Self Discipline
How to gain control over your life and find peace
Benefits
The guilt and stress caused by tasks adding up or last-minute work before a deadline can become overwhelming. This stress can have a large impact on your mental health and make you feel not in control of your life. By becoming self-disciplined you gain a new sense of control, no longer feeling like a passenger in your life but the driver in full control. Your life and future become determined by you in the moment. You gain new standards for your quality of life and an increased sense of self-worth.
How to achieve it
A way to become disciplined is not to look at the end result as the achievement but the process of getting there. Whether it is work, cooking, cleaning, or any other chore acknowledge each small step in the process as an example of self-discipline and achievement. As you repeat these tasks they start to become therapeutic, you gain a sense of peace as you are in control of your mind and body, not moods or in the moment desires. Recognise when your desires start to impact your mind and take control do what’s best for you.
Achieving Goals
Self-discipline pairs well with visualisation, you use it to become the person you want to be in the moment, not the future. To become a winner, however, you may perceive one, you must act like a winner long before you have achieved your dreams. This means you must practice the habits of your ideal self now, not tomorrow or anytime in the future. Visualise your ideal self based on your personal values not how you will look or be perceived by other people. When you practice these habits every day, consistently, you will feel like a winner even before you have achieved your set goals.
Examples of discipline
There are numerous examples of self-discipline being used to defy the odds. Napoleon Bonaparte is an example, he came from a family that were not wealthy with the odds stacked against him. He joined the military when others his age were partying giving in to their desires and rose in the ranks using hard work and self-discipline to become the emperor of France.
There are some modern-day examples who even dropped out of school, such as Richard Branson, George Foreman, Abraham Lincoln and Albert Einstein.
Other Examples:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Steve Harvey
- J.K Rowling
- Richard Branson
- Oprah Winfrey
- Leonardo Dicaprio
These examples show that however bad it seems, or if it feels that life is out to get you, this is never true, you can be in full control, living the life you dream of, as the person you want to be.
