The change we all need to succeed is discipline

Everyone at the beginning of the  year set out some goals to achieve, maybe yours is to  lose some extra weight or pick up a new skill of some sort. You might have realize  by now that the second half of the year is already here and like most people you realize you haven't fulfilled any of your initial  goals  only to plan to set them again the next year

Or you might be just  like me and set out reasonable goals at a reasonable time frame say in 3 month, learn how to bake a cake , but you latter realize  humans by nature are great at procrastinating, and no matter the time period you set you ended up not accomplishing your goals.

Though your goals  might loos simple enough, you ended up not succeeding. Why ? .The answer is simple, you either lack the information to succeed or you lack the key ingredient to the soup of success which we talk about today called DISCIPLINE.

Take an illustration, you plan to reduce your weight over the next 3 month, to do that you dispose all the junk and fatty food in your refrigerator. You thought you had come up with the perfect plan to reduce your weight only to discover you ended up buying the junk food you had disposed the next time you visited the supermarket. 

What went wrong ?

We all could resist the temptation to do stuffs provided  the temptation is not presented to us on a platter of gold, take for example a lot of people don't go robbing banks because they know it quite impossible to escape or watch pornography in church or with family, but when presented face to face with temptations it takes discipline to effectively resist the temptations needed to accomplish your goals.

So what is DISCIPLINE ?

Discipline is what keeps you from eating the extra cookie, all because you want to lose extra weight, It what helps you to fulfill your goals by keeping you going  even though you feel like slacking off . A lot of people says i just don't have a disciplined  spirit and that is correct, no one was born discliplined. Bill gates wasn't born reading a book every week or Mozart with the power not to sleep a day until he practised his music .

 The word discipline came from a Latin word meaning ' teaching', 'learning' from 'discipulus' meaning 'pupil' which means everyone learned  to be discipline like a student learning algebra or English, all you need to be learn how to be disciplined is  some sort of a teacher. A teacher doesn't actually means a person though an individual  will help you to be discipline, anything you can learn from or gain valuable tips or information from can be regarded as a teacher such as nature itself.

How to learn to be disciplined

To be disciplined, you need to learn how and train yourself to be disciplined, not only learn how you can loss weight by exercising or learn to play the piano,  you need to train to be disciplined. Learning what to do is the easier part actually training to become,  seems the harder part and a lot of people who are not disciplined actually failed the training, they have learned how to be disciplined but failed to integrate the training into their daily lives.

No one can  make you disciplined, only teach you how,  and encourage you to, surrounding yourself with disciplined people or people who can encourage and motivate you by pushing your spirit to it limit will help you to achieve the discipline you need.

So why don't you plan to be discipline today, we all like to praise Einstein or Shakespeare today, but the truth is  they all accomplished whatever they did because take took steps to be disciplined. Instead of planning the craziest goals for the second half of the year why don't you plan to take steps in order to be discipline,  apart from it helps you to fulfill your goals and ambitions , disciplined individuals are highly esteemed in the world today just like we all highly esteem Einstein or Mozart.