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For whatever goal you want to achieve, there is discomfort along that path. Self-discipline drives you through this discomfort and allows you to achieve and attain. It’s an essential component of mastery, and nothing great was ever accomplished without it.
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
Throughout your life, you can make a choice as to how you suffer. Would you rather struggle through the discomfort of shaping your willpower and behavior toward worthwhile ends, or endure the sting of dreams left unrealized because you chose self-indulgence over restraint? Discipline is usually what keeps you from what you truly want. Practicing it entails having to bear a certain level of pain, but so does suffering the consequences of a life without it.
Having self-discipline and willpower requires the ability to do difficult or unpleasant things because those things are better ...
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self-discipline is thus more of a muscle
self-discipline is a quality to be honed.
The more you activate these pathways by practicing self-discipline, the easier it will be for you to have self-control in the future because your brain has been primed to use that linkage in day-to-day scenarios.
“exercise your self-control”
Self-discipline is often sabotaged by emotional impulses and stress,
meditation can both reduce the feelings and emotions that make us lose self-control and increase our ability to manage those feelings by physically affecting the brain structures responsible for them.
Being disciplined in your pursuit of long-term goals is only possible if you can consistently focus on the decisions and actions that lead to accomplishing those goals.
