A Question of Discipline

A week of contemplating discipline. What I noticed a lot this week was how I was seeing quite a lot of the absence of discipline. Often to do with myself but in general too. I noticed how I had stopped doing a lot of my tasks and even didn’t do this blog when I was meant to.

I noticed that I was using it as an excuse to get on Netflix and spot discipline in the things I was watching. It kept making me laugh to myself and making me think of the old adage “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”. Perhaps just being aware of discipline, good or bad, present or absent still had an effect.

I did find myself doing things, taking action where I perhaps wouldn’t have before. Moving and putting away things that I might have left for later, then feeling pleased with myself for being disciplined.

Was it discipline or was it in fact “do it now” that caused me to take the action though? I’m not entirely sure and I guess it doesn’t actually matter as long as the outcome was what was intended

I’m not sure why I decided to put discipline as number one. I can be extremely disciplined when I want to be. If I have set my mind to doing something there is no way that I will be deterred.

I mentioned that I drank only water for forty days. It wasn’t at all difficult for me. I had made a decision and nothing was going to stop me. So what is it? Is it discipline that I sometimes lack or is it a strong motivation?

Perhaps it’s consistency that I need to focus on, or perhaps I lose track of what it is that I want, the reason why I am doing a certain thing. It’s been really interesting contemplating discipline this week and I definitely feel better for doing it.

I have more awareness of myself and the way that I am in terms of discipline. I’m going to attempt to continue to have some focus on discipline as we move through the weeks. I’m excited about how different I will be at the end of this makeover.