“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.” — Haile Gebrselassie
At the heart of any successful person, is self-discipline. Whether it’s success in their personal lives or their professional lives, it all starts with an inherent ability for self-control through discipline. Your thoughts. Your emotions. Your behaviors. And your habits. All of them must be kept in check.
If you want to achieve those goals you set, understanding how to discipline yourself is a key ingredient to the success recipe.
Theodore Roosevelt once said, “With self-discipline almost anything is possible.”
What successful people have come to understand is that discipline is the gateway to the achievement of their goals. They learned how to use discipline in their lives to achieve their dreams.
But how is discipline created or formed?
The answer to this question lies in our habits. Since 40% of our behavior is habit-driven, if you want to be self-disciplined, you have to control your habits.
In particular, there are habits that help you to discipline yourself. Without these habits, you’ll just be stabbing around in the dark.
Habits: The Pathway to Self-Discipline
Considering that so much of what we do on a daily basis is habit-driven, developing the right habits will help to instill the right amount of discipline into our lives.
If you can instill the following habits into your life, you’ll find that disciplining yourself becomes far easier. It won’t happen overnight. Remember that habits take time to form and to break. But, if you start small, and build, you won’t be wondering how you can discipline yourself any longer, since you’ll embody the particular habits that promote self discipline in life.
1 – Active Goal Setting
Goal setting instills discipline because it gives us direction. It also helps us to avoid distractions by seeing just what needs to be done in a given day. Without active goals, we’re left like a ship without a sail stuck in stormy waters.
To set goals, first you must set some long-term goals. If you have long-term goals, then you need to engage in monthly, weekly, and daily goal setting and planning. And you also have to actively track your progress towards your goals.
Every morning, create some daily goals for yourself and identify the most important tasks that need to be done in the day, and then, chase the frog, so to speak.
2 – Organization
To be self-disciplined and achieve our goals, we need to be organized. An organized life is a disciplined life. Begin by organizing one small space each day. For example, start by organizing your desk drawer. The next day, move onto organizing your cupboard. And so on.
Do one small thing a day to improve your organization. That’s all it takes.
Like all the other habits, the habit of organization can be slowly built up over time. It requires some effort and attention, but it will pay off enormously in the long run.
It’s the little things that we do on a daily basis that have a large impact on the quality of our lives. Pay attention to the small stuff and you’ll reap large benefits.
3 – Time Management
Without the habit of time management, it would be virtually impossible to get anything done.
When we can properly manage our time, we have room for the stuff that matters. We have room for the activities that will help us achieve our goals. In order to achieve our long-term goals, we have to perform actions that might not be urgent, but are most certainly important.
However, our ability for self-discipline is largely derived from our ability to effectively manage our time.
Since we all have the same amount of time in the day, we can’t waste it. It’s the great equalizer.
4 – Persistence
No set of discipline habits would be complete without persistence. Persistence is that certain habit that helps us to not give up. Even when we do fail, it allows us to get back up again.
Without the habit of persistence, self-discipline would be largely impossible.
Getting discouraged is easy. And giving up takes far less effort than continuing to push through.
What we need to do is realize that even the most famous people who succeeded in life have failed many times over. Failure is an important stepping-stone in life. Without failing, we couldn’t achieve the lofty goals that we set for ourselves.
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