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What Is Self-Discipline?
Self-discipline is the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of your emotional state. Self-discipline is the companion of will power. It endows with the stamina to persevere in whatever one does. It bestows the ability to withstand hardships and difficulties, whether physical, emotional or mental. It grants the ability to reject immediate satisfaction, in order to gain something better, but which requires effort and time. Everyone has inner, unconscious, or partly conscious impulses; making them say or do things they later regret saying or doing. On many occasions people do not think before they talk or act. By developing this power, one becomes conscious of the inner, subconscious impulses, and gains the ability to reject them when they are not for his/her own good.
Self-discipline is one of many personal development tools available to you. Of course it is not a universal remedy. Nevertheless, the problems which self-discipline can solve are important, and while there are other ways to solve these problems, self-discipline absolutely shreds them. Selfdiscipline can empower you to overcome any addiction or lose any amount of weight. It can wipe out procrastination, disorder, and ignorance. Within the domain of problems it can solve, self-discipline is simply unmatched. Moreover, it becomes a powerful teammate when combined with other tools like passion, goal-setting, and planning.
Building Self-Discipline
Self-discipline is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger you become. The less you train it, the weaker you become. Just as everyone has different muscular strength, we all possess different levels of self-discipline. Everyone has some if you can hold your breath a few seconds, you have some self-discipline. But not everyone has developed their discipline to the same degree.
If you take the first letter of each word, you get the acronym A WHIP a convenient way to remember them, since many people associate self-discipline with whipping themselves into shape.
would-be bodybuilder who has no idea how much weight she/he can lift and arbitrarily adopts a training routine. Its virtually certain that the chosen weights will be either too heavy or too light. If the weights are too heavy, the trainee wont be able to lift them at all and thus will experience no muscle growth. And if the weights are too light, the trainee will lift them easily but wont build any muscle in doing so. Similarly, if you want to increase your self-discipline, you must know where you stand right now. How strong is your discipline at this moment? Which challenges are easy for you, and which are virtually impossible for you?
Theres an African gold mine two miles deep. It cost tens of millions of dollars to construct, but its one of the most lucrative gold mines ever. These miners tackled a very challenging problem with a lot of hard work, but ultimately its paying off.
Clean your room, do your chores and put things where they belong when they are out of place. Get to the point where order matters. When you are disciplined in small matters it helps prepare you for success in life. Its the little foxes that ruin the vineyards.
When it comes to your integrity and credibility, there are no small issues.
Make a schedule and stick to it. Have a to-do list of things you need to accomplish using a daily planning book or personal information manager program on your computer. If you dont control your time, everything and everyone else will! Be on time for engagements. Being punctual marks a life that is organized and under control. Being on time acknowledges the importance of other people and the value of their time.
Accept Correction
It will help you develop self-discipline by showing you what you need to avoid. Thus it should not be rejected but gladly accepted. Correction will bless your life.
Learn to say no to your impulses and feeling. Skip dessert after a meal. Occasionally deny yourself pleasures that are perfectly legitimate for you to enjoy. Refraining from those things will remind your body who is in charge. When you have free time, do things that are productive instead of merely entertaining. Read a good book, take a walk or have a conversation.
Welcome Responsibility
Volunteer to do things that need to be done. That will force you to have your life organized enough to have the time for such pursuits.
As far as the logical point is concerned all dos in their negative form are donts of self discipline.
2. Create a sense of regret for NOT following through immediately. Instead of having regrets later on for not doing something you intended to do, why not create that feeling of regret right away, so afterwards, you can actually do something about it to change it? To do this, youd have to visualize yourself sometime in the future where enough time has passed by that you cant do anything to change the situation. How would your life be 5 or 10 years from now if you keep putting off things you know you should be doing? Where would you be physically, financially, and emotionally? Really feel the pain. Imagine looking into the mirror and seeing your future self. If you really get into it, it can be an emotional and inspiring experience. When you snap back to reality, youll have a sense of great relief knowing that you can change that future of regrets. 3. Take smaller steps. Often times, we set ourselves up for failure and when we do fail, we blame it on ourselves and our self-esteem goes down. Heres what I mean. If you wanted to get into shape and havent been working out for the longest time and suddenly decide youre going to start going to the gym everyday for 2 hours, you might be disappointed. Take smaller steps. Start out with something youre confident you can do like 20 minutes a day, then build up. 4. Evaluate your strategy. Sometimes youll run into a situation where youre disciplining yourself perfectly. Youre getting yourself to do what you intended to do, yet you find that youre not getting the results you want. Just remember to evaluate your strategy. Know whats working and whats not and do more of whats working and less of whats not. 5. Start with the little things. Developing self-discipline is like building a muscle. The more you do it, the stronger it will get. If you have a hard time getting yourself to do things like go to the gym, work on your business, or even getting up before noon in the morning, you need to start disciplining yourself with the little things. Make it a goal to finish everything you start even if its something simple like cleaning your room or mowing the lawn. When you continually do this, youll get into the habit of getting yourself to keep going even if you no longer feel like it. As your self-discipline muscles get stronger and stronger, those bigger projects will become easier and easier to do.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.