Who am I? One question that lead you on a path of discovering yourself and by 20 gave you a fair idea about who you were and were not. Bright but lazy, hard working but average, good but not great. You felt superhuman because you had figured out all your strengths and weaknesses. Self disciplining was your super power and you set out on a mission to right the wrongs in yourself. You lost it. Here may be why.
"Self discipline is when you don't feel like doing something and yet you do it"- society
"Have fun with your work, when it's not, move on"- Virgin mogul Richard Branson.
How we wish the application of the second statement would make us billionaires too. And a handful of them who do, understand what should be disciplined, the ego and not yourself. The definition of discipline in a dictionary is "the practise of training self to obey rules or a code of behavior using punishment to correct disobedience". Now let's frame the very valued, life affirming two word again Self Discipline. How does it sound? Limited right. I am sure each one of you reading this post experiences often or many a times the presence of a higher self that comes as more authentic than all the ideas as the self you ever had. You may call it gut, intuition, God or simply being high. Do you now think that this self can be programmed like a computer and played within the walls of a word with a constraint meaning like discipline to mold in to becoming anything other than what it is?
The core of not disciplining self simply addresses that you will be your best version when you don't constantly discipline yourself to cling to a past built idea about what you should be but acknowledge the adventurous, thrill seeking, boundaries pushing and ever changing optimist self that knows no rigid walls of "discipline". The meaning of Self discipline then becomes to know yourself and change, not to change in order to know yourself. This is possible by disciplining your ego which is as limited as the concept of discipline that the world has construed. Disciplining the egoic tendencies is important because as much as people have chained themselves with the force of external application of rules and orders so have they left themselves untamed because they couldn't differentiate freedom from being free in the dark. With your life that would simply mean to know whether or not you are into a course, a job, a relationship or anything that you desire because it is what your "self" wants or because you are directed or misdirected by the ego which comes with its own handicaps- laziness, esteem, idealism, to name a few.
Real change can only take place when we train ourselves to question rules and behavior using logic and wisdom and not through conforming to rules or behavior using punishment and reward. Richard Branson was not disciplined (in the worldly sense) had it been so the man would have given up when he quit school at 15 due to dyslexia but he surely was motivated to serve people by doing what he loved and only through knowing yourself, you also know your motivation to discipline yourself in the true sense.
The line between the ego and the self is blurred even today when the word Self discipline is focused on. It is still misguiding people in to not questioning the job they dread daily, the commitment both know has come to an end and the life that has now become a command. I went through a period of demotivation while writing this post but I knew that I wanted to share with people what I have realized. I overcame my egoic tendency to procastinate because I knew my motivation, discipline was not required. Here is a book (international best seller "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle) you can download that will really get you started with any change that you desire in life simply by showing that you are not your ego.
Who am I? One question that lead you on a path of discovering yourself and by 20 gave you a fair idea about who you were and were not. Bright but lazy, hard working but average, good but not great. You felt superhuman because you had figured out all your strengths and weaknesses. Self disciplining was your super power and you set out on a mission to right the wrongs in yourself. You lost it. Here may be why.
"Self discipline is when you don't feel like doing something and yet you do it"- society
"Have fun with your work, when it's not, move on"- Virgin mogul Richard Branson.
How we wish the application of the second statement would make us billionaires too. And a handful of them who do, understand what should be disciplined, the ego and not yourself. The definition of discipline in a dictionary is "the practise of training self to obey rules or a code of behavior using punishment to correct disobedience". Now let's frame the very valued, life affirming two word again Self Discipline. How does it sound? Limited right. I am sure each one of you reading this post experiences often or many a times the presence of a higher self that comes as more authentic than all the ideas as the self you ever had. You may call it gut, intuition, God or simply being high. Do you now think that this self can be programmed like a computer and played within the walls of a word with a constraint meaning like discipline to mold in to becoming anything other than what it is?
