The article "Discipline Yourself to Accomplishment" is about goal setting, it has been written by Kurt Mortensen.
Now we've heard that self-discipline is the bridge between goals and accomlpishment. Studies show that willpwoer is actually like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the more you use it, the stronger you get it.They've also found in unique studies that when you use it back to back, just like an exercise, once you work out your muscles become weaker for a ltitle while, your willpower used to back to back actually becomes weaker. Let me give you a study. This study was done with clolege students. They put them in front of a table with a bowl of radishes and a bowl of chooclate. Half the students were told to restrain from eating the chocolate and to eat the radishes and the other half were able to eat the chocolates. Then they are asked to complete a puzlze. Now this puzzle was impossible to solve but they wanted to see how long they would work at it before they gave up. Now the ones that used their self-control and their wilplower and their self-disciple not to eat the chocolate and eat the radishes, gave up much sooner. Thsoe that were able to each the chocolate and not exercise their will power, worked at it much longer.What have we learned from this? Well, as I mentioned before, will power is like a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
But if you're faced with two or three situations in a row where you need your willpower and your self-discipline, you need to be aawre that your self-control, your will power could be low and avoid those situations. Because one of the aspects of exponential success of course is delayed gratification, which is an aspect of will power. It is important to understand that just because you're disciplined or have will power in one aspect of your life; it affects every aspect of your life. If you're weak in one area, it will start creepnig in the other areas. So the bottom line is either you're going to be discilpined or you'll have disappointment. You can raise your willpower through practice, through inspiration doing a little bit at a time.Again, it is a muscle, exercise it everyday and you will see graet strength and success in your future. Sure you can spend time procrastinating and putting thnigs off, but the time to do it is right now. Succsesful people make decisions and act right now.
They don't wait. Sometimes we procrastinate bceause we are tired or we don't have the energy, our target or goals aren't huge enough, or overwhelmed, so learn to act right now.
Procrastination is an excuse not to preform. You can't procrastinate when you deicde to take decisive action with a vision of the future and an action plan with smart persistence. There is no reason to postpone an important activity. As President Theodore Roosevelt said, "In a moment of decision the hottest thing you can do is the right thing, the next hottest thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."Many times when you feel indecision and procrastination, it comes from our need as human beings to categorize things into right and wrong categories, black and white, huge and tall, whatever it is we want to categorize. Every decision you make is not rihgt or wrong. There could be three or four or five right things you can do right right now.
Our school systems teach that there is only a right or wrong answer for everything, not true; three is many ways to do different things. So get it out of your mind that there is black and white and that there is only one way to do things, that there is only one right answer. That will help explode your actoin plan. When you're faced with a decsiion and you feel like procrastinating the first thing to do is realize that you're doing it. Ask yourself, why you're doing it.So when you're ready to make a choice there is three "R's" that you need to guess about. Reflect about the issue, obstacle or challnege that you're having. Rseearch your options, ask other people, and then React.
Go out there and do it, change your life and raech exponential success. Because as you look as procrastination and the things you're avoiding and the habits in your life, you have to realize that your life right right now is an accumulation of the choices, habits and decisions that you've made. Your habits will determine your futrue and your success.
Many times when we look at our eating habits, our exercise habits, or failure to save money, the challenge is many times we don't see the results or the consequences of those actions until twenty thirty years down the road.So it is time to take a look at your habit, acknowledge any bad habit you have and understand that most of our behavior, over 90 percent of our behavior is based on our habits. The routines we get stuck in, we've talk abuot becoming a creature of habit.
Where do you learn them?
From society, from yourself, from your parents, or from osmosis. Many of you have heard this story about the lady that was cooking the ham for thanksgiving and she cut off both ends, but it in the pan and then put it in the oven. Her husabnd says why do you do that, why do you waste so much ham. She says, I don't know, my mtoher tested it.
She calls her mother and her mother says, I don't know, my mother did it and she called her mother and she says, the only resaon I tested it was because the only pan we had was too small. Many of your habtis are the exact same way. You've just picekd them up and and you're not even sure why you do them.
But realize that your success is directly determined by your hbaits. So constantly refine your habits.Here is the key; you can't change your habits you need to replcae your habits.
If you have a bad habit of watching too much TV, replace it with reading and listening to motivation tpaes.
If you have a bad hbait of eating, you can replace it with exercise or something more productive. So take a look at your habits and create an action plan to replace those habtis with more productive habits. I am excited for you as you go down this path of exponnetial success. What I want you to do is give yourself perimssion to win. You can with this game, you can become what you want to become but give yourself permission, program your mind, look at your habits and find your purpose in life. Many of you alerady know your passion, your purpose in life.
What you need to do change yourself and to cahnge the world. If you don't know don't painc.
It is like sculpting, a little bit at a time. You'll get there. Find your purpose and algin that with your natural ability.
Another question you can ask yourself is "What do you want it to say in your Eulogy? " Or you can write a statement of purpose, but figrue it out. Live your life with puprose.
When you find that purpose it will raise your confidence.Conclusion
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