Nov. 26, 2024
870. The 3 Stages Of Self-Discipline.
Let's get it! I’m thrilled you’re tuning in because this episode dives deep into something we all need but often struggle with self-discipline.
Inspired by James Allen’s Book of Meditations, we’re unpacking the three stages of self-discipline that can transform your life—control, purification, and relinquishment. This isn’t just theory; it’s a roadmap to lasting success and purpose.
Here’s what you’ll get by listening today:
- How to take control of your mind, emotions, and actions to lay the foundation for success.
- The importance of purifying your life by removing toxic habits, people, and influences that hold you back.
- Why relinquishment—letting go of external validation and distractions—is the ultimate freedom.
- Practical insights you can apply TODAY to strengthen your discipline and steer your life with intention.
- A fresh perspective on how self-discipline can lead to a more powerful, purposeful, and fulfilling life.
This isn’t just another conversation about discipline—it’s about reshaping how you think, act, and approach your goals.
Are you ready to master your mind and live with purpose? Hit play, and let’s get into it.
“Keep it simple. Keep it moving. Never settle. Stay tough.”
📣Who needs to hear this episode? Share it and help grow the show.
🛑 Watch & subscribe to episodes on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiNqFo05MJ6_yCu1vJ3rX4A
📝Leave a quick rating and review for any platform: https://www.marshbuice.com/reviews/new/
📲Share: https://www.marshbuice.com/episodes/
🤝See my daily stories: https://www.instagram.com/marshbuice/
👩💻 FREE Content! www.marshbuice.com
Keep it simple. Keep it moving. Never settle. Stay tough.
Transcript
WEBVTT
00:00:00.630 --> 00:00:00.868
All right.
00:00:00.868 --> 00:00:02.008
3, 2, 1, let's get it.
00:00:03.149 --> 00:00:04.349
I want to read to you.
00:00:05.330 --> 00:00:09.378
What I read this morning from James B.
00:00:09.378 --> 00:00:10.099
Allen.
00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:13.308
Uh, his book of meditations.
00:00:13.968 --> 00:00:16.309
Uh, let me see if I can get to the cover of it here.
00:00:19.189 --> 00:00:22.399
Hopefully you can see that James Allen book of meditations.
00:00:23.210 --> 00:00:23.809
And.
00:00:24.469 --> 00:00:30.018
You know, I like to read in the mornings, I like to read Tolstoy and these are just little short snippets.
00:00:30.109 --> 00:00:31.820
And I actually read a day ahead.
00:00:31.850 --> 00:00:33.439
This was actually for.
00:00:34.250 --> 00:00:41.929
Uh, tomorrow, but it's funny how God works because sometimes it's just exactly what I need for that day.
00:00:41.929 --> 00:00:43.159
So let me read it to you.
00:00:44.390 --> 00:00:49.698
And let me stress to you too, that there are going to be times that you read something.
00:00:50.249 --> 00:00:52.469
But it's a whole different level.
00:00:52.948 --> 00:00:55.948
When you began to write it out.
00:00:56.939 --> 00:00:58.048
It's a whole different thing.
00:00:58.558 --> 00:01:03.149
Because writing the long form, not typing it, writing it.
00:01:04.019 --> 00:01:09.118
Causes you to have to form the letters that equate to the word.
00:01:09.810 --> 00:01:11.340
But I don't know, man.
00:01:11.340 --> 00:01:13.500
It's, it's hard to explain.
00:01:13.500 --> 00:01:18.959
You can only experience it, but when you start writing that and you're focused on what you're writing.
00:01:19.679 --> 00:01:21.868
It really, your mind begins to.
00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:25.049
Kind of swirl this thought around.
00:01:25.888 --> 00:01:28.888
And it begins to create a deeper meaning for you.
00:01:28.888 --> 00:01:32.909
So I would tell you, this is why I say you should write one page every day.
00:01:34.948 --> 00:01:40.888
I'm telling you it'll change your whole life because it begins to shape your perspective.
00:01:41.549 --> 00:01:43.168
So, let me read to you.
00:01:44.189 --> 00:01:47.578
And again, I just thought when I was reading this.
00:01:48.060 --> 00:01:48.868
I thought.
00:01:49.769 --> 00:01:52.828
Man that's, that's something to just put down in my journal.
00:01:52.828 --> 00:01:54.120
I keep two different.
00:01:55.259 --> 00:01:57.388
Uh, No pads with me.
00:01:57.388 --> 00:01:58.108
I keep one.
00:01:58.108 --> 00:01:59.189
That's a legal pad.
00:01:59.189 --> 00:02:02.849
That's how write for the podcast.
00:02:03.299 --> 00:02:08.729
But then there's another journal that I keep and that's the more intimate side of it.
00:02:09.090 --> 00:02:14.430
And so it's just, it's that's for me, it's not for publishing or anything like that.
00:02:14.909 --> 00:02:18.479
And so I read this passage and I said, you know what?
00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:26.549
Let me just jot this down in my journal, because I was going to go on to write something else, but something magical happens.
00:02:27.180 --> 00:02:33.389
Again, I've been doing this since 2017, just really, probably 2016.
00:02:34.169 --> 00:02:36.180
Really just writing long form.
00:02:38.099 --> 00:02:40.469
Um, so, um, a little more.
00:02:41.009 --> 00:02:42.389
Receptive now.
00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:44.729
As a, as I write these things.
00:02:44.789 --> 00:02:46.949
So let me read it to you enough about all that.
00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:55.099
So, this is what James Allen wrote Well, let me read through all the way, and then I want to come back around.
00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:57.259
And kind of chop it back up.
00:02:58.209 --> 00:03:03.099
Here's what he writes before a man can accomplish anything of enduring nature in the world.
00:03:03.849 --> 00:03:08.919
He must, first of all, acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.
00:03:10.030 --> 00:03:15.849
This is a mathematical truism, meaning"duh" this is a mathematical truism.
00:03:16.419 --> 00:03:16.870
That.
00:03:17.590 --> 00:03:19.120
As that two and two or four.
00:03:20.370 --> 00:03:22.960
for out of the heart or the issues of life.
00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:33.099
If a man cannot govern the forces within himself, he cannot long hold a firm hand upon the outer activities, which form of visible life.
00:03:33.849 --> 00:03:43.240
Now on the other hand, as a man succeeds in governing himself, he arises to higher and higher levels of power and usefulness and success.
00:03:43.990 --> 00:03:44.799
In the world.
00:03:45.459 --> 00:03:48.549
Hitherto which means until now.
00:03:48.939 --> 00:03:53.379
Hitherto his life has been without purpose or meaning.
00:03:54.009 --> 00:03:58.028
But now he begins to cautiously mold his own destiny.
00:03:58.419 --> 00:04:03.579
He is clothed and in his right mind with the practice of self-discipline.
00:04:04.329 --> 00:04:05.829
Uh, man begins to live.
00:04:07.750 --> 00:04:11.110
So let's unpack that and that's all fine and good.
00:04:11.139 --> 00:04:21.040
And I, but I'm telling you, like, if you want to I'll, um, I'll post this quote in the, um, In the bio of this week's episode.
00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:27.040
So that way, if you want to copy it and write it, and then I will tell you, write it long form, if you would.
00:04:27.069 --> 00:04:34.750
I think this practice will, as I said, just a second ago, I think it's going to, I think it's going to be a game changer for you.
00:04:35.170 --> 00:04:40.810
So, let me, let me chop this up because this is what I do is, is, is I write in blocks.
00:04:40.870 --> 00:04:42.279
So I get to a part.
00:04:42.730 --> 00:04:46.509
Uh, section and I stopped there and then I just kind of riff on.
00:04:47.290 --> 00:04:50.050
That section and then go to, to the next section.
00:04:50.769 --> 00:05:05.079
So the first section that I wrote down before man can accomplish anything of enduring nature, underlying that, anything of an enduring nature, meaning that this is something endurance is something for long-term right.
00:05:05.500 --> 00:05:12.579
So before a man can accomplish anything of enduring forever lifestyle.
00:05:12.850 --> 00:05:14.589
And during nature in the world.
00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:20.589
He must, first of all, acquire some measure of success in the management.
00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:22.360
Of his own mind.
00:05:23.889 --> 00:05:25.959
Success begins.
00:05:26.468 --> 00:05:27.158
In the mind.
00:05:27.699 --> 00:05:32.199
And you can sit there and, well, let me just take me.
00:05:32.468 --> 00:05:35.050
I can sit here and preach to the world.
00:05:35.350 --> 00:05:39.040
I could sit here and tell everybody how they should do things.
