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Jun
16
The Importance of Self Discipline
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If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us. – William Feather
Discipline is a choice not a legacy…
Discipline is nothing more than the process of focusing on any chosen activity without interruption until that activity is complete.
Discipline is something you do and not something you have.
You therefore have the freedom to choose to act with discipline and decisiveness.
To become what others refer to as a disciplined person requires
only that you “do discipline” over and over as a conscious act until repetition makes discipline a subconscious habit.
Doing discipline means that you choose not to allow fatigue or interruptions to become an excuse for inaction or a change of plan.
* Discipline is the ability to stay focused on your chosen action path
without detour, distraction, or interruption
* Discipline is the ability to keep all agreements with yourself
and with others, without blame, excuses or caving into obstacles.
* Discipline is the ability to show up on time, everytime.
* Discipline is the ability to complete important personal or business
projects on schedule and on budget.
* Discipline is the power to keep going forward,
when everything around you seems to be pulling you back.
The result? Discipline generates trust and confidence in yourself,
and attracts trust and confidence from others.
The constant act of discipline magnifies your power to accomplish at least 1,000 percent.
If you put off everything “till you’re sure of it, you’ll get nothing done.- Norman Vincent Peale
Apr
7
We are what we think about
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Proverbs 23:7 states: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
This is not your typical article about the Law of Attraction as this is about how the things that cause happiness or unhappiness, positive thoughts and results or negative thoughts and results affect our lives and who we are. Before you can apply the Law of Attraction you must break out of negative thought patterns.
This blog post is about mind-sets and how these mind-sets affect our way of living either positively or negatively.
According to the thefreedictionary.com a mind·set or mind-set is:
1. A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person’s responses to and interpretations of situations.
2. An inclination or a habit.
If your mind is cluttered with unorganized thoughts it is likely that your living or personal work space is cluttered. If you visualize positive outcomes to situations then most likely you will enjoy the physical aspects of those outcomes.
If you have people in our life who are always complaining and arguing and bringing their negativity to you it is quite possible that their mind-set will affect yours. Although it may be difficult and something that you don’t want to do, it may be best to distance yourself from those people who bring you down, at least until such time that their attitudes have less or no affect on yours.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
ANTs is an acronym that stands for Automatic Negative Thoughts. If my research is correct and feel free to let me know if it isn’t, the terminology was coined by stress researcher and Viennese physician Dr. Hans Selye.
A simple approach to break away from such thinking is as follows: First, NOTICE that you’re trapped in the vicious cycle of automatic negative thinking (ANTs). Then, decide to BREAK THE CYCLE by using a “thought stopping” statement Finally, find something to DO that takes your concentration, interest, and focus AWAY FROM those old negative, vicious-cycle thoughts. (Thanks to http://www.anxietynetwork.com/hstop.html)
Here are the tell-tale signs of ANTs:
Automatic
* You don’t decide to think them. They are like a habit so it may be hard to not think them.
Negative
* They make you feel bad about yourself. For example, “I’m useless”.
Believable
*They will seem true and you may accept them as facts. They are often biased and distorted by your mood.
It is important to catch these thoughts so that you may stop them:
Use your feelings as a cue.
If you ever notice a sudden downturn in your mood, try to identify the thought that caused it
Watch out for events that make you sad
If there is a particular event that often leaves you feeling low, ask yourself why. See if you can isolate any thoughts you had that made you feel bad.
If you would like to break away from self-defeating thinking and developing new ways of dealing with life and getting the things that you want you must realize the following:
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. -Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
So change your state of mind, that is your mind-set and you will change your life.
