I will show you 11 steps you can practice to develop your personal self-discipline and achieve success in your life.
The lack of success in life is not due to any whim of fate but to our own lack of personal self-discipline. Once we admit the truth we can unleash great power to do great things in life.
Our lives are controlled by ourselves, by our own actions, and by our own willpower. It is exciting to know that we can do anything that comes to mind with self-discipline, will, and faith. However, the thing that most often fails in people is self-discipline.
If we believe that we lack personal self-discipline, what can we do? We can develop it.
Perhaps no other skill is so important to the personal growth as the development of self-discipline. It is the key to self-control and the achievement of your dreams. Now, let's take a look at some steps you can take to increase your personal power.
11 steps to develop your personal self-discipline
1. Recognize your own responsibility. Admit that if you just sit around doing nothing you are not going to accomplish anything.
2. Feel the resistance versus desire. For example, if you are a student who has to be studying and you don't feel like it, you can say something like the following:
"I do not feel like studying. I would like to surf the internet, go for a walk, watch TV… But instead of running away, I allow myself to feel that resistance that arises when I want to do something and I don't. I admit that I have to study. I also have to develop my self-discipline. Doing what I don't like develops my self-discipline. Therefore, I am pleased to have the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone (I study for my examination and develop self-discipline). »
3. Breath deeply. Relax and release tension. View the action as if it has already been completed. Study the image of the finished project in your mind for a few moments.
4. Now acts. After doing this, you will feel a sense of relief when you release yourself from that tension that arises when you put an important task aside. Second, you will be able to enjoy the pleasure of accomplishment. Third, you will find that the task was easier to do than you first imagined.
5. Savor the relief and pleasure that you experience. This will become the source of motivation. Motivation grows stronger as we repeatedly do what we don't feel like doing. The end result is the creation of a habit.
6. Those who have not yet developed the habit of self-discipline avoid tasks because they focus on the effort that needs to be done. In their minds, effort is synonymous with discomfort. Shift your focus of attention. When faced with a new task, focus on the relief and pleasure you experience. Focus on the end result you will get when you do your homework correctly.
7. Start with those tasks that are easier for you when starting your personal training to develop your self-discipline. Imagine that you are working out in a gym for the first time. If you start by trying to lift 50 Kilos you are likely to feel overwhelmed and quickly give up. But if you start with 10 Kilos of weight, your workouts will be easy to do and your successes will motivate you to move on to greater challenges.
8. Be nice but firm with yourself. Cope with your task and accomplish it. Finish what you start. Focus on one task. Don't scatter your attention. You don't have to do all of your tasks right away, as long as you start doing a few. Don't go from zero to one hundred in a second. Start slowly but gradually pick up the pace as you develop your skills.
9. Expect to be tempted to avoid tasks. Your mind will come up with thousands of excuses to put off until "tomorrow" what you can do today. Stay on top of your feelings and learn to think before you act. Use your reason (rational mind) not your emotions to guide your actions.
10. Once you learn to act quickly on all the tasks, responsibilities and challenges that you face, you will have to Be in shape, always ready to act. Deliberately get in shape by doing things you don't want to do, even if they aren't important. The truth is that nothing is unimportant, because if you do something trivial it will help you maintain your self-discipline and that is not trivial.
Remember that it is the same as exercising in a gym. Look for opportunities during the day to "exercise."
11. Once you can maintain your level of personal self-discipline, you are ready to move on to the next level. Now search on purpose difficult and complex challenges that you only dared to dream in the past. Now that you have that self-control you are ready to make those dreams come true. You have already started an endless growth trajectory.
Decide today to take responsibility for your own life and master the art of self-discipline.
I leave you a VIDEO very good that shows how important it is have self-discipline to achieve success:
What it says is true