📅 Monday, 15-12-25

Why are some people more disciplined than others?

That's how I decided to open my final video of 2025​

Discipline.

Hands down the biggest struggle for me ever since I left school.

As soon as I was no longer forced fed all the information and pressured by exams. As soon as I became the master of my own future. That's when it became clear to me that I had to learn how to become disciplined.

Otherwise, all these dreams and hopes I had about the future, they would remain just that. Dreams and hopes.

So how do you become disciplined?

I'm not going to pretend I've cracked the code. I haven't achieved half of my dreams and hopes that I thought I would in the first decade of my career.

But I am starting to figure some things out.

If you've watched the video (link here if you haven't) I talk a lot about a specific journaling method that changed my approach.

The "BuJo" method (short for Bullet Journaling).

But that's the explicit point I make in the video.

In this email I want to write about the implicit point that is present in my video.

This frame at minute 5:57 is a good example of it:

Or this other one at minute 0:25​

What's happening here?

Well.. I decided to spend my afternoons exploring Higgsfield, one of the most advanced AI film-making platform.

What does this have to do with discipline?

When we think of discipline we often think about repetition. The discipline of doing the same think consistently across a long period of time.

"If only I could be disciplined enough to keep practicing consistently"

I said this far too many times.

But I now realise I was wrong. It never was a realistic Expectation. Nor a necessary one.

A disciplined practice doesn't need to be a monotonous one.

It doesn't need to feel repetitive.

It doesn't need to be boring.

Quite on the contrary, I noticed that those who I considered highly disciplined people are constantly having fun.

They are spicing up their "practice" with all sort of experiments and novel challenges.

The core remains the same, mind you.

But the garnish is always different.

That's a key ingredient for a disciplined practice. Variety.

In the case of this last video, I "spiced up" my film-making practice by challenging myself to incorporate 3 AI powered VFX in the video.

This forced me to research what models exist, and platforms could make me test more than one model (I settled on Higgsfield).

Then I had to figure out what was possible with these models, and what could make sense within the context of my video.

And let me tell you, it wasn't easy!

More often than not the results were unusable, or made no sense if you looked closely:

And that's exactly the type of "new challenge" that made my videomaking practice feel new.

Higgsfield might continue to feel new to me for a few more rounds of videos, and then there will be something to experiment with, but that's the formula to discipline.

A consistent core practice, but with constant experiments within.

I hope this advice will bring you as much value as it has done for me so far!

✌️

Black Week is over.. what next?

Black week is over and my Knowledge Vault is no longer available.

Thank you to everyone who bought it and for the amazing feedback so far.

Early next year, I will be focussing on meeting everyone who applied for 1:1 coaching (33 people so far!)
​
Unsurprisingly, consistency/discipline is a common blocker for many of my future mentees so expect more content around it to trickle through here and on the channel.

If you are looking to invest in a coach to help you 1:1 develop a system to max out your skill development and reach ambitious goals let's chat.

→ this is the form to fill in​

It will be my main focus for 2026

Have a strong week,

​
🫶

Massa