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Five Steps To Making Self-Discipline Easier

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Declan Ryan Jan 5, 2015 · 2 min read

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Cultivating Self Displine will pay far beyond the effort rquired to attain it – Here are Five Useful Steps to making Self Discipline easier

1. Defeats are just temporary
Don’t allow temporary defeats to knock you off the path towards your goals. It’s easy to beat yourself up for making mistakes, or not getting things done according to your schedule of when you wanted them done by, but it is in fact counter-productive and will hamper you further. Instead, treat these little speed-bumps in life as learning opportunities. Take a brief look to evaluate what didn’t work, apply a new strategy and do things differently.

2. Change Your Perspective
Changing the way you look at being self disciplined may be the most difficult step. Discipline, for many has associations with punishment, but this is a connection best broken. By focussing on the rewards achieved through being disciplined puts it into a different, more positive frame, and can be used for motivation instead of limitation or sacrifice. It’s up to you to use the stick or the carrots to motivate yourself to take action.
Realizing that self-discipline doesn’t limit you, but rather gives you the power to do the things that matter most both in the achievement or goals

3. Take Action Now.
Even the very best of intentions never achieved anything by themselves. You can read and plan and study but without action it is all a waste of time.
Be consistent. Taking even the smallest of steps in one direction every single day will translate into huge leaps forward over three months, six months, a year. Time moves on regardless, are you going to thing about changing your life or are you going to do something about it?

4. Involve Others.
Going it alone is the hardest way to accomplish anything significant, so involve others. Do not underestimate the power of accountability — it can work wonders. Choose your mentorsand supporters carefully (link to sfm community) – make sure they are the type that will tell you what you NEED to hear and not necessarily what you WANT to hear.
5. Be Sure To Reward Yourself.
Keeping yourself slavishly nailed to your task will produce diminishing returns Decide on how you will reward yourself. Developing a powerful vision for what’s possible and working towards it will keep you excited and energized. Reward yourself along the way even for reaching the smallest milestones. Celebrate all the wins. Make it a game and have fun with it!

 

 

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20 reader comments · preserved from the original blog

  1. What a great article! Your first point is THE MOST IMPORTANT! Everything is Temporary! Thanks for a great article!

  2. Hi Declan, thanks for sharing this post. These are all great points to consider but my favorites would be taking defeat as temporary and rewarding yourself. The first point I struggle with. I tend to beat myself up. And the second I am now implementing. If I could add something would be to track your achievements. It is a great motivator to see back at what you accomplished.

  3. Those are great tips, Declan. Self-discipline is where a lot of people struggle, and sometimes it just takes the right tip or strategy to create more focus and stay on task. Thanks for sharing!

  5. All great ideas on how to be more disciplined. I lack in some departments, but we are all on a journey to improve.

  7. I think I reward myself sometimes before I get anything done. (I do love my cookie jar..LOL)

  8. Awesome Post Declan, often we beat ourselves up when we side track from our goals but the determination and discpline will get us there, very well written thank you so much 🙂

  10. I have to play some mental games with myself … and rewards are an integral part of the game!

  12. For sure Luis, journaling your journey is a very effective way to track progress over time. Thanks

  15. Thanks for your comment Sandy – it is those that don’t think they need to improve that need to the most. The journey never ends

  17. I reckon most of us are guilty of that Stephanie, but as Jim Rohn says that’s like having desert before the dinner.

  18. Yes we certainly do that by default – so we have to stop in it’s tracks. Thanks for your kind words

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