Daily Self-Discipline: Everyday Habits and Exercises to Build Self-Discipline and Achieve Your Goals (Simple Self-Discipline Book 2)

by Martin Meadows

Stop complaining

Overcome shyness

If there’s chaos in your mind, there’s chaos in your external world. If there’s no peace in your head, everything around you can lead to stress.

Few people live their lives with intent. Everybody is too busy, too late, and too distracted to slow down and pay more attention to what is happening in their heads.

5. Gazing meditation

6. Breathing meditation

7. Gratitude meditation

You can’t help but feel happier when you sit for five or ten minutes and come up with dozens or even hundreds of reasons why your life is incredible.

hunger – it’s a passing sensation that gets easier to overcome if you know that it passes just like any other thought.

Embracing the Tunnel Vision

Talk with Your Future Self

Each time you choose a smaller reward now instead of a larger reward later, you’re robbing your future self.

We’re bad at envisioning our future selves and associating who we are now with the p...

temporal discounting44 – the tendency to give greater value to rewards received now or soon in comparison to the rewards received later in the future.

you’ll give more value to satisfying your craving now than achieving your ideal physique in 6 months.

You can solve the problem of the disassociation between your present self and your future self by writing a letter to your present self from the perspective of your future self.

What would your future (obese) self say? Would he or she be happy that you’ve chosen caving in to a temptation over achieving the long term goal? How does the perspective of an even worse future affect your self-discipline today?

It’s often easier to imagine reaching the goal (and the person you’ll become) if you visualize the perfect result and then trace back every single step needed to accomplish it (vs figuring it out from where you are now).

Build Your Compass

Burnout and Discouragement – It’s Not All About Self-Discipline

Research has proven that someone who works 70 hours produces nothing more with those extra 15 hours than a person working 55 hours a week48.

If I started with writing 1,000 words a day and then gradually increased my word count until it felt challenging, but still not too demanding, I would probably have never experienced such a burnout.

Mental Toughness

The essence of building self-discipline and mental toughness is making your life harder so you can better handle temptations, setbacks, and failures in life.

Focusing on Negativity Can Ruin Your Self-Discipline

Stuck in a Funk or Suffer from Negative Self-Talk

the higher one’s level of self-compassion, the lower one’s level of self-pity51. Self-pity brings out all of those pesky negative thoughts and hinders our progress.

make a list of ways to boost your mood that make you feel you care about yourself.

If you aren’t fit yet, working on your health and fitness should become your priority.

With renewed energy levels and a heightened sense of well-being, all other challenges will be much easier and more enjoyable to achieve.