00:05:40.060 --> 00:05:42.879
But I will never have enduring success.
00:05:43.569 --> 00:05:44.800
If I don't first.
00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:46.569
Manage my own mind.
00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:49.240
That's the first thing you got to do.
00:05:49.540 --> 00:05:52.629
None of that other stuff even matters out there.
00:05:53.290 --> 00:05:54.730
It's all superficial.
00:05:56.050 --> 00:06:01.870
So, if you want to acquire some measure of success, enduring success.
00:06:03.310 --> 00:06:04.839
Then you have to first.
00:06:06.290 --> 00:06:07.220
Acquire.
00:06:07.550 --> 00:06:08.449
Some measure.
00:06:09.230 --> 00:06:10.339
I liked that word.
00:06:10.490 --> 00:06:11.569
Some measure.
00:06:12.050 --> 00:06:14.300
Meaning, you don't have to have it all together.
00:06:14.449 --> 00:06:18.980
You're not going to have it all together, but you must acquire some measure.
00:06:19.250 --> 00:06:20.990
Mean incrementally.
00:06:22.250 --> 00:06:23.089
Moving up.
00:06:23.750 --> 00:06:27.769
Getting better, some measure of success.
00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:29.449
In the management.
00:06:30.379 --> 00:06:31.250
Of your own mind.
00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:33.399
Next section.
00:06:35.259 --> 00:06:37.029
This is a mathematical.
00:06:37.930 --> 00:06:38.649
Truism.
00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:41.680
Truism is like, duh.
00:06:42.129 --> 00:06:43.480
Like everybody knows that.
00:06:43.689 --> 00:06:44.649
If you're going to succeed.
00:06:45.009 --> 00:06:46.480
You guys succeed in your own mind?
00:06:47.350 --> 00:06:49.120
But here's what's key.
00:06:49.180 --> 00:06:52.629
This is a mathematical truism.
00:06:53.649 --> 00:06:55.990
The mathematical part is.
00:06:56.649 --> 00:06:58.569
Any sort of success.
00:07:01.089 --> 00:07:02.290
Is should be.
00:07:02.649 --> 00:07:03.639
It's gotta be counted.
00:07:04.269 --> 00:07:06.670
Everything counts, literally everything counts.
00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:08.769
So the more that you track.
00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:10.329
And count.
00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:13.000
In every area of your life.
00:07:16.060 --> 00:07:18.100
Then you have an awareness.
00:07:19.689 --> 00:07:21.220
And you can steer.
00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:23.259
The course of your life.
00:07:23.949 --> 00:07:30.490
And if you think about all of the slips in your life, Let me just take my bankruptcy.
00:07:30.970 --> 00:07:32.170
Way back in the days.
00:07:33.189 --> 00:07:34.899
When I bankrupted, I stopped counting.
00:07:36.100 --> 00:07:37.209
I didn't have an awareness.
00:07:37.420 --> 00:07:39.850
So I was letting my emotions.
00:07:40.509 --> 00:07:43.000
Just kind of go with the flow.
00:07:43.779 --> 00:07:51.579
And anything, if you lack the numbers, if you don't know your numbers, You can't incrementally gain.
00:07:51.610 --> 00:07:54.939
You're going to let your emotions govern you and your emotions.
00:07:55.529 --> 00:07:56.800
are going to take you down every single.
00:07:56.860 --> 00:07:57.279
Time.
00:07:57.610 --> 00:08:02.620
So back to James Allen, this is a mathematical truism.
00:08:02.649 --> 00:08:03.129
Remember.
00:08:03.129 --> 00:08:05.620
A success in every area of your life is numbers.
00:08:06.660 --> 00:08:08.129
Is that two and two are four?
00:08:08.629 --> 00:08:10.529
for out of the heart or the issues.
00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:11.129
Of life.
00:08:11.339 --> 00:08:17.100
Now we hear that we've heard that forever out of the heart or the issues of life.
00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:18.600
The heart.
00:08:19.290 --> 00:08:20.519
Is the mind.
00:08:21.540 --> 00:08:22.019
Okay.
00:08:22.379 --> 00:08:23.639
The heart is the mind.
00:08:24.779 --> 00:08:28.379
So that's the, the, your mind is the governing force.
00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:30.420
It's the center of it all.
00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.298
So when you go back.
00:08:33.330 --> 00:08:34.470
Back to the first section.
00:08:35.308 --> 00:08:37.139
When you have management.
00:08:38.370 --> 00:08:40.470
You're not renting it out to social media.
00:08:40.470 --> 00:08:41.700
You're not renting it out.
00:08:41.730 --> 00:08:42.298
Out to.
00:08:42.330 --> 00:08:45.899
To someone you're running behind, you're not renting it out.
00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:46.830
To toxic.
00:08:46.860 --> 00:08:48.509
People you're not renting it out.
00:08:49.500 --> 00:08:50.580
To your employer.
00:08:51.029 --> 00:08:52.200
You have the management.
00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:52.529
Of your.
00:08:52.529 --> 00:08:52.980
Your own mind.
00:08:53.009 --> 00:08:53.700
So when.
00:08:54.690 --> 00:08:57.299
You're the owner and you're managing your own mind.
00:08:57.330 --> 00:08:57.779
Mind.
00:08:58.019 --> 00:09:00.029
out of the heart.
00:09:00.029 --> 00:09:01.710
Heart or the issues of life.
00:09:02.820 --> 00:09:04.049
Your management.
00:09:04.590 --> 00:09:06.029
You're governing center.
00:09:07.870 --> 00:09:08.110
All.
00:09:08.139 --> 00:09:09.039
Of your issues.
00:09:10.789 --> 00:09:11.110
are due.
00:09:11.139 --> 00:09:11.830
You too.
00:09:12.340 --> 00:09:13.210
Poor management.
00:09:14.500 --> 00:09:15.460
Or tight management.
00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:17.399
Where are you right now?
00:09:18.029 --> 00:09:18.840
And it could be.
00:09:19.289 --> 00:09:20.009
A subsection.
00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.289
in your life there could be.
00:09:22.769 --> 00:09:23.610
You know, things could.
00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:25.830
I'd be 80%, right.
00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:27.240
But.
00:09:27.269 --> 00:09:28.649
You had that 20%.
00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:32.019
That you gotta, you gotta get control of again.
00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.200
Again, some measure of control.
00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:34.690
remember.
00:09:35.190 --> 00:09:36.809
It's all incremental and that's.
00:09:36.870 --> 00:09:37.440
What it is.
00:09:38.669 --> 00:09:39.210
So out of the heart.
00:09:39.269 --> 00:09:40.379
What are the issues of life?
00:09:40.409 --> 00:09:41.610
If a man can not back.
00:09:41.669 --> 00:09:42.509
To James Allen, if.
00:09:42.539 --> 00:09:46.110
If a man, can I govern the forces within himself?
00:09:47.070 --> 00:09:49.019
He cannot long hold.
00:09:49.889 --> 00:09:50.700
This is important.
00:09:51.940 --> 00:09:53.279
a firm hand.
00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:55.799
Upon the outer activities.
00:09:57.750 --> 00:09:59.039
Which formed the visible life.
00:09:59.909 --> 00:10:00.509
So let me chop.
00:10:00.570 --> 00:10:00.990
That up.
00:10:01.169 --> 00:10:04.620
If a man cannot govern the forces within himself.
00:10:05.730 --> 00:10:06.600
You're in control.
00:10:06.659 --> 00:10:07.500
Nobody else is.
00:10:07.830 --> 00:10:11.190
If, if you cannot govern the forces within yourself.
00:10:12.179 --> 00:10:14.340
You cannot long hold.
00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:15.389
This is key.
00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:17.100
Long hold.
00:10:18.029 --> 00:10:20.100
Meaning it's a lifestyle.
00:10:21.299 --> 00:10:23.340
This is a forever mindset.
00:10:24.090 --> 00:10:24.509
So long.
00:10:24.539 --> 00:10:24.809
Long haul.
00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:27.809
Because see you can have short term success.
00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:30.480
Yes, you can have these flashes of success.
00:10:30.509 --> 00:10:31.440
You're going to give it all back.
00:10:32.220 --> 00:10:33.809
Because you haven't learned to manage.
00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:34.830
Manage your mind.
00:10:36.049 --> 00:10:39.409
And if you don't manage your mind, Sure.
00:10:39.470 --> 00:10:40.399
It's deceiving.
00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:42.320
You're going to have a little bit of success.
00:10:42.379 --> 00:10:43.309
You're going to give it all back.
00:10:43.340 --> 00:10:44.120
And then some.
00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:46.309
Because you're going to get to sure yourself.
