Discipline is the ability to push yourself forward, stay motivated, and act, regardless of how you feel, physically or emotionally.
According to Brian Tracy: “All successful men and women are highly disciplined in the important work that they do. All unsuccessful men and women are undisciplined and unable to control their behaviours and their appetites. And when you develop the same levels of high personal discipline possessed by the most goal-oriented successful people in our society, you will very soon begin to achieve the same results that they do. All great success in life is preceded by long, sustained periods of focused effort on a single goal, the most important goal, with the determination to stay with it until it is complete. Throughout history, we find that every man or woman who achieved anything lasting and worthwhile, had engaged in long, often unappreciated hours, weeks, months and even years of concentrated, disciplined work, in a particular direction.”
Lack of self-discipline is one of the things that hold us back from accomplishing what we want in life.
Theodore Roosevelt once said: “With self-discipline, almost anything is possible.”
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
― Bob Moawad
The Bible is obvious that self-discipline will always deliver the desired results.
Hebrews 12:11 (NLT) No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.
Proverbs 25:28 (ESV) A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
2 Timothy 1:7 (NLT) For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (AMPCE) Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but [only] one receives the prize? So run [your race] that you may lay hold [of the prize] and make it yours. Now every athlete who goes into training conducts himself temperately and restricts himself in all things. They do it to win a wreath that will soon wither, but we [do it to receive a crown of eternal blessedness] that cannot wither. Therefore I do not run uncertainly (without definite aim). I do not box like one beating the air and striking without an adversary. But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit].
I conclude with: “Self-discipline is extremely valuable, especially for entrepreneurs. If you lose everything, but you still have self-discipline remaining, you’ll get back everything you lost and multiples times more.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.