Developing self discipline
self discipline definition
Self discipline is delaying a current benefit for the sake of a future benefit without having your emotions affect your decisions, an example could be waking up earlier thirty minuets each day in order to run, on the short term you wont be feeling like waking up early or running but on the long term you will have the benefit of being in form. Self discipline in short is going against your emotions and desires to in order to reach your goals.
developing self discipline
developing self discipline can be done by practice, the more you resist your emotions and take unemotional decisions the more you become more disciplined and on the contrary the more your emotions take over you the more your self discipline will become weaker.
You don’t have to wait for chances to come in order to develop self discipline, just create your own chances. Search for something that really requires a strong self discipline like committing to exercising whatever the conditions are. Go to train even if it was a cloudy, rainy or a stormy day. The more you will go against the conditions and emotions the more you will build your self discipline
the pitfall that most people fall in
Most people are not disciplined at all, take the example of someone who exercises regularly and upon finding a rainy day he just says “I wont go today because it’s too cold, ill make it tomorrow”. While he may go tomorrow as he said, still he have weakened his own self discipline by one point without even noticing.
can I be disciplined in one thing yet not disciplined in another?
Yes for sure, self discipline is like self confidence; it does not have a general form. You may be a disciplined stock market investor who sells at the right time although of his greed yet he may not be able to resist an ice-cream although he is overweight.
You must train your discipline on an activity by activity basis and not in a general form. However, although the activities are separate they may affect each other, for example someone who is disciplined in eighty percent of his activities will find that developing self discipline for the other twenty percent of the activities is much easier.
the importance of self discipline?
Simply, developing self discipline will let you achieve the goals that you have set whatever the situation is, because the situation and the external circumstances will be reflected into your mood but your mood plays no role in your decision making because you are disciplined.
In addition to that, think of all the bad habits that you are suffering from, imagine how easy breaking those habits would be if you have already developed a solid self discipline.