subject: How discipline can bring you quicker to your goal than you think [print this page] How discipline can bring you quicker to your goal than you think
I remember when somebody asked me the question if I consider myself disciplined. Yes of course. There is nobody more disciplined than me! Yeah right. But what happens when you have to be desciplined when the things you have to do are not really fun. Well you can either change what you are doing, trying to have fun while doing it or the best thing to do is really understand why you have to do those things and write a list step by step. Ticking them off on your list and celebrating every little thing as a win.
One really important thought you have to keep in mind. You have written that list as you know that all of these steps are important to get you closer to your goal, right.
Now imagine leaving one step unticked for you to finisch tomorrow. So tomorrow you start by having one extra step to complete. Grrr, not a nice feeling, right. You might even leave another one or two for you complete later but that will keep you behing your time limit. In the long run this is not really working to your advantage and your motivateion will quickly fade.
Now imagine doing it the other way around and after completing your list actually adding one more thing to that, how would that feel? Imagine doing that every day? Would that bring you closer to your goal? Of course.....and believe me it takes as much effort to complete 10 things as it takes to complete 11, once you know how amazing it feels to speed up your way towards achieving your goal. Your motivation goes through the roof and as your limiting mind shifts you create more and more opportunitites to increase your daily list.
Voilla, your life is in an upward spiral! A huge difference compared to writing the list and trying to tick of every step day by day, right!
And all of a sudden your are so disciplined in completing every step but it's not a struggle anymore as you know how it feels to create what you want and you know that all you have to do is take the first step and the second one will follow by itself.
Stop holding yourself back.....make a list and start ticking!
