The 1 Small Mindset Shift To Your Boost Self-Discipline

Jack Martin
5 min readApr 29, 2020
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A few years back I had really bad stomach problems.

I won’t go into excess detail, but my stomach always hurt and I had terrible acid reflux on a regular basis. I couldn’t even take a sip of water in the morning without my throat burning a minute or two later. Sometimes I’d go days without eating—partially because I was sick of the reflux, and partially because I simply wasn’t hungry.

As a college athlete, it was devastating. The offseason between my sophomore and junior year was when my stomach really started to take a turn for the worse. At one point, I could barely get through a conditioning session without serious nausea, and couldn’t eat anything more than 6 hours before any exercise or I’d surely vomit.

I ended up missing practices and lifts, which hurt my opportunity to see more playing time. The worst part is, I couldn’t even try and gain the weight I so desperately needed to put on (I played football and was always relatively undersized) because eating is what set my stomach off in the first place.

My parents took me to see doctors, GI specialists, nutritionists—none of whom could figure out the source of the problem. I was tested for ulcers, Chron’s disease, had a number of blood tests done, upper endoscopies—the whole nine yards. My symptoms persisted over…

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Jack Martin

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