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5 Tips To Improve Your Self Discipline


Self-discipline could mean the difference between financial freedom or filing bankruptcy, or from having great health and fitness to needing multiple doctors visits for various health issues. Self-discipline, while hard, is essential to have a prosperous and happy life. 

It is often said that the one thing that successful people all have in common is that they have mastered the art of self-discipline, and you can too with these 5 steps. 


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Identify your weak spots

To build and improve better self-discipline, you first need to identify what your weaknesses are. After all, if you don’t know where you are going wrong, how can you improve?

Being brutally honest with yourself can be hard to do sometimes, but it’s important to recognize your bad habits in order to break them. Once you have thought about which behaviors and habits are hindering your progress, and perhaps why you have them in the first place, you can then set to work on improving yourself. 

Start small

Developing and maintaining good discipline takes time and unfortunately won’t happen overnight. This is why it’s important to start small. It is often said that small changes add up to huge results. You need to plan to make the most of your income and use that plan every day.

You will need to create small, positive habits and routines that over time will amount to something big, such as saving a certain small percentage of your paycheck each month. With time and thanks to your new self-discipline, these savings will eventually start to grow, giving you more financial freedom and room to breathe.

Starting small ensures that these new routines are manageable and easier to stick to while making sure that you don’t get too overwhelmed along the way. Creating simple habits such as making your bed or doing a small exercise routine every day will eventually lead to more significant changes in your lifestyle, rendering positive, and sometimes even dramatic results. 

Stay consistent

As you build up your self-discipline over time, it will slowly become more natural for you and will lead you to become disciplined over bigger things. However, you will never be able to get to this stage without staying consistent with the small changes at the beginning of your journey.

Get rid of the ‘I can do it tomorrow’ mindset that is so often detrimental and which won’t bring you any results. As the saying goes – don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today. Try to live by this way of thinking instead and remember that you need to put in the effort every single day to achieve something. Consistency is key.

Set yourself rewards

Self-discipline is hard. There is no denying it. It takes strength to be able to say no to all those things that you want right now, and that could be detrimental to all the hard work and time that you have already put in.

To not fall off the bandwagon, it is important to reward yourself now and then for all the hard work that you have already done. Setting up a reward system will encourage these positive changes even more and keep you motivated.

Set yourself achievable milestones and treat yourself to something small every time you reach it. It’s essential to make sure that these are frequent and small – if you don’t allow yourself a reward for months and months on end, you will end up miserable and unmotivated. 

Write it down

Writing down your plans and intentions, whether that’s meal plans because you want to be healthier, fitness routines or general goals for the month, solidifies your intentions and makes you more accountable.

The simple act of writing your goals and being able to see them in front of you physically will make you take them more seriously. You will also get great satisfaction when you are finally ready to cross off a goal on your to-do list.

Take this as an opportunity to treat yourself to a beautiful new planner and write down all of your long term plans, and small but powerful changes that you can introduce in the short term to help you reach them.

Post written on Hollybeetells.com





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