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.