There is NO DOUBT that the key to success is being disciplined

However, most people have poor self-discipline—only a very small percentage have the skills to be disciplined. For the 95% that aren’t disciplined—it’s almost impossible to acquire it on your own. Regardless of how many self-help books you read and success seminars you attend, the issues are persistent:

• Poor time management
• Procrastination
• Ineffective goal management
• No motivation
• No sense of urgency
• Unstructured
• Disorganized
• Difficult to focus

That’s a dismal list! But this is reality and the effort to do something on your own is daunting.

Find a mentor! Someone that’s very disciplined (i.e., walks the talk) and has the following characteristics:

• Is brutally honest: tells it like it is – never sugar-coats poor performance.
• Willing to hold you accountable 7 days a week: Acquiring self-discipline skills is not a 9-5, Monday-Friday proposition. Helping someone improve their time management skills or being disorganized has no boundaries or cutoff time.
• A practitioner of Self-Discipline: You walk the talk.
• Continually strategizing with his/her client to seek improvement: There always has to be a better way to be more productive.

It’s much more than the characteristics above. A discipline coach needs to be sincere, caring and PASSIONATE about his/her client’s success.

Being disciplined is a skill that can be learned and the fastest and most effective way is to partner with a discipline coach.