00:10:46.909 --> 00:10:48.740
So if a man can not govern the forces.
00:10:49.009 --> 00:10:49.759
Within himself.
00:10:49.789 --> 00:10:52.309
He cannot long hold a firm.
00:10:52.340 --> 00:10:53.330
From hand.
00:10:53.870 --> 00:10:54.740
I love this.
00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:57.799
You cannot long hold lifestyle.
00:10:58.279 --> 00:10:58.940
Lifetime.
00:10:58.940 --> 00:11:02.809
I'm a firm hand now that's important.
00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:05.539
When you have a firm hand on something.
00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:07.549
You have control of it, right?
00:11:08.539 --> 00:11:09.139
When you have a firm.
00:11:09.139 --> 00:11:10.009
Firm hand on something.
00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:10.519
Something.
00:11:11.419 --> 00:11:11.809
You can steer.
00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.059
Steer it, you can adapt.
00:11:14.509 --> 00:11:15.679
You can adjust.
00:11:16.730 --> 00:11:19.549
And what does it take to have a firm hand?
00:11:21.330 --> 00:11:22.409
an awareness.
00:11:22.980 --> 00:11:24.659
So you can't have just.
00:11:25.490 --> 00:11:27.899
a firm hand and your eyes are closed or drift off?
00:11:27.929 --> 00:11:29.220
No, and that's what we do.
00:11:29.220 --> 00:11:29.490
We.
00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:31.649
We drift off and.
00:11:32.669 --> 00:11:33.929
So many different areas.
00:11:34.289 --> 00:11:36.929
When you have the management of your own mind.
00:11:38.610 --> 00:11:39.690
And you have committed.
00:11:41.129 --> 00:11:43.259
For the long enduring success.
00:11:43.870 --> 00:11:44.830
And you have committed.
00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:46.990
To a lifetime long hold.
00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:48.220
Lifestyle.
00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:51.519
Style and created a lifestyle for your, for your life.
00:11:52.909 --> 00:11:57.950
Then the manifestation of a visible life, that form a visible life.
00:11:58.070 --> 00:11:59.330
Those from the outside.
00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:01.519
That is going to.
00:12:01.549 --> 00:12:01.820
Too.
00:12:01.850 --> 00:12:04.820
I determine if what's manifested.
00:12:06.490 --> 00:12:07.720
So, let me, let me clean that.
00:12:07.750 --> 00:12:07.990
Up.
00:12:09.730 --> 00:12:13.419
If a man cannot govern the forces within himself.
00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:15.519
He cannot long hold.
00:12:16.330 --> 00:12:17.919
Lifestyle lifetime a.
00:12:18.049 --> 00:12:19.840
firm hand steering.
00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:22.450
Awareness.
00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:23.559
Adapt.
00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:24.460
Adjust.
00:12:26.139 --> 00:12:32.049
So if you can't do that, That then you're just going to be a paper bag in the wind, the outer forces are just going to yank.
00:12:32.049 --> 00:12:36.700
Thank you all around, but when you manage your own mind, The outer forces.
00:12:37.779 --> 00:12:38.019
You just.
00:12:38.139 --> 00:12:39.519
Adapt you steer.
00:12:39.700 --> 00:12:40.659
You adjust.
00:12:42.129 --> 00:12:42.519
And when you.
00:12:42.549 --> 00:12:45.250
You do that, it's going to equate and manifest in.
00:12:45.250 --> 00:12:46.090
The visible life.
00:12:47.389 --> 00:12:48.139
Next section.
00:12:48.470 --> 00:12:49.940
On the other hand, this is not.
00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:50.570
A very big.
00:12:50.659 --> 00:12:51.470
Section, it sounds.
00:12:51.500 --> 00:12:51.980
Like it, but.
00:12:52.370 --> 00:12:52.940
On the other hand.
00:12:52.970 --> 00:12:53.330
Hand.
00:12:54.889 --> 00:12:55.940
As a man succeeds.
00:12:55.970 --> 00:12:57.500
As in governant, let me read it all the way through.
00:12:57.500 --> 00:12:59.539
First on the other hand, as a man.
00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:01.730
Succeeds in governing himself.
00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:07.070
He rises to higher and higher levels of power and usefulness.
00:13:07.669 --> 00:13:08.240
And success.
00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:08.929
In the world.
00:13:10.129 --> 00:13:10.970
On the other hand.
00:13:10.970 --> 00:13:14.419
And as a man succeeds.
00:13:15.529 --> 00:13:17.240
As a man succeeds.
00:13:18.500 --> 00:13:19.340
It's a process.
00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:21.440
James Allen wrote as a man thinketh.
00:13:23.149 --> 00:13:25.669
That's a another lifetime book you should read.
00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:27.710
So.
00:13:28.370 --> 00:13:29.570
As a man succeeds.
00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:34.159
Meaning progression, meaning incremental.
00:13:36.049 --> 00:13:36.889
Gradual.
00:13:37.460 --> 00:13:38.750
You're not going to get there overnight.
00:13:39.379 --> 00:13:47.149
So as a man succeeds in governing himself, remember you can't govern other people, you can't govern the economy.
00:13:47.659 --> 00:13:52.429
You can just govern you your mind, what you do.
00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:57.179
When you govern your mind, And you have a firm hand.
00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:00.419
And you're committed to the long haul.
00:14:01.259 --> 00:14:02.639
And this is an enduring.
00:14:03.210 --> 00:14:03.990
Race.
00:14:05.250 --> 00:14:07.559
I don't have to be faster than the next man, bro.
00:14:08.129 --> 00:14:09.659
I just have to endure a longer.
00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:10.559
Right.
00:14:11.009 --> 00:14:11.700
That's all it is.
00:14:11.730 --> 00:14:13.289
This is an endurance race.
00:14:13.860 --> 00:14:14.789
Not a sprint.
00:14:16.269 --> 00:14:21.309
So on the other hand, As a man succeeds in governing himself.
00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:26.679
He rises to higher and higher levels of power.
00:14:27.909 --> 00:14:31.779
see as you, because you have the management of your own mind.
00:14:33.309 --> 00:14:36.220
Then you're going to get an increase in power.
00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:38.980
And usefulness.
00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:39.789
This is key.
00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:41.559
It's one thing to be powerful.
00:14:41.980 --> 00:14:49.659
But see, now that you have the management of your own mind, You become more useful to the world?
00:14:50.350 --> 00:14:51.669
And this is why you succeed.
00:14:53.950 --> 00:14:54.820
Last section.
00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:56.320
Hitherto.
00:14:58.450 --> 00:14:59.620
Meaning until now.
00:14:59.860 --> 00:15:00.730
Hitherto.
00:15:01.629 --> 00:15:02.409
His life.
00:15:03.009 --> 00:15:03.730
Your life.
00:15:04.419 --> 00:15:06.490
Has been without purpose or meaning.
00:15:07.690 --> 00:15:08.679
Up to this point.
00:15:08.889 --> 00:15:10.029
Good news is you can change it.
00:15:11.230 --> 00:15:12.730
So up to this point.
00:15:13.179 --> 00:15:15.309
Your life has been without purpose and meaning.
00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:16.960
But now.
00:15:18.190 --> 00:15:20.200
He begins to consciously.
00:15:21.190 --> 00:15:23.470
And awareness mold.
00:15:24.129 --> 00:15:25.179
His own destiny.
00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:30.700
So you up until now, you've just been a paper bag in the wind.
00:15:31.419 --> 00:15:34.479
You been just yanked all around in that tiresome.
00:15:35.019 --> 00:15:39.039
But now you have the management of your, it starts with your mind.
00:15:39.789 --> 00:15:40.659
So now.
00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:43.719
You have the management of your own mind?
00:15:44.529 --> 00:15:45.879
You can mold.
00:15:46.899 --> 00:15:47.739
Oh, my God.
00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:50.409
You can mold your own destiny.
00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:52.899
And he is clothed.
00:15:53.500 --> 00:15:54.938
Right in his mind.
00:15:54.938 --> 00:15:55.659
Clothing.
00:15:56.528 --> 00:15:58.989
Just think about you put clothes on.
00:15:58.989 --> 00:16:00.100
It's a protection.
00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:01.328
It's a warmth.
00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:02.589
It's a caring for.
00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:04.208
You clothed.
00:16:04.778 --> 00:16:06.850
And when you do that, you're right in your mind.
00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.149
And the ends with, with the practice of self.
00:16:11.479 --> 00:16:15.739
Self-discipline can't read that with the practice of self-discipline.
00:16:16.969 --> 00:16:18.320
Uh, man begins.
