Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Discipline

  • Discipline is doing the right thing that is in our best interests even though we don’t feel like doing it. When it comes to our health, fitness, overall wellbeing, relationships, financial security, our passion – we need to do the things that we know are in our best interests even though we do not feel like doing them.
  • It is our natural tendency to avoid pain and struggle, seek pleasure, prefer comfort and avoid any activity that consumes our energy. This is how we survived as a human species and there is no need to feel guilty about. Next time when you feel like snoozing the alarm in the morning, next you feel like eating two more of brownies, next when you want to skip a training session, next time when you prefer to binge watch Netflix over sleeping – reject our evolutionary weakness of choosing  comfort and do it anyways.
  • Discipline is choosing what we NEED to do instead of choosing what we ‘want’ to do.
  • Discipline is doing those things that others won’t do now to have things others won’t have later.
  • Discipline is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.
  • Developing self-discipline is difficult initially. Once we master how to be disciplined, we have freedom to do rest of the things.
  • Discipline is trading our short term comfort for long term freedom and autonomy over our life.
  • Discipline creates freedom—the freedom to do anything.
  • Discipline is prioritizing things that are important and meaningful to us. Majority of the times we need to choose those things that give us long term satisfaction over immediate gratification.
  • Discipline is managing or delegating or even ignoring things that are not important and meaningful to us.
  • Discipline is saying NO to distractions and negativity.
  • Discipline is standing tall for our values and morals instead of following the crowd.
  • Discipline is questioning our self-limiting beliefs that are not taking us further and having the guts to embrace change to become our better self.
  • Discipline is having high integrity, staying committed to our decisions, willingness to sacrifice, ability to focus on priorities, planning and preparing, having faith during tough times, taking action regardless of circumstances.

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~Praveen Jada

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