Wealth, Health, and Success

Discipline

We must clarify the greatest misconception plaguing us from birth. Control, punishment, and discipline are not equal or equivalent. It's a guttural connotation that makes these ideas seem the same.

I would hope a joyful child is a goal amongst all parents. Others want obedient, well-mannered, and docile children so as not to be judged by others or challenged. This doesn't mean the ideal joyful child is a wild child doing what they please. We would also hope the ideal joyful child doesn't constantly need to be instructed on how to be joyful. It's almost as if we wish to enjoy a child's joy while slowly stripping it away to condition them for society. Sadly, we condition children into servile individualism, endlessly seeking validation. We end up breaking the joyful child to create an empty vessel, ravenous consumer shopping and working to feel something again.

We are taught to punish and control, an external force acting upon us to make us act right. This conditions us to rely upon external structures and external opinions for correction. Often it has the opposite effect creating deeper resistance and aversion to people's perspective or authority altogether. Worst it can create an outright rebellion, worsening any bridge to long-term recovery once the relationship turns into malignant abuse. A child can lose their personality and God-given purpose once a parent takes them off the life of joy to turn them into a consumer of happiness.

What does this have to do with the money? Is the disparity of wealth not the greatest malignant abuse as if the knowledge and practice of wealth have been coveted by a select few? Many of us no longer want anything to do with money. We reject doing certain things we should because of external pressure. This stress alters our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. Stress can severe or strengthen a vessel from its spirit. How our parents taught us to view our bad behavior and the extent we create our perspective.

A lot of people fear the name and existence of God instead of worshipping. This leads many people to speak about "the universe," the one narrative.

Was loudness and jumping on the couch a catastrophic event, or what do kids do? Did you go to bed at a regular time or stay up all night? These are the early building blocks we structure our lives on. This is what creates your daily script and tacit narrative controlling your habits, behaviors, thoughts, and actions. What we practice daily is what ultimately becomes our life.

This is why discipline is mandatory. Discipline is not an external force impressed on us by the external world.

Discipline is inertia. It's our very paradigm defining us waking up, working all night, eating, sleeping, and working. Do our daily habits build us, break us, or keep us at rest? It's whether we were taught to wait for an external force to move us or prepare for movement.

The potential energy is waiting to be told what to do, and the kinetic energy is focused on its purpose until rest is inevitable. I'm serious when I say discipline is internal inertia, practicing our daily habits to their fullest capacity. When we say good discipline, what we refer to is seemingly indomitable willpower forcing one to wake up from a hangover to perform at 100%. It comes from decades of tiny decisions determining whether we have compromised ourselves, missed our mark, or overslept.

Oversleeping after an all-nighter finishing a thesis paper is not poor discipline. Focus on the discipline found in pushing oneself to completion. Discipline is large decisions like getting an A+ on a paper that comes from doing work overtime not in one instance. The answer to this problem isn't spending the night getting the assignment performing an all-nighter. Then ignore the assignment until the week it's due.

You take the syllabus and spend an all-nighter schedule your assignments in a calendar or planner. You can program it onto your cellphone. Doing 20-40 minutes a night would solve so many problems between binge watching television and social activities. Doing 30 minutes directly after class would double your retention of the knowledge you received. Break the assignment into smaller projects and tasks then keep the larger vision in your spirit.

The mind tires before the body. Discipline is therefore training our mind to connect with our spirit, superego, and higher conscience. This teaches our mind to move out the way as it does when our id dominates our thinking. However, it processes this for the right decision or to our designated paradigm-built overtime. If you are starting a 30-day transformation, you'll realistically need 90 days to create a real habit. Its actuality you will need a year to a decade.

Discipline and Integrity is accepting a reality that we choose our evil and good inclinations like we choose what to wear in the morning. We have created this style, morning routine, sleeping habits, and financial habits around the age of 7 or 10. When was the last time you consciously considered your morning routine or your sleep quality?

Discipline and Integrity are our ability to make the right decision for our wealth, health, and success. The practice of meditation can bring one's breath and mind as one singular function. However, meditation is no mastery it is a practice, not a competition but a continuum. Discipline therefore is a life practice of bringing our carnal flesh under divine order to our spirit not the heart or mind. Vainglory or Acedia bows before a liberated spirit focused upon its convictions, direction, and purpose. To stay on the path and to be accountable then a lifestyle of discipline is indispensable.

You may mock me or say I am preaching to you. This is your prerogative.

My true point is discipline is far superior to punishment or control. We must train and teach this internal mechanism of a life of meditation to the Almighty. The image of all that is right and good has given us the perfect paradigm already from birth! The moment you feel coerced or demanding of authority it is not discipline. When you are trying to remove positive stimuli and things you genuinely love from your life then you are punishing yourself. Silence the demons by living by relying upon your spirit to give you direction.

Discipline can only be lived by and exemplified. It's often falsely portrayed for punishment or control because how does one judge an internal mechanism by physical appearance? A tree is judged by its fruits. So, we must focus on the results and remove unnecessary methods to achieve these ends. The profits do not determine what is justifiable. Our results determine what is justifiable. Keep your eyes as an arrow focused on its target. Do not diverge to compare your nature of discipline or life with others. Instead, build a community to reinforce your positive goals because evil has already been defeated.

If you are seeking exercise then go to a boxing gym or join a recreational team. If you are an artist use eventbrite, meetup, paint and sips, open-mics, and writer circles. If it's entrepreneurship join the chambers of commerce to network.

People will recognize your discipline by two things alone, your word and your actions. Discipline, true discipline is when those two are in pure alignment. You can follow-through on what you'll say you'll do. If you fail or miss your mark, you alone take responsibility. Therefore, it was no traffic, it wasn't your environment, it wasn't your upbringing, and as difficult as it is to say, it wasn't your childcare.

For the next quarter center yourself on being accountable, being committed, and taking what you say very serious. Your word is your bond. If you cannot take your word and your actions seriously then others will only reflect your perception. I repeat, do not spend your life comparing your discipline with others. Improve your practice, your adherence to your word as your bond, and taking life a bit more seriously.

Your assignment is to dedicate yourself to rereading the former sections. Create a list of your expenses. Track down every last dollar going out of your pocket. Create a budget. Create a schedule. You will not be a perfect man every day. Every day you will get closer to your goal, you will better utilize your resources, and you will better invest your time.