02/11/2020
How to Grow Your Discipline Capacity
1. Know what is important:
Take time out to determine what truly matters to your life and chase it- Know what is important.
Determine where you are going and develop a road map to get there. Not knowing where you are going allows you to give attention to the unimportant.
2. Get rid of excuses:
Avoid excuses and procrastination that delay action: No reason is tenable for delayed action.
3. Take Action Before You Feel Like it:
Don’t wait until you feel like acting, act even when you don’t feel like it. Waiting until you feel like it will make you do less.
Think about the consequences of not taking action on your business, family, health and career.
Focus on doing the right thing just for today. Do what needs to be done one day at a time.
Make yourself accountable to someone else in your weak area: Enlist someone to do the follow-up on you just to keep you accountable to doing what needed to be done.
4. Don’t Allow Distractions Distract you:
Give more of your time to executing high value tasks. Don’t waste your time on low value activities.
Employ the crowding out principle as propounded by Brian Tracy in approaching your daily activities. The principle states: “If you spend all of your time on highly productive tasks, by the end of the day, you will have ‘crowded out’ all the unproductive activities that might have distracted you from your real work. On the other hand, if you spend your time on low value activities, those low value activities will crowd out the time you need to complete the task that can make all the difference in your life. And the key to this attitude toward time and personal management is always discipline.”
5. Be Aware of Time:
Be very conscious of time because the time you have is limited. No one becomes disciplined who is not conscious of time. Successful people are conscious of time.
Manage/ exercise control over how you and others consume your time. Time is to be invested not squandered, used not abused, organized and controlled not left to flow about at random.
To Manage your time set expectation upfront; allot time to every activity and stick to it
Set external deadline. Set completion date for every activity. Deadline in which a task must be completed.
Every moment you stay in dreamland is a moment you lose in working for that dream so waste no time dreaming get to work.
6. Follow Through, Even When it Hurts:
Keep doing what needs to be done even when it hurts; develop the willingness to hold on in spite of problems - the power to endure is the quality of a winner.
Be willing to pay the price for your dream and this price involves following through the daily disciplines to achieve the dream.
“Life is constantly testing our level of commitment, and life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never - ending commitment to act until they achieve”(Tony Robbins).
Make commitments to complete the task you have set out for yourself daily. Respect yourself enough to keep to the commitment you have made to yourself at the start of the day.
You can only manage your life well when you manage yourself.
The number of hours you have in a day can not increase but you can increase your discipline capacity so you can make the most of the time you have.
