To achieve discipline is one of the hardest battles you can and will face. The fact is to achieve discipline is not easy, If you fall down, the way you will succeed is by getting back up. It takes more than will power. The most successful people are the people who have fallen down the most, but have had fought to get back up each time. This battle can take a life time to achieve but it may be the best thing you can achieve. It is easy to speak words, but it is harder to live by your words. But to get up after a fall is the way you must walk if you are to achieve discipline. You will achieve success, but you have to keep getting up every time you fall.
The greatest battle you might face every day is the battle in your own mind. The toughest fights that you could have are the battles with the thoughts in your own head. To win can only take complete determination, more than just the will to succeed. The battle can be very complicated, and the task very sensitive, but to win, that is the road that you will need to travel. You have to continue to learn from your failures and learn all the lessons well. Only by looking carefully at your mistakes, and working out the corrections is how you will succeed. There is no easy formula, but you will succeed, you just have to keep trying, and keep modifying your plan each time you fail.
Look Inside for Your Source
Your source of strength might not come from outside of you, your strength might only come from within. Words spoken can effect you, so you have to learn to avoid being hit by damaging words and thoughts. You have to develop routines to help you to find the discipline that you need. You will find it, but you will need to search skilfully and carefully, and diligently. This is a battle that you fight in your mind daily, and you will fight it every day of your life. But you will win, keep seeing the picture of your success. Keep working within your mind, the battle is within you, within your own mind. But you will win, keep learning from your mistakes, keep getting up when you fall. You will become more and more skilful, you will learn from your mistakes.
The Lesson From Food
You can only become healthy by eating healthy food, Your mind can only become healthy by having healthy thoughts. You have to find out the food that makes you healthy, in the same way you have to find and develop the thoughts that keep your mind healthy. Life can be a series of test, so continue to learn from each test every day. Just keep learning and developing, you can only get to the light at the end of the tunnel if you keep walking. If you change your out look on a situation, then the situation might change, Discipline could be said to be a set of action steps so keep taking the actions that help you to develop your discipline.
M G A Brown (c) October 2014