00:16:19.729 --> 00:16:20.419
To live.
00:16:23.688 --> 00:16:24.649
Whole new life, bro.
00:16:25.219 --> 00:16:26.029
Whole new life.
00:16:27.049 --> 00:16:28.009
And I'm not talking to you, man.
00:16:28.009 --> 00:16:28.698
I'm talking to me.
00:16:29.989 --> 00:16:32.749
With the practice of self self-discipline.
00:16:33.620 --> 00:16:36.379
Uh, man per game can begin to live.
00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:38.000
Now at the end.
00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:39.889
Almost.
00:16:40.460 --> 00:16:41.688
didn't even write it down.
00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.739
And he says the three stages of self-discipline.
00:16:46.219 --> 00:16:51.350
This is why writing is so key because when you write this in your life, The hell does that mean anyway?
00:16:52.009 --> 00:16:53.330
So we all want more.
00:16:53.330 --> 00:16:54.469
Self-discipline right.
00:16:56.179 --> 00:17:00.769
Three stages of self-discipline control, purification and relinquishment.
00:17:01.789 --> 00:17:04.098
Ah, that's why I was like, all right.
00:17:04.699 --> 00:17:05.598
So then I wrote it.
00:17:05.900 --> 00:17:07.819
Control what is control.
00:17:07.940 --> 00:17:11.420
So the three stages of self-discipline, what is control?
00:17:11.900 --> 00:17:12.739
Control.
00:17:13.940 --> 00:17:15.440
Is restraint.
00:17:16.190 --> 00:17:17.089
Control.
00:17:18.289 --> 00:17:19.519
Is management.
00:17:20.449 --> 00:17:22.219
So you can look at it restraint.
00:17:22.609 --> 00:17:25.309
Okay, maybe more so of management.
00:17:26.059 --> 00:17:27.949
So I'm going to manage what I do.
00:17:27.949 --> 00:17:32.839
I'm going to manage what I think about I'm going to manage what I, my emotions.
00:17:34.130 --> 00:17:36.469
I'm going to, so I have now control of that.
00:17:36.500 --> 00:17:37.638
That's the stages.
00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:40.400
So he stages, you've got to get 1, 2, 3.
00:17:40.940 --> 00:17:43.009
So the first stage is control.
00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:45.799
First thing is man, you got to take control of your mind.
00:17:46.069 --> 00:17:47.239
You got to have that management.
00:17:47.509 --> 00:17:48.409
And that means.
00:17:48.710 --> 00:17:51.138
You're going to have to say no to yourself.
00:17:51.409 --> 00:17:52.279
And to others.
00:17:53.929 --> 00:17:54.980
And to the outside world.
00:17:55.009 --> 00:17:55.549
No.
00:17:57.679 --> 00:18:02.029
The second stage, and then once you get control, that's the second stage purification.
00:18:02.929 --> 00:18:04.159
Purification.
00:18:04.909 --> 00:18:07.159
Means to remove contaminants.
00:18:09.380 --> 00:18:10.339
You got to remove.
00:18:11.630 --> 00:18:14.599
Toxic things out of your life, things that weaken you.
00:18:15.469 --> 00:18:16.519
Know, thyself.
00:18:16.909 --> 00:18:18.138
So the things that.
00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:21.319
are contaminants to your success.
00:18:21.859 --> 00:18:22.549
People.
00:18:23.630 --> 00:18:24.650
Vices.
00:18:27.289 --> 00:18:28.460
You got to sterilize it, man.
00:18:30.059 --> 00:18:33.720
And then when you get to the third stage, which I found was really interesting.
00:18:34.170 --> 00:18:35.519
We love your feedback on it.
00:18:35.569 --> 00:18:36.888
Relinquished means.
00:18:36.888 --> 00:18:37.369
That you.
00:18:37.398 --> 00:18:38.388
cease to keep.
00:18:39.019 --> 00:18:39.888
Our claim.
00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:41.929
To give up.
00:18:43.999 --> 00:18:45.169
And I find that interesting.
00:18:45.619 --> 00:18:49.609
Self-discipline the three stages of self-discipline control.
00:18:49.939 --> 00:18:51.769
First got to take control of your mind.
00:18:52.819 --> 00:18:53.959
You got to have that management.
00:18:54.528 --> 00:18:59.388
Purification removing now that you have control now that you remove.
00:19:00.169 --> 00:19:01.759
The contaminants in your life.
00:19:02.749 --> 00:19:03.888
And then relinquishment.
00:19:04.398 --> 00:19:05.778
It's where you just surrender.
00:19:07.009 --> 00:19:08.209
He sees the claim.
00:19:08.808 --> 00:19:09.558
Others.
00:19:11.329 --> 00:19:12.829
Materialistic things.
00:19:13.489 --> 00:19:15.378
It's not that you can't enjoy those things.
00:19:17.058 --> 00:19:18.288
It's just, you don't.
00:19:19.128 --> 00:19:19.788
They're not.
00:19:21.409 --> 00:19:21.798
They're not.
00:19:21.798 --> 00:19:22.159
you.
00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:25.278
And I think relinquishment.
00:19:26.509 --> 00:19:27.109
When you see.
00:19:27.798 --> 00:19:28.609
To claim it.
00:19:30.349 --> 00:19:31.308
To give up.
00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:33.079
Means you're not.
00:19:33.558 --> 00:19:36.138
Chasing all this superficial bullshit.
00:19:37.069 --> 00:19:39.439
of doing what others told you to do?
00:19:40.189 --> 00:19:44.808
I think this is that surrenders, where it goes more in the spiritual level.
00:19:45.499 --> 00:19:47.148
The surrender goes more.
00:19:48.019 --> 00:19:48.378
It's more.
00:19:48.409 --> 00:19:48.888
intimate.
00:19:49.609 --> 00:19:50.808
Some more inside.
00:19:51.589 --> 00:19:53.119
And when you surrender that.
00:19:53.689 --> 00:19:55.249
Doesn't really matter.
00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:57.169
What pops up.
00:19:57.558 --> 00:19:58.638
What comes up.
00:19:59.419 --> 00:20:00.829
What everybody else is doing.
00:20:04.878 --> 00:20:05.388
It doesn't.
00:20:07.548 --> 00:20:10.249
Because the only thing I'm responsible for is me.
00:20:12.048 --> 00:20:12.499
And.
00:20:13.939 --> 00:20:15.528
Becoming a success.
00:20:17.269 --> 00:20:18.919
Where I become more useful.
00:20:20.959 --> 00:20:21.739
To the world.
00:20:22.909 --> 00:20:25.009
But I can't be useful to others.
00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:29.359
If I'm not first purposeful.
00:20:30.349 --> 00:20:31.308
For myself.
00:20:33.798 --> 00:20:34.788
I got to take control.
00:20:34.788 --> 00:20:36.709
Uh, management.
00:20:37.729 --> 00:20:38.419
You do that?
00:20:39.329 --> 00:20:41.430
Become a person of self-discipline.
00:20:42.420 --> 00:20:43.170
Control.
00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:45.240
What is it?
00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:47.519
Control.
00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:49.589
Purification.
00:20:50.940 --> 00:20:52.740
Relinquishment control.
00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:53.878
Management.
00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:56.829
Purification.
00:20:57.549 --> 00:20:58.930
Remove the contaminants.
00:21:00.069 --> 00:21:00.819
Purified.
00:21:01.089 --> 00:21:02.019
Not that you're perfect.
00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:05.410
Just remove the things that you can remove out of your life.
00:21:06.250 --> 00:21:12.069
And then work towards some of the other things that need to be, it might not be over over night, but it can be over time.
00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:13.359
Remove the contaminants.
00:21:14.059 --> 00:21:15.049
And then relinquishment.
00:21:16.339 --> 00:21:16.970
Surrender.
00:21:18.019 --> 00:21:19.670
Let God do his thing in your life.
00:21:20.420 --> 00:21:21.289
That's what it is, man.
00:21:22.250 --> 00:21:23.720
So this is the.
00:21:24.380 --> 00:21:25.099
This is really deep.
00:21:28.369 --> 00:21:29.210
What's your take on it.
00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:30.259
I'd love to hear from you.
00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:36.859
Um, hit me up on all the socials are you can DM me marshbuice.com and the bottom right.
00:21:36.859 --> 00:21:37.940
Is a mic from you to me.
00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:38.750
Let me.
00:21:38.750 --> 00:21:40.190
know what you think on this.
00:21:40.670 --> 00:21:41.569
And what's your take.
00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:42.980
I'd love to hear you.
00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:47.029
You may, you may see this, write this down and have a totally different take.
