Eight Ways To Develop Self Discipline

Self discipline is the first habit you must develop before you can develop any other. Try the tips below to attain this habit which is common to all achievers.

1. Take responsibility. Realize the fact effort is needed to achieve any task. Nothing done means nothing achieved.

2. Acknowledge that you will tend to resist change. Expect to heat the silent whisper of procrastination and laziness. Persist to accomplish your task anyway.

3. Visualize completing the task.

4. Act.

5. Relive your accomplishment. Keep a journal of all your successes and read it often. The more joy you get in finishing projects or task the more you will be motivated in your next endeavour.

6. Change your focus. Do not focus on the effort but focus on the pleasure you get finishing something that you started.

7. Be firm. Remember that the world will be easy on those who are hard on themselves.

8. Seek to do things that you avoid. This keeps you nimble and develops the habit of doing what is good rather than what feels good.

Are You Re-Inventing The Wheel?

If you are asked to do something new, it is only new to you. In all probability it had already been done by someone else somewhere sometime ago. Find it, modify it and make it your own.

We live in a finite world and our time in this world is definite and short. Don't waste it by re-inventing the wheel. Don't expand your energy unnecessarily. Use your resources wisely.

If You Like Someone..

Go ahead and tell. Don’t wait for that certain time. It might never come and you will live a life full of regret and wishful thinking.

Don’t waste the moment you have now. Don’t worry about the reaction. Don’t be timid.

Need A Friend?

The mass of men live lives of quite desperation wrote Henry David Thoreau long ago. You  don’t have to.

It is a truly blessed person to have a friend by his side all the time when the chips are down. Most of us are not that lucky but there is a quiet person who is ever ready to listen to you. Your inner self.

There are two ways you can communicate with him, quietly within the confines of your mind or by writing in a paper.

Try keeping a journal. Write down all the things that you want to say. Scribble anything. Sketch if you feel like it. Don’t censor, don’t edit. And don’t be afraid.

Stop To Smell The Roses

Don’t race through life. Stop to smell the roses. Try to find happiness in things that you have to do while doing it.

For years I said to myself that I will be happy only after completing a task.

But I have come  to realize that life is time. And if I am only going to be happy at the end of things then my life will be an unhappy one most of the time.

So I am going to stop to smell the roses every now and then.

What Nebiy Makonnen Did In an Ethiopian Prison

He did not rot, he did not go crazy. He translated Gone With The Wind.

Using smoothed 3000 sheets cigarette foil for paper and reading the smuggled in book for an hour at a time ( the book was shared by 350 men) he took two years to complete.

Folded and put back into cigarette boxes of released prisoners to take them out of prison- he had to spend another two years of travel and inquiry before gathering all 3000 sheets. Finally he was able to publish the translation that Ethiopians read today.

The Art of Living - 1

Aart Van de Toorn knows how to live. At the age of 72, Mr Toorn drove through 16 countries for 10 weeks to reach South Africa to watch his beloved Holland play in the World Cup. You can read about here.

You see, there is really no excuse for you and me to be bored. There are so many things to do, so many books to read and so many places to go.

All you have to have is passion for life.