A Gift to all those who are consistently working on themselves:
Discipline Vs Procrastination
Discipline is the constant human awareness of the need for action and the conscious act by us to implement that action. If our awareness and our implementation occur at the same time, then we begin a valued sequence of disciplined activities.
Now, here is the other side of discipline. If there is a considerable time that passes between the moment of awareness and the time of our implementation, then it is called procrastination - doing it tomorrow instead of today.
Procrastination is the exact opposite of discipline. The voice within us says 'get it done!' Discipline then says 'do it now, do it to the best of your ability today, tomorrow and always until finally the worthy deed becomes instinctive. Procrastination says 'later, tomorrow, whenever I get a chance.' Procrastination also says 'do what is necessary to get by or impress others, do what you can but not what you must'.
In every circumstance we face, we are constantly presented with these two choices - do it now or do it later, discipline and procrastination, a choice between a disciplined existence bearing the fruit of achievement and contentment or procrastination, the easy life for which the future would bear no fruit, only the bare branches of mediocrity.
The rewards of a disciplined life are great but they are often delayed until some time in the future. The rewards for a lack of discipline are immediate but they are minor in comparison to the immeasurable rewards of consistent self-discipline. And the immediate reward for a lack of discipline is a fun day at the beach; a future reward of discipline is owning the beach. For most, we chose today's pleasure rather than tomorrow's fortune.
You get to really work on your consistent self-discipline on a daily basis or you find yourself distracted - distracted by negative thoughts, distracted by negative people, distracted by water-cooler chatter, and pretty soon depending on the type of people you associated with, distracted by your doubt within yourself. Never underestimate the Power of influence and associations, and never underestimate the Power of your own consistent self-discipline.
Perhaps you are on the brink of giving up or starting over or starting out, and the only missing ingredient to your credible Success Story and the future is a new and self-imposed discipline that would make you to stay longer, try harder and work more intensely than you ever thought you possibly could. The more valuable form of discipline is the one you imposed on yourself. -
Jim Rohn
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