How to Boost Your Self-Discipline 

Self-discipline is often required in life. To stay healthy and happy, you often have to practice self-control.

You should also remember that the universe doesn’t usually hand you your life’s desires on a silver platter. Those people determined to put in whatever effort is required to create their dream existence are more successful than people with less self-discipline.

Here are a few tips, tricks, life hacks and best practices to help you benefit from more self-discipline and self-control.

Write down a list of your values, those belief systems which are important to you. Keeping these in mind can keep you disciplined and on track.

Develop a plan of action before you take action. Plans help minimize failure. Ensure your plan includes a backup clan that considers unforeseen contingencies.

If you are poor at some skill or behavior required to reach a goal or accomplish a task, don’t ignore your weakness. Own up to your inability. Either get better at doing that thing or delegate the task to someone else.

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The removal of temptation makes self-discipline easier. Avoid environments where temptation requires constant discipline.

The fewer steps in a process, the better. This leads to fewer areas for failure. If you can simplify anything in your life, you will find you need to employ self-discipline less frequently.

Mental and physical health improve the ability to develop powerful self-discipline. A strong-mind and body also help you in some instances when you need to take disciplined, controlled action.

Don’t forget that there is no such thing as willpower. There are only things that you choose to do and things that you do not choose to do. Self-discipline means taking action when you don’t want to, rather than praying you have the willpower to accomplish something.

Work on improving your self-discipline. If you practice self-control regularly, getting better at pushing through small tasks and responsibilities, your self-discipline in bigger areas of your life will also improve.

Remember that you and only you are responsible for the outcome of your life. Hold yourself accountable because accountability is one of the steps to success in developing powerful self-discipline.

Sometimes motivation is all you need for success.

Remind yourself that self-discipline delivers the following rewards, and you will find it easier to practice the self-control required to succeed at a particular endeavor.

• Healthier, more fulfilling relationships
• Better self-esteem, self-love and self-appreciation.
• Better on-the-job performance and rewards.
• More self-control and self-governing, and fewer situations where other people decide the outcome of your life.
• The realization of your “true values”, the things that are really important to you.
• You improve your skill sets.
• Your productivity increases dramatically.
• You get more time out of your day since a self-disciplined approach is efficient.
• Less stress, which leads to a longer, healthier, happier life.

Self-Discipline By Having a Daily Routine

Everyone has some kind of daily routine. They prefer to do one thing before another in the morning, and it helps them get set up for the day.

You should enjoy your daily routine, since you’re going to be doing it repeatedly and you can tweak it after monitoring it for a while to ensure it provides a great start (or end) to your day.

If you don’t enjoy it, you need to make some adjustments until you’re happy with the way each day progresses. It can be hard for you to make the change in your daily routine at first.

If you already have something set in place, you probably don’t want to change it around, even if you’re not too happy about it.

However, this is a change you’ll have to make if you want to be more successful because a positive spirit and outlook is key to your success.

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In order to have a better daily routine, you should journal how your routine works and keep track of any adjustments you make – no matter how small. One thing you should keep track of in your routine is how long it takes you each day.

Most people have routines that they do in the morning and a different one at night, so you should see if it takes more or less time each day.

Chances are, you might be able to make it more efficient so that you can spend more time either working or relaxing, whichever you need more of.

You should also keep track of certain statistics related to your daily routine. A very important number to track is your hours of sleep per night.

Many people like to think that they can get away with 5 or fewer hours of sleep per night, but truly, it’s very unhealthy and can lead to some serious problems later on.

It can cause you to become exhausted easier, and can even contribute to things like weight gain. Make minor adjustments in your schedule to see if it helps you in your day.

You might eat breakfast before you brush your teeth or shower in the evening instead of the morning.

Sometimes you’ll find that you don’t like it as much as your old routine, but there’s a chance you might discover that you’re really liking the new way because it gives you more time elsewhere.

The real key to a good daily routine is efficiency.

You should be keeping track of how long it takes you to get through these routines and how easy they are because if it’s not really working for you, you need to make those changes.