00:21:47.750 --> 00:21:48.230
On.
00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:51.380
What you, how you interpret this would.
00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:52.910
Years in wrong.
00:21:53.630 --> 00:21:55.069
Mine's not necessarily right.
00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:55.970
It's right.
00:21:55.970 --> 00:21:56.480
for me.
00:21:56.539 --> 00:21:57.559
That's how I interpret it.
00:21:57.650 --> 00:21:58.789
And I want to share it with you.
00:21:59.329 --> 00:21:59.539
All right.
00:21:59.539 --> 00:22:00.109
Let's get out of here.
00:22:00.140 --> 00:22:00.829
Keep it simple.
00:22:00.859 --> 00:22:01.490
Keep it moving.
00:22:01.490 --> 00:22:02.000
Never settle.
00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:02.819
Stay tough peace
00:00:00.630 --> 00:00:00.868
All right.
00:00:00.868 --> 00:00:02.008
3, 2, 1, let's get it.
00:00:03.149 --> 00:00:04.349
I want to read to you.
00:00:05.330 --> 00:00:09.378
What I read this morning from James B.
00:00:09.378 --> 00:00:10.099
Allen.
00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:13.308
Uh, his book of meditations.
00:00:13.968 --> 00:00:16.309
Uh, let me see if I can get to the cover of it here.
00:00:19.189 --> 00:00:22.399
Hopefully you can see that James Allen book of meditations.
00:00:23.210 --> 00:00:23.809
And.
00:00:24.469 --> 00:00:30.018
You know, I like to read in the mornings, I like to read Tolstoy and these are just little short snippets.
00:00:30.109 --> 00:00:31.820
And I actually read a day ahead.
00:00:31.850 --> 00:00:33.439
This was actually for.
00:00:34.250 --> 00:00:41.929
Uh, tomorrow, but it's funny how God works because sometimes it's just exactly what I need for that day.
00:00:41.929 --> 00:00:43.159
So let me read it to you.
00:00:44.390 --> 00:00:49.698
And let me stress to you too, that there are going to be times that you read something.
00:00:50.249 --> 00:00:52.469
But it's a whole different level.
00:00:52.948 --> 00:00:55.948
When you began to write it out.
00:00:56.939 --> 00:00:58.048
It's a whole different thing.
00:00:58.558 --> 00:01:03.149
Because writing the long form, not typing it, writing it.
00:01:04.019 --> 00:01:09.118
Causes you to have to form the letters that equate to the word.
00:01:09.810 --> 00:01:11.340
But I don't know, man.
00:01:11.340 --> 00:01:13.500
It's, it's hard to explain.
00:01:13.500 --> 00:01:18.959
You can only experience it, but when you start writing that and you're focused on what you're writing.
00:01:19.679 --> 00:01:21.868
It really, your mind begins to.
00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:25.049
Kind of swirl this thought around.
00:01:25.888 --> 00:01:28.888
And it begins to create a deeper meaning for you.
00:01:28.888 --> 00:01:32.909
So I would tell you, this is why I say you should write one page every day.
00:01:34.948 --> 00:01:40.888
I'm telling you it'll change your whole life because it begins to shape your perspective.
00:01:41.549 --> 00:01:43.168
So, let me read to you.
00:01:44.189 --> 00:01:47.578
And again, I just thought when I was reading this.
00:01:48.060 --> 00:01:48.868
I thought.
00:01:49.769 --> 00:01:52.828
Man that's, that's something to just put down in my journal.
00:01:52.828 --> 00:01:54.120
I keep two different.
00:01:55.259 --> 00:01:57.388
Uh, No pads with me.
00:01:57.388 --> 00:01:58.108
I keep one.
00:01:58.108 --> 00:01:59.189
That's a legal pad.
00:01:59.189 --> 00:02:02.849
That's how write for the podcast.
00:02:03.299 --> 00:02:08.729
But then there's another journal that I keep and that's the more intimate side of it.
00:02:09.090 --> 00:02:14.430
And so it's just, it's that's for me, it's not for publishing or anything like that.
00:02:14.909 --> 00:02:18.479
And so I read this passage and I said, you know what?
00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:26.549
Let me just jot this down in my journal, because I was going to go on to write something else, but something magical happens.
00:02:27.180 --> 00:02:33.389
Again, I've been doing this since 2017, just really, probably 2016.
00:02:34.169 --> 00:02:36.180
Really just writing long form.
00:02:38.099 --> 00:02:40.469
Um, so, um, a little more.
00:02:41.009 --> 00:02:42.389
Receptive now.
00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:44.729
As a, as I write these things.
00:02:44.789 --> 00:02:46.949
So let me read it to you enough about all that.
00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:55.099
So, this is what James Allen wrote Well, let me read through all the way, and then I want to come back around.
00:02:55.759 --> 00:02:57.259
And kind of chop it back up.
00:02:58.209 --> 00:03:03.099
Here's what he writes before a man can accomplish anything of enduring nature in the world.
00:03:03.849 --> 00:03:08.919
He must, first of all, acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.
00:03:10.030 --> 00:03:15.849
This is a mathematical truism, meaning"duh" this is a mathematical truism.
00:03:16.419 --> 00:03:16.870
That.
00:03:17.590 --> 00:03:19.120
As that two and two or four.
00:03:20.370 --> 00:03:22.960
for out of the heart or the issues of life.
00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:33.099
If a man cannot govern the forces within himself, he cannot long hold a firm hand upon the outer activities, which form of visible life.
00:03:33.849 --> 00:03:43.240
Now on the other hand, as a man succeeds in governing himself, he arises to higher and higher levels of power and usefulness and success.
00:03:43.990 --> 00:03:44.799
In the world.
00:03:45.459 --> 00:03:48.549
Hitherto which means until now.
00:03:48.939 --> 00:03:53.379
Hitherto his life has been without purpose or meaning.
00:03:54.009 --> 00:03:58.028
But now he begins to cautiously mold his own destiny.
00:03:58.419 --> 00:04:03.579
He is clothed and in his right mind with the practice of self-discipline.
00:04:04.329 --> 00:04:05.829
Uh, man begins to live.
00:04:07.750 --> 00:04:11.110
So let's unpack that and that's all fine and good.
00:04:11.139 --> 00:04:21.040
And I, but I'm telling you, like, if you want to I'll, um, I'll post this quote in the, um, In the bio of this week's episode.
00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:27.040
So that way, if you want to copy it and write it, and then I will tell you, write it long form, if you would.
00:04:27.069 --> 00:04:34.750
I think this practice will, as I said, just a second ago, I think it's going to, I think it's going to be a game changer for you.
00:04:35.170 --> 00:04:40.810
So, let me, let me chop this up because this is what I do is, is, is I write in blocks.
00:04:40.870 --> 00:04:42.279
So I get to a part.
00:04:42.730 --> 00:04:46.509
Uh, section and I stopped there and then I just kind of riff on.
00:04:47.290 --> 00:04:50.050
That section and then go to, to the next section.
00:04:50.769 --> 00:05:05.079
So the first section that I wrote down before man can accomplish anything of enduring nature, underlying that, anything of an enduring nature, meaning that this is something endurance is something for long-term right.
00:05:05.500 --> 00:05:12.579
So before a man can accomplish anything of enduring forever lifestyle.
00:05:12.850 --> 00:05:14.589
And during nature in the world.
00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:20.589
He must, first of all, acquire some measure of success in the management.
00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:22.360
Of his own mind.
00:05:23.889 --> 00:05:25.959
Success begins.
00:05:26.468 --> 00:05:27.158
In the mind.
00:05:27.699 --> 00:05:32.199
And you can sit there and, well, let me just take me.
00:05:32.468 --> 00:05:35.050
I can sit here and preach to the world.
00:05:35.350 --> 00:05:39.040
I could sit here and tell everybody how they should do things.
00:05:40.060 --> 00:05:42.879
But I will never have enduring success.
00:05:43.569 --> 00:05:44.800
If I don't first.
00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:46.569
Manage my own mind.
00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:49.240
That's the first thing you got to do.
00:05:49.540 --> 00:05:52.629
None of that other stuff even matters out there.
00:05:53.290 --> 00:05:54.730
It's all superficial.
00:05:56.050 --> 00:06:01.870
So, if you want to acquire some measure of success, enduring success.
00:06:03.310 --> 00:06:04.839
Then you have to first.
00:06:06.290 --> 00:06:07.220
Acquire.
00:06:07.550 --> 00:06:08.449
Some measure.
00:06:09.230 --> 00:06:10.339
I liked that word.
00:06:10.490 --> 00:06:11.569
Some measure.
