Feb
17

Why is there a lack of Self-Discipline?

Filed Under Goals, Motivation, Procrastination, Self-Discipline 

Lack of self-discipline is evident everywhere we look. Now why is that? People in general are very nice and hard working but why is it that when it comes to discipline, there are not many people who seemed to have a strong foundation of it?

I figured out that this whole society was built around short cuts. If something didn’t work for us in a short time, it was not worth it. I started seeing signs of it everywhere. Lose 30 lbs in 30 days, learn a new computer language in 24 hours, learn a completely new language in 30 days, build better abs in 5 minutes a day, develop a new habit in 21 days, tv dinners, build a Herculean body in 30 days, fast food restaurants and so on. Now, this is not the only reason that there is a lack of self-discipline but this was one of the biggest factors that I came across.

Hard work, patience, and discipline had taken a back seat. It seemed that people needed to know exactly how long it would take them to achieve a certain thing otherwise they would not start it, shorter the time better it is And marketers had realized that.

This was quite depressing and enlightening at the same time. It meant that it might be easy to succeed if only I would forget about the short cuts and make hard work and discipline my allies. Depressing because short cut way of life had gotten imbedded in my mind and I actually started looking for ways that I could become hard working in 30 days or less. :-)

That is when I realized the first step before embarking on any self development journey. The biggest step, the most important step that many authors fail to mention!

The first step is to develop self discipline!

Table of contents for Self-Discipline

  1. Self-Discipline - the missing link
  2. Why is there a lack of Self-Discipline?
  3. How to build Self-Discipline
  4. Examples of how to build Self-Discipline

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