Consider These Steps to Mastering Self-Discipline For Your Best Life

As we discuss and share ideas on Self-Discipline this month today we want to ask you to consider these steps to mastering self-discipline for your best life.

You see we believe that anyone can master self-discipline if they really want to. Even in the process of practicing to develop more self-discipline, it will make a huge difference in your life. You learn to control your impulses, desires, and wants so that you can stay focused on achieving your long-term goals.

Let’s check out eight steps to mastering self-discipline that you can start using today.

1. Know What Self-Discipline Is

Definition - “Self-discipline is the ability to control yourself and to make yourself work hard or behave in a particular way without needing anyone else to tell you what to do. Exercising at home alone requires a tremendous amount of self-discipline.” - https://www.collinsdictionary.com/.../eng.../self-discipline

Sometimes it’s hard to become self-disciplined for people because they don’t know what it means. They think it’ll take away all the fun from their life. On the contrary, all being self-disciplined means is that you don’t allow distractions or short-term temptations or desires to get in the way of reaching your long-term goals, dreams and desires.

In fact, I believe that self-discipline allows for freedom in life because of the clarity on the goals I really want, I know my why and these things get done each and every day. All the things I don’t really want stop cluttering up my day.
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2. Set Clear Goals

To be successful in anything in life, you must have a clear WHY for doing it. We wrote about this here - https://wendybottrell.weebly.com/.../what-motivates... Your WHY, in this case, are bigger than your goals. Perhaps you want to start exercising every day? Maybe you need a process to finish a work project? Whatever it is, create the goal using a very specific language. Your goals - the results you are looking for, will be your why and your inspiration and motivation going forward. We wrote about using motivation to create your habits here - https://wendybottrell.weebly.com/.../stay-motivated-by...

We wrote about creating fitness goals here - https://wendybottrell.weebly.com/.../three-solid-tips-to...

3. Know How to Achieve Your Goals

Once you have a clear WHY and begin to set a goal, write down exactly how you’re going to achieve it. Write down every single step it will take for each goal that you’ve set, then put it in your calendar. Schedule it as if you’re going to do it and schedule it realistically. Keep in mind how long things really take and give yourself enough time - as well as a cushion.

I produced a video where I flip the whole paradigm of goal setting on its head and look at goal setting from a different angle. You can check that video out here - https://youtu.be/ELOqFZPb-fc

4. Know Your Weaknesses

If there is something that will distract you, now is the time to admit it. For example, if you want to get up an hour earlier each morning so that you can go to the gym before work, but you never can fall asleep before midnight, why not practice going to bed earlier. How you ask? Each night begin to get ready for bed a minute earlier on a consistent basis and very soon you will be going to bed at a time that will allow you to get up at a time that will allow you to go to the gym or exercise in the morning. Until then begin to exercise at a different time so that your goal is achievable.

5. Learn How to Prioritize

The other thing you really need to practice and learn to be good at when mastering self-discipline is how to put things in the right order so that there are no bottlenecks. It’s sort of like realizing that your toothbrush should be in your bathroom so that you don’t forget to brush your teeth. Things must fit together simply. This takes practice, as well as trial and error.

6. Track Everything

To get better at self-discipline you’ll need to track everything. That’s the only way you know if you’re doing better or not. Get a journal of some kind (the kind you’ll use is the best kind) and write it in each day to record your progress and feelings about various situations.

7. Get Accountability

One thing about self-discipline is that eventually, you need to be able to provide accountability to yourself. For now, you might want to find a support group or a friend to talk to about your self-improvement goals so that you can work together.

8. Improve

As you track and measure your progress and are accountable for your promises (to yourself and others), you can find areas where you can make improvements. Self-discipline is something you get better at with practice.

Truly mastering self-discipline is mostly about understanding what it is, what it means, and the benefits of doing it, and then practicing it – every day. You may not be perfect but the more you succeed, the stronger you will become and the better you’ll be at being self-disciplined in the healthiest way.

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