Knapweed aka hardheads
Why
Self-Discipline Will Make You Unstoppable
Dan S. Kennedy
In his book No B.S. Time Management for
Entrepreneurs, business coach and consultant
Dan Kennedy reveals the steps behind making the most of
your frantic, time-pressured days
so you can turn time into money. In this edited excerpt,
the author describes the importance
of self-discipline to the achievement of success.
On the morning of my mother’s funeral,
I wrote the following paragraph for the original, first
edition of this book:
My mother passed away a couple of days, actually nights
ago, and the viewing was last night;
the memorial service will be in about four hours from
now, this morning. It is 6:00 A.M.
And here I am, at the keyboard, in my home office,
writing. That’s what I do almost every day,
for at least the first early hour of the morning, no
matter what. And that’s the answer to how
I can have five books in bookstores, a sixth and seventh
hitting early in 1996,
be under contract for an eighth for 1997, write my
monthly newsletters, and so on.
It’s not that I’m devoid of emotion, nor that I didn't
love my mother.
However, I learned long ago the vital importance of
regimen, ritual, commitment and discipline
in relationship to successful achievement. So it takes a
lot to derail me.
Most people are much more easily distracted. Perhaps I’m
extreme in my insistence
on proceeding with my work plans no matter what, but most
people are even more extreme
in their willingness to set aside their work plans for
just about anything.
Having and commanding the respect of others is a
tremendous advantage in life.
That edge comes
from self-discipline.
The highly disciplined individual does not have to point
a gun at anyone to take what he wants; people “sense” his power and cheerfully
give him everything they’ve got.
Take a look at how
little self-discipline most people have.
Ask an employer of any size, and you’ll hear how big the
problems of tardiness
and absenteeism are. People don't even have enough
self-discipline to get up in the morning!
In my business dealings, I find more than half the people
can't seem to get to appointments
and meetings on time or keep preset telephone
appointments.
Clients miss prescheduled appointments. Vendors miss
deadlines as often as they make them.
In the entrepreneurial environment, there’s a lot to be
said just for showing up on time,
ready to work. The meeting of deadlines and commitments
alone causes a person to stand out from the crowd like an alien space ship
parked in an Iowa cornfield.
The ability to get things done and done right the first
time will magnetically attract
incredible contacts, opportunities and resources to you.
All of this is a matter of self-discipline.
And self-discipline aimed and applied at a particular
thing is quite literally a magic power.
When you focus your self-discipline on a single purpose,
like sunlight through a magnifying glass
on a single object, look out! The whole world will
scramble to get out of your way,
hold the doors open for you, and salute as you walk by.
Successful
achievement of most worthwhile objectives –
- including being an infinitely more productive
entrepreneur who makes the most of his time –
- is rarely easy, but is often simple. In fact, it can be
boiled down to three steps.
Awareness. If
you become aware of the importance of time, you'll have a different concept
of
time, valuing of time, and how you must exercise control over your use and
others’
consumption of your time in order to have a reasonable chance of
achieving your
goals and tapping your full potential.
You'll have new awareness
of how your time is used or abused, invested or squandered,
organized and controlled or let flow about at random. As
the first step to new achievement,
there's always awareness of problems and failings, and of
opportunities and successes.
Decision. All
achievement follows deliberate decision, with extremely rare exceptions
of accidental achievement, like tripping over an untied
shoelace, falling face down
on the pavement, and seeing a wrapped stack of lost $100
bills lying against the curb
you wouldn’t have noticed otherwise. Absent that
kind of freak accident,
achievement can only follow decision. As a result of
your thinking of the importance of time,
you can develop certain
decisions.
Action. There
are three kinds of action: starting things or implementation, follow-through,
and completion. When you've made a decision, you have to
start doing things about it.
For some people, this is hard, but for many people in
many situations, starting is relatively easy. The person who decides on a new
diet may find it easy, even exhilarating to take
a huge garbage bag and empty the refrigerator and pantry
of all offending foods.
It’s follow-through that is usually the hard part. That’s
where the tough-minded boss-of-self
comes to bear. Relying on sheer willpower is rarely
successful.
You have to create an environment in which high
self-discipline is supported.
But self-discipline is required. And rewarded.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230268
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