs, but they eventually gave in to temptation.

And, in the end, only a few children managed to wait until the researchers returned with the second marshmallow.

What a Plate of Treats Can Teach Us about Success

The purpose of the experiment wasnt to study the childrens strategies to resist marshmallows (although, as you can imagine, it did provide some pretty great entertainment).

It wasnt until years later, when Mischel revisited the children in his study, that he got his results and made a groundbreaking discovery.

When interviewing the participants, who were now in their teens, Mischel and his team found that the kids who had waited longer in the marshmallow test were more likely to have higher grades in school.

Their parents also rated them better at planning, handling stress, having self-control in frustrating situations, and concentrating without getting distracted.

It turned out that Mischels simple marshmallow test, in many ways, could predict how successful the children would be later in life.