Here are some huge takeaway points as you read through this post or listen this podcast:

* In what areas of your life do you need more self-discipline?

* In the area of health, do you need to cut back on eating that junk food so you can reach your health goals?

* For the area of wealth, maybe you need to create a budget or review the budget that you’ve already made in order to get on track to reach your financial goals.

* Maybe for happiness you need a little more self-discipline when it comes to creating more happiness in the lives of others which will create more happiness in your own life.

Hey guys! This week I’m going to talk about a characteristic that people can have that will help them in health, wealth, and happiness. This is somewhat of a special post that I call Trifecta. What is a trifecta? One definition of trifecta from Dictionary.com says “Any achievement involving three successful outcomes”. In most of my blog posts and podcast episodes I focus on just one of the subjects, health, wealth, or happiness, but in the Trifecta posts and episodes I’m going to talk about what it takes to be successful in all three subjects.

This week’s trifecta characteristic is discipline, a.k.a. self-discipline. This is something that you need if you want to be successful at anything in your life. Yourdictionary.com defines self-discipline as “The ability you have to control and motivate yourself, stay on track and do what is right.” The key word that I like in this definition is “control”. You must have control over your life if you want to reach your goals. You’re probably thinking to yourself, “Of course I have control over myself. I’m the one who controls my own life and no one else.” And you would be right, we do have control over ourselves. But far too often we allow ourselves to get off track. For example, if I set a goal for hitting the gym at least three times a week and then after going only two times I decide that I rather go eat a cheeseburger and a milkshake in stead of working out that is a loss of self control and a lack of discipline. If you want to reach your goals you must learn to have a high level of discipline. This means that you do what you say you’re going to do even when there are other things out there tempting you.

So what does discipline look like when it’s applied to health? This would be staying true to your health and fitness goals. Like my prior example maybe you’ve set a goal for going to the gym on a regular basis or maybe you’ve set a goal to eat healthier. You need to make sure that you go to the gym as you planned or that you don’t eat a bunch of junk food so that you reach your “eating healthy” goal.

Ok, what does discipline look like when it’s applied to wealth? This could mean that you keep a budget of you monthly expenses and every other week or so you go back to that budget to review your progress and update different costs or amounts. Staying true to your wealth goals means not going out and making spontaneous purchases that are not in your budget. If you want to buy something that ok just fit it into your budget so that you can still reach your financial goals while also buying the things that you want. For example, there are always new things that I want to buy but I don’t just go out and buy them. First, when I find something that I absolutely want, I look at my budget first and see if I will have enough room in my budget to buy the item that I want. I make sure that I will have enough to cover all of my expenses,