One of the biggest problems in my life is a lack of self-discipline. I’m not going to sugarcoat it by talking about my past traumas or making any excuses because if I am completely honest, I don’t have any. I am just in general a lazy person and I felt right now that I need to do something different in order to change my habits.
I wholeheartedly believe that self-discipline is like in the top 3-5 most important things one can and should develop in their lives. We were each born with certain genetic characteristics: some were probably very lucky and some were maybe not as fortunate. But regardless of what are starting point in life was, discipline is like the great equalizer because you can, in some sense, catch up or even exceed other people as long as you work really fucking hard. It’s almost a platitude to say that hard work > talent but I still believe that it is kind of underrated to work hard because (not surprisingly) it is difficult.
For the past few years, I would always tell myself that I need to work on fixing some of my discipline issues but because I have no tangible goals, I didn’t have a purpose to guide me through my suffering. I tend to think about running as an example because running is painful. If you don’t have any goals that you are trying to achieve, you would probably just stop as soon as you get tired because pain is the only thing occupying your thoughts. However, if you have a goal maybe for example to reach 5 miles etc., that suffering has a reason to be in order to accomplish something thats greater in the end. So that’s basically what I kind of want to do with this.
Another reason for this blog in my mind is for accountability. I don’t have the ability to keep myself accountable inside my mind, so I am going to try to document my progress in order to make it harder to go back on myself. Also since I may have some readers on this blog, I feel like it will put some positive pressure on myself to keep on track.
Goal of this Experiment
My aim with this is to try to develop my discipline. I’m not going to try to be David Goggins by the end of this but I want to be become someone that can set goals and principles and stick to them regardless of how I am feeling.
How am I going to this is I am going to set out a few things right now that I will have to do everyday. Some of these things are going to sound pretty dumb and easy but hey, I have to start somewhere. Everyday I’ll try to write a reflection on how well I did that day, things to improve the next day, and etc. I’ll write most of the stuff on a notebook and summarize the most important/interesting things on this blog. I’ll add more things when I think I can manage more.
Things I have to do everyday
- 50 Push-ups
- 50 Sit-ups
- Clean my room before I sleep
- Read 30 min
- Meditate 15 min
- Write something on my blog
I’ll start tommorow with my day 1 post and see how things go.
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