8 Example of Self Discipline
1. WAKE UP ON TIME
The ability to get yourself up before work, get properly dressed, feed. Exercised and out the door on time to get to work is a trait of self-discipline. Sure, if you're late enough, you may get fired, so there is some outside push there. However, for most people, it's simply self-discipline that gets them going each day.
2. ACT RESPECTFULLY TOWARD OTHERS
Everyone has thoughts in their head about people they meet during the day. That person who cut you off? That person who is walking too slowly in the store when you're in a hurry? With good self-discipline you will still be respectful toward everyone regardless of your feelings, hunger, or mood at the time.
3. EAT HEALTHILY
There are so many things out there to eat that aren't good. A person who chooses to eat healthily 80 to 90 percent of the time is demonstrating excellent self-discipline by saying no today to short-term pleasure in exchange for being healthier long term.
4. DAILY EXERCISE
Some people really do love exercise and get a true "high" or addiction off it. But most of us don't. A person who goes ahead and does their exercise anyway each day because they have goals is showing how self-disciplined they are.
5. MEET DEADLINES
Sometimes you'll see the words "self-starter" in a job description, but what they really want is a person who is self-disciplined enough to make and meet deadlines without a lot of outside influence.
6. AVOID TEMPTATION
A truly self-disciplined person doesn't allow temptation to be a factor in their lives because they work to avoid it. If they're tempted by donuts, they don't walk into a donut shop. If they want to save money, they get it taken out of their paycheck; they're never tempted to spend it since they don't see it.
7. FOLLOW THROUGH
A self-disciplined person tends to do what they say they'll do. They have follow-through. If they say they'll get done on Friday, they will do what they can to get done on Friday without anyone reminding them.
8. CREATE GOOD HABITS
A person with self-discipline knows that the best way to stick to any goal is to create good habits surrounding that goal. For example, a person who has the goal to get up an hour earlier to go to the gym knows that it's going to be only willpower the first month, then after that, a habit will be created.
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