Self Discipline

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Self Discipline refers not only to your mastery of negative habits which stand in the way of your success, but more particularly to your development and enforcement of the positive habits you will need in order to grow as a person. There is no successful person on this planet who has not mastered self discipline. Most people tend to be attracted to activities that are fun and easy, but the people that have the self discipline to do what is difficult but necessary are the people that enjoy far greater rewards.

The more important things over which you will have to exercise self discipline before you can embrace and use the great master key to riches are:

1. You will have to gain mastery over your tongue by acquiring the habit of thinking first, and then speaking after you are sure that what you say will benefit you and not offend others. A loose tongue is often one’s greatest liability
2. You will have to exercise self discipline in mastering the common tendency to strike back at those at whom you have a cause (real or imaginary) for grievance.
3. You will have to exercise self discipline over all of your emotions, particularly your emotions of love, hate, fear and sex. These are the big four emotions, and they can make you or break you according to the extent of discipline you exercise over them.
4. Your mental attitude needs discipline and control at all times. Lacking this discipline can, and often does, drive away friends and destroy opportunities to get ahead.
5. Failure to exercise self discipline over the emotion of sex probably heads the list of many causes of personal failure. This is the most powerful of all the emotions. The proper means of self discipline of the emotion of sex is transmutation. The control and direction of this great emotional feeling should be directed towards the attainment of worthy purposes such as the fulfilment of ones major purpose in life.
6. Your stomach also needs discipline through the proper habits of dieting and fasting. The need for knowledge on this subject can not be under estimated.
7. You will need to exercise self discipline in relation to religion and politics. Most countries around the world are made up of people of varying beliefs of both religion and politics.
8. You will need to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire. You cannot do this without a practical system. A practical proven system is found in the book "Think And Grow Rich".

Classic personal examples of self discipline are:

• Thomas A Edison who invented the light globe,
• Wilbur & Orville Wright who invented the airplane.
• Helen Keller triumphed over deafness, blindness & dumbness
• Napoleon Hill himself, who invented the first practical philosophy to success

No one ever becomes very wise without the aid of self discipline, and no one ever finds peace of mind and happiness without the strict exercise of self discipline. It is the only means of transmuting sorrow into faith, and it is the only means by which we may reveal and profit by the seed of an equivalent benefit which comes with every adversity and every defeat.

It is the only means by which we may shut out of our minds the deadly effects of past experiences of suffering and unpleasantness. It is the means by which we may discover that other self we carry around with us, that self which has great capacity for belief, and does not become influenced by failure and defeat.

Self discipline is the means by which we may think our own thoughts, live our own lives as we wish to live them, and remain forever free from the evils of fears and limitations, which we have inherited from the dark ages before the dawn of civilisation.

The creator never gives one an asset or benefit without passing along with it the means by which it may be embraced and used. Self discipline therefore, is the means by which the creator provided us with a method of embracing and using the only thing over which we have unchallengeable control, the power of our own thoughts!

It is so easy to slip back into bad habits, and it takes a strong will to master self discipline. If you really want to change and grow as a person, then you have to look hard into the mirror and wake up to yourself. You either make the decision to embrace excellence, or you just become another average person by default. It all starts with a firm decision to raise your standards and to get the very most out of life.

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