Getting What You Want……….Success
My father used to say in such a nonchalant way, “It’s just discipline”. As if discipline itself was the easy part; not requiring any personal motivation. It seemed to me, discipline was the hard part; the part that seemed to me to take tremendous effort. At some point, as I’ve gotten older and see all the things I haven’t accomplished that I’ve decided I really want to accomplish, I can see that discipline really is nothing more than doing the same thing over and over everyday; like brushing your teeth. If you can make a habit of it, the work of it becomes so simple; after a while, it can even be done without thought. You go on automatic pilot, so-to-speak. I once received some great advice that I’ve made into my personal goal: I intend to implement as my discipline the writing at least 1000 words a day. My thought is, if I can make ‘writing’ my personal discipline, a very convenient result of that discipline will be a never ending supply of original content for my websites at the very least and probably the potential for some really creative stuff for a personal blog one day. I began this practice just last week and already the writing is becoming easier. Just like whenever I’ve taken up a new exercise regimen like running daily, I find myself dreading getting started but already I am beginning to “know” how good it feels once I just jump into it and I can already sense that if I just keep it up, —- if I just force myself to never miss a day of it, it will become an “automatic pilot” thing for me. And so the self-confidence grows…