#Clockedin with Jordan Edwards
Are you feeling stuck in life, wanting to grow, improve your income, or build a stronger community? Join performance coach Jordan Edwards as he interviews world-class achievers—including the Founder of Reebok and the Co-Founder of Priceline—who share their success stories and actionable strategies. Each episode provides practical tips on how to boost your personal and professional growth, helping you implement changes that can make a real difference in your life.
This podcast is designed for anyone looking to make progress—whether you're aiming to improve your mindset, relationships, health, or income. Jordan distills the wisdom of top performers into easy-to-follow steps you can take immediately. Whether you're stuck in your career or personal life, you’ll find new ways to get unstuck and start moving forward with confidence.
How to get unstuck? It’s a question many face, and in each episode, you’ll hear stories of how successful individuals broke through barriers, found purpose, and created systems to overcome obstacles. From building resilience to developing a success mindset, you'll gain insights into how high achievers continue to evolve and grow.
Looking to improve your income? This podcast also dives into financial strategies, offering advice from entrepreneurs and business leaders who have built wealth, created multiple revenue streams, and mastered the art of financial growth. Learn how to increase your income, find opportunities for advancement, and create value in both your personal and professional life.
Jordan also emphasizes the importance of building community. You'll learn how to expand your network, foster meaningful connections, and create supportive environments that contribute to personal and professional success. From philanthropists to community leaders, guests share their experiences in building impactful, values-driven communities.
At the core of the podcast are the 5 Pillars of Edwards Consulting—Mental Health, Physical Health, Community Service/Philanthropy, Relationships, and Spirituality. Each episode integrates these elements, ensuring a holistic approach to self-improvement. Whether it's enhancing your mental and physical well-being, giving back to your community, or strengthening your relationships, you'll receive actionable advice that’s grounded in real-world success.
This podcast is for everyone—whether you're an entrepreneur, a professional looking to advance, or simply someone seeking personal growth. You’ll gain actionable steps from every conversation, whether it’s about increasing your productivity, improving your health, or finding more purpose in your life.
Jordan’s interviews are designed to be perspective-shifting, giving you the tools and inspiration to transform your life. From overcoming obstacles to building stronger habits, these episodes are packed with practical insights you can use today. Whether you're looking to grow in your career, improve your income, or enhance your personal life, you’ll find value in every conversation.
Join Jordan Edwards and a lineup of incredible guests for thought-provoking conversations that will inspire you to take action, improve your performance, and unlock your full potential. No matter where you are on your journey, this podcast will help you get unstuck, grow, and build a life filled with purpose and success.
#Clockedin with Jordan Edwards
3 Step Discipline System
Tired of starting your day with determination only to see your discipline collapse by mid-afternoon? You're not alone. For years, I struggled with this exact pattern until I discovered a revolutionary three-step system that transformed everything.
This episode breaks down the complete framework that helped me build consistent discipline in every area of my life. I share why traditional approaches to discipline fail and introduce a powerful alternative built on identity, micro-systems, and strategic accountability.
First, you'll learn how to define your identity-based why—shifting from "I should work out" to "I am someone who prioritizes fitness." This subtle but profound change reshapes how you approach challenges and makes discipline feel natural rather than forced.
Next, we explore the power of micro-systems over massive goals. When Harry Potter's 3,500+ pages feel impossible, reading just one page daily becomes manageable and sustainable. You'll discover how to break down your ambitious goals into tiny, frictionless actions that compound over time.
Finally, I reveal the accountability systems that eliminate decision fatigue and protect you from self-sabotage. From environmental design tricks to leveraging social commitment, these practical strategies make good behaviors almost automatic while creating helpful friction for unhelpful habits.
The foundation of this approach comes from Jocko Willink's concept of Extreme Ownership—taking complete responsibility for everything in your life. When you combine this mindset with these three powerful discipline tools, you'll be amazed at what becomes possible. Ready to transform your approach to discipline? Listen now and discover how small, strategic changes can create remarkable results in your life.
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This is Jordan Edwards, and this is the three-step discipline system that transformed my life Three years ago. I would go through life and I would try to manage all my tasks, try to be as disciplined as possible and start to realize by the mid-afternoon I would fall off, I wasn't doing the correct habits, I wasn't staying part of the plan, and what I realized I needed was three things, and if you stay with me through these 15 minutes, I'm going to share all three of them with you and it'll completely change your mindset. So the first one that there's going to be is define your identity based why. Then we're going to build microsystems, not massive goals, and then we're going to create accountability systems. So let's dive in the first one define your identity based why. What does that even mean? That means what type of person are you? What type of person do you identify as? And, as we're going through this, we're going to start to think about.
