Will you let discipline do its job?

The first role of discipline I introduced yesterday is to influence how you think, decide, and act. I consider this discipline’s primary role.

Discipline’s job is to infuse thoughts, decisions, and actions with:

1. Powerful self-direction
2. Clear purpose
3. High standards
4. Focused effort
5. Impactful skill

This role is a great way to teach young people about discipline. It acts as a bridge to responsibility. It is also excellent for adults who have always struggled with discipline. Seeing discipline in this role helps with learning how to control yourself as your exposure to the world expands, as you encounter a wider variety of situations, and as you learn about yourself.

Discipline is the ideal companion for learning how to direct your thoughts, make decisions, and engage in actions because it keeps you true to yourself while responsible in the world.

If you already have a strong foundation of discipline, this role helps keep you in control of yourself as you move through the seasons of life and circumstances evolve. People need more help with that than they believe.

Many people were once full of discipline. Then, their circumstances changed, and their discipline was not prepared or strong enough to evolve. The strong foundation of discipline is still there. It needs revival. This role of discipline strengthens your capacity to thrive in more scenarios, overcome new, bigger challenges, and achieve fresh, meaningful goals.

So, you can understand this primary role of discipline as infusing your thoughts, decisions, and actions with self-direction, purpose, standards, effort, and skill.
Great things happen when you let discipline own this role. Dangerous things happen if you don’t.

Tomorrow, I’ll introduce another role of discipline, one I call the Simplifier Role.

Event + Response = Outcome. Do the work.