Author: Kevin Burgess

What Is Self-Discipline?
Self-discipline is the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of your emotional state. – Steve Pavlina
Self-discipline is happening to life before life happens to you.
Self-discipline is holding yourself accountable so that others do not have to.
The pinnacle of self-discipline is when you reach the point that when you make a conscious decision, it’s virtually guaranteed you’ll follow through on it.
Building Self-Discipline
Self-discipline is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger you become. The less you train it, the weaker you become.
Just as it takes muscle to build muscle, it takes self-discipline to build self-discipline.
The basic method to build self-discipline is to tackle challenges that you can successfully accomplish but which are near your limit.
Stone# 1: __________. This means that you perceive reality accurately and consciously acknowledge what you perceive.
The most basic mistake people make with respect to self-discipline is a failure to accurately perceive and accept their present situation.
Start out with some easy exercises you know you can do, and gradually progress to greater challenges. What you will find is that the skills that bring discipline to one area of your life will bleed over into other areas.

The Foundry

The Foundation Stones Of Discipline

What Is Self-Discipline?
Self-discipline is the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of your emotional state. – Steve Pavlina
Self-discipline is happening to life before life happens to you.
Self-discipline is holding yourself accountable so that others do not have to.
The pinnacle of self-discipline is when you reach the point that when you make a conscious decision, it’s virtually guaranteed you’ll follow through on it.
Building Self-Discipline
Self-discipline is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger you become. The less you train it, the weaker you become.
Just as it takes muscle to build muscle, it takes self-discipline to build self-discipline.
The basic method to build self-discipline is to tackle challenges that you can successfully accomplish but which are near your limit.
Stone# 1: __________. This means that you perceive reality accurately and consciously acknowledge what you perceive.
The most basic mistake people make with respect to self-discipline is a failure to accurately perceive and accept their present situation.
Start out with some easy exercises you know you can do, and gradually progress to greater challenges. What you will find is that the skills that bring discipline to one area of your life will bleed over into other areas.

The Foundry

The Foundation Stones Of Discipline

Without acceptance you get either ____________ or ____________.
________________ - you simply don’t know how disciplined you are — you’ve probably never even thought about it.
________________- you’re locked into a false view of reality.
Foundation Stone # 2 – Will Power
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
Willpower does work. But in order to take full advantage of it, you must learn what it ___________ and _________________ do.
What Is Willpower?
Willpower is your ability to set a course of action and say, “Engage!”
Willpower is the spearhead of self-discipline.
Willpower provides an intensely powerful yet ____________ boost.
Willpower is a concentration of force. The application of willpower includes the following steps:
Choose your ______________
Create a plan of _______________
_____________ the plan
Willpower is unsustainable. If you attempt to use it for too long, you’ll burn out. It requires a level of energy that you can maintain only for a short period of time… in most cases the fuel is spent within a matter of days.
Use Willpower to Create _______-_____________ ______________
The best way to use willpower is to establish a beachhead, such that further progress can be made with far less effort than is required of the initial thrust.

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Without acceptance you get either ____________ or ____________.
________________ - you simply don’t know how disciplined you are — you’ve probably never even thought about it.
________________- you’re locked into a false view of reality.
Foundation Stone # 2 – Will Power
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi
Willpower does work. But in order to take full advantage of it, you must learn what it ___________ and _________________ do.
What Is Willpower?
Willpower is your ability to set a course of action and say, “Engage!”
Willpower is the spearhead of self-discipline.
Willpower provides an intensely powerful yet ____________ boost.
Willpower is a concentration of force. The application of willpower includes the following steps:
Choose your ______________
Create a plan of _______________
_____________ the plan
Willpower is unsustainable. If you attempt to use it for too long, you’ll burn out. It requires a level of energy that you can maintain only for a short period of time… in most cases the fuel is spent within a matter of days.
Use Willpower to Create _______-_____________ ______________
The best way to use willpower is to establish a beachhead, such that further progress can be made with far less effort than is required of the initial thrust.

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