I had an idea a little while ago to do a little series of posts about things I've learned and applied to my personal and professional life. I'll keep these posts quite short but hope someone reads something they can fit into their own life of they can use to good effect.
Three words I value greatly are ownership, responsibility and discipline and this is the third and last part in a three-part set of posts on each of these concepts, you can see the second part here if you would like to.
Discipline
Applying discipline is hard, I'll admit to that, it often pushes someone to the limit of their mental, emotional and physical endurance and in the moment, when things are the hardest, is when a person may want to pull back...but is quitting really a viable option? If you think it is that's ok, but I tend to think it's not a very good option at all and so I have a never-quit ethos* and it's the level of discipline I apply to my life that upholds that., although I'm also subject to fallibility like everyone else.
Am I always disciplined? If I said yes it'd be a lie, no one is; do I apply discipline mostly and with conviction? Of course, and I've reaped the benefits of doing so in many aspects of life. I'll not go as far as saying my "amazing life" is due to discipline alone but having the discipline to continually apply all of the other elements has been a big part of it.
I'm not just talking about the discipline it takes to get up early in the morning, eat the right foods and do the right physical activity and so on - definitely part of it - but there's so much more.
Discipline is about having the right mindset as often as possible, to be consistent and persistent, to rebound from failure - and see failure for what it is, an opportunity to learn, grow and develop. It's about knowing one's code and sense of honour and integrity and sticking to/upholding it. It's about having the discipline to live one's best life, cease wasting time on senseless pursuits and to be humble, gracious and generous...it's a lot of things and each of them help craft a better life.
Has discipline, having it or not having it, impacted on your life? What was the biggest area of impact and why? Have you struggle to apply discipline to certain things and if so what and why? Comment if you'd like to.
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I am struggling lately very hard with food discipline. And the weight gain/loss that is the result of it.
If I could just eat some twigs and berries and maybe the hind quarter of a cow now and then that would be great.
But instead I just can NOT break away from all the processed fake man made garbage.
On that note it is time for coffee ☕ and a piece of toast. 🍞
It's a battle sometimes but eating right is a pretty important part of staying alive bro. Once the light go out that's it, best do what's required to be healthy and to make sure life is awesome for as long as possible.
I have really been eyeballing the storable food and thinking about buying a used shipping container to bury as a bunker.
Won't be much to eat when the NATO tyrants and Trumpy push Russia into lighting the wick on the nukes. The northern hemisphere will be unlivable they say. I wonder if it will get y'all down under?
I wonder why noone tells it like it is?
Russia is 💯% justified in my opinion. NATO encroaching on them. CIA western funded Azoff Nazi Ukrainians killing Native Russians commiting genocide. Putin waited a long time to go in. It has been brewing for many years. We just can't leave it alone. These fucking politician globalist have been looking to destroy Russia for decades now. The European Union/NATO is a bunch of unelected tyrants.
I try not to say much about it because so many have been mind fucked by the propaganda machine and don't see it from the Russian POV. In My Opinion.
I agree with you and as for Russia, they're not doing anything that's not been done before. Ukraine has long been a corrupt country led by corrupt people, a haven for Nazi's after the second world war too. That doesn't mean innocents need to suffer for it, but that's how war goes and there's a long enough history of mankind to look back on and see that wars have always and will always happen...usually over the most ridiculous things, or pretenses.
Also, your comment about "not saying much". In a world that promotes freedom for boys to wear dresses and people to identify as ponies, or no gender and other fuckassery...is it any wonder that in a world of such freedom one is not free to speak one's mind without fear or retribution? Par for the course.
My whole life has revolved around lists, alarms and little bits of string tied around my fingers to remind me that things must be done, promptly and in order. I suspect it's a reaction to the chaos that swirled around me as a child. Without discipline, I fear I’d've gone completely off the rails, just like both my parents.
Yep, well said.
People see it as a chore or something bad but I apply it to everything, work, relaxation, personal stuff...it helps me better achieve what it is I set out to attain be it finding a relaxing Sunday (discipline to leave work out of it) or to do the hard yards in my physical exercise, work and so on. It's a valuable personality trait.
Sometimes I focus on the reason I'm pursuing a certain goal, what I stand to gain, (and sometimes what I stand to lose), to achieve discipline. It helps to keep me going when it feels hard. Though sometimes the mental load becomes too much and I take a break. I've learnt you can do any task, no matter how difficult, if you have a damn good reason to. But discipline is learnt just like we learn most things we do. No one starts out with 100% discipline. You can even start at 1% and gradually and (painfully) build it up. It takes time.
