You surely have every reason
to blame that one term and aspect of life being forced upon you time and again.
Many of you even tend to see it as the recipe for a restricted and
circumscribed life. What if you try experimenting with it for a change. You
need not cut upon the fun and frolicking and still could be a well-disciplined
person. What you do not realize is that coming down to the level of guiding
your own self is not a very difficult task to perform. The only difficulty that
arises in such a situation is the lack of will power that you exhibit. Once the
determination to have a better control over yourself is achieved, nothing would
deter you. Maybe all you need is a little encouragement and the reasons as to
why should you adopt the prime virtue of self-discipline.
Makes you self-aware
Once having honed the skills of being self-disciplined, you
become more aware and knowledgeable about yourself. You get to come into terms
with your strengths and weaknesses and work upon them as per the demand of the
situation. That enables you to get rid of the characteristics of your
personality that has been debarring you from moving ahead in life. There then
comes a point when you stop depending on other people to judge you better. You become
your best critic.
However, you have been, but
bringing forth discipline in your life would definitely put you in a better
position and not worse. It can be worth a try given the various benefits that
it is capable of.
To be a Multi-tasker
There need not be any compromising on your part to become
disciplined. Being the latter only makes you capable of having the best of both
the worlds. This is what self-control, another term for discipline, is all
about. You can be an efficient person, acing your work and at the same time be
excelling in extracurricular activities, say sports or dramatics. All that you
need to do is pay equal attention and space to both the domains in your life
without letting either of the two surpass the other. This might take some time
to develop, everything takes time.
Helps you become active
Picking on the traits of a disciplinarian, you would start
realizing that life is not about sitting and waiting for an opportunity to
knock at your door. The hours, days, weeks and months of sitting and brooding
would bring you no good. It is then that you become active and take charge of
your life. You would, in turn, become a better and improved version of yourself
as you dismiss the prolonged laziness that had been deterring you since long
from making a step towards your dream.
To master your emotions
Discipline is not only about the embodiment of good v/s bad
or following the morally correct path of life. It also becomes one of the modes
of achieving control and mastery over your senses. In the face of a problematic
situation you need to keep your anxiety and all the negativity in your mind, at
bay (aside). Letting your emotions overpower you would leave you drained and
overwhelmed. And, that becomes one of the prime reasons for failing in the
various challenges put up by life upon us. You certainly wouldn’t want failure
mocking at your face over and over again. You learn not to continue being a cry
baby or an angry young man.
Knowledge of good v/s
bad
Making choices is one of the
most empowering as well as debilitating power that humans have been bestowed
with. You can either make a good choice and opt for a better today and tomorrow
or make a bad one and go down the pit-hole. Grasping a disciplined self would
assist you in differentiating between what is righteous and what against the
codes of nature, law and civil society. After realizing that you are heavily
drunk, you may choose to drive by yourself or hire a taxi. That one decision
can make all the difference.
Makes you understand excess
There has to be a pause and a
full stop to anything and everything, depending upon the harm and destruction
that it is bringing to your life. Following a disciplined lifestyle allows you
to judge the excesses that you have been lately indulging in. It is then that
you take a step back and the much-desired balance comes in again. If you let
yourself be swamped by the excesses of about anything, then you’d be inviting
great mismanagement in your life. This may sound cliched but is indefinitely
true-while being disciplined helps you refrain from cutting short on excess, it
also abreast you with the total absence.
Makes you alert
Another advantage of being a
self-disciplinarian is that it teaches you to be alert and in your senses.
There is a mechanism that kicks in making you capable of being more cautious.
It helps you keep yourself in check and prevents you from indulging in anything
nonsensical.
Retreat from the path
of shortcut
All your life you have been
looking for one or the other shortcut which would help you achieve your goal
with considerable ease. But, that path might just lead you to some totally
different zone, the one which you never thought about. Everything mysterious
and unknown need not be good. On the other hand, if you put in the required amount
of hard work in a task, then the fruit you’d receive out of it will not be
temporary or misleading. You will be able to derive true success if and if you
understand the essence of discipline in the form of hard work involved in it.
No matter how philosophical it sounds, but by the end of the day, you need to
resort to this.
To learn the value of
time
Time waits for none. All of us
have grown up listening to this proverb coming from our elders, be it at home
or school. But, did we really adhere to it? There ought to be a time table for
everything that we do. Putting yourself into the manner of sticking to a
timetable or in many cases deadlines will make you value the importance of time
in your life. It will be a better and channelized life then.
Bottom of Form
To make yourself a better
performer, being motivated and fully dedicated to your task is extremely
imperative if you are looking forward to being better in your field. No matter
how big or meaningless the work seems to be. Be it a hosting a friend’s
birthday party or making a presentation, you need dedication everywhere. Taking
things casually on the professional as well as personal front can prove to be
significantly bad. Of course, no host would like it if he gets to hear bad
feedback for the party that he arranged. You require to be focused and
dedicated in all walks of your life. That is one of the key points of the
importance of discipline, for it teaches you to be a better performer.
Hasan Latifi
Marketing Head