00:06:12.050 --> 00:06:14.300
Meaning, you don't have to have it all together.
00:06:14.449 --> 00:06:18.980
You're not going to have it all together, but you must acquire some measure.
00:06:19.250 --> 00:06:20.990
Mean incrementally.
00:06:22.250 --> 00:06:23.089
Moving up.
00:06:23.750 --> 00:06:27.769
Getting better, some measure of success.
00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:29.449
In the management.
00:06:30.379 --> 00:06:31.250
Of your own mind.
00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:33.399
Next section.
00:06:35.259 --> 00:06:37.029
This is a mathematical.
00:06:37.930 --> 00:06:38.649
Truism.
00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:41.680
Truism is like, duh.
00:06:42.129 --> 00:06:43.480
Like everybody knows that.
00:06:43.689 --> 00:06:44.649
If you're going to succeed.
00:06:45.009 --> 00:06:46.480
You guys succeed in your own mind?
00:06:47.350 --> 00:06:49.120
But here's what's key.
00:06:49.180 --> 00:06:52.629
This is a mathematical truism.
00:06:53.649 --> 00:06:55.990
The mathematical part is.
00:06:56.649 --> 00:06:58.569
Any sort of success.
00:07:01.089 --> 00:07:02.290
Is should be.
00:07:02.649 --> 00:07:03.639
It's gotta be counted.
00:07:04.269 --> 00:07:06.670
Everything counts, literally everything counts.
00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:08.769
So the more that you track.
00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:10.329
And count.
00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:13.000
In every area of your life.
00:07:16.060 --> 00:07:18.100
Then you have an awareness.
00:07:19.689 --> 00:07:21.220
And you can steer.
00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:23.259
The course of your life.
00:07:23.949 --> 00:07:30.490
And if you think about all of the slips in your life, Let me just take my bankruptcy.
00:07:30.970 --> 00:07:32.170
Way back in the days.
00:07:33.189 --> 00:07:34.899
When I bankrupted, I stopped counting.
00:07:36.100 --> 00:07:37.209
I didn't have an awareness.
00:07:37.420 --> 00:07:39.850
So I was letting my emotions.
00:07:40.509 --> 00:07:43.000
Just kind of go with the flow.
00:07:43.779 --> 00:07:51.579
And anything, if you lack the numbers, if you don't know your numbers, You can't incrementally gain.
00:07:51.610 --> 00:07:54.939
You're going to let your emotions govern you and your emotions.
00:07:55.529 --> 00:07:56.800
are going to take you down every single.
00:07:56.860 --> 00:07:57.279
Time.
00:07:57.610 --> 00:08:02.620
So back to James Allen, this is a mathematical truism.
00:08:02.649 --> 00:08:03.129
Remember.
00:08:03.129 --> 00:08:05.620
A success in every area of your life is numbers.
00:08:06.660 --> 00:08:08.129
Is that two and two are four?
00:08:08.629 --> 00:08:10.529
for out of the heart or the issues.
00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:11.129
Of life.
00:08:11.339 --> 00:08:17.100
Now we hear that we've heard that forever out of the heart or the issues of life.
00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:18.600
The heart.
00:08:19.290 --> 00:08:20.519
Is the mind.
00:08:21.540 --> 00:08:22.019
Okay.
00:08:22.379 --> 00:08:23.639
The heart is the mind.
00:08:24.779 --> 00:08:28.379
So that's the, the, your mind is the governing force.
00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:30.420
It's the center of it all.
00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.298
So when you go back.
00:08:33.330 --> 00:08:34.470
Back to the first section.
00:08:35.308 --> 00:08:37.139
When you have management.
00:08:38.370 --> 00:08:40.470
You're not renting it out to social media.
00:08:40.470 --> 00:08:41.700
You're not renting it out.
00:08:41.730 --> 00:08:42.298
Out to.
00:08:42.330 --> 00:08:45.899
To someone you're running behind, you're not renting it out.
00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:46.830
To toxic.
00:08:46.860 --> 00:08:48.509
People you're not renting it out.
00:08:49.500 --> 00:08:50.580
To your employer.
00:08:51.029 --> 00:08:52.200
You have the management.
00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:52.529
Of your.
00:08:52.529 --> 00:08:52.980
Your own mind.
00:08:53.009 --> 00:08:53.700
So when.
00:08:54.690 --> 00:08:57.299
You're the owner and you're managing your own mind.
00:08:57.330 --> 00:08:57.779
Mind.
00:08:58.019 --> 00:09:00.029
out of the heart.
00:09:00.029 --> 00:09:01.710
Heart or the issues of life.
00:09:02.820 --> 00:09:04.049
Your management.
00:09:04.590 --> 00:09:06.029
You're governing center.
00:09:07.870 --> 00:09:08.110
All.
00:09:08.139 --> 00:09:09.039
Of your issues.
00:09:10.789 --> 00:09:11.110
are due.
00:09:11.139 --> 00:09:11.830
You too.
00:09:12.340 --> 00:09:13.210
Poor management.
00:09:14.500 --> 00:09:15.460
Or tight management.
00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:17.399
Where are you right now?
00:09:18.029 --> 00:09:18.840
And it could be.
00:09:19.289 --> 00:09:20.009
A subsection.
00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.289
in your life there could be.
00:09:22.769 --> 00:09:23.610
You know, things could.
00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:25.830
I'd be 80%, right.
00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:27.240
But.
00:09:27.269 --> 00:09:28.649
You had that 20%.
00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:32.019
That you gotta, you gotta get control of again.
00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.200
Again, some measure of control.
00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:34.690
remember.
00:09:35.190 --> 00:09:36.809
It's all incremental and that's.
00:09:36.870 --> 00:09:37.440
What it is.
00:09:38.669 --> 00:09:39.210
So out of the heart.
00:09:39.269 --> 00:09:40.379
What are the issues of life?
00:09:40.409 --> 00:09:41.610
If a man can not back.
00:09:41.669 --> 00:09:42.509
To James Allen, if.
00:09:42.539 --> 00:09:46.110
If a man, can I govern the forces within himself?
00:09:47.070 --> 00:09:49.019
He cannot long hold.
00:09:49.889 --> 00:09:50.700
This is important.
00:09:51.940 --> 00:09:53.279
a firm hand.
00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:55.799
Upon the outer activities.
00:09:57.750 --> 00:09:59.039
Which formed the visible life.
00:09:59.909 --> 00:10:00.509
So let me chop.
00:10:00.570 --> 00:10:00.990
That up.
00:10:01.169 --> 00:10:04.620
If a man cannot govern the forces within himself.
00:10:05.730 --> 00:10:06.600
You're in control.
00:10:06.659 --> 00:10:07.500
Nobody else is.
00:10:07.830 --> 00:10:11.190
If, if you cannot govern the forces within yourself.
00:10:12.179 --> 00:10:14.340
You cannot long hold.
00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:15.389
This is key.
00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:17.100
Long hold.
00:10:18.029 --> 00:10:20.100
Meaning it's a lifestyle.
00:10:21.299 --> 00:10:23.340
This is a forever mindset.
00:10:24.090 --> 00:10:24.509
So long.
00:10:24.539 --> 00:10:24.809
Long haul.
00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:27.809
Because see you can have short term success.
00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:30.480
Yes, you can have these flashes of success.
00:10:30.509 --> 00:10:31.440
You're going to give it all back.
00:10:32.220 --> 00:10:33.809
Because you haven't learned to manage.
00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:34.830
Manage your mind.
00:10:36.049 --> 00:10:39.409
And if you don't manage your mind, Sure.
00:10:39.470 --> 00:10:40.399
It's deceiving.
00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:42.320
You're going to have a little bit of success.
00:10:42.379 --> 00:10:43.309
You're going to give it all back.
00:10:43.340 --> 00:10:44.120
And then some.
00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:46.309
Because you're going to get to sure yourself.
00:10:46.909 --> 00:10:48.740
So if a man can not govern the forces.
00:10:49.009 --> 00:10:49.759
Within himself.
00:10:49.789 --> 00:10:52.309
He cannot long hold a firm.
00:10:52.340 --> 00:10:53.330
From hand.
00:10:53.870 --> 00:10:54.740
I love this.
00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:57.799
You cannot long hold lifestyle.
00:10:58.279 --> 00:10:58.940
Lifetime.
00:10:58.940 --> 00:11:02.809
I'm a firm hand now that's important.
00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:05.539
When you have a firm hand on something.
00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:07.549
You have control of it, right?
00:11:08.539 --> 00:11:09.139
When you have a firm.
00:11:09.139 --> 00:11:10.009
Firm hand on something.
00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:10.519
Something.
