Discipline - How To Develop Your Self Discipline And Willpower

Discipline is consciously taking the time to practice an activity. This is to continually undertake the activity you feel drawn to do over a sustained period of time.

Most people typically lack the willpower to achieve a sense of self discipline in an area they want to achieve results in.

There are a number of common reasons for this lack of self discipline, however the most common reason is not spending the time actively doing the task they want to achieve.

For example each day I am feeling drawn to sit down at my laptop and write these pages for the website you are on right now.

Discipline - do what your heart is wanting you to do

However if I didn't actually sit down at my computer and spend time writing these posts then you wouldn't be reading the words you are reading right now.

That is why I feel that self discipline is just a matter of spending time actually doing the task it is that you feel drawn to do. Without spending the time on the task you are drawn to then nothing gets done.

So how do you discipline yourself to actually do what it is you want to do?

Discipline - spend time doing what your soul wants you to do

Well the first step is to find what it is you are on the planet to do.

For example, there is no point disciplining yourself to do something if it's not in alignment with what you are on the planet to do. We only have so much time and energy available in a given day and only so much time and energy in our life on this planet earth. Therefore it is important to firstly find what it is you are on the planet to do.

Personally I find spending time alone in nature for 3-4 days on a 'nature immersion' gives most people the time, space and clarity to find what it is their soul came here to learn in this lifetime.

Then once you have found what it is you are here to do then it is just a matter of disciplining yourself to actually do it. A guy at a healing festival once said to me 'Find your modality and then like Nike say... just do it!'

However I find a lot of people also get stuck in the 'just do it' part.

Now once you have found what it is your soul is here on the planet to do, the next step is to align the actions you take in the external world with your inner world. That is what alignment means.

For example after many 3-4 day nature immersions it is clear to me that my soul is here to connect people to 'source' through nature. Then I started to ask the question 'How do I connect people to source through nature?' One of the things which came was to create a website that showed people how to connect with source through nature.

However obviously I needed to not only create this website but also write a lot of articles so that more people would be able to read about connecting to the wisdom of nature. So right now I am disciplining myself to wake up before dawn each morning and write 1,000 words or so in order to align with what my soul is here on the planet to do.

When you are in alignment with what you are on the planet to do then it becomes a lot easier to complete the tasks you feel drawn to do. For example I used to have a professional career in a busy city and would get dressed up in a shirt and tie each morning. It was a real struggle to go each morning, however now it's like I can't wait to wake up in the morning because I want to spend time writing these words.

The point here is to start aligning the actions you take in the world with the inner pull of your heart. Then it is just a matter of spending the time actually doing what it is you are here to do in order to. For example I now have thousands of people each month from around the world come to this website. At last count people from over 134 countries around the planet have read these words 'source' is guiding me to write.

Now in order to actually do what it is you are on the planet to do you will need to spend time actually doing tasks and continually putting energy into these tasks over a sustained period of time. This is the definition of self discipline.

If I feel a lack of motivation then one little trick I use to motivate myself to do the tasks is to set an alarm on my mobile phone that is set to go off in 50 minutes. I will use this 50 minutes to fully devote myself to undertake a task that is in alignment with what I am on the planet to do.

Studies have found that concentrating and focusing on a task for 50 minutes is the most efficient amount of time to achieve results. Any longer than 50 minutes and people's efficiency starts to decrease and any shorter than 50 minutes people still have time to fully focus on the task at hand.

Therefore if you are wanting to discipline yourself to undertake an activity then I suggest setting aside just 50 minutes to fully focus on the task at hand. Studies have also found that having a 10 minute break where you do absolutely nothing allows your brain the rest it need to then focus again. So the routine if you want to get a lot of tasks done is to focus for 50 minutes, have a break for 10 minutes and then focus again for 50 minutes.

Then it is just a matter of willpower to actually do this on a daily basis.

Willpower is just a matter of following what it is your heart is guiding you to do. I cover more about listening to the pull within your heart in my book 'The Heart Walk', however when you align with the pull within your heart then you will naturally do what it is you are on the planet to do.

When you are doing what you are on the planet to do then you don't need to discipline yourself to untertake the tasks. The reason for this is because you are in alignment with your soul's purpose for being on the planet and the pull is to naturally undertake those tasks.

Gaia | Discipline | Rite Of Passage

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