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What is Self-Discipline? Definitions

By Remez Sasson

Self-discipline appears in various forms, such as perseverance, restraint, endurance, thinking before acting, finishing what you start doing, and as the ability to carry out one’s decisions and plans, in spite of inconvenience, hardships or obstacles.

Self-discipline also means self-control, the ability to avoid unhealthy excess of anything that could lead to negative consequences.

The term self-discipline often causes some discomfort and resistance, due to the erroneous notion that it is something unpleasant, difficult to attain, and which requires a lot of effort and sacrifice. Actually, exercising and attaining self discipline can be fun, does not require strenuous efforts, and the benefits are great.

True self-discipline is not a punitive or restrictive lifestyle as some people think, and it has nothing to do with being narrow minded or living like a fakir. It is the expression of inner strength and staying power, vital for dealing with the affairs of daily life and for the achieving of goals.

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Do You Need Self-Discipline to Achieve Success?

By Remez Sasson

Everyone wants to achieve success, but most people just wish they were successful and do nothing about it. Others try doing one thing or another, but quit after a while, either because they see that they have to invest time and effort, are afraid of the competition, because nothing happens immediately, or because they are afraid of failure. Usually, only a small percentage acts, persevere and does not give up.

Why some of the people achieve success? They achieve success because they possess self-discipline, among other things. This ability helps them to avoid wasting their day doing things that gets them nowhere. They are able to avoid temptations, such as spending hours on Facebook, sitting hours in front of the television, or jumping from one thing to another.

You need self-discipline to achieve success

Self-discipline equals perseverance, one of the most important qualities you need for achieving success. Speaking of success, I don’t mean just financial success or status, but also success in many other areas other than career and job. Success in diet, in studies, in learning a foreign language, learning a new skill, losing weight, managing your time more efficiently, or changing some of your habits.

There are people who are appalled by the word self discipline. They associate it with self-denial, limitation, pain, scarcity and lack. This is a completely wrong assumption!

You use self discipline not to deny yourself and inflict pain on yourself, but for manifesting inner strength, for avoiding the distractions around you that take away your attention from your goal, and for sticking to what you want to do until you do it.

It is the number one factor for being perseverant. Look at the people around you who succeed in carrying out their decisions, doing efficiently their chores and tasks, and achieving their plans and goals. They all possess perseverance, and perseverance is self-discipline.

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Self Discipline – The Benefits, Importance and Uses

By Remez Sasson

Self Discipline, Its Benefits and Importance

One of the main characteristics of self-discipline is the ability to forgo instant and immediate gratification and pleasure, in favor of some greater gain or more satisfying results, even if this requires effort and time. Self discipline gives you the power to stick to your decisions and follow them through, without changing your mind, and is therefore one of the important requirements for achieving goals.

The possession of self discipline enables you to choose, and then persevere with actions, thoughts and behavior, which lead to improvement and success. It also gives you the power and inner strength to overcome addictions, procrastination and laziness and to follow through whatever you do.

This is a very useful and needed skill in everyone’s life, and though most people acknowledge its importance, yet very few do anything to develop and strengthen it.

Contrary to common belief, self-discipline is not a severe and limited behavior or a restrictive lifestyle. It is a very useful inner power, which enables one to persevere and not give up, in spite of failure and setbacks. It grants its possessor self control, and the ability to resist temptations and distractions that tend to stand in the way of attaining aims and goals. In fact, it is one of the most important pillars of real and stable success.

Acting in the way mentioned above leads to self confidence, self esteem and inner strength, and to happiness and satisfaction.

Lack of self discipline may lead to failure to reach goals, even minor ones, and to loss, health and relationships problems, obesity and other troubles.

Life often presents challenges and problems on the path to success and achievement, and in order to rise above them you have to act with perseverance and persistence, and this requires self discipline. You also this skill to cure and overcome eating disorders, addictions, smoking, drinking and other negative habits.

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Developing Inner Strength While Crossing the Street

By Remez Sasson

What do you do when you are walking on the pavement and wish to cross a small and narrow street, where there are no vehicles, but the light is red at the pedestrian’s crossing?

What do you if all the pedestrians are crossing the street, not heeding the traffic lights? Do you cross the street too, while the light is red, because everyone else is doing so?

Suppose you see all the people are crossing the street, but you stop and say, “I don’t care what they are doing, I am going to wait until the light changes.” You will most probably feel awkward and think that people are laughing at you or ridiculing you, because you are waiting for the light to change. You don’t want to attract undue attention and you don’t want everyone looking at you.

Do you know that you can use this situation to your advantage? You can use this situation to develop inner strength, courage, and decisiveness.

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Quotes on Self Discipline

I have added a page to the website, with quotes on self discipline from various sources and writers. You can read them at:
quotes on self discipline.

Here are a few of the quotes:

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.
Tenzin Gyatso

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S Truman

Discipline really means our ability to get ourselves to do things when we don’t want
Arden Mahlberg

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
Grenville Kleiser