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How to become disciplined?
Do you know how discipline can help you achieve your goals? Do you know that discipline is important to success? What is the power of discipline?
You might think that many people are not self disciplined, but I'm going to prove to you that people in general are disciplined, but unfortunately, in non beneficial ways. There are many people who smoke daily despite the fact it is dangerous and it could kill them. Such people are disciplined at consuming cigarettes and smoking. There are people who are disciplined at drinking lots of alcohol daily, such people are disciplined at consuming alcohol. Do you see where I am going with this?
One of my friends who is passionate about running spends half an hour every single morning running. Whether it is snowing or raining, she has to run. This is the kind of positive discipline that you should follow and create in your life.
Do you know someone who bought a book, but didn't finish reading it for some reason? Do you know someone who decided to improve his diet and start eating more vegetables and fruit, but after two weeks, he gave up?
These are all examples of lack of discipline. If you are not disciplined, then know you will have a hard time to get your desire. You could know what you want, plan, and take action, but if you are not self-disciplined, you will likely give up.
With discipline, you can start getting up early in the morning, exercise, and get away from the non-beneficial habits such as smoking and eating non-healthy food. With discipline, you can change negative habits to positive habits. With discipline, you can join the gym and start working on having a healthier body. Do you see what the power of discipline can do?
To learn how to become disciplined, follow the steps below:
1. Write down an activity that you would like to start doing, but you haven't started yet.
2. Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and visualize yourself doing the activity.
3. Get up and start doing the activity now.
4. Whenever you have the urge to procrastinate, remind yourself that for the next 60 days, you have to be disciplined and do the activities at the specific times you have set. Overtime, you will find that discipline has become a habit of yours.
Always remember what Jim Rohn said, "One discipline always leads to another discipline
