Discipline
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure" said by Gray Ryan Blair.
Behind every great achievement in
anyone's life lies discipline. We see this in every human endeavor. In the field
of sports we see this repeated again and again. Outstanding sportsmen spend all
their time practicing. In the process many of them make so many sacrifices which
ordinary men and women are not willing to make. The same is true of businessmen
who build up fortunes. Most often we see only that they achieve, but once we go
behind the scenes we see that they have put in a lot of discipline. We all have
read of great musicians, writers and inventors who have credited or discovered
breakthroughs in human achievement. Invariably they have said that they owe all
their success to discipline.
Teaching Discipline |
Discipline is the art, where
having determined where we want to go or what we want to create or discover, we
stick to our goals whatever the disadvantages until we achieve the goal. Though
there are other meanings of the word, this is what concerns us most. We find
many applications for discipline in our daily lives; ranging from doing our
homework to building up our physical fitness to make sure we join the soccer
squad. If we look carefully at the periods of failure in our lives, we will see
that in almost every occasion when we failed, it was due to lack of discipline.
Hence both in the areas of success through discipline and the lack of success
through the lack of discipline, there are many examples for us to refer to.
Since a life lived with discipline
can offer us much, it is worthwhile discussing how it is to be done. First we
have to be sure of what we want to achieve and how much we want to achieve it.
If one is obsessed with wanting to succeed in a certain area, the chances of attaining
that
want is so much more. To do this, one has to dwell on the want through visualizing
it happening. The second step is determining what has to be done to attain that
want. This will come to mind naturally if one's want is a sincere and serious
one. Hence if a man wants to join the national soccer squad, he must really
want to and if he does, he would know what he has to do to get there. The same
procedure applies if one wants to write a book, or own a successful business or
top the school in English literature. The final step is the discipline to do
and keep doing what must be done until the results appear.
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