Discipline - Incorporating and Breaking. 6-1 Principle
From the time you were a kid to the time where you are present today, there's one thing common which is being more talked and stressed about. It's the DISCIPLINE.You get it from parents and then the legacy of reminding you passes on to many others. Teachers in school do 1 thing more diligently and that is to teach you discipline.If you sit down for a moment and think, you will realize that Discipline was always with you every now and then. It's about following or ignoring it that really mattered.Now we all know the positives of being disciplined.Discipline can add happiness to your life, it can allow you to achieve goals by weeding out the distractions in your life, it persevere you through external obstacles that try to stop you from achieving your goals. it reinstates focus over distraction, It gives you the character.More importantly, it makes you feel good and contended. How? I will come back to this.We all as we grow, fail to reflect upon the outcomes of all that we do.Let me be more simple and break it down for you. Assuming you are possibly the most self disciplined man on this planet and you are really doing great in all of it that you do. You get rewarded, you feel good, you are contented. Everything is there for you to feel good and to enjoy.A few months/years later, suddenly the air of melancholy starts surrounding you.There is no trigger. Where did it come from? You continue to be the way you were earlier. But why suddenly this happens to you and you feel not so enlightened and happy as before?The answer is simple. In this race of being disciplined, you become wearisome and dull. You become more and more calculated. You become a highly ordered human being.
Break it. Yes. Break the discipline for a while.
Be more disordered, don't plan things out, be more in present and most importantly do what you feel to do from within. You will now feel more ecstatic, more energetic and that's absolutely magical.Its not about being not disciplined that makes you happy, its about the thought and realization of what would your life be without discipline that makes you happy. We humans needs to learn to break discipline for a short time and make a comeback again to be more disciplined. This will kind of instill a sense of importance and realization about discipline that we learn. And trust me, this is not taught to us anywhere.For me it works as 6-1 Principle or even as 5-2 Principle.Disciplined and focused for 6 days in a week and a thoroughly disorganized person on the weekends.That 1 day you wake up late, bum around the house and never get off one's tail. It's fun that way too.Do try it. It works. It really does.Self discipline is vital for your persistence and perseverance but do not forget to break it at times.The next time you plan to be a disciplined person, don't forget a plan to break it weekly.Discipline is like a bridge. One is your start point and other side is your goal. What lies in between is DISCIPLINE which takes you to your goals. Do it hard but do not forget to break it, take a pause. Sit and look down for a moment. Feel it. Realize it. The moment you re instill the confidence back in being disciplined, you continue with the rest of your journey.
From the time you were a kid to the time where you are present today, there's one thing common which is being more talked and stressed about. It's the DISCIPLINE.
You get it from parents and then the legacy of reminding you passes on to many others. Teachers in school do 1 thing more diligently and that is to teach you discipline.
If you sit down for a moment and think, you will realize that Discipline was always with you every now and then. It's about following or ignoring it that really mattered.
Now we all know the positives of being disciplined.
Discipline can add happiness to your life, it can allow you to achieve goals by weeding out the distractions in your life, it persevere you through external obstacles that try to stop you from achieving your goals. it reinstates focus over distraction, It gives you the character.
More importantly, it makes you feel good and contended. How? I will come back to this.
We all as we grow, fail to reflect upon the outcomes of all that we do.
Let me be more simple and break it down for you.
Assuming you are possibly the most self disciplined man on this planet and you are really doing great in all of it that you do. You get rewarded, you feel good, you are contented. Everything is there for you to feel good and to enjoy.
A few months/years later, suddenly the air of melancholy starts surrounding you.
There is no trigger. Where did it come from? You continue to be the way you were earlier. But why suddenly this happens to you and you feel not so enlightened and happy as before?
The answer is simple. In this race of being disciplined, you become wearisome and dull. You become more and more calculated. You become a highly ordered human being.
Break it. Yes. Break the discipline for a while.
Be more disordered, don't plan things out, be more in present and most importantly do what you feel to do from within.
You will now feel more ecstatic, more energetic and that's absolutely magical.
Its not about being not disciplined that makes you happy, its about the thought and realization of what would your life be without discipline that makes you happy.
We humans needs to learn to break discipline for a short time and make a comeback again to be more disciplined. This will kind of instill a sense of importance and realization about discipline that we learn. And trust me, this is not taught to us anywhere.
For me it works as 6-1 Principle or even as 5-2 Principle.
Disciplined and focused for 6 days in a week and a thoroughly disorganized person on the weekends.
That 1 day you wake up late, bum around the house and never get off one's tail. It's fun that way too.
Do try it. It works. It really does.
Self discipline is vital for your persistence and perseverance but do not forget to break it at times.
The next time you plan to be a disciplined person, don't forget a plan to break it weekly.
Discipline is like a bridge. One is your start point and other side is your goal. What lies in between is DISCIPLINE which takes you to your goals. Do it hard but do not forget to break it, take a pause. Sit and look down for a moment. Feel it. Realize it. The moment you re instill the confidence back in being disciplined, you continue with the rest of your journey.
