A Better Way to Increasing Your Discipline's Strength

In a past post, I gave the key to discipline. However, what I didn’t do in that post was give a way for strengthening your discipline. In discipline over passion, I talked about Steve Pavlina’s take on the issue and how building your discipline is like working out. The methodology he describes is one where you gradually increase the intensity of your discipline. This could work, but it requires quite a bit of discipline to actually execute. I believe there’s a better way.

Before we go any further, let me define “better way.” A better way is nothing more than a more realistic way. Subsequently the method I’m about to suggest will increase the likelihood of increasing our discipline…if this is our goal.

The method is tied to the "key to discipline" post. Discipline is hearing those voices that run through your head but not listening to them. You recognize them as voices, but not necessarily your voices. So here’s the “better way:” as you engage in any worthwhile task, hear those voices in your head, and then realize that every time you ignore those voices and do more of the worthwhile task you STRENGTHEN your discipline.

So why does this method work? After you ignore the voice and do more of your task, you get this good feeling on the inside. Huh?? Yes, you read correctly. Typically, when you hear those voices, doing more of the task only makes the task more excruciating. But by realizing that dong this task is actually making you stronger, this process makes you feel good on the inside. How cool is that? Just like that, you can turn what is typically a grueling ordeal into something that’s actually satisfying and good.

You’ll also find that over time that the voice that used to run rampant in your head doesn’t run so rampant anymore. You’ll find yourself listening for that voice and hearing absolutely nothing. As you learn to ignore the voice, it will AUTOMATICALLY start to take longer for the voice to pop up in your head again. Why?? Because through strength conditioning your discipline, the voice in your head recognizes your discipline’s increased strength and automatically waits longer before it starts its "throw in the towel" talk. Try out the better way for yourself.