Self-Discipline: Where it Originates

When some might depend on their parents, brother, or mentor etc. To make them discipline, little do they know that been self-discipline is generated from one's "self" (as in the name 'self'-discipline).

How is this possible, you might think.

You might think that because you can't organise your day without doing what is out of what you have planned or you can't sit to read when you want to do so, you just can't do the right thing at the right time which all seems to you that you aren't discipline.

This was how I used to think too sometimes until I read an e-book "100 ways to motivate yourself" written by chandler steve[thou I can't vouch for every point he listed in the book]. In this book I got to understand more about what been 'self-discipline' is.

And in this post I will tell you what I learnt from this book on self-discipline.

     WHAT I LEARNT FROM THE BOOK

In the book I learnt that nobody could discipline you except that you have choosen to be disciplined, which is short means 'if you don't want to be, then you can be'. But what happens is that most time we choose to be disciplined indirectly, forcefully and very relunctantly.

For instance, if you always browse the internet when you are supposed to be reading and you do not know how to really divert your attention from internet to your book until you see your father coming in with cane and then forced you to read.

This shows that you are disciplined to fear your dad( or at least when he his with cane), this discipline towards fearing your dad's appearance makes you leave the phone and read.(Note one thing here, it's not your dad or the cane that make you to read but your fear for the cane push you to read). Which means if you could just divert your disciplines towards the fear of your dad with cane to the fear of missing the chance to read, you could just take and read your book anytime there is chance.

The point in this instance is listed thus:-

1. That you are disciplined to fear been caned than been disciplined to fear missing the chance of reading.
2. That your will power to read is generated within you through the fear of been caned and not from anyone else.

Even though you could later be prone to reading if we keep our disciplines of fearing the cane and dad keep coming to force you to read.

Your dad is the catalyst which fast track your reading habit.

But Its not your father but you that actually determine what to go for.

Another instance:-

If you are the type that would prefer watching movie rather than doing your house chores until the power goes off.

This shows that you are already disciplined in one way or the other to loss or reduce passion for film when light is off which makes you go for something else.

If you are not disciplined to loss passion for film when light is off, you would have waited right where you are expecting the light to be on back.

These two situations shows that you are in control of yourself indirectly, you are disciplined indirectly.

But that's not actually the kind of discipline you want, you want to do the right thing at the right time, read when you are supposed to without your father's interference and also do the house chores at the right time even if their is light.

Very soon am going to write on how you could attain the state of been 'self-discipline'