We begin to make things happen when we become disciplined. We don’t accomplish anything in this life without self-discipline. Richard Shelley Taylor, in his book “The Disciplined Life”, defines self-discipline this way: “The ability to regulate conduct by principle and judgment rather than impulse, desire, high pressure, or social custom.” You see, discipline is the ability to consciously control your circumstances. It is the ability to control your life – to put first things first.
Everyone struggles with one or more of three areas: pride, sensualist, and greed. Pride, which has its place, is unhealthy when it is stimulated by self-absorption. Sensualism is being preoccupied with sensual fulfillment – food, sex, sound thrill seeking. (Many commercials and advertisements today are geared toward sensualism.) Greed involves people just wanting more for more sake, or being covetous, that is, wanting what belongs to someone else. This creates a generation of people who live on plastic. They are preoccupied with there credit cards and can’t stop spending. Thats’ why we well need to be discipline and not going to be a lazy one so that we can have a good future someday.
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