Self-Discipline

It’s not about how hard you fall, but how fast you get back on track. The longer you stay down, the harder it will be for you to grow and achieve success.

The if-then statement should be executed regularly though. Only constant practice will enable you to build the association between the trigger point and the concrete behavior that you want to exhibit.

Friedrich Nietzsche has defined it, “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

when our goals seem too far away to reach, it is our values that see us through.

An effective way to keep you motivated and well-disciplined is to spend some time visualizing your desired results and end goal.

you have to visualize how you’d like to be seen or where you’ll be weeks, months, or years from today.

In psychology, this is called “temporal discounting” or the phenomenon in which the subjective value of some reward loses its magnitude when the given reward is delayed.

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” -Rumi

Often, the best feeling of success comes from when we’ve decided to push ourselves to the limit – to the point of breaking – and eventually reached our goals.

How you will respond will determine your failure or success and, if you’re lucky, then you just might get what you truly want in life.