I’m issuing a challenge, to anyone who’d like to work out their self-discipline muscle, who’d like some mental training:
Pick one self-discipline task to do for five minutes, every day this month.
Commit to doing it publicly, or at least to a few friends or loved ones. Report to them weekly.
Or you can do the challenge on your own — commit on Facebook or Twitter, for example, and report every week to hold yourself accountable. The self-discipline muscle can get stronger with daily workouts, or weaker with disuse.
By Leo Babauta from zenhabits.net
So many of us suffer from problems that are caused by a lack of self-discipline:
Not fun stuff. If those are our problems, then it’s helpful to stop and really feel the pain that we’re causing ourselves. Feel the difficulties, the struggles, the piling up of problems. When we stop and consider all of this, then taking five minutes a day to help ourselves build a muscle that will make our lives better is not too much to ask. It’s actually a loving act.
It’s easy to commit to a challenge, and then fail. That doesn’t feel so great. It just reinforces your belief that you don’t have self-discipline.
So, because I like you, I’d like to share some tips for succeeding at the challenge:
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