The Power of Discipline: How to Use Self Control and Mental Toughness to Achieve Your Goals

by Daniel Walter

If you want to win in life, forget about focusing on the outcome, focus on the system you are going to use to get to the outcome. Let me repeat, I am in no way stating that you shouldn’t set goals; goals are necessary. If you don’t know where you are going, how are you going to develop a system to get there? However, if you spend too much time looking at your goals without putting a system in place to get there, you are going to fall into that 80% of people who fail their New Year’s resolutions each year.

If you want to win in life, forget about focusing on the outcome, focus on the system you are going to use to get to the outcome. Let me repeat, I am in no way stating that you shouldn’t set goals; goals are necessary. If you don’t know where you are going, how are you going to develop a system to get there? However, if you spend too much time looking at your goals without putting a system in place to get there, you are going to fall into that 80% of people who fail their New Year’s resolutions each year.

work from a systems-based approach, and as long as your system is running, you have the right to be happy because you know you are working toward your end goal.

Bad habits remain not because you don’t want to change them but because you have adopted the wrong system. If your system is wrong, you will fail every time.