DISCIPLINE

“Discipline is the bridge between Goals and Accomplishment” – Jim Rohn

Have you ever set a New Year’s Resolution for yourself and had every intention to meet that goal or at least try your very best to reach it only to look up one day and an entire year has passed and you're no closer to that goal than when you set it? Don’t worry it happens to the best of us. The problem is that sometimes we fall into the trap of believing that the goal we set for ourselves is too difficult to accomplish or too much for us to handle, when in fact our strikeout has nothing to do with our ability to hit the ball but instead it revolves around our ability to wait for the right pitch…that takes discipline. If you want to lose 100 pounds you can. The only thing stopping you is you. You and your inability to put away the junk food and to exercise regularly…that takes discipline. If I want to write an Oscar winning screenplay I most certainly can because I know the talent is there. What I’m not so confident in is my will power when it’s time to turn off the television or resist the urge for a nap, all in the name of writing, writing, and more writing… that takes discipline.

It's the kind of discipline that comes from having that single goal on the brain constantly, not allowing yourself to be distracted by the “other” things that we indulge in every day. The kind of discipline that fuels your motivation and vice versa, making everything else not associated with that goal…irrelevant.  And lastly, discipline trumps any excuses because a disciplined person won’t allow obstacles to become excuses. So when the new year rolls around and you look back disappointed because another resolution bit the dust, don’t adjust the resolution, look deeper at yourself and whether or not you had a plan and were disciplined enough to stick to that plan no matter what. And that's when you'll be ready to cross that bridge between setting your goal and accomplishing it.

~Cp