15 Days to Ultimate Self-Discipline: How to Create Your Dream Life by Ryan Robbins

Author:Ryan Robbins [Robbins, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: philosophy, Self-help
ISBN: 9781927967829
Publisher: Ryan Robbins
Published: 2016-11-27T08:00:00+00:00

Redoing the Fifteen-Day Regimen Makes It Effective

This may sound like a reach or like I’m overplaying my hand, but I’m not. I’ve been entrenched in pursuing self-mastery for as long as I can remember, and through direct experience, I’m absolutely convinced that having to do the three-five regimen a few times, even many times, actually demonstrates its effectiveness. To understand this, we need to examine what happens when you redo the regimen.

Congenital analgesia is a medical condition where you can’t feel pain. With this malady, you could put your hand in a ferocious fire, and while your skin would melt off your bones, you’d register no pain. I’ve concluded something like this often plagues us when we want to change but fail to do so, to the point you could sincerely desire changing your entire life while ultimately leaving earth never having changed. In other words, your past failures aren’t registering sufficient pain for you because your consciousness of them is vague, nebulous, and impotent—something a failure record would never permit.

To ensure you have absolute clarity on how many times you’ve either failed at a regimented battle or returned to a behavior which you previously eradicated through a regimen, you must implement what I call a failure record. A failure record is a place where you record every single time you’ve done either of the aforementioned. So let’s say you’ve failed at reducing how many hours a day you play computer games three times already, whether in a fifteen-day regimen or after successfully completing one. If you did the aforementioned, you must record the dates those events happened and underneath that you must calculate the exact number it comes to. So your failure record for playing computer games excessively three times could look like this:

Excessive computer-game playing: 12/3, 12/14, 12/16.

Three failures

This record should ideally go into your smartphone, or at least on a pad of paper, and make sure you have a backup of it because you don’t want to lose this record. Ensure the dates are preceded by the character trait you succumbed to. You can list your dates vertically or horizontally. I actually keep a failure record on my smartphone and on Google docs.

When you begin to record all of your failures, you preclude what has probably happened to you in the past, which is that you can fail a great many times without your mind sufficiently registering the objective severity of the situation. Without your mind doing that, you have a self-inflicted form of spiritual analgesia. With the aid of a failure record, however, failing at changing a character trait many times becomes psychologically unbearable. It’s this very pain you engender through meticulously recording your failures that gives you the intense motivation to get your act together. I’m blissfully astounded at how motivating a failure record is, and if you don’t have one, it can’t be said you’re properly engaging the three-five prescription unless, of course, this doesn’t actually help you.

If I add a failure to my

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