What do you want to accomplish?

This next role of discipline is so simple but really powerful and my personal favorite. I use discipline in this Simplifier Role more than any other.

The first role of discipline I introduced yesterday is to influence how you think, decide, and act. I consider this discipline’s primary role.

I invest a lot of effort into creating ways to help people embrace discipline. I know what the power of discipline does for people’s lives, and I see the damage done by resisting it. I’ve discovered that the biggest barrier to discipline is not discipline itself but how people perceive it.

Your discipline belongs to you. Whatever it is, whatever it becomes, wherever it leads, you are its sole owner. The only one who decides. The only one with authority over it. The only one who can keep it out of your life. The only one who can make it part of your life.

The first role of discipline I introduced this week (The Primary Role) is to shape your thoughts, decisions, and actions. You already do these every day. This role gives discipline a presence and influence on the three primary factors determining your quality of life.

Discipline is an internal force you use to direct what you do, what you don’t, and how.

This next role of discipline is so simple but really powerful and my personal favorite. I use discipline in this Simplifier Role more than any other.

The first role of discipline I introduced yesterday is to influence how you think, decide, and act. I consider this discipline’s primary role.

I invest a lot of effort into creating ways to help people embrace discipline. I know what the power of discipline does for people’s lives, and I see the damage done by resisting it. I’ve discovered that the biggest barrier to discipline is not discipline itself but how people perceive it.

These 7 actions will immediately reconnect you to your discipline. It will not set in motion a habit of discipline that runs without your effort, but it will put you back on the path of discipline so you can take more steps. Try one, a few, or all of them.  

So far this week, we’ve established:

Your discipline feels more or less accessible depending on the day or the situation. But that is just how it feels, not how it is.