The core of not disciplining self simply addresses that you will be your best version when you don't constantly discipline yourself to cling to a past built idea about what you should be but acknowledge the adventurous, thrill seeking, boundaries pushing and ever changing optimist self that knows no rigid walls of "discipline". The meaning of Self discipline then becomes to know yourself and change, not to change in order to know yourself. This is possible by disciplining your ego which is as limited as the concept of discipline that the world has construed. Disciplining the egoic tendencies is important because as much as people have chained themselves with the force of external application of rules and orders so have they left themselves untamed because they couldn't differentiate freedom from being free in the dark. With your life that would simply mean to know whether or not you are into a course, a job, a relationship or anything that you desire because it is what your "self" wants or because you are directed or misdirected by the ego which comes with its own handicaps- laziness, esteem, idealism, to name a few.
Real change can only take place when we train ourselves to question rules and behavior using logic and wisdom and not through conforming to rules or behavior using punishment and reward. Richard Branson was not disciplined (in the worldly sense) had it been so the man would have given up when he quit school at 15 due to dyslexia but he surely was motivated to serve people by doing what he loved and only through knowing yourself, you also know your motivation to discipline yourself in the true sense.
The line between the ego and the self is blurred even today when the word Self discipline is focused on. It is still misguiding people in to not questioning the job they dread daily, the commitment both know has come to an end and the life that has now become a command. I went through a period of demotivation while writing this post but I knew that I wanted to share with people what I have realized. I overcame my egoic tendency to procastinate because I knew my motivation, discipline was not required. Here is a book (international best seller "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle) you can download that will really get you started with any change that you desire in life simply by showing that you are not your ego.
Who am I? One question that lead you on a path of discovering yourself and by 20 gave you a fair idea about who you were and were not. Bright but lazy, hard working but average, good but not great. You felt superhuman because you had figured out all your strengths and weaknesses. Self disciplining was your super power and you set out on a mission to right the wrongs in yourself. You lost it. Here may be why.
"Self discipline is when you don't feel like doing something and yet you do it"- society
"Have fun with your work, when it's not, move on"- Virgin mogul Richard Branson.
How we wish the application of the second statement would make us billionaires too. And a handful of them who do, understand what should be disciplined, the ego and not yourself. The definition of discipline in a dictionary is "the practise of training self to obey rules or a code of behavior using punishment to correct disobedience". Now let's frame the very valued, life affirming two word again Self Discipline. How does it sound? Limited right. I am sure each one of you reading this post experiences often or many a times the presence of a higher self that comes as more authentic than all the ideas as the self you ever had. You may call it gut, intuition, God or simply being high. Do you now think that this self can be programmed like a computer and played within the walls of a word with a constraint meaning like discipline to mold in to becoming anything other than what it is?
The core of not disciplining self simply addresses that you will be your best version when you don't constantly discipline yourself to cling to a past built idea about what you should be but acknowledge the adventurous, thrill seeking, boundaries pushing and ever changing optimist self that knows no rigid walls of "discipline". The meaning of Self discipline then becomes to know yourself and change, not to change in order to know yourself. This is possible by disciplining your ego which is as limited as the concept of discipline that the world has construed. Disciplining the egoic tendencies is important because as much as people have chained themselves with the force of external application of rules and orders so have they left themselves untamed because they couldn't differentiate freedom from being free in the dark. With your life that would simply mean to know whether or not you are into a course, a job, a relationship or anything that you desire because it is what your "self" wants or because you are directed or misdirected by the ego which comes with its own handicaps- laziness, esteem, idealism, to name a few.
Real change can only take place when we train ourselves to question rules and behavior using logic and wisdom and not through conforming to rules or behavior using punishment and reward. Richard Branson was not disciplined (in the worldly sense) had it been so the man would have given up when he quit school at 15 due to dyslexia but he surely was motivated to serve people by doing what he loved and only through knowing yourself, you also know your motivation to discipline yourself in the true sense.
The line between the ego and the self is blurred even today when the word Self discipline is focused on. It is still misguiding people in to not questioning the job they dread daily, the commitment both know has come to an end and the life that has now become a command. I went through a period of demotivation while writing this post but I knew that I wanted to share with people what I have realized. I overcame my egoic tendency to procastinate because I knew my motivation, discipline was not required. Here is a book (international best seller "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle) you can download that will really get you started with any change that you desire in life simply by showing that you are not your ego.
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