The Flesh is Weak

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“Discipline is doing what you ought to do, when you ought to do it, whether you feel like it or not.” ~ Jim Rohn

Bridging the Gap between Desire and Doing

New Year, new you. Right?

Did you promise to get in shape for 2024 only to feel the comfy couch pulling you into its fluffy abyss?

Incredibly, the second Friday of January is known as “Quitter’s Day,” according to several online publications, such as Fortune.

That’s when people quit – they abandon their New Year’s resolutions.

Just two weeks into the New Year!?

A Bible proverb says, “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

What does that mean?

In short, it means goals, aspirations, and desires are easy to conjure up; however, to realize your goals, dreams, and desires requires work; work that most people are unlikely to do.

For better or worse, humans are naturally wired to avoid pain and seek pleasure.

Thus, “weak” flesh is simply your body seeking comfort instead of effort.

Your spirit says, “I will complete the half marathon!”

However, until you bridge the gap between what you say you’re going to do – your desires and your actions, you’ll be left frustrated and unfulfilled, wondering what went wrong.

Arguably, the entire personal development industry wants to crack the discipline code.

See below.

Is your discipline triangle closed or open?

An open discipline triangle leaks…potential.

Discipline develops as soon as you practice intersecting your behaviors (the doing) with your ambitions (desires).

The key to discipline is ensuring that desire and doing intersect, repeatedly.

How?

ENTER THE P.A.R.R. METHOD: PLAN. ACT. RECORD and REASSESS.

P.A.R.R. is the key to strengthening the discipline habit.

By tracking any habit following P.A.R.R. you strengthen discipline.

The P.A.R.R. method forces the practice of intersecting DOING with their DESIRE.

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Thus, by following P.A.R.R. you practice the art of discipline by continually intersecting your DOING with your DESIRE.

While the flesh may be weak, it becomes stronger by following P.A.R.R.

Enjoy the show!

~mg

P.S.: From the world of statistics: All models are flawed, but some are useful.

With this in mind, we asked Google’s AI experiment Bard to “break” the “Three Circles of Behavior System” model (perhaps a future post).

The short story (no pun intended) is he/she/IT could not.

The best Bard offered: “What about people who aren’t aware of their unconscious stories/thinking?

It’s a good question and a nice attempt. However, an unconscious story is still a story (represented within the model), and that is the point of the latest book, EVERYTHING is a F*cking STORY where the latest version of the model was revealed.

BTW: YOU are also invited to try and “break” the “Three Circles of Behavior Echo-System” model.

If you think you can, please email or leave comments here.

*Note: ChatGPT’s does not know the model yet, officially published in October of 2022. GPT’s latest update is from January 2022.

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“The Three Circles of Behavior Echo-System” / The Grunburg Behavior Model is a holistic, fluid, and dynamic behavior-change model. It’s the first behavior-change model to demonstrate how our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and even our environment vibrate (echo and reverberate) to influence each other.

Hence, the “Echo-System.” Other behavior models represent human behavior in a linear-flow type diagram.Background here.

If you’d like to understand human behavior at an even deeper level, learn more about the “Three Circles of Behavior Echo-System” which is featured in the book, “EVERYTHING!”

I teach and coach organizations and individuals worldwide how to best utilize and leverage “The Three Circles of Behavior Echo-System” (below) and the P.A.R.R. [Plan, Act, Record & Reassess] scientifically-backed methodology for individual and organizational behavior design.

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*Recently Awarded: “Finalist: Self-help, Motivation”International Book Awards: EVERYTHING is a F*cking STORY.

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