If you are one of those people who find it difficult to start, you have the philosophy of leaving for tomorrow what you can do today and it is difficult for you to say NO because you do not have willpower, you may think that you are like that and that there is no way to change. But you are wrong.
A person who is born like this can work on it day by day and will notice over time how it will cost less to do something that is not to their liking..
When we talk about self-discipline, we automatically think that it is related to work. And it is that in addition to work, self-discipline must be applied to family and personal life.
Among all the definitions that I have read, I am left with this one: "It is about following the rules we have established, regardless of whether we want to follow them or not, overcoming procrastination". A well-known expression that perfectly sums up this idea is the following: "who wants something, something costs him".
Therefore, to achieve our goals it is essential to have self-discipline, which in other words is an inner force or little voice that pushes us to stop doing something pleasant, to do something convenient. And the difficult thing is to maintain this willpower over time and make it durable..
Self-discipline is one of the great tools that personal development offers us. Without self-discipline, there will be more chances of abandonment before reaching your goals. No matter how motivated you are to achieve your goals, a person with self-discipline does it, even without wanting to do it.
To better understand this concept, let's put these two examples: when we are children, we have someone above us (our parents and guardians) who tell us what we have to do at all times, but as we grow, we need self-discipline to perform many activities by ourselves.
We no longer have our father on top of us to tell us to clean up the room, or to tell us to start studying for tomorrow's exam ... We will be the ones who convince ourselves to do it and do our part (willpower) to do that. activity.
Therefore, self-discipline plays an important role in our lives, as it will influence our future..
The first thing you must do to be self-disciplinary is to understand what that word means. Surely there are people who are born with more willpower than others, but we all have the ability to have it if we work it.
Once we know how to build that self-discipline, we must convince ourselves that we want to start having more. And here the motivation, who is the main promoter of self-discipline. So if you have no reason to push your willpower, it will not grow..
An exercise that will help you discover your motivations and achieve them is to write down the barriers that prevent you from achieving that self-discipline and what advantages you will have if you develop them.
Let's analyze the tasks we do daily, make a list and pay attention to which of them are productive and which are not. In which no, how many hours do we dedicate? Because that time we can dedicate to increasing our willpower and working on self-discipline..
Discipline works with goals. Therefore, before starting to build it we have to set ourselves what goals we want to achieve. Think about what hours of the day you sometimes spend on nothing, and use that time (at least one hour a day) to build self-discipline.
The objectives must be specific, in this way you will become more mental and the chances of doing so will also be greater.
To the first, it is recommended that you set yourself specific and short objectives in time, so that it is easy for you to achieve them and you feel more confident that your self-discipline is being created..
It is important to know what the barriers that derail your self-discipline: lying on the couch, watching TV, listening to music, playing sports, etc. All these distractions will have to be avoided when the moment of doing something out of obligation approaches. That is why it is important to identify them, to facilitate the path towards our objectives..
Self-discipline doesn't happen overnight. You have to go little by little, making sure that you are achieving goals. The moment you get where you want, you must propose other greater ones, and so on until you achieve all your goals.
If you get stuck at some point and can't continue, don't give up and stay where you are..
The level of self-demand of each one is key to get where we want. Therefore, if we take it as a promise to ourselves that we must fulfill, it will provide us with the necessary energy to work and get where we propose..
We should not make big promises, but small ones that over time will add up and make us overcome all those obstacles that stood in our way..
Reward your effort, that will make you enjoy your life much more. Think of the satisfaction it gives you to have met your weekly or monthly goals, and indulge yourself at the end of your work to go out and celebrate as you wish. Without a doubt, this will motivate you to fight for your goals, and therefore, to continue building your self-discipline.
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