Showing posts with label self-mastery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-mastery. Show all posts

How To Finally Take Charge Of Your Life Today

Do you know how to finally take charge of your life and get better results today? Don't assume that once you figure out what to do with your life that others will support you and embrace your efforts. It won't happen because others don't really care about your plans and dreams. They only care about their better life, and if you are not helping them realize it, right now, they don't care.

This is true for the most part with most people. It does not matter if you are talking about your spouse, boy friend, girl friend, sister or brother. Only God or those who love you unconditionally will trust your process without results, for others perseverance without results is foolishness! This is one of the reasons why one of the steps you need to take when you finally decide to take charge of your life is to stop caring about what others think.

You need to stop caring what others think. Why? This is because most people don't care about what you think as long as your action will not get them their own perceived benefits. It seems silly to worry about the opinion of someone you barely know, but it happens all the time. No matter what you do, you're being judged by others. Some people will consider you a fool as long as what you are doing or saying is different from what they would have said or done.. Half of the world thinks you're wonderful. The other half thinks you are a fool. Let it go! Focus and thrive!!!

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the primary obstacle for most people. If you don't fail you cannot succeed! You fail all the time and don't think anything of it. You're seven minutes late for work. You spill your coffee or milk. every day and you know, it's no big deal. It won't stop from drinking coffee tomorrow. Don't forget that the more you make mistakes and fail, the more experience for success you will discover!

Don't get discouraged by discomfort. Don't get discouraged by those who will think that your are not smart enough, humble enough or wise enough to succeed. If it was easy to change, everyone would have done it! Use the discomfort and anxiety that you feel to remind yourself that self-mastery is not easy, but the benefits of taking charge of your life are unlimited! You too can achieve more consistent success, if you take charge of your life today!


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The Pain And Gain of Self Discipline

In life, no attribute, trait or ability is more critical in accomplishing anything than personal discipline. A broad sweep of history and the modern era reveals that the most accomplished in every field had one thing in common: discipline. Whether you're looking at the most renowned philosophers, scientists, politicians, and sportsmen, from Aristotle, Einstein, George Washington, to Babe Ruth, the one thing they had in common was discipline, sometimes called self-mastery.

No matter what you know, if you do not exercise the discipline to do, execute or implement what you do know, you'll accomplish very little. Here are some of the things that discipline can help you accomplish:

Holding yourself accountable
Holding yourself accountable means knowing and understanding that your destiny is in your own hands. You can decide to blame the government, you can decide to blame the unfair system, you can decide to blame everything under the sun, but ultimately, the capacity to surmount all the odds and triumph requires holding yourself accountable. Babe Ruth once said, "you just can't beat the person who never gives up."

Focus: 
Focus means pursuing your dream, vision, and passion until it becomes mission accomplished. Only discipline can help you do that. Without discipline, you look for excuses to give up at the slightest setback. Les Brown said "it's not over until you win."

Being ethical: 
Being ethical is at the centre of our character and integrity. It's about what you do when no one is watching. It's about being true to yourself. Needless to say, without discipline, it's near impossible to follow the straight and narrow path for overcoming temptations.

Being faithful: 
Whether you are looking at being faithful to a cause, or being faithful to your marital vows, nothing in the world prepares you more than self-discipline.

Being incorruptible: 
As a leader, you're assailed by all manners of temptation. You're tempted to be partial, you're tempted to cut corners, you're tempted to reap where you didn't sow. But with iron clad discipline, you can overcome and leave a legacy worthy of emulation.

Learning new things: 
Whether you're looking at learning a new language, whether you're learning to start afresh after a massive setback or learning something as mundane as operating a personal computer, you require discipline.

Reading a book: 
Charlie "Tremendous" Jones is quoted as saying, "The two things that will have the greatest impact on your life are the books you read and the people you meet." When you read a book, you mastermind with hundreds of people, if not thousands. Imagine reading three books in a month, in a year you would have read 36 books and in ten years three hundred and sixty. While reading may not necessarily make you richer, it will certainly make you wiser.

Time management: 
Time is the essence of life. The most accomplished in life are those that manage their time well and channel their efforts towards worthwhile endeavours. Managing time is not something abstract but it's the one discipline that separates those who came, saw, and conquered, from all others.

There you are. First you suffer the pain and after you enjoy the gain of discipline. Archimedes said, "give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." Only self-discipline can lead to the accomplishment of such tall orders. If you want to stand out from the crowd, if you want to leave your footprints on the sands of time, discipline yourself, discipline your mind and with the self-mastery, you'll gain the world.




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