Speaker 0:Let's start off with awareness. Where do you see yourself now? Are you someone that says I am someone who goes to the gym? Are you someone that says I do invest in myself? Are you someone who says I don't drink alcohol? Who are you? How do you identify with yourself. Are you someone who says I never work out because then I'm too sore? How do you want to see yourself and how do you want to think about yourself? So, as you're going through this, I want you to start to identify and you want to leave yourself with positive labels, or labels that you at least aspire to. So you want to see where your current awareness is, what current labels hold true. For me, it would be I am a YouTuber. Why? Because I'm shooting YouTube content currently. It's a good start. So what would be an aspirational one for me is that I am one of the biggest YouTubers on the planet. That would be an aspirational one. So an aspirational one for you could be something that maybe aligns with one of your visions, and then you want to start to think about this and see how you're going to implement them into your life. So it could be starting with a new habit, or it could be by going through the same things that you're currently going through. So what I mean by that is you start to realize that it might be in the same vein or it might be something completely different. It might be I'm a YouTuber, okay. Then what could be something completely different. I work out every single day. That's a completely different lane, because that's physical health and then one of them's your goals and your job and your aspirations. They're completely different, but the same holds true.
Speaker 0:You need to identify who you are and how you want to show up in the world. So let's say, maybe you're someone who's never traveled in their life and what that means is maybe you've never been on a plane before. Okay, cool. And then you might want to identify as I'm a traveler. Okay, what does a traveler mean? We start diving a little bit deeper. Maybe that means that you've been on many planes. Maybe that means that you fly to different countries. Maybe that means you drive across borders. Whatever it may be. But it starts to identify and open up this new opportunity, because that's who you identify as, and as you identify in more ways, you start to show up differently in the world and you start to look at things differently and see better and better opportunities for yourself. So I want you to start to realize this, because this is a real opportunity for you to rearrange who you are, and your discipline will follow.
Speaker 0:The second thing you want to start to think about is building those micro systems, not massive goals. So what that means is what is the most famous book series of all time? Anyone know? It's Harry Potter. It's Harry Potter. Now, as we're going through this exercise and this activity, I want you guys to be taking notes, because as you're taking notes, you're going to start applying this knowledge to your real life so you can increase your own discipline. So we start to sit there and we start to think about it Harry Potter.
Speaker 0:If I set the goal to be I wanna read all seven Harry Potter books, it feels impossible. It literally feels like I could never do that. Every single book is like 500 plus pages. So you're looking at 3,500 pages and that's just on a minimum. Now what if the goal instead of that? So that would be the big, massive goal. But what about instead of that? Is I just want to read one page a day? And now I want to develop that habit. And you start to think about it that way and as you start to build up this, doing that small one habit a day, one page a day, makes life so much more manageable. Why? Because then it's not this big thing that's going to take you 100 hours, but now it's this thing that could take you five minutes, and that five-minute thing could really change everything for you, because that's how you start to develop the habit and start putting in the time that's gonna make a difference in this world. So that is what I want you to start to realize.
Speaker 0:Whether it's getting in shape, whether it's building your business, whether it's taking sales calls, whether it's doing anything in your life that you might not wanna do, start with the smallest thing possible. So what other are some other small increments that maybe you can think of If you want to get into fitness? Maybe it's just putting on your running shoes. And then what I do with some clients is I say, just stand in the gym for five minutes. What? Why would I drive 10 minutes to the gym to stand in there for five minutes? I don't know, but at least you develop the habit of driving there.
Speaker 0:So you start to realize that each of these are you have to break them down into very small components, because it's really hard for us to do a lot of stuff, and what I mean by that is really challenging for us to take advantage of different opportunities, because we're constantly, constantly trying to set big, audacious goals, which are great, but they're not great if you don't break them down into manageable chunks. And if you do manageable chunks, then you can start to think about how you're going to implement the systems. So this is a big part that's missed, because the systems are key. So what that means is let's say, you want to do the reading. How would we think about the reading? You think about reading. When are you going to read? You know what I mean. How are you going to read? What's reading going to look like for you? And you sit there and you start to visualize it and you think, okay, I'm going to wake up at this certain time in the morning and then I'm going to read my book. So then you start to read the book in the morning and that's a good step to do it.
Speaker 0:So you want to limit friction on things that you're trying to build habits on. You want to make it as easy as possible and because of that, then you'll develop the habits to get there. So that's something I started doing. With a lot of the things I do, I'm trying to make it as easy as possible to build the habits Like, for example, the 6am Muay Thai I do. A big challenge for me was actually moving the Muay Thai because it was down the street from me, so it only took me five minutes to get there. And then what ended up happening was it ended up moving about 15 minutes away and I was really upset because I was like, ah man, am I going to lose the habit? Am I going to keep doing it? Is it a waste of time? Does it make sense? I still really enjoy the facility, so I still go. But it took me a long time to develop that habit of going because I was contemplating should I keep doing, should I not? But like I really, you join, you start to enjoy the instructors, start to enjoy the people and it starts to become all worth it. So my point being but when you're starting these disciplines, you want to start as easy as possible, so there's not a big friction point to get you there.
Speaker 0:And then the last part, part three, is so far we've done define your identity based why, like who are you going to identify as and how is that going to change your disciplines? And then, what micro systems are you going to start to build that make your goals achievable? And then the last one is create accountability systems. So what's an accountability system? What does? Does that even mean? What that looks like is you want to make it really friction and you want to make it difficult to do the bad things. You want to make it really easy to do the good things.
