Hello and welcome to our short, beginners guide on mastering the art of setting goals & establishing self-discipline
Discipline, I'm afraid to report, is crucial for any success in life. Success, in whatever field or area of life, requires five things.
You need to wait for it, you have to persevere through the many different challenges and setbacks you are bound to encounter.
You also have to put in constant effort. Success usually doesn't happen the first time you try. In fact, in many situations, it requires several tries. You have to constantly put in the effort.
Finally, success requires putting up with adverse conditions. You have to keep at it regardless of what you're feeling, regardless of how many people discourage you, and regardless of whether you feel that it's time or not. You have to do it
Success requires all of these and these all involve discipline. So what's the problem? I'm sure it's quite obvious. Modern life and values aren't exactly very friendly towards discipline. In fact, our modern world and the principles behind it seem to actively work against self-discipline.
First of all, we want everything to be quick and easy. I'm not just talking about products and services, I'm talking about relationships. I'm talking about education. It's as if we've developed a sense of entitlement that life has to be fair, quick and easy.
Given this reality and these principles, it is no surprise that our attention span collectively has shrunk dramatically. And it's continuing to shrink. You only need to ask the nearest Millenial to know what I'm talking about.
People's time horizon, as far as the "good things in life" are concerned, is very short. People don't have the time nor the patience. They definitely don't have the discipline to wait around, deal with all sorts of adverse conditions, and put in constant work.
They definitely don't have the patience to stick with trying situations until the thing that they're working on pans out.
Unfortunately, if you want to achieve success, you need to set up goals properly and pursue those goals. You can hope and wish all you want, but big victories in your life are not going to materialize out of sheer luck. You have to plan them out and you have to work your plan. In other words, you have to set goals and implement them. Again, there goes that word: discipline is required.
