It is said that we got to have courage to accomplish extraordinary thing. We are said that we should not be fearful and should take risk if we are aiming high.
But if we aware about our purpose, in a long run, we should be fearful sometimes. And this doesn't mean doing nothing because of fear. It means analyzing situations, combating the problems, inspecting the consequences, and making a leap anyway.
Our ideas are like the dots. They might evolve at anytime. To make the ideas work out we got to connect the dots.
Connecting these dots can only happen if only we execute on it.
To make a big dream a reality we've to connect the small dots.
Problems feel different when they are attached to a mission. The same hardship can feel meaningless or meaningful depending on what it is connected to. Without direction or purpose, problems often feel like random suffering: exhausting, unfair, and difficult to endure. But when struggle becomes attached to a mission, it begins to feel different. The pain may still exist, but it gains context.
Many philosophical traditions recognized this. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” Existentialist thinkers believed meaning is not automatically given to life, but created through commitment, responsibility, and chosen direction. Viktor Frankl later observed that people can endure extraordinary hardship when they find meaning within it.
The same principle applies to work, relationships, discipline, and personal growth. Difficult training feels different when connected to mastery. Sacrifice feels different when connected to love or responsibility. Obstacles become more bearable when they are part of something larger than immediate discomfort.
Purpose does not remove struggle. It transforms the way struggle is experienced.
Self-discipline has become very important in our life. Developing self-discipline means developing a self-culture or core values. This is an important asset that everybody should apply in their lives.
Here are 8 ways of developing self-discipline, which I believe could bring a huge impact in our lives:
Self-discipline is valuable because it strengthens self-respect. It helps us trust ourselves more. When we repeatedly do what we say we will do, even in small things, our character becomes steadier. And from that steadiness, a stronger life can be built.
I came up with this story the other day that teaches us a very important lesson.
There were a couple who dreamed of better future a better quality of life. They saved their money through out their life and they have saved enough that they one day decided to travel in a Caribbean Cruise. It was a week long trip on one of the giant cruise having swimming pools, a climbing rocks, dozens restaurants and discos.
The couple were so excited about their travel and they can see they are living one of their dream. Since they worked hard in their life to make this happen, they became prudent with their capital. They didn't want to spend extra money. So instead of having expensive and lavish meals they had loaded their bags with cheese and crackers with they hope to save money.
Their days were great. While everyone in the cruise were having incredible meals on the buffet tables- shrimps, lobsters, prime ribs, mountains of desserts, and wines from all around the world, the couple were enjoying with cheese and crackers. But they didn't mind.
Finally on the last day, they decided to have magnificent final dinner. So they turned to buffet table, piled their plates with the best meals they had in their lives. After having the amazing dinner they asked waiter for the bills. They waiter with flabbergasted face said, "What bills?" They said, the bill for this great dinner, wines, desserts and everything."
The waiter looked at them and said, "Didn't you know the meals come with the trip?"
Look at the irony here. We often dream bigger and make ourselves more concerned towards past while something more meaningful and joyful shrinks from our present. The best wealth is love, opportunity, health friends and family which we don't focus on; and all of these an present right now. Not in the near future.
So Start living...
There was a research done with monkey and apples. A monkey was given an apples and observed that he was happy. But when he was again given 2 apples and then one was taken away from him, he was so freaked out even though he still had one apple.
Human beings react in same way. We underestimate how we feel when we lose. We act like it's okay but we don't want to lose. The pleasure of our victories is overshadowed by the pain of our failures and losses.
Our pains and failures are true so are our emotions....
Conditions are the circumstances that we encounter during the process. Decisions are the choice we make at every conditions.
The most important thing is that our conditions does not determines our life; it does not define us.
It is our decisions that determines us not the conditions.
Life becomes more meaningful when we don't keep ourselves stuck on one thing. We must flow with the time.
The realistic are the person who keeps moving, learning and progressing. Somebody said it beautifully-" The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. "
When we keep moving there is nothing but always the positive outcome. No matter when the things become scary or even impossible, we got to assemble courage and patience and keep moving...
"Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein
I came up with the story of Sara Blakely the other day. She is the world's youngest self-made billionaire and the founder of Spanx. In 2012 Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
She shared that the most important secrets of her success were her parents. Her father always encouraged her to "fail"!! Around the table he would ask if she failed today, then he was truly excited if she had, because he knew she was on the path to success.
She insisted that this kind of behavior from her father took away her fear of trying. He cultured success mindset in her from the early age. This mindset led her and her company to grow to the worth of billion dollars.
We can learn a great lesson from her story. We can accept all the failures and shortcomings and still be okay. We can develop different kind of mindsets to truly live our life.
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
Sara Blakely
Problems are always present, but so is opportunity. What matters most is the choice we make in response.
Problems and opportunities are closely related. When the mind recognizes discomfort in a situation, it quickly labels that discomfort as a problem. And once it is labeled that way, we begin to carry it as one.
But in hindsight, when we stay with the discomfort instead of running from it, the same problem can begin to look different. What once felt like an obstacle may turn out to be a place where strength, clarity, or growth was being formed.
When we become more comfortable being uncomfortable, we stop treating every difficulty as proof that something is wrong. Some problems are real, but some are also opportunities waiting for a stronger response.