How's Our Self-Discipline Going...

 

Few years back, I gave a friend a heads-up that my next blog thread will be about SELF-DISCIPLINE.  BUT I ended up aghast with his reaction WHEN he retorted, 'WHAT A BORING TOPIC".  Today, I stand on my feet and I'll insist to push this as our thread at least for today because I feel this permeates and spans multiple facets and phases of our life.  In short, it is baseless and unreasonable for me to throw this topic under the bus for now📗📙📘

Frankly, one of the most important life skills we got to develop [especially for those just about to scratch the surface] is our SELF-DISCLINE skills.  YES, it sounds like a superpower.  Years back WHEN my life was kind of topsy-turvy, I started to take SELF-DISCIPLINE on a serious note.  LIKE HOW?  I started to read more and work earlier.  YES, I did declutter and transformed my awful finances then💥💥💥

Today, I'm far from perfect [and NO WAY did I ever dream crazily to be perfect because that will NEVER be]  BUT the stark difference is that I did learn a hell lot.  And here's the thing.  If we DON'T develop that SELF-DISCPLINE, it will likely trigger and cause problems to arise.  Name it.  Health problems, distraction, procrastination, financial problems, clutter, things piling up and overwhelming you, name it and this goes on and on💚💛💜

YES, it's an important skill to develop BUT most people DON'T know WHERE to start.  SO HOW?  NOT to reinvent things, I did read from experts that STEP Numero Uno is FINDING MOTIVATION.  HOW do we even get motivated in the first place?  Most of us DON'T even want to think about our lack of discipline, let alone take a bunch of actions.  For me, MOTIVATION came from realizing that WHAT I was doing WASN'T working❎❎❎

Our takeaway:  One confession I can share now is that initially, my trying to be disciplined, I was doing it "HALF-ASSEDLY" and that resulted in me feeling bad about myself.  Being wholly undisciplined was causing me pain way beyond I thought.  And WHEN I realized that I was then totally off-track, I realized that WHILE I will be threading a long road to trek, let me take the first small steps towards reinforcing my SELF-DISCIPLINE😌😌😌