SELF-DISCIPLINE

While uneducated birds and beasts

Know how to lead regulated lives,
Alas! Man endowed with intelligence
Does not lead a disciplined life.
There are no secrets to success It is the
result of preparation, hard work, and
learning from failure.
Colin Powell, U.S. Army General

Discipline
Training that is expected to produce a
specific character or pattern of behavior.
Training that produces moral or mental
improvement.
Controlled behavior resulting from
disciplinary training
A systematic method to obtain obedience
A state of order based upon submission to
rules and authority

Case 1
Maira' s boss has given her a task which
she must finish by the following day.
When lunch time approaches, her
colleagues ask her to go to lunch with
them. She knows they tend to eat and chat
for a long time. She wants to finish her
work on time, she ought to eat a quick
lunch and come back to the office. Yet she
is very tempted to say yes as she wants to
find out the latest office gossip.

Case 2
Raof had agreed to go to his
grandmother's birthday celebration
on Sunday but when he gets an
assignment that he must submit on
Monday, he has second thought and
thinks of staying at home to do his
assignment.

Case 3

Self:
Abdul has decided to come punctually for
class and has succeeded for 4 days but on
Friday when the alarm clock sounds, he
feels tempted to sleep another 10 minutes.
He thinks, "It's Friday and I stayed up late
working on my assignment. Besides, my
other classmates don't all come on time
anyway."

Self Discipline
Self-discipline is the ability to get
yourself to take action regardless of
your emotional state.
Ability to control yourself.
Self-discipline means that you have
to be very determined to achieve the
goals you have set.

SELF-DISCIPLINE
Saying no to things that will keep
you from reaching your goals and
saying yes to things that will
enable you to reach your objectives.
To be a self-disciplined person, you
have to be able to control your
feelings and desires and also behave
with responsibility without orders.
Pushing yourself to improve.

Analogy
Self-discipline is like a muscle. The
more you train it, the stronger you
become. The less you train it, the
weaker you become.

 Is not negative restraint but rather positive

life management.
It brings selfish desires under control in order to
achieve a greater end.
To work hard; to control your emotions, actions
and impulses; and, to give your best in every
situation.
The loss of self-control can lead to violent or selfdestructive behaviors

Foundation of Self-Discipline
The foundation of self-discipline is the ability to
control ones thoughts, actions, attitudes, and
feelings.
What is will power?
It is the inner strength to make a decision, take
action, and handle and execute any aim or task
until it is accomplished, regardless of inner and
outer resistance, discomfort or difficulties.
It bestows the ability to overcomes laziness,
temptations and negative habits, and to carry out
actions, even if they require effort, are unpleasant
and tedious or are contrary to one's habits

Manifestation of Self Discipline

It manifests as the ability to stick to
actions, thoughts and behavior,
which lead to improvement and
success. Self-discipline is selfcontrol, and it manifests in spiritual,
mental, emotional and physical
discipline.

How Self Discipline will help you

out?
Self discipline will:
Boost your self-esteem
Help you to accomplish your goals
Gives you the ability to change your life any way you like
Help you to be more decisive
Help you develop inner strength

It is required for doing a good job, for studying,

building a business, losing weight, bodybuilding
and physical exercises, maintaining good
relationships, changing habits, self improvement,
meditation, spiritual growth, keeping and carrying
out promises and for almost everything else.

Self-discipline is not:
Self-discipline is not living a limiting
or a restrictive lifestyle.
It does not mean being narrow
minded or living like a bagger. It is
one of the pillars of success and
power.
It bestows the inner strength to focus
all your energy on your goal, and
persevere until it is accomplished.

Why people lack Self Discipline?

A common personality
Characteristic is a desire
for immediate short term
gratification, this means
that rather waiting for
some thing happen in
future most people prefer
to have or experience
something right now
without waiting

The Five Pillars of Self-Discipline

Acceptance,
Willpower,
Hard Work,
Industry,
and Persistence.

Acceptance
Acceptance means that you perceive
reality accurately and consciously
acknowledge what you perceive.

Willpower
What is will power?
It is the inner strength to make a decision,
take action, and handle and execute any
aim or task until it is accomplished,
regardless of inner and outer resistance,
discomfort or difficulties.
It bestows the ability to overcomes
laziness, temptations and negative habits,
and to carry out actions, even if they
require effort, are unpleasant and tedious
or are contrary to one's habits

Hard work
Hard work is that which challenges you.
Being healthy is hard work.
Finding and maintaining a successful
relationship is hard work.
Raising kids is hard work.
Getting organized is hard work.
Setting goals, making plans to achieve
them, and staying on track is hard work.

Industry
Industry is working hard but on time.
In contrast to hard work, being
industrious doesnt necessarily
mean doing work thats challenging
or difficult. It simply means putting in
the time. You can be industrious
doing easy work or hard work.

Persistence
Persistence is the ability to maintain action
regardless of your feelings.
When you work on any big goal, your motivation
will wax and wane like waves hitting the shore.
Sometimes youll feel motivated; sometimes you
wont. But its not your motivation that will
produce results its your action.
Persistence allows you to keep taking action
even when you dont feel motivated to do so, and
therefore you keep accumulating results.

Self-Discipline Example
I show self-discipline when I finish
my chores before playing.
I show Self-Discipline when I accept
that things do not always go my way.

The Five Principles of Self-Discipline

1) It is easier to face difficult tasks than it
is to avoid them.
2) It is more important to do than to do
well.
3) Divide large tasks into smaller ones.
4) Analyze what you did correctly and
what you did incorrectly.
5) Reward yourself for what you did right
and penalize yourself for what you did
wrong.

8 ways to develop Self Discipline

Take responsibility. Realise the fact effort is needed to
achieve any task. Nothing done means nothing achieved.
2. Acknowledge that you will tend to resist change. Expect
to heat the silent whisper of procrastination and laziness.
Persist to accomplish your task anyway.
3. Visualize completing the task.
4. Act. Just do it.

5. Remember your accomplishment. Keep a journal of all

your successes and read it often. The more joy you get in
finishing projects or task the more you will be motivated in
your next endeavor.

 6. Change your focus. Do not focus on the effort

but focus on the pleasure you get finishing
something that you started.
7. Be firm. Remember that the world will be easy
on those who are hard on themselves.
8. Seek to do things that you avoid. This keeps
you nimble and develops the habit of doing what
is good rather than what feels good.
Successful people are people who have the self
discipline to do things that others avoid.

Assignment
Article reading
How can self-discipline help you
achieve your goals as you refuse
to allow immediate desires to
compromise long-term goals and
make choices that will benefit you
both now and in the future?

Reference:
http://www.eruptingmind.com/importance-of-selfdiscipline/
http://www.eruptingmind.com/cultivating-traitself-discipline/
http://www.personaldevelopment.com/chuck/selfdiscipline.htm
http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_00
0006.htm
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/06/selfdiscipline-acceptance/