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Any suggestions on improving self discipline?
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string_bean00
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Drink a Bud Ice.
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Ulcasterdropout
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OMG...string_bean00 said:
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evansteve
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PICK3 said:
I dont know of anything, but if you find any answer to this question, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
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evansteve
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jerkbox said:
I used to take this principle to heart. In the end I wound up with a stack of papers that could fill a grocery bag (I'm not kidding), and still hadnt come close to achieving most my goals.
So yeah, while that pencil and paper idea may work for some, it has its limits.
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*MissFit*
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develop habits.. takes 21 days.. When i started the fitness thing i had to force myself
KillahBee
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honestly, just fucking do it. cold turkey. that's the only thing that works for me. fatbox had some good advice, but if those things don't work, just suck it up and do what you gotta do. no sense in trying to trick your own mind. just my opinion. it's not easy obviously and it's something I struggle with daily, but when all is said and done, it comes down to the battle in my own mind.
know what works for me.. think about others how would kill to be able to do what you want to do..
right now im doing a lot of extra training for some tournaments and at times it sux..at times i dont want to get out of bed at 5am to do extra exercises.. at times i dont want to cook after a workout..at times id rather be boozin w/ my buddies then heading to the gym at 9pm on a friday nite with a 50yr old instructor..
but then i think of some of my friends in iraq or afghanistan who would love to be able to still be at the dojo instead of dodgin bullets.. or i think of someof the kids w/ disabilities i know who train and never complain.. or people who have suffered injuries that now keep them out of the sport..
i think of that then i feel like the biggest POS/lazy bastard if i dont go train..
thanks im fired up now!!!
also a log helps too
right now im doing a lot of extra training for some tournaments and at times it sux..at times i dont want to get out of bed at 5am to do extra exercises.. at times i dont want to cook after a workout..at times id rather be boozin w/ my buddies then heading to the gym at 9pm on a friday nite with a 50yr old instructor..
but then i think of some of my friends in iraq or afghanistan who would love to be able to still be at the dojo instead of dodgin bullets.. or i think of someof the kids w/ disabilities i know who train and never complain.. or people who have suffered injuries that now keep them out of the sport..
i think of that then i feel like the biggest POS/lazy bastard if i dont go train..
thanks im fired up now!!!
also a log helps too
Dirk Howat
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Get used to pain and dullness.
Dull food.
There more you go past failure and experience pain, the better your nervous system adapts to pain and you begin to feel less of pain (your brain is used to it and shuts it out). It is your brain that is responsible for the feelings of pain and pleasure. You have to program your brain and your body will follow.
Yo.
Dull food.
There more you go past failure and experience pain, the better your nervous system adapts to pain and you begin to feel less of pain (your brain is used to it and shuts it out). It is your brain that is responsible for the feelings of pain and pleasure. You have to program your brain and your body will follow.
Yo.
evansteve said:
well, it depends what you are writing down my man.
i have done the same.
you need to write down long term and short term goals and milestones, and identify what you will be doing for the next day, week, month, etc. and then actually DO those things, and cross them off your list. it's a great feeling looking at your list for the day and seeing everything crossed off.
otherwise yeah, you have a stack of useless papers
Razorguns
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Discipline is an artform that you TRAIN your mind to do.
Training involves repitition and constant carrying out and *competion* of tasks that you set out to do.
If you tell yourself to get groceries tonight, and you slack off. Seems like no biggee -- but your mind gets accustomed to it.
Then tomorrow you're supposed to do laundy -- but you don't. Too tired. Seems like no biggee. Your mindset gets accustomed to that as well.
Now tomorrow you set yourself up to do a big 50-page report on something. You start off doing it -- but your mindset, already used to slackin' off and not carrying through -- starts to make you wander. You're already "trained" to have no discipline in carrying out tasks.
So .. do those little things. If you have a history of not achieving your goals and doing what you say you will -- it will eventually bring you down when you want to do something on a grander scale.
Remember why your mom and dad always told you to make your room, and do your dishes? Wasn't because they were too cheap to hire a maid. They were training self-disicpline in you.
Training involves repitition and constant carrying out and *competion* of tasks that you set out to do.
If you tell yourself to get groceries tonight, and you slack off. Seems like no biggee -- but your mind gets accustomed to it.
Then tomorrow you're supposed to do laundy -- but you don't. Too tired. Seems like no biggee. Your mindset gets accustomed to that as well.
Now tomorrow you set yourself up to do a big 50-page report on something. You start off doing it -- but your mindset, already used to slackin' off and not carrying through -- starts to make you wander. You're already "trained" to have no discipline in carrying out tasks.
So .. do those little things. If you have a history of not achieving your goals and doing what you say you will -- it will eventually bring you down when you want to do something on a grander scale.
Remember why your mom and dad always told you to make your room, and do your dishes? Wasn't because they were too cheap to hire a maid. They were training self-disicpline in you.
SoreArms
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the mind, by itself, is weak and lazy
Even though you tell yourself the things that you need to do to change, your mind is going to default back to whatever you used to do becasue it's much easier for it to do rather than have to think up the new instructions and strategy. You have to be like the lion tamer, with a whip, inside the lion cage and correct it every time it goes stray, train your brain to listen to you and follow directions.
That's where I'm at right now
Even though you tell yourself the things that you need to do to change, your mind is going to default back to whatever you used to do becasue it's much easier for it to do rather than have to think up the new instructions and strategy. You have to be like the lion tamer, with a whip, inside the lion cage and correct it every time it goes stray, train your brain to listen to you and follow directions.
That's where I'm at right now
instead of trying to get more disciplined, try and remove activities that are unproductive and un helpful.
Good stuff will find its way in.
Good stuff will find its way in.
Dirk Howat
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SoreArms,
Your mind has to be the whip.
Two things that enable you to suceed in life:
A strong will
and
A strong mind
You need both.
A mind w/o a will is but meditation
A will w/o a mind is an misdirected animal (i.e. slave)
Your mind has to be the whip.
Two things that enable you to suceed in life:
A strong will
and
A strong mind
You need both.
A mind w/o a will is but meditation
A will w/o a mind is an misdirected animal (i.e. slave)
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