# 694 - My Word of the Year: Discipline Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/organize-365-podcast-172008/694-my-word-of-the-year-discipline Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/organize-365-podcast-172008/694-my-word-of-the-year-discipline.md Podcast: [Organize 365 Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/organize-365-podcast-172008) Published: 2026-01-23T11:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://organize365.libsyn.com/694-reaching-country-fans-between-tour-dates Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/organize365/694_-_My_Word_of_the_Year-_Discipine.mp3?dest-id=217222 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/organize-365-podcast-172008/episodes/694-my-word-of-the-year-discipline Duration seconds: 2624 ## Resource I left you hangin' in the last episode as to what the mindset shift is that you must have so that you can be a productive person. It's Discipline. And discipline is my word for this year. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment" - Jim Rohn What is the definition? -Some of you may have a negative knee jerk reaction to the word discipline. Ready for me to reframe discipline in you mind? It is… -The act of gaining control with obedience and order (like holding yourself accountable to picking up after yourself.) -Having behavior in accordance with rules (like the Sunday Basket®) -Self Control - you can struggle or you can remove items from your environment that have you have effortless self control can't eat a cookie you didn't buy and bring home. -An activity you engage in regularly to train or inspire ones self. -A subject taught or field of study (like the study of home management.) -An institution If you are listening to the podcast, odds are that you are learning discipline in the area of home management. But you do not get the results from the work you do not do. You must do the work. What Does Discipline Look Like? Setting and achieving goals is changing your own actions and disciplining yourself to being the person who has already achieved what you want to achieve. So I gave the example of me working out. I used to want our whole family to get healthy and work out together. Not gonna happen. So I have decided to do it for myself to achieve the goals I have for myself. And along with working out, I have changed the way I eat. My husband would prefer a meal that "makes sense and 'matches.'" A lady at work introduced us all to ingredient eating. Basically you cook the protein, pull out all kinds of things from the fridge like fruits and veggies to c… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/organize-365-podcast-172008/episodes/694-my-word-of-the-year-discipline/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/organize-365-podcast-172008/694-my-word-of-the-year-discipline.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.