Marc Estes

Discipline is doing that you don’t want to do so that you can do what you want to do. It is paying the price on the smaller things so that you can reap the benefits of the bigger things. If you want to succeed in life and reach the full potential for your life, you will need to work hard at being disciplined in three core areas:

1. Disciplined Thoughts – You won’t make far in anything if you don’t use the six inches between your ears. You don’t have to be a genuis to succeed, but you do need to be disciplined in your thoughts. How you think about your life, your relationships, your career, your finances will have a great bearing on ultimately who you become.

2. Discipline Emotions - If you can get the right thoughts perculating in your mind, you are well on your way to have a better chance with your emotions. Regardless of what comes your way, you will need to know how to control your emotions. You really only have two choices when it comes to your emotions; let them control you, or you control them. For the most part, the emotions you experience were the emotions you chose.

3. Disciplined Actions - Most of what you do in life will be determined by your actions. You may have the greatest intentions but they won’t get you far. You must act upon what you are supposed to do and put into practice those elements that move you forward in following your dreams and visions. Champions aren’t built in a day, but built daily through the every day right decisions they make.

If you want to become all you are to become, discipline will be one of the primary vehicles to get you there.