Greetings Visionaries,
Hope you have been well and prosperous through the month of October 2020.
We hope and pray you are also well and in good spirit and health, unravelling wealth.
This blogpost is for how you can discipline yourself and so that you can reach you goals faster and live a healthier life.
Build Self-Discipline
- Hold yourself accountable and develop the art of self-leadership.
Remove Temptations and Distractions
- The first logical step is to remove everything that is keeping you from doing what you are supposed to do.
- Our brains are built to avoid all kinds of struggle, pain or effort.
- Make procrastinating inconvenient.
Don't wait for the right mood
- The 3 Second Rule: Whenever you are not doing what you are supposed to be doing, count to 3, and then do it. Don't think about it, don't worry, just do it. Do you have to get up and study? 1, 2, 3, and you're doing it. Do you have to have to get out of bed? 1, 2, 3 and it's done. The key is to not think about it, so don't say it slowly, just execute it.
Properly Set Achievable Goals
- Studies for goal setting and task performance state that specific and challenging goals lead to higher performance than easy goals.
- Goal setting is most likely to improve task performance when the goals are specific and sufficiently challenging.
- A good due period will help you be more efficient and effective, especially if you make yourself accountable.
Think Long Term
- Abraham Lincoln once said: "The best way to predict the future is to create it"
- Successful people take action, what are you doing to improve you life right now?
- Based on your current actions, what does your future look like from , 3, 5 and 10 years from now? As soon as you print this in your mind you understand that everything you do today will have a massive influence on the person you become today and this is the best way to motivate yourself to do what you need to do.
Progressively Build Productive Routines
- Big results take time to achieve, but with small consistent actions, you can achieve.
- A great way to get you started is you should wake up at the same time every single day and have a precise plan for what the day looks like, as soon as you wake up, make you bed. This is a great small victory and a great way to get the ball moving. Making your bed in the morning has been proven to increase motivation and productivity throughout the day.
- To get started on how you are going to improve your routine, start identifying areas you'd like to see changes. If you want, you can make a list and group every single daily activity into positive, neutral and negative activities.
Tell us why you think discipline is key?
This blogpost is for how you can discipline yourself and so that you can reach you goals faster and live a healthier life, inspired by Practical Wisdom.
Written by Demy Jozeph
VisionariesHQ
Late October 2020
