Ways to master the principle of self-discipline.
Do you know that it is not only the successful people that you admire that are self-disciplined? When we are asked to discuss the self-disciplined people that we admire then we are quick to mention artists and successful entrepreneurs that seem to have been able to build self-discipline over a long time but guess what there are a lot of normal people like you and I who have also been able to build up a good level of confidence as a daily constant habit.
Self-discipline is simply mastering the act of being able to control yourself, when you can conveniently say you are putting a stop to a particular act and then you do it irrespective of how inconvenient it may be for you to do.
Figuring out what our weaknesses and bad habits are might be a little difficult for us to do but it is certainly the best stage to begin to re-trace our steps and then start working on being able to discipline ourselves. This first stage is often even more difficult because it is really difficult for a lot of people to come to terms with their disability but identifying these weaknesses will help in realizing what it is that needs to be worked upon and what exactly it is that needs to be minimized and controlled.
Cultivating a better healthy habits to replace the weakness will do a lot of good, all of these transformations however cannot happen in a day but it takes a gradual process to get it actualized. Make sure you replace every of the bad habit with good things that you like to do one day at a time and work towards making things better.
Using a method of rewarding one’s self for doing something good is also an amazing way to boost self-discipline and get rid of bad habits, with the reward being expected it will be easy to look forward to doing better again soon enough.
Self-disciplined people set a good standard for themselves, the standard that they set is something that they look forward to basically and it is something that sustains them and keeps them from making very terrible mistakes. During the process of working towards self-discipline, looking in the direction of what future achievements will look like is going to help in making the goal achievement possible, so while setting new standards toward self- discipline the goal should be more directed towards what the end result is actually going to feel like.
Greetings dear friend, it is an excellent article that you share with us, because in my opinion discipline is fundamental to achieve what we want in life, maintaining self-discipline allows you to focus on what you want.
Have a great start of the week.
I really liked the illustration with the person saying no to those cakes. And to be honest, I feel like knowing my bad habits is so easy. I clearly see them (at least some of them), but I guess I am having a hard time struggling with them. But, I like the advice of rewarding yourself if you manage to step in the right direction and make the right choice!
So, the next time I manage not to eat sweets and so... should I reward myself with a carrot? Not much of a reward! The correct reward would be a chocolate, but that Is exactly what I try to avoid... what a mess?!?! :)
Lol, you are just going to find a better way to reward yourself but definitely not chocolates
The type of attitude that we put in place will definitely result in the amount of productivity that we will get as return at the end of the day, the best remedy will be to keep looking towards the goal.
Our developed attitude really has a lot to say about our level of discipline.
@ireti, let's talk about people who don't figure out what their weaknesses and bad habits are, and yet they are disciplined, have you ever wondered why such natural behavior occurs. Thank you for this piece.