The value of Discipline
Author: motivationnews
Behind every great achievement in
anyone's life lies discipline. We see this in every human endeavour.
In the field of sports we see this repeated again and again.
Outstanding sportsmen spend all their time practising. In the
process many of them make so many sacrifices which ordinary men and
women are not willing to make. The same is true of businessmen who
build up fortunes. Most often we see only that they achieve, but
once we go behind the scenes we see that they had put in a lot of
discipline. We all have read of great musicians, writers and
inventors who have created or discovered breakthroughs in human
achievement. Invariably they have said that they owe all their
success to discipline.
Discipline is the
art, where having determined where we want to go or what we want to
create or discover, we stick to our goals and stand by them with
whatever disadvantages until we achieve the goal. Though there are
other meanings of the world, this is what concerns us the most. We
find many applications of discipline in our daily lives; ranging
from doing our homework to building up our physical fitness to make
sure we join the soccer squad. If we look carefully at the periods
of failure in our lives, we will see that in almost every occasion
when we failed it was due to lack of discipline. Hence, both in the
areas of success through discipline and the lack of success through
lack of discipline, there are many examples for us to refer to.
Since, a life lived
with discipline can offer us much, it is worthwhile discussing how
it is to done. First we have to be sure of what we want to achieve
and of how much we want to achieve it. If one is obsessed with
wanting to succeed in a certain area, the chances of attaining that
want is so much more. To do this, one has to dwell on the want
through visualizing it happening. The second step is determining
what has to be done to attain that want. This will come to mind
naturally if one's want is a sincere and serious one. Hence if a man
wants to join the national soccer squad, he must really want to and
if he does, he would know what he has to do to get there.
The same procedure
applies if one wants to write a book, or own a successful business
or top the school in English literature. The final step is the
discipline to do and keep doing what must be done until the results
appear.
There are countless
examples to show how people achieve success in this way/ one example
is the saga of Colonel Saunders. The 65 year old man from Kentucky,
who had a dream to start a chain of fried chicken restaurants all
over the world, to realize that dream, he knew that he needed a
restaurant owner to go into partnership with him to open the first
restaurant and to fry chicken according to the secret recipe the old
man had. Colonel Saunders knocked on 1008 doors before he found a
restaurant owner willing to share his dream. That was discipline. It
is doubtful if many of us would have had the discipline to even
knock a hundred doors.
The old man from
Kentucky is just one example. There are thousands of such which show
that success can come to anyone through the application of
discipline in his life.
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