Building motivation & self discipline

FORMING CONSTRAINTS

Based on the previous chapters which you have gone thru, now you have identified your own positive and negative habits. Now write below some activities which you always love to do, its like while performing those activity you wont get bored. You will be eager to perform those activity, It may be eating, playing, reading, singing, listening to music, watching television, chatting, surfing net etc.., it may be any activity you eager to do. List out such activities which you like to do as priority. Like below

1. Listening music
2. Watching films
3. Playing chess etc..,

Please follow as below simple steps

1. Start to perform one activity (which you love to do) from next day on a same time schedule everyday.

If u love listening music, start doing that from tomorrow on a time schedule say at 7.00am. Everyday at 7.00 Am start to listen music, there is no end constrains, listen to it till you like it, till you have any other work. It may be 10 mts 30 Mts or even 1 hour.

2. After a week, close the activity within a time constrain.
Everyday 7.00 am to 7.30 am - listening music.
3. Like above implement a time schedule for all your activities you love and perform.

4. Continue all your activities you love to perform in a time schedule for a month. Then insert the activity which you have to perform (which you feel difficult to do) in between and implement the same for all the activities.

Above is a simple strategy to implement self-control and discipline within us. The above actions will make your mind free and you learned to perform self control. Self control and discipline play a vital role for achieving whatever we want. By implementing this self control we can execute what we have planned. Almost all religion and culture tells us to maintain discipline and self control. For example fasting and timing prayers are some of the techniques to implement the self-control over our self.

To develop and strengthen our powers of self-control, so that we can resist wrong desires and bad habits, and therefore “guard against evil” (extract no. 1). In fasting, by refraining from the natural human urges to satisfy one’s appetite, we are exercising our ability of self-restraint, so that we can then apply it to our everyday life to bring about self-improvement.

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