August 27 – Need more discipline? Are you not getting the consistent results you desire and yet feel you are doing all you can do? Do you find yourself frustrated by efforts you have recently made with no immediate traction? Are you revisiting desires over and over again, and yet nothing is actually happening toward realizing them?
It takes discipline to realize results. Discipline is putting habits into motion that are guided by what you want and desire the most. Being persistent, insistent and consistent in your efforts amounts to being willing to have an unwavering discipline. Discipline is not a mundane sentence. Discipline is a measure of your commitment to whatever it is you desire to accomplish. Discipline requires learning. Discipline requires forming habits. Choices depict what you make a priority. Discipline requires making choices every day that affirm your priorities.
Take an MM&I Moment to awaken to how you could be more disciplined in what you are striving to achieve. Could you be more consistent in your efforts? Do you try and stop and then try again, or do you make a conscious consistent effort? Could you be more intentionally in learning? Could you be insistent to learn why the answer is “no” when you desired a “yes”? What could you do differently? What was missing that could have made the answer “yes”? What answers do you need to take your next steps? How persistent are you at finding these answers, through research, talking to those who may know, or taking time to study trends in efforts thus far? How are you making what you desire an everyday effort? If you are not making an everyday effort, ask yourself why? Could it be that it is not as important as you claim it to be? Could it be you aren’t as passionate as you profess? The underlying reality of not achieving what you truly want to achieve is in the effort you are willing to make to get there. Be persistent. Be insistent. Be consistent. Starting with your own actions. Eliminate yourself from being an obstacle. And watch how the momentum begins to shift as a result.
Wide Awake Quote of the Week
“Potential without discipline is potential that is wasted. Discipline is the path. It is a vote of confidence.” – Fr. Mike Schmitz
Yours in dreaming wide awake,
P.S. A shout out of credit to Kyle O’Brien, whom I first met while working with him when he was an executive at Chobani and who now is a food innovation investor and owner of 800°/BarOne in Charlotte, NC. About a decade ago, he introduced me to his father’s wisdom that has guided his journey known in being committed to being a part of the PIC Society. This is being willing and focused on being persistent, insistent and consistent in whatever you endeavor to do. This has certainly served him well in all his initiatives, and this has stuck with me as a powerful mantra to adopt. And now I hope it sticks with you too.
