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?

you are going to wait until the conditions are just right, you’ve already lost the battle because when you want to do something, you are not stepping out of your comfort zone.

Inaction and making excuses are identical twins; there is no difference between them because they both lead to the same destination—failure.

You are the only person capable of changing your life—no one can do that for you.

the deeper you get into something, the more you realize how much more there is to learn about it.

Inactivity leads to one place—failure.

The fear of failure is why people don’t like change, but the reality is that failure is not final—it’s not the end of the world if you don’t get it right. All successful people fail at some point in their lives, but they use their mistakes to make better decisions in the future.

Self-discipline is about endurance.