Speaker 0:So what's a bad thing? Maybe a bad thing is, if you're on your physical health journey, it might be it just might be not eating junk food Okay, cool. So if you have a real sweet tooth and you're having an issue with that, what would be a really easy method to kind of apply this? Maybe just not eating, just not buying junk food. Like literally no desserts in your house. I can attest to this. Literally last week we went to a barbecue. We usually never have desserts in our house. We went to a barbecue and the host said please take the cookies home. So we took the cookies to our house. You know what we did. We were having me and my wife were having two to three cookies a day, which was an extra I don't know 200 to 300 calories a day that we just weren't going to eat otherwise. So if it wasn't in the house, we wouldn't have the calories, just weren't going to eat otherwise. So if it wasn't in the house, we wouldn't have the calories.
Speaker 0:So that's my point is you start to realize like you want to build a lot of friction for things that are bad. So like, if it's the television, maybe you want to have the remote in a completely different room so it was really difficult to turn on the television. If it's reading the book, maybe you want to have it next to your bed so it's really easy to read. So you start to realize here that the better things you can do are to make things as easy as possible, and what I mean by that is you want to make it so easy that you just get started with it. So you want to increase friction on the hard things, on the things that aren't good for you, and you want to decrease friction for the things that are easy, that you're trying to build the habit of, so that you can default. The problem with a lot of us is that we think discipline is going to get us there and we think motivation is going to get us there, but it's really the systems we have in place to get us there. So another system I want to show you about is this studio, this recording. Why is this a system?
Speaker 0:Because I came here, I did one episode and I thought, oh, this is really cool, I should do this more often. What did I do? I defined myself as a YouTuber. Then I started to build the micro systems of hey, I should shoot multiple videos a week on awesome cameras and an awesome setup, great, okay. So what did I have to do? I had to commit. I had to commit to setting this up and I texted the producer hey, I want to do it every single week for the next four or five weeks because I'm going out of town. So I was like we have to do this. And what does that do? It makes me wake up in the morning and I don't sit there and go. Am I doing this? Am I not doing this? How do I want to do this? I go. I'm absolutely doing this. I already committed to this, and because I have someone else that's committed on the other side, I have to follow through with this, and you start to realize here that when you have other people on your side, it becomes so much easier.
Speaker 0:I do this with my clients all the time. There's a lot of clients that I coach with, and the way we do it is we set accountability systems in place, and it's usually it's partially with me helping holding them accountable, but it's also accountability through people around them. So what does that mean? A lot of us are on social media, a lot of us are on these different apps, and so if you put a proclamation out there or maybe you have an assistant help you, or maybe a family member help you you start to realize a lot of these goals and you start to realize how much closer you're getting to your goals, because the truth is, the goals you want are not that far away. We waste so much time every single year on television, on Instagram, on scrolling on things that are so unimportant that if you really wanted to achieve your goals and have this discipline, you can. You can apply this, and if you're watching this video right now, it means that you're ambitious, it means that you want to learn and you want to grow and you're going to get there. The problem is, you just need someone to hold you accountable and you got to start making the steps approachable. So, as we discussed, you want to define your identity, you want to build these micro systems so that you can take the little steps to get there, to achieve the big goals, and then you want to create the accountability system, so you want to be held accountable to what.
Speaker 0:This is the book that really changed my life in regard to all this was called Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willick. The reason I share this book is because, when I think about accountability at all, this book put it so well in perspective for me. It made me realize that I'm accountable for everything. And in that book Jocko talks about how he ended up was running a group, he was running a team in the army and I might, might go about it incorrectly, but this is, this is what I recall. He was running a team in the army. Army went out to do a trial. They they had to go do uh, a team activity, ended up having friendly fire, really bad, and they go in there, but jaco wasn't out with them.
Speaker 0:Jaco was back at the base and when his boss came to him and said, hey, whose fault was it?
Speaker 0:Draco said it's mine.
Speaker 0:And the boss goes no, no, like whose fault was it?
Speaker 0:Like who shot who?
Speaker 0:And he goes it's mine, it's my team, it's my responsibility.
Speaker 0:And as you start to realize that everything you do is your team, your responsibility, whether it's your family, whether it's yourself, whether it's the people you mentor or the people that you're a mentee to. It is all your responsibility and you have to take full accountability for that. So what I'm saying to you right now is that your life is dictated by your choices. You decide how to make a change, you decide how to get there, and these three steps in the discipline system transformed my life personally, and I hope they can transform yours too. If you found value from this, I'd love for you to comment below. I read all the comments and I want to hear about what you're thinking, what you're seeing, and if you want to dive deeper, you can click in the show notes and there's a booking link. There's a link to reach out to me so that we can connect and hear about each other's stories. So I'll put that in the show notes and I can't wait to connect with you and talk very soon. Thank you.
