your ability to develop
the habit of self-discipline will contribute more to your success than any other quality of character. (brian tracy)
There are nine disciplines
you can develop that will improve every area of your life. It turns out that
every exercise of self-discipline strengthens every other
discipline at the same time, just as every weakness in self-discipline weakens
you in other disciplines as well.
1-
The Discipline of Clear Thinking
Thomas Edison
once said, “Thinking is the hardest
discipline of all.”
It has been said that there
are three types
of people. There are those
who think
(The small minority);
there are those that think they think, then there are those who would rather
die than think.
A) Take time to think
though the critical
issues and problems
in your life.
Put aside long,
unbroken chunks of time, thirty, sixty and then ninety minutes.
Peter Drucker said that,
“Fast people decisions are usually wrong
people
decisions.” In addition, fast decisions with regard to your family, career, money or
any other major
issue are usually wrong
decisions.
B) Sit quietly
for 30-60 minutes
to think. Practice
solitude on a regular basis.
“Go into the silence"
C) Whenever you practice solitude
for more than thirty minutes,
you activate your super
conscious mind and trigger your intuition. You get it right
from the “still,
small, silent voice within.”
D) To think better, take a pad of paper and write down every
detail of the problem
situation you are facing. Sometimes, the right thing
to
do immerges as you write down the details
E) Aristotle once said that wisdom (The ability to make good decisions) is a
combination of experience plus reection. The
more time that you take to think
about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.
F) Go for a walk or exercise
for 30-60 minutes.
Very often when you are exercising,
you will get insights or ideas that help you to think better
and make better
decisions.
G) Talk your situation over with someone
else who you like and trust, and who is not
emotionally involved. Very often,
a different perspective can totally change your viewpoint.
H) Always ask, “What are my assumptions?” What is
it that you are assuming to
be
true about the situation?
I) What if your assumptions were wrong? What if you were preceded
on the basis of
false information?
Always be open to the possibility that you could
be completely wrong
in your
current
course of action.
Be open to doing something completely different.
