The Power of Discipline: How to Use Self Control and Mental Toughness to Achieve Your Goals

hen you live in the present, you think about the small steps you can take to achieving your goals instead of focusing on the fact that you are so far from where you want to be. When you don’t live in the present, it is easy to start feeling demotivated when you look at your current situation and start thinking about what you don’t have.

They understand that you don’t need to be busy to be productive.

When your life is spent being told by parents and teachers that you are intelligent and you are encouraged to keep on getting good grades, success becomes the main focus in your life. This starts from childhood and you carry the same mentality into adulthood. An immense amount of pressure is placed on you and you risk experiencing burnout and stress. You also become petrified of failure because you don’t want to disappoint the people who are expecting you to succeed. You then begin working tirelessly every minute of the day to gain qualifications that you really don’t care too much about. Each time you get a new qualification or accolade, does it give you permanent happiness? No, so what’s the point?