The “Discipline” Nonsense

How many times have you heard about Discipline

"Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not"

"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret"

"Rule your mind or it will rule you"

Many more like this… to the point that at one point, I thought I was a total failure due to indiscipline. No matter what I did, I just couldn’t be disciplined… Until I came across this gem.

Stop looking for discipline inside of you! You will never find it

What do you do when you need light? You use a lighter or a match box

What do you do when you need to buy something? You use money

What do you do when you are really thirsty? You grab a drink

Just like a match box, or money or a drink, discipline is a tool and it’s just available at our disposal.

The truth is that

We don’t have discipline, we use discipline

How does this feel now? We don’t own it. No one does. It’s just available and people harness this. Once I got a hang of this, made me feel a lot better.

So, what do we do now? Let’s start using it.