What is better self-discipline or obsession?

 

I wanted to help a woman who needed success, and she was struggling with self-discipline.

I asked her, "Why don't you choose something you're passionate about?"

And she said, "That doesn't work out."

I said, "When I write a book, I can write anywhere—even at a noisy train station, a bus terminal, or in freezing temperatures. I don't care, because I want to write that book."

But then you don't have it under your control? I don't need to. I need to be relaxed and in the flow; then I can ignore everything. I proved this again yesterday, and it was so noisy.

People think they need a perfect meditation room to meditate. What nonsense. If you cannot meditate right now, you cannot meditate at all. My previous Guru told us to meditate at the train station to learn how. What if a mosquito bites you? Watch it. And when you watch the mosquito bite you, your meditation will be transformed.

If you are obsessed with your goal and relaxed at the same time, then your obsession will help you.

And if you are "in the flow" while doing the things necessary to reach your goal, you become unstoppable.

If you focus only on the goal and not on what you are doing right now, your obsession becomes a nightmare.

For instance, you want to leave your home and get to work fast… but you can’t find your car key. You put yourself under pressure, and so you can’t even see your key when it's right in front of you. This never happens to me because I have a second key stored in a secret place. So I don't struggle.

If you focus intensely, you need to be relaxed, and that means having a Plan B. Regardless of what I do, I don't care about the outcome or the time it takes when I am in the flow. And mostly, I am the fastest one because I don't put myself under pressure.

When you are doing something with self-discipline alone, you are just a lame duck. Ask yourself how you can motivate yourself to do the things. Why are these tasks important for you?

When I started to write, I was so terribly tired I thought I couldn't write anything. And then it happened—without motivation, just by doing.

Enough tricks…