Self Discipline
Success won’t be achieved until your priorities have assumed the proper place in your life.
When looking at all the hard things you need to do to be successful, you have to keep in mind
that the word “hard” has a bit of ambiguity. Does hard mean difficult to understand, or does it
mean difficult to sustain?
The secrets to success have been published and discussed by successful people over and over
again, from Norman Vincent Peal to Napoleon Hill, and these secrets can be summarized as
gaining self knowledge,
and concentrating on making that self knowledge
work for you. That is
a relatively easy concept to understand, but it is the second part that makes success “hard.”
Perhaps the core of the problem is discipline, and the concept of delayed gratification. In order to
reap the benefits of applied concepts, we have to endure the tedium of repeated behaviors in the
absence of immediate results. Self discipline
can be considered a type of selective training, creating new habits of thought,
action, and speech toward improving yourself and reaching goals. Self discipline
can also be task
oriented and selective. We should View self discipline
as positive effort, rather than one of
denial.
Contrary to common belief, self discipline
does not mean being harsh toward yourself, or living
a limited, restrictive lifestyle. Self discipline means Self-control,
which is a sign of inner strength
and control of yourself, your actions, and your reactions.
Self discipline gives you the power to stick to your decisions and follow them through, without
changing your mind, and is therefore, one of the important requirements for achieving goals.
The possession of this skill enables you to persevere with your decisions and plans until you
accomplish them. It also manifests as inner strength, helping you to overcome addictions,
procrastination and laziness, and to follow through with whatever you do.
Success requires a sublimation of self to the requirements of others. It requires a passion for
understanding your emotions, your pride, and your priorities, so that you can schedule your time
so as to spend it on what is necessary, not on what is necessarily pleasurable.
Success isn’t achieved until your priorities have assumed the proper place in your life, and that
means excluding those aspects of your life that involve achieving fleeting comforts. It means
cultivating a higher level of growth in your mind and your aspirations.
When the quality of your commitment involves a dedication to respecting the contribution of
those whom you rely on, then it becomes less an act of duty, and more a labor of love, to attend
to the little things in your business that make it possible for your systems to function. The
development of your own character involves participation.
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