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Podcast Episode 27 — Self-Discipline
You’re probably wondering how self-discipline fits in with organizing. Well, if you’re not disciplined, you won’t follow through on your decluttering and organizing. But I also feel that having self-discipline is another way to have a streamlined and more organized life.
Here’s what I mean.
To be self-disciplined, you need to be able to motivate yourself to meet the goals that you set for yourself. If that goal is to organize your closet, without self-discipline, you’ll just keep putting it off, and the more jumbled and decluttered your closet becomes, the longer you’ll avoid doing it.
If you’re self-disciplined, you don’t need anyone’s help to get done what needs to get done. You do what you said you would — whether that was said to yourself or someone else, and even if you don’t feel like it.
To get a bigger understanding of what self-discipline is, let’s look at some examples.
1. Wake Up on Time — The ability to get yourself up before work, get properly dressed, fed, exercised and out the door on time to get to work is a trait of self-discipline. Sure, if you’re late enough, you may get fired, so there is some outside push there. However, for most people, it’s simply self-discipline that gets them going each day.
