If you think that what you lack for complete success is a higher education, good connections, or money in your bank account, you are mistaken! What you lack is discipline. If you want to make a quantum leap in your development, you cannot do without quantum efforts. And they are only possible with strict discipline.
Here are 10 'disciplinary' commandments to remember on your path to success:
1. Prepare for a long journey. Keep yourself in good psychological, physical, and financial shape. Contribute to your dream by thinking about the long-term consequences of your actions. Don't do what won't stand the test of time.
2. You may fall along the way, but always get back up. Don't despair over failures. You may suffer; that happens. But the more often you fall, the faster you need to get back up. No matter the damage, you will survive. Even in the most unfavorable, unimaginable circumstances.
3. It doesn't matter what the next step will be; the important thing is to move forward. If you are acting correctly, just take the next step. Stopping doing something right before your actions yield results is like making a mistake.
4. Everyone participating in the race is as tired as you are. If you are still fighting, look around — people are feeling the same way. It's no easier for them. And it's not harder for you than for them. Just acknowledge the pain and decide that the thirst for success is stronger than the desire to avoid pain.
5. Always remember that the finish line is usually not visible until you are right at it. So run as much as you can. Then walk as long as you can. Then crawl, gripping with your fingertips, until they cramp. But never stop on the path to success.
6. Discipline equally depends on what you do and what you refuse to do. This requires courage. Every day. It's not easy to tell yourself 'no.' It's not easy to talk yourself out of doing what would make your life easier in the moment (regardless of how that action will reflect on the future).
7. Become independent from mental harmful habits. We are dependent
on fear, excuses, selfishness, the opinions of others, idleness in front of the TV, the sense of security that a salary provides, comfort, and choosing easy paths. Say 'no' to limiting actions and relationships, the need to always be right, instant gratification, momentary emotional comfort, the victim role, laziness, harmful trifles, and the easy and simple choice.
8. Plan to work even more than you can imagine. You don't have to move to Kenya to sweat under the hot sun preparing to break a world record, but you may have to spend a dozen sleepless nights until you reach the finish line.
9. Success and a measured life are incompatible. To be successful, extreme effort is required, not just an ordinary 40-hour work week. You need to plan to work more than you can imagine, and then double your efforts.
10. Plan to endure one or two defeats on the way to victory. This happens more often than not. If you succeeded on the first try, ask yourself if your goal was ambitious enough. You must be ready for the fact that the first few, or even dozens of attempts will end in failure. Learn valuable lessons from defeat and plan how to act next, until you achieve victory.
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