Self – Discipline and Success

It is said that the most rewarding things that you can do to improve your life, is often the most difficult to do. Since they require patients, and being able to continue to do something even when it gets tough. Since, we can get the most satisfaction from working on something over time, remaining determined and seeing something, which you truly want, flourish in your life. We all have experienced that kind of reward in our lives. In addition, often we learn from childhood that working hard gains results, no matter what sort of household we were raised in we learned at some point that even though working is tough we find reward in some from. For instance completing an art project, we have been working so hard on to finally be completed and praised. Alternatively, that time in gym class you just about managed to do a cartwheel in front of everyone. The sense of recognition and reward is like a drug. It can benefit you and be your downfall. Since even though working from greater reward is great, when offered a quick reward, which can be self-compromisable, they often just take it. This leads to a feeling of dissatisfied, since that sort, reward was not going to give you those long-term benefits. That is when we need self- discipline to control one's impulses to give into temptation, to remain faithful and to carry one working on what it is you're working on even if it is a struggle. In today’s clarity blog, we will be exploring how self-discipline is an important factor to success alongside offer factors.

In the bible, when Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights in the Judaean desert. Satan had approached Jesus tempting him with ‘water’. Jesus knew it would be a sin, since God commanded Jesus to fast and pray. Jesus refused his temptation, since Stan had no power over him and by taking that water would have proved he did. This Christian teaching, taught people not to go against what they have been doing even if it is tough, not giving into simple temptations and giving up your power. This is a prime example of how with strength and determination, one must have self – discipline to truly preserver. The second we give into short term temptations, we are portraying ourselves, and the potential we have within.

Regardless of whether you identify as a Christian or not, we can learn from his teaching. Consider our lives, and the times when we receive temptation to get out of a rough situation for temporary gratification. For instance, having to decide either to choose keep to your diet routine and with the excursive, or take that offer a friend gave and go out for a meal and completely binge. The temptations in that situation may be strong, because you may be desperate to try something other than lettuce and your thoughts are wrestling with each over. However, that person if they choose to binge is only going to feel depressed and go into old eating habits. They remain disciplined and purge through, then that small bit of temptation has no power over them. Food no longer become something, which controls them. This can apply to any scenario involving having to not comprise and perceiver. Rewards can be such a sweet thing. The reason why it feels so great is that our brains are designed to only do something so long as it benefits us. Weather we are aware of it or not, it is a key part to survival weighing up the costs and rewards. In addition, asking ‘what do I get out of it’. When facing temptation, only turn that thing into a negative thing. Therefore, we no longer see reward in the temptation. For instance in the dieting example, it is putting yourself off that pizza. Creating a cold cue, and saying that ‘the cheese looks like dry sand, and the tomato sauce kind of looks like blood’. Just picturing that image will cause yourself to feel discussed. To conclude, do not let your inner devil tempt you. Then if it does seem so, tempting and you are so tired at working at that thing that seems to have no reward in the present. Since that, sense of satisfaction and happiness you feel at the end is far greater.