Your Daily Action Steps...

Discipline: Your Daily Discipline

Today I want you to focus on ACTION STEPS.


The reason Discipline bridges your goals and their accomplishments is that you use it to take ACTION, to do the things you have to do, to make things happen for you.


I want to introduce you to the concept of 'Daily Disciplines'. You may be familiar with this concept already.


A 'daily discipline' is a non-negotiable contract you make with yourself to do regularly, whether you feel like it or not. Note that even though it's called a 'daily' discipline, the key thing here is that you do it regularly.


For instance, a daily discipline could be to exercise every day, or to attend a networking meeting every week.


Whatever the action is, it's got to have these qualities:

a) It's got to be something that pulls or draws you closer to your goal
b) You've got to do it when you're supposed to - leave no room for negotiation either with yourself or with someone else. (negotiation here means discussing whether you feel like doing it or not, etc). Just do it!


It's been said that it takes just half a dozen daily disciplines, done regularly, for breakthrough type of success to happen in any endeavour.


Don't know how accurate that figure is, but the principle is solid.


There's just no other option, if you're consistently doing the right thing relevant to your goal, but to achieve it.


When you remember this, you ought to be inspired, and motivated from within, to keep on keeping on, until you reach your goal.


As Og Mandino said in the great little book 'the greatest salesman in the world', you've got to form good habits and then become a slave to them. That's what your daily disciplines are about: a set of good habits that you've become a 'slave' to, whose end result can only be good for you.


So my question for you this week is this:
- Name 3 things which, if you consistently did them, would greatly improve your outcomes, your life.
- How regularly should you be doing these things, in order to bring you closer to your goals? Write this down beside each one.


These things should be things which have a global positive impact on your life in general, not necessarily specific to any one goal, but should positively impact your goals anyway.


Decide what these 3 things are.
Write them down.
Start doing them NOW!


Develop other daily disciplines based on your individual goals but don't have so many that you're overwhelmed into doing nothing. A good range to work with is 6-10.


Keep track of what you're doing so that you're encouraged when you see the results you're achieving along the way.


This habit of daily disciplines is one of the most important ones you can form so start NOW.