00:11:11.419 --> 00:11:11.809
You can steer.
00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.059
Steer it, you can adapt.
00:11:14.509 --> 00:11:15.679
You can adjust.
00:11:16.730 --> 00:11:19.549
And what does it take to have a firm hand?
00:11:21.330 --> 00:11:22.409
an awareness.
00:11:22.980 --> 00:11:24.659
So you can't have just.
00:11:25.490 --> 00:11:27.899
a firm hand and your eyes are closed or drift off?
00:11:27.929 --> 00:11:29.220
No, and that's what we do.
00:11:29.220 --> 00:11:29.490
We.
00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:31.649
We drift off and.
00:11:32.669 --> 00:11:33.929
So many different areas.
00:11:34.289 --> 00:11:36.929
When you have the management of your own mind.
00:11:38.610 --> 00:11:39.690
And you have committed.
00:11:41.129 --> 00:11:43.259
For the long enduring success.
00:11:43.870 --> 00:11:44.830
And you have committed.
00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:46.990
To a lifetime long hold.
00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:48.220
Lifestyle.
00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:51.519
Style and created a lifestyle for your, for your life.
00:11:52.909 --> 00:11:57.950
Then the manifestation of a visible life, that form a visible life.
00:11:58.070 --> 00:11:59.330
Those from the outside.
00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:01.519
That is going to.
00:12:01.549 --> 00:12:01.820
Too.
00:12:01.850 --> 00:12:04.820
I determine if what's manifested.
00:12:06.490 --> 00:12:07.720
So, let me, let me clean that.
00:12:07.750 --> 00:12:07.990
Up.
00:12:09.730 --> 00:12:13.419
If a man cannot govern the forces within himself.
00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:15.519
He cannot long hold.
00:12:16.330 --> 00:12:17.919
Lifestyle lifetime a.
00:12:18.049 --> 00:12:19.840
firm hand steering.
00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:22.450
Awareness.
00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:23.559
Adapt.
00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:24.460
Adjust.
00:12:26.139 --> 00:12:32.049
So if you can't do that, That then you're just going to be a paper bag in the wind, the outer forces are just going to yank.
00:12:32.049 --> 00:12:36.700
Thank you all around, but when you manage your own mind, The outer forces.
00:12:37.779 --> 00:12:38.019
You just.
00:12:38.139 --> 00:12:39.519
Adapt you steer.
00:12:39.700 --> 00:12:40.659
You adjust.
00:12:42.129 --> 00:12:42.519
And when you.
00:12:42.549 --> 00:12:45.250
You do that, it's going to equate and manifest in.
00:12:45.250 --> 00:12:46.090
The visible life.
00:12:47.389 --> 00:12:48.139
Next section.
00:12:48.470 --> 00:12:49.940
On the other hand, this is not.
00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:50.570
A very big.
00:12:50.659 --> 00:12:51.470
Section, it sounds.
00:12:51.500 --> 00:12:51.980
Like it, but.
00:12:52.370 --> 00:12:52.940
On the other hand.
00:12:52.970 --> 00:12:53.330
Hand.
00:12:54.889 --> 00:12:55.940
As a man succeeds.
00:12:55.970 --> 00:12:57.500
As in governant, let me read it all the way through.
00:12:57.500 --> 00:12:59.539
First on the other hand, as a man.
00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:01.730
Succeeds in governing himself.
00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:07.070
He rises to higher and higher levels of power and usefulness.
00:13:07.669 --> 00:13:08.240
And success.
00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:08.929
In the world.
00:13:10.129 --> 00:13:10.970
On the other hand.
00:13:10.970 --> 00:13:14.419
And as a man succeeds.
00:13:15.529 --> 00:13:17.240
As a man succeeds.
00:13:18.500 --> 00:13:19.340
It's a process.
00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:21.440
James Allen wrote as a man thinketh.
00:13:23.149 --> 00:13:25.669
That's a another lifetime book you should read.
00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:27.710
So.
00:13:28.370 --> 00:13:29.570
As a man succeeds.
00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:34.159
Meaning progression, meaning incremental.
00:13:36.049 --> 00:13:36.889
Gradual.
00:13:37.460 --> 00:13:38.750
You're not going to get there overnight.
00:13:39.379 --> 00:13:47.149
So as a man succeeds in governing himself, remember you can't govern other people, you can't govern the economy.
00:13:47.659 --> 00:13:52.429
You can just govern you your mind, what you do.
00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:57.179
When you govern your mind, And you have a firm hand.
00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:00.419
And you're committed to the long haul.
00:14:01.259 --> 00:14:02.639
And this is an enduring.
00:14:03.210 --> 00:14:03.990
Race.
00:14:05.250 --> 00:14:07.559
I don't have to be faster than the next man, bro.
00:14:08.129 --> 00:14:09.659
I just have to endure a longer.
00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:10.559
Right.
00:14:11.009 --> 00:14:11.700
That's all it is.
00:14:11.730 --> 00:14:13.289
This is an endurance race.
00:14:13.860 --> 00:14:14.789
Not a sprint.
00:14:16.269 --> 00:14:21.309
So on the other hand, As a man succeeds in governing himself.
00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:26.679
He rises to higher and higher levels of power.
00:14:27.909 --> 00:14:31.779
see as you, because you have the management of your own mind.
00:14:33.309 --> 00:14:36.220
Then you're going to get an increase in power.
00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:38.980
And usefulness.
00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:39.789
This is key.
00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:41.559
It's one thing to be powerful.
00:14:41.980 --> 00:14:49.659
But see, now that you have the management of your own mind, You become more useful to the world?
00:14:50.350 --> 00:14:51.669
And this is why you succeed.
00:14:53.950 --> 00:14:54.820
Last section.
00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:56.320
Hitherto.
00:14:58.450 --> 00:14:59.620
Meaning until now.
00:14:59.860 --> 00:15:00.730
Hitherto.
00:15:01.629 --> 00:15:02.409
His life.
00:15:03.009 --> 00:15:03.730
Your life.
00:15:04.419 --> 00:15:06.490
Has been without purpose or meaning.
00:15:07.690 --> 00:15:08.679
Up to this point.
00:15:08.889 --> 00:15:10.029
Good news is you can change it.
00:15:11.230 --> 00:15:12.730
So up to this point.
00:15:13.179 --> 00:15:15.309
Your life has been without purpose and meaning.
00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:16.960
But now.
00:15:18.190 --> 00:15:20.200
He begins to consciously.
00:15:21.190 --> 00:15:23.470
And awareness mold.
00:15:24.129 --> 00:15:25.179
His own destiny.
00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:30.700
So you up until now, you've just been a paper bag in the wind.
00:15:31.419 --> 00:15:34.479
You been just yanked all around in that tiresome.
00:15:35.019 --> 00:15:39.039
But now you have the management of your, it starts with your mind.
00:15:39.789 --> 00:15:40.659
So now.
00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:43.719
You have the management of your own mind?
00:15:44.529 --> 00:15:45.879
You can mold.
00:15:46.899 --> 00:15:47.739
Oh, my God.
00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:50.409
You can mold your own destiny.
00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:52.899
And he is clothed.
00:15:53.500 --> 00:15:54.938
Right in his mind.
00:15:54.938 --> 00:15:55.659
Clothing.
00:15:56.528 --> 00:15:58.989
Just think about you put clothes on.
00:15:58.989 --> 00:16:00.100
It's a protection.
00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:01.328
It's a warmth.
00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:02.589
It's a caring for.
00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:04.208
You clothed.
00:16:04.778 --> 00:16:06.850
And when you do that, you're right in your mind.
00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.149
And the ends with, with the practice of self.
00:16:11.479 --> 00:16:15.739
Self-discipline can't read that with the practice of self-discipline.
00:16:16.969 --> 00:16:18.320
Uh, man begins.
00:16:19.729 --> 00:16:20.419
To live.
00:16:23.688 --> 00:16:24.649
Whole new life, bro.
00:16:25.219 --> 00:16:26.029
Whole new life.
00:16:27.049 --> 00:16:28.009
And I'm not talking to you, man.
00:16:28.009 --> 00:16:28.698
I'm talking to me.
00:16:29.989 --> 00:16:32.749
With the practice of self self-discipline.
00:16:33.620 --> 00:16:36.379
Uh, man per game can begin to live.
00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:38.000
Now at the end.
00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:39.889
Almost.
00:16:40.460 --> 00:16:41.688
didn't even write it down.
00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.739
And he says the three stages of self-discipline.
00:16:46.219 --> 00:16:51.350
This is why writing is so key because when you write this in your life, The hell does that mean anyway?
