Are you struggling to get MORE disciplined so that you could be more efficient, more productive, most importantly, to achieve more goals sooner and faster?
Here is a thought.
Have you ever considered the problem doesn’t lie in your discipline (or will power) but in your balance?
Here was me. I was known for being super disciplined. And yet,
I would couch potato through the whole weekend, not moving an inch, telling myself that I just needed to let lose and be sloppy for two days so I would be ready for Monday.
Every now and then, a glitch on over-consuming sugar or over-eating occurred in my strict diet, which horrified myself.
I binged TV series after work, burning the night oil for the reason of decompressing and ended up only slept for 2 hours many days in a row even though I knew I shouldn’t have done it every time.
I needed cigarettes so badly that I could turn from a none-smoker to almost a pack a day overnight.
Or.
I kept pushing the ceiling of discipline.
I overworked, overtrained (in the gym) and didn’t not allow myself to sleep.
I added more and more endeavors to show I could by taking more hours from my sleep.
I overtrained, under ate, arrived at my dream body fat 17%, somehow showed up hyper after a bumpy sleepless night while I felt like a walking dead inside.
Deep down I knew that walking the extremes did not serve my health, my productivity at work, my emotional capacity or my intellectual ability.
Yet, I had no more in me to fix these anomalies.
So, I told myself the story that I simply needed to let of the steam so I could do better and faster; that, everything had its fluctuation.
Over the years, I normalized the story I told myself.
Until.
Until I moved my internal and external world into alignment.
Until I acknowledge the natural fluctuation is one of rest and growth instead of undereating and Netflix binging.
Until I worked out the clarity of my internal and external map of life.
Without any thoughts or efforts to be “more disciplined”, all these vices and swings were gone. Seriously, gone simply because I am in balance within and without.
Sometimes I still get them, more like a cold. Now I know better. I pause and acknowledge the misalignment, drop what was a hand and get aligned first.
Next time when you criticize yourself not disciplined enough, pause there.
Instead, ask this question,
“Where am I not aligned?”
“Where am I not balanced?”
When you don’t waste time and energy experiencing dis-serving swings, you WILL be more efficient, more productive and manifest successes better and faster.
Be love and be loved.