Goals and motivation are both essential to success, but so is this third essential component to high achievement
There are three essential ingredients to a happy, successful, progressive life.
The first is goals. Without goals, we have no direction, no plan, no purpose in life.
Goals give meaning to our actions and gives us the ability to design for ourselves the life of our dreams.
Motivation is another essential ingredient, and as long as you have clearly defined goals, you will not have a problem in coming up with an adequate amount of motivation.
So what then is the third? Well, your goals will never be able to become your reality if you are not willing to put forth any amount of effort that is required.
Big successes do not come without big, continuous action, and therefore the final ingredient to a lifetime of success and achievement is self discipline.
To Illustrate the vital need for discipline as well as goals and motivation, as well as to offer some sage advice for developing these qualities, l am going to share some great words of inspiration and truth from The Psychology of Winning by Denis Waitley.
positive self discipline is the ability to practice within. Winners are masters of the art of stimulation.
Like astronauts, championship athletes, great stage performers, skilled surgeons, and truly professional executives and salesmen, they practice flawless techniques in their minds over and over, again and again.
They know that thought begets habit and they discipline their thought to create the habit of superb performance-the mark of the total winner. You may have desire. You may feel you’re in control. You may expect to go to the moon.
But you will never even get near the launching pad without persistent self discipline.
Most people forget the simple routine for learning a skill or habit: desire, information, assimilation, and repetition. We learn how to walk, drive, type, fly, speak a foreign language, ski, act in a play, etc.. Why is it so difficult for us to apply learning to our most important life goals?
Everything is habit forming if it is repeated! Self-discipline alone can make or break a habit. Self-discipline alone can effect a permanent change in your self-image and in you.
Self discipline is the winning edge that achieves goals. Self-discipline is mental practice-a commitment to memory of those thoughts and emotions that will override current information stored in the subconscious memory bank.
And through relentless repetition, the penetration of these new inputs into are “robot achievement mechanism” resulting in the creation of the new self-image.
The winners self talk: “of course I can do it! I practiced it mentally 1000 times.”
Losers say: “how can you expect me to do that? I don’t know how!”
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