If you can put certain activities into routines you’re pretty much guaranteed to succeed in the endeavour to which those activities contribute. Just like if you have a routine of showering every morning you’re pretty much guaranteed to be clean whenever you leave the house. Straight-forward enough, but the difficulty can be in making a [...]
I was so excited to come up with the content of this article! And it was sort of by accident. I have uncovered what I think might just be the ultimate discipline trick – the best technique, free of drugs, hypnosis or behavioral conditioning, to cut out slacking.
Okay, so, you’ve been doing a piece of [...]
If you’ve read about the Inclination Methods you’ll know how to get yourself to do what’s best.
And when you’re well into a project (especially one that lasts months or years) motivation is going to be a less accessible tool for you than ever. That’s when self-discipline, always readily available, comes into its own. No inspirational [...]
As I mentioned in The Inclination Methods, disciplining yourself to get through a task is an effective way to get it done. It’s also damned hard to do. Fortunately there’s at least one technique that can help:
Using self-discipline to save your life
I once heard a story of a man who, lost in a tundra, had [...]
Definition
I say the word ‘self-discipline’ and what do you think of? Disobedient children who need some? Soldiers doing push-ups in the rain? The students who get straight As? A disciplinarian administering punishment? Olympic competitors training at five in the morning?
‘Self-discipline’ and ‘discipline’ alike certainly have grim connotations to them, and, actually, that makes sense. Here’s [...]
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