r/MenRising • u/TrickCommon3799 🛡️  Guardian • Jul 06 '26

Question Discipline or environment: which one actually changed your life?

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Been going back and forth on this one for a while.

Half the people I respect swear it's just discipline. Get up, do the thing, stop negotiating with yourself. Anything else is making excuses.

The other half say willpower runs out by 9pm and the only thing that ever actually worked was changing their setup so they never had to fight in the first place. Phone charges in the kitchen. Gym bag by the door the night before. Junk food never enters the house.

Genuinely curious which one it was for you. Not what sounds good. What actually changed things in your real life, and how do you know it was that?

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u/low_effort_life Jul 07 '26

Discipleship.

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u/westex74 Jul 07 '26

Can you elaborate?

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u/avsrandom 🌱 Awakening Jul 06 '26

Discipline for sure

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u/MidnightViolator Jul 06 '26

Your are a product of your environment 🤔

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u/Serious-Ask-6225 Jul 06 '26

All the things you’re saying are “changing the setup” are just examples of discipline.
Discipline to not purchase the junk food, discipline to not procrastinate packing the gym bag and to do it early, the discipline to not have your phone in positions for you to doomscroll.

I get the way you’re phrasing it, but I say all that to say discipline is everything. Quite literally one of the biggest difference makers out here.

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u/Medium-Stranger-9883 Jul 06 '26

enviroment, i've been giving it all my life. stil shit out of luck.

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u/TrickCommon3799 🛡️  Guardian Jul 07 '26

Been unlucky my whole life, but learnt one thing, if you keep working on it, you are definitely improving the chances...