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Becoming Mentally Disciplined By Jeremiah Haynes

which simply says "SELF-CONTROL." In my own words, I would describe discipline as the ability to do something without motivation. As it stands, motivation can be one of the most powerful concepts and feelings in this world. All of the different feelings you feel help to motivate those actions you make as a human. I'm not telling you this in order to tell you to not move based off of your feelings. The message I want to get across is at times when you feel the lack of motivation to do something, you should still push yourself to take action. That's the key to finding discipline. As stated by the famous entrepreneur Jim Rohn, "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

Life as a whole can become greatly better once people take the time to learn discipline. This is a topic that I have thought about for many years and is something that has taken a lot of time to understand. As shown through my own experience and other people's experiences, mental discipline can drastically turn someone's life around for better or worse. The definitions of discipline in the Merriam- Webster dictionary are 1. control gained by enforcing obedience or order, 2. orderly or prescribed conduct or pattern of behavior, 3. SELF-CONTROL (merriam-webster.com/ dictionary/discipline). The definition that stands out to me the most is the last one,

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