What does it take to stay on the right track in life and business? Your degree of self-discipline will dictate how successful will be in life and business. Tonight we will discuss 10 Ways To Master Self-Discipline!
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Battling weight loss is one of the main challenges confronting people in your United States today. I know tough it is through personal struggles and watching others. Outside of anything hereditary or a physical issue, it’s mainly due to some slack of discipline. It can be through not enough exercise or more than likely bad dieting. We all have funky schedules and life situations that make it hard to stay disciplined with our weight loss, but regardless, it is what it is. And most people will never achieve their weight loss goal, or certain life accomplishments because of their lack of self-discipline. Tonight, I’ll give you 10 practices that can help you become a more disciplined individual, and hopefully send you on a path to success in life and business.
10 Ways To Master Self-Discipline
Know Your Weaknesses
Know your shortcomings (food, liquor, social media, etc).
Own them.
You can’t fix anything until you acknowledge them.
Remove Temptations
Out of sight, out of mind.
By removing some of your greatest temptations. Will greatly improve your self discipline.
Fewer distractions = more focus.
Ditch bad influences to ensure success.
Set clear goals and have an execution plan
Set attainable and incremental goals.
Make sure it’s a solid outline that you stick to.
Don’t just say I want to lose 50lbs. Plan out each week and month how much you want to shed to get to your total goal of weight loss.
Build your self-confidence
Understand that confidence is not a trait that you are necessarily born with.
You have to work on it daily to build.
Some just grasp it a lot faster than others.
Create new habits by keeping it simple
KISS = Keep IT Stupid Simple
Don’t try to build the on the house brick by brick.
Break it into smail doable steps. (Walking 30 min a day or reading the newspaper daily)
Eat often and healthy
Eat every three hours.
Constantly put gas in your tank.
Low blood sugar makes you lethargic and tired, constantly put healthy food and snacks in your system.
Change your perception about willpower
Make believe you are superman or superwoman.
Put yourself mentally in a place where you can’t quit or fail.
Will yourself to be unstoppable.
Give yourself a backup plan
Plan B doesn’t mean you aren’t focused on the Plan, you are just acknowledging that shit happens.
In the military we constantly make contingency plans to adjust to sudden changes.
Your don’t want rain to stop the picnic, when you can just order a few tents just in case.
Whatever you do, just don’t settle on quitting or stopping.
Reward Yourself
Sometimes a pat on the back or a good job can go a long way when you are working on a major task.
Little reward or gifts can keep up morale or enthusiasm when you may get stagnant.
Take a day off or go shopping to make you feel good about your accomplishments.
Forgive yourself and move forward
Don’t major in the minor!
Make your mistake, address it, learn from it, and move forward!
Beating yourself up too long hinders you from moving forward.
Just know you failed, but you aren’t a failure.
Drive on!!!
Tip
Thinking About Leaving Your Job?
Don’t look into replacing your income, or your take home pay, but instead replace your fixed living expenses
$50,000 Wages
$35,000 Take home pay
$20,000 Living Expenses (Mortgage, Utilities, Groceries, Daycare, Gas, Etc)
Replace That - Become comfortable until you grow it to your take home pay.
Conclusion
The degree of your success is business correlates the most with how discipline you are in life and business.