00:16:52.009 --> 00:16:53.330
So we all want more.
00:16:53.330 --> 00:16:54.469
Self-discipline right.
00:16:56.179 --> 00:17:00.769
Three stages of self-discipline control, purification and relinquishment.
00:17:01.789 --> 00:17:04.098
Ah, that's why I was like, all right.
00:17:04.699 --> 00:17:05.598
So then I wrote it.
00:17:05.900 --> 00:17:07.819
Control what is control.
00:17:07.940 --> 00:17:11.420
So the three stages of self-discipline, what is control?
00:17:11.900 --> 00:17:12.739
Control.
00:17:13.940 --> 00:17:15.440
Is restraint.
00:17:16.190 --> 00:17:17.089
Control.
00:17:18.289 --> 00:17:19.519
Is management.
00:17:20.449 --> 00:17:22.219
So you can look at it restraint.
00:17:22.609 --> 00:17:25.309
Okay, maybe more so of management.
00:17:26.059 --> 00:17:27.949
So I'm going to manage what I do.
00:17:27.949 --> 00:17:32.839
I'm going to manage what I think about I'm going to manage what I, my emotions.
00:17:34.130 --> 00:17:36.469
I'm going to, so I have now control of that.
00:17:36.500 --> 00:17:37.638
That's the stages.
00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:40.400
So he stages, you've got to get 1, 2, 3.
00:17:40.940 --> 00:17:43.009
So the first stage is control.
00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:45.799
First thing is man, you got to take control of your mind.
00:17:46.069 --> 00:17:47.239
You got to have that management.
00:17:47.509 --> 00:17:48.409
And that means.
00:17:48.710 --> 00:17:51.138
You're going to have to say no to yourself.
00:17:51.409 --> 00:17:52.279
And to others.
00:17:53.929 --> 00:17:54.980
And to the outside world.
00:17:55.009 --> 00:17:55.549
No.
00:17:57.679 --> 00:18:02.029
The second stage, and then once you get control, that's the second stage purification.
00:18:02.929 --> 00:18:04.159
Purification.
00:18:04.909 --> 00:18:07.159
Means to remove contaminants.
00:18:09.380 --> 00:18:10.339
You got to remove.
00:18:11.630 --> 00:18:14.599
Toxic things out of your life, things that weaken you.
00:18:15.469 --> 00:18:16.519
Know, thyself.
00:18:16.909 --> 00:18:18.138
So the things that.
00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:21.319
are contaminants to your success.
00:18:21.859 --> 00:18:22.549
People.
00:18:23.630 --> 00:18:24.650
Vices.
00:18:27.289 --> 00:18:28.460
You got to sterilize it, man.
00:18:30.059 --> 00:18:33.720
And then when you get to the third stage, which I found was really interesting.
00:18:34.170 --> 00:18:35.519
We love your feedback on it.
00:18:35.569 --> 00:18:36.888
Relinquished means.
00:18:36.888 --> 00:18:37.369
That you.
00:18:37.398 --> 00:18:38.388
cease to keep.
00:18:39.019 --> 00:18:39.888
Our claim.
00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:41.929
To give up.
00:18:43.999 --> 00:18:45.169
And I find that interesting.
00:18:45.619 --> 00:18:49.609
Self-discipline the three stages of self-discipline control.
00:18:49.939 --> 00:18:51.769
First got to take control of your mind.
00:18:52.819 --> 00:18:53.959
You got to have that management.
00:18:54.528 --> 00:18:59.388
Purification removing now that you have control now that you remove.
00:19:00.169 --> 00:19:01.759
The contaminants in your life.
00:19:02.749 --> 00:19:03.888
And then relinquishment.
00:19:04.398 --> 00:19:05.778
It's where you just surrender.
00:19:07.009 --> 00:19:08.209
He sees the claim.
00:19:08.808 --> 00:19:09.558
Others.
00:19:11.329 --> 00:19:12.829
Materialistic things.
00:19:13.489 --> 00:19:15.378
It's not that you can't enjoy those things.
00:19:17.058 --> 00:19:18.288
It's just, you don't.
00:19:19.128 --> 00:19:19.788
They're not.
00:19:21.409 --> 00:19:21.798
They're not.
00:19:21.798 --> 00:19:22.159
you.
00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:25.278
And I think relinquishment.
00:19:26.509 --> 00:19:27.109
When you see.
00:19:27.798 --> 00:19:28.609
To claim it.
00:19:30.349 --> 00:19:31.308
To give up.
00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:33.079
Means you're not.
00:19:33.558 --> 00:19:36.138
Chasing all this superficial bullshit.
00:19:37.069 --> 00:19:39.439
of doing what others told you to do?
00:19:40.189 --> 00:19:44.808
I think this is that surrenders, where it goes more in the spiritual level.
00:19:45.499 --> 00:19:47.148
The surrender goes more.
00:19:48.019 --> 00:19:48.378
It's more.
00:19:48.409 --> 00:19:48.888
intimate.
00:19:49.609 --> 00:19:50.808
Some more inside.
00:19:51.589 --> 00:19:53.119
And when you surrender that.
00:19:53.689 --> 00:19:55.249
Doesn't really matter.
00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:57.169
What pops up.
00:19:57.558 --> 00:19:58.638
What comes up.
00:19:59.419 --> 00:20:00.829
What everybody else is doing.
00:20:04.878 --> 00:20:05.388
It doesn't.
00:20:07.548 --> 00:20:10.249
Because the only thing I'm responsible for is me.
00:20:12.048 --> 00:20:12.499
And.
00:20:13.939 --> 00:20:15.528
Becoming a success.
00:20:17.269 --> 00:20:18.919
Where I become more useful.
00:20:20.959 --> 00:20:21.739
To the world.
00:20:22.909 --> 00:20:25.009
But I can't be useful to others.
00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:29.359
If I'm not first purposeful.
00:20:30.349 --> 00:20:31.308
For myself.
00:20:33.798 --> 00:20:34.788
I got to take control.
00:20:34.788 --> 00:20:36.709
Uh, management.
00:20:37.729 --> 00:20:38.419
You do that?
00:20:39.329 --> 00:20:41.430
Become a person of self-discipline.
00:20:42.420 --> 00:20:43.170
Control.
00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:45.240
What is it?
00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:47.519
Control.
00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:49.589
Purification.
00:20:50.940 --> 00:20:52.740
Relinquishment control.
00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:53.878
Management.
00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:56.829
Purification.
00:20:57.549 --> 00:20:58.930
Remove the contaminants.
00:21:00.069 --> 00:21:00.819
Purified.
00:21:01.089 --> 00:21:02.019
Not that you're perfect.
00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:05.410
Just remove the things that you can remove out of your life.
00:21:06.250 --> 00:21:12.069
And then work towards some of the other things that need to be, it might not be over over night, but it can be over time.
00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:13.359
Remove the contaminants.
00:21:14.059 --> 00:21:15.049
And then relinquishment.
00:21:16.339 --> 00:21:16.970
Surrender.
00:21:18.019 --> 00:21:19.670
Let God do his thing in your life.
00:21:20.420 --> 00:21:21.289
That's what it is, man.
00:21:22.250 --> 00:21:23.720
So this is the.
00:21:24.380 --> 00:21:25.099
This is really deep.
00:21:28.369 --> 00:21:29.210
What's your take on it.
00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:30.259
I'd love to hear from you.
00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:36.859
Um, hit me up on all the socials are you can DM me marshbuice.com and the bottom right.
00:21:36.859 --> 00:21:37.940
Is a mic from you to me.
00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:38.750
Let me.
00:21:38.750 --> 00:21:40.190
know what you think on this.
00:21:40.670 --> 00:21:41.569
And what's your take.
00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:42.980
I'd love to hear you.
00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:47.029
You may, you may see this, write this down and have a totally different take.
00:21:47.750 --> 00:21:48.230
On.
00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:51.380
What you, how you interpret this would.
00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:52.910
Years in wrong.
00:21:53.630 --> 00:21:55.069
Mine's not necessarily right.
00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:55.970
It's right.
00:21:55.970 --> 00:21:56.480
for me.
00:21:56.539 --> 00:21:57.559
That's how I interpret it.
00:21:57.650 --> 00:21:58.789
And I want to share it with you.
00:21:59.329 --> 00:21:59.539
All right.
00:21:59.539 --> 00:22:00.109
Let's get out of here.
00:22:00.140 --> 00:22:00.829
Keep it simple.
00:22:00.859 --> 00:22:01.490
Keep it moving.
00:22:01.490 --> 00:22:02.000
Never settle.
00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:02.819
Stay tough peace