WHY a person wants to do a thing is often an important factor in how a person works towards it. The stronger the WHY, the better the activities to make it happen.
Life is a journey, and discipline can be taken to the place where we want to be from our place. We can feel difficult to make discipline at the moment. But it is possible to find freedom through difficult or discipline.
In fact, when I was only 11 years old, I thought to be a good entrepreneur. But when the age of 16, I began to change with the oddness of young people. With the pain of love, alcohol was addicted with school guys, and not to make education. If I was able to make a proper discipline, I would have been a businessman today. About 15 days before the exam, I had a discipline to leave everything and to take the first education. But at that time, I'm too late. Because I have abandoned business management and accounting subjects.
Have you ever been undisciplined? How has that affected you and what did you learn?
During my 16 to 24-year-old, my discipline was not good and finally missed to be a good businessman and I was a employee of another company. It was impossible to maintain a mentally impairment due to the unique weakness of discipline during the better. With the seeking past, the misconduct was found in the faults. I gradually learned to keep the discipline without being again.
Yes, often it takes experience to help a person see the error of their ways.
Someone told me a few days ago that I have an unbreakable will, and although I don't think that's quite true, it's discipline that helps me, especially when it comes to work and projects. I don't give up. That's true in other aspects of my life too. The impact is positive, giving me what I need to not give up when something goes wrong. But there are also negative impacts sometimes, stress perhaps.
In terms of personal aspects, I think the area where I have the least discipline is physical exercise. When I stop for some reason, I find it hard to get back into it, which happens to me sometimes.
I hear you on the physical exercise thing, so many have the same thing. Discipline needs to extend right through life; I think it applies to everything we do. But, of course, I don't think anyone is 100% disciplined 100% of the time...not even Richard Clayderman.
The only thing he is disciplined about is the piano.🤣
Don't like me picking on Richard Clayderman?
I have no problem with that. It's fun!
Yeah, I have no problem that you unfollowed me either.
I get that unfollow thing often...
Usually not a mistake tho. 😂🤣😂🤣😳😳😳
I'm referring to Richard Clayderman... there's no problem with him.
I just saw that, I hadn't noticed. I must have clicked anywhere with the mouse, sorry, that wasn't my intention at all.
Greetings @galenkp, maintaining discipline is sometimes an uphill struggle. Over the past few months, it has been difficult to maintain discipline with diet and exercise. Sweets are my biggest temptation. It's hard to give up a cheesecake or chocolate cake. 🍰🎂
The sweet stuff is hard to deny sometimes but I think if a person can be disciplined most of the time, a small amount now and then is ok.
i think if you have a hard and effort requiring goal, you won't be able to do it without discipline, discipline as you say is not just wake up early, it's also don't fall for temptations or something that can stop or slow down your goal... it's also the will not to give up and quit after all the effort and time spent for something
in the study i had a lot of discipline, i had to reach a goal and no matter what, i reached it, no distractions allowed, only rest and relax when it's all over
Nothing to add here, you say it well and I agree completely. A shame more people do have more, or some, discipline; they'd do better...but I guess some people are happy to accept their basic and mediocre lives.
yep, a lot of people just are fine with the low tier, no high aspiration... but who are we to dictate others life? if they are fine with that so be it
Indeed, I wasn't saying that we should dictate, just that it's a waste if their lives, but they probably don't see it that way which is one of the reasons society is so fucked. Not much hope for those growing in this world.
Oh I didn't mean that you said that, it's a way of saying in Italian 😅... That's true, they don't see it that way and if you highlight that aspect, they simply don't care, I had a few cases I tried to straighten, no success, they didn't care
I don't have a lot of hope for society and humanity, I just don't see enough good and positive things amongst so much negative and unproductive things.
I can only agree on that
That bit where you frame discipline as how you think, not just early alarms or clean meals, really hit me. In my world the spreadhseet only rewards consistency, and your no quit approach mirrors what keeps me steady when numbers get messy'. I slip sometimes, but tiny rules like close the day with reconciliations help me bounce back faster and turn stumbles into notes for tomorrow. Motivation is nice until lunch, then diSCipline does the heavy lifting :)
Many thoughts, attitudes and actions need to combine to carry a person forward effectively and with any hope of creating a happy and meaningful life, discipline is one of those things; like spokes of a wheel, eliminate one and the wheel won't roll properly.
Probably my biggest struggle with discipline comes on the self control side of things and eating. I am much better than I used to be, but for that time when I wasn't, I got a bit unhealthy and it has been a long road trying to get back to where I want to be.
Yep, and that's one of the most important aspects of life to be disciplined with.