from, and must remember that you can return there (or to a worse place) in a flash.
Super villains, obstacles and resistances to discipline are there to test you. They are a way for you to measure how much you want what it is you want. If you really want to achieve something, none of them will be an impediment for you. But if you give up, you did not want it enough, and it would be best to give it to someone who appreciates it more. Now, if you defeat your opponents, you do are not really defeating them, but rather triumph over yourself. You recover your life and its meaning. Discipline is the reminder of what you want.
“Leaders are those that do what others are not willing to do, even though they may not like it. They have the discipline required to do what they know is important and right, instead of what is easy and fun.” Robin Sharma
And these are the enemies, the kryptonite, of discipline:
Procrastination
Low Self-esteem
Impatience
Sloth
Fear
Excuses
…
Do you recognize them? Sometimes they present themselves with a mask of surreal reasoning. All this kryptonite is cured with discipline’s antidote. A good dose of discipline while fasting, before breakfast, and everything will be A-OK. When the excuse comes, you are already working, and your door has a sign that reads: “Do not disturb, I am building an incredible life.” And the excuse will have to go somewhere else with its sad tune.
When you postpone your action, it is often because you do not know how things will go. Act anyway. Start, and then God will have the final say.
☞ Press the Start button.
When you fear not being up to par, not being capable, or not being able, it is because you do not love yourself enough. You will not love your dreams if you do not love yourself first.
☞ Press the Love button.
When you give up before starting, it is because you need immediate results, you do not trust the process enough, you do not trust life enough, or yourself, for that matter.
☞ Press the Blind Faith button.
When you keep telling yourself that you will start tomorrow, and become embroiled in other matters, it is because you are a victim of your own inertia.
☞ Press the Immediate Launch button.
When you feel fear of what people might say, or of failure, of not achieving it, it is because you chose to see the negative, and not the positive. ☞ Press the Optimism button.
When you drown yourself in your own excuses, it is because you want the result, but not the process that leads to it.
☞ Press the Commitment button.
If you do not achieve what you wish, it is not the fault of the obstacles, but that of the lack of commitment.
And where are those buttons? You will surely ask. As if it were as simple as pressing a button and extinguishing all these resistances in a swift stroke. Well, in reality, there is no button to press, but you have something better: a heart to follow.
Touch your heart with this question: Will this lead to what I really want? And, if you are silent enough, your heart will answer sincerely.
Simply follow it. He knows.
The three ideas in two phrases:
1. Self-discipline is a muscle that becomes stronger with use. When you are disciplined in an area of your life, it is easier to be disciplined in other areas, because you recognize the benefits.
2. Applying yourself to daily, simple and mundane chores is the key to start working on complex tasks. As you do one thing, whatever it is, you do everything in life.
3. Every excuse that you can come up with has an antidote that annihilates it, apply it generously. In the end, you will discover that the whole problem is a lack of love.
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