When it comes to personal growth: Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.
Consider the Following Questions about Your Growth
If you want to become more disciplined and consistent in your personal performance, you need to become more discipline and consistent in your growth.
1. Do you know what you need to improve?
Your future is dependent upon your personal growth. Improving yourself daily guarantees you a future filled with possibilities. When you expand yourself, you expand your horizons, your options, your opportunities, your potential.
The successful person has the habit of doing the things that failures don’t like to do. The successful person doesn’t like doing them either, but his dislike is subordinated to the strength of his purpose.
2. Do you know how you are supposed to improve?
- Match your motivation to your personality
- Start with the simple stuff
- Be patient
- Value the process
You can visualize tomorrow using it as motivation to grow, but if you want to actually grow, your focus needs to be on today. If you value today and find a way to enjoy it, you will invest in today. And the small steps you take today will lead to bigger steps you take someday.
3. Do you know why you want to keep improving?
Having a strong why will help keep you going when the discipline of learning becomes difficult, discouraging, or tedious. If your growth is connected to your values, dreams, and purpose, you’ll know why you’re doing it. And you will be more likely to follow through.
When you make the right choices and do it consistently over time, it can make a huge difference in your life. If you remember why you’re making those choices, it becomes easier.
4. Do you know when you are supposed to improve?
Life lived tomorrow will always be just a day away from realized. So you need to get started if you haven’t yet. More important, you need today to be every day.
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. That means developing great habits. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments, and that bridge must be crossed every day. Over time that daily crossing becomes a habit. And ultimately, people do not decide their future; they decide their habits and their habits decide their future.
* Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John C. Maxwell