Exercise 5:

Consider whether you value self-discipline more than motivation. Justify your statement.

According to psychologists, it is easier to work on improving self-discipline than on strengthening motivation. Of course, you can learn to motivate just like any other skill, but with self-discipline it's a little different because it is not an action in itself. Let's think, if we change one thing in our behaviour, we start to get up a little earlier, we will always start work at the same time and at the same time we will not waste our time, for example, browsing gossip sites or Facebook, our work will be more effective and this action will be related to it is with self-discipline, not with motivation.

The best areas to start exercising in self-discipline are not those related to organization, time management, etc., but those related to so-called fundamental habits. That is sleep, healthy eating and exercise. Even the slightest improvement in all three (or any of them) will make everything else easier. You will start to sleep, which means you will stop being tired. You will start to move, and the effects that will appear after some time will mobilize you to support your actions, for example, healthy eating. Once you start eating healthily, the sugar drops in your body will disappear and you will start working more efficiently instead of looking for something sweet to eat.

1. Begin your self-discipline learning process by accepting that you are capable of doing it. Apparently everyone would like to finally start doing something regularly, but they communicate everywhere that they cannot cope, that they cannot, that they are a hopeless case and that they will certainly fail. So before they start, they already give up and it is a kind of cry of despair.

2. The second step is to plan your activities. This action must be systematic. Plan your day in such a way that you cannot avoid action. On a large piece of paper, write in capital letters and hang it at eye level. Or on the bathroom mirror. Or on the exit door. Break the day into steps so that you don't start tomorrow - but today!

3. third - plan the right tasks in a timely manner. Get to know yourself, analyze your day, evaluate when you are the most effective and when you are the least. Plan activities that require discipline from you at a time when you have plenty of energy and will to live. Then it will be easiest for you to take new actions, and in addition, doing them will give you power for the next stage of the day!

4. Plan your tasks for a very short period of time, remember the "little steps" rule. Do not plan anything over 15 minutes a day for a new activity and believe me that sometimes even they will turn out to be extremely difficult, especially since you have your current duties.

5. Remember that your plan has to be flexible as we are never able to plan or predict everything. During the course of action, it may turn out that you have overestimated your abilities or, on the contrary, you have underestimated them. Nothing prevents you from changing it while learning. It is also important to monitor your progress and make changes on a regular basis.

6. Start with one area where you will apply self-discipline; because too many areas in which you will want to practice her will make you feel tired and distract you too much.

7. Get rid of temptation. If you know that it is stronger than you - turn off WiFi only so that you do not feel the temptation to browse the Internet while working. All kinds of blocking programs for certain websites serve exactly the same purpose.

8. Don't think you'll feel great about it. Many people think that learning self-discipline will become such a great adventure. Because at the beginning we are actually high, especially when we notice the effects we want to achieve. However, it lasts about a week, and then we return to the old rubbish: we do not want anything, there is doubt, because it was supposed to be so beautiful.

9. Remember that doubt occurs regularly, and you need to learn to recognize your little successes. Successes will push us forward and make us persevere in the implementation of our plan longer.

10. You will slip up and make mistakes - and you have to accept it. Many people believe that a slip-up or fall out of the rails causes the end, the failure. And falls, mishaps, mistakes, and trips are normal. And they will always take place! Remember that mistakes are part of science - let's learn from them. Also, don't blame yourself for your mistakes.

11. Remember! When you combine the tasks in pairs, it will be easier for you to complete them

It is a strategy of pairing habits in such a way as to choose a habit that we

have firmly rooted in our actions and combine it with one that we want to

develop in ourselves. To do this, you need to know what habits you have

learned.

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