Discipline

Many of us consider discipline a bad thing. We associate it with being punished or restricted. Yet for many people, discipline is a means of getting what they want out of life. To them it means freedom. Successful people aren’t just born with a special gene. People who are successful in reaching their goals do what they need to do each day in order to get the results they want. Having a lack of discipline means that we don’t take the steps required to achieve our goals.  We can be disciplined in some areas of our lives and lack discipline in other areas. We have stories about why we haven’t reached our goals. We make up excuses for why we don’t get to where we want to be. To be successful people, we need to know what we want, why we want it, and what it takes to get it. We need to let go of our stories. We need to make a plan and commit to it. We need to turn our 'should's' into 'must's'. Then we need to be disciplined to do what it takes each and every day to carry out that plan.