Gentle Discipline Achieving Goals With Kindness - Daily SHORT with Kim & Jill (161)

"Redefining Discipline: The Path to Gentle Self-Accountability"

In this enlightening episode, hosts Jill and Kim invite listeners to completely reimagine the concept of discipline. Moving beyond the harsh, punitive connotations we've grown up with, they explore how discipline can be transformed into a loving, compassionate practice that actually produces better results.

Through personal anecdotes and practical examples, the hosts discuss how traditional "aggressive discipline" often backfires, while a gentler approach can lead to remarkable outcomes. Jill shares her revealing experience with workout routines where months of harsh self-discipline yielded minimal results, while a more compassionate approach transformed her progress.

The conversation weaves through everyday applications—from morning stretching routines to manifesting needs and maintaining consistency through weekends. Kim and Jill offer listeners a refreshing framework: discipline isn't about punishment or self-judgment but about lovingly holding yourself accountable to what truly serves you.

Whether you're struggling with self-improvement goals or simply tired of the cycle of harsh self-criticism, this episode provides a kinder, more effective path forward. Join these warm, insightful hosts as they help you discover how beautiful discipline can be when approached with self-compassion.

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Jill:  hello, lovely listeners, and good morning, kim.

Kim:  good morning, jill. good morning, everyone. it always is a beautiful day. mhmm. soon as this, like, record button goes on, it's like, i feel alive.

Jill:  right? all this excitement comes in. all this energy like, the energy just starts popping. yes. k.

Kim:  so today's message that is coming through, uh, is the word discipline. and a lot of us were if, you know, you've been disciplined in the past because you did something wrong, i'm going to discipline you. and then as you're getting older, you hear the word discipline as in, like, um, being disciplined in a, um, what's a like a goal. like, you have a goal and then you're gonna get disciplined. you're gonna i'm gonna go work out. i'm gonna, um, be disciplined to do this. and it's still a harsh word, and it's not this word is meant to be loving, kind, gentle. i got chills on that. it's not meant to be this harshness that we've been so ingrained to, um, invoke that that feeling versus the warmth and the compassion of it. so being disciplined is like, oh, i'm i i need this. i know my body needs this. or you know what? i know getting up early in the morning and just waking up and taking those few stretches, i feel amazing. so there's a discipline. there's like a soft discipline of getting up and just stretching because it makes you feel good. doesn't make you feel like i did something bad. i need to do i need to work out. i need to stretch because i'm oh, my body's horrible. i'm doing bad things to it, so i have to start working. i have to get disciplined. it's like, no. change the discipline into being where no. i'm gonna discipline myself. i'm gonna allow myself. i'm gonna bring in the energy of it to, like hold myself accountable to say, hey, i need this. and it just flows so much better. jill, you had another way of describing discipline too. that was just beautiful on point.

Jill:  yeah. it shared that if if you need something and i use the example kim of a bottle of essential oils and, you know, some oils can be kind of expensive. and so i was saying if someone has a need for an oil and they don't necessarily have the extra funds available for that oil, that the the loving, compassionate use of discipline is to just look at, you know, look at the universe, if you will, at the world at whatever you want and just say, if i need this bottle of oil, then it will be provided for me and to stay disciplined that it that it will be provided. but but i don't have them. i don't have this, but i don't no. no. you know what? if i need this, it'll show up somehow. that's the discipline. the discipline and it's like being the discipline to stay committed to what you need. you know, it's like rather than than, um, getting distracted and going, wow, i don't have the money. i don't have this. there's no way that's gonna work. or, you know, i'm i always i always fail at my manifesting when i need things or you let that talking take you away. and it's like, that's where the discipline then starts to fade because you're letting that stuff take over. so then that's what you're gonna get. yeah. but, yeah, that loving, it's gonna if i need it, okay, it's gonna show up. or like you said, kim, if getting up in the mornings and moving your body in some way is is what you need, the loving discipline is to say, you know, i'm gonna do this because i need it. because it makes my body feel good, not because i have to. not because i'm terrible if i don't. and you know, if you don't, if you falter in your discipline, you like lovingly readjust yourself back on course. yeah. and there's a time you can get stern with yourself. i've done that. nope. you're gonna get up. but i don't want to. but i went, uh, it's more important to get up and have that time to stretch the body. let's get up. yep.

Kim:  it's a beautiful discipline.

Jill:  mhmm.

Kim:  the discipline turns when you start judging yourself, when you really start attacking yourself. like, growing up where i you can't you know, you're grounded. i you're getting disciplined now. that is the piece that is for breaking that habit. we're breaking that cycle.

Jill:  breaking that cycle. yep. yeah. and you know, hey, if if that more, uh, aggressive discipline works for you, you do you do you. you do it. i for me, i've done that aggressive discipline in my whole life up until recently and it just didn't work for me. i didn't get results from it. as a matter of fact, i got like negative results. i was thinking about a time, kim, recently that i worked out. i disciplined myself in that being really hard on myself way. i did these workouts regularly for months, and i got next to zero results. it made no sense because of all the effort that i did, kim. i should have gotten you know, i got a little result, obviously, but not what i should have for the effort. so for me, it's real clear, like, a more loving, compassionate, encouraging discipline, off the charts results. so play with it, as we

Kim:  say. exactly. yeah. how do you discipline yourself? mhmm.

Jill:  and interesting. it's a friday for us today, kim, and so going into the weekends. and how can you play with discipline in the weekend? so, uh, throw this out here. recently, someone had had shared with us that, you know, but i eat healthy. i'm healthy. and it's like, but on the weekends, you don't.

Kim:  exactly.

Jill:  so if you're doing something and you're doing it during the week and then letting yourself totally off the hook on the weekends and you're not getting the results you want, maybe some loving discipline could be practiced and played with this weekend. see how that goes. alright.

Kim:  lovely chills. yeah. lovely yawns. thank you, jill. thank you, everyone.

Jill:  thank you, kim. yes. and thanks for listening. have a great weekend, and until next time.