I’m staying up late to write this blog post because I have discipline. Although it is discipline, it is not elite discipline. Elite discipline would have been one of two things:
I could have seen this coming. I could have foresaw that I was going to have a homework assignment coming up that would interfere with my plans. I could have adjusted and not waited until the last minute to do that homework which forced me to stay up late.
The second thing the elite discipline version of myself could have done is be so ruthlessly focused during the day that I was able to save the homework until today, still get it done, and get the blog post done without staying up past the time I had planned on going to bed.
I know you all don’t know the details of the situation such as the length of the homework assignment or what all I had going on today but I believe this would have been possible.
There are levels to everything you do and no matter how long you have been doing something- no matter how good you think you are at it- there is always another level.
People who are truly disciplined use their discipline to avoid situations where they even have to think about using “discipline.” That’s not to say they are afraid of such situations or run away from them.
They plan and strategize in such a way that their willpower is saved for times when they really need it. Willpower is limited and these people don’t waste it in places where it is unnecessary.
In the morning, I will train even though I’m tired. It will be because I have discipline. But it won’t be elite discipline because someone with such work ethic would not be tired in my situation because they would have went to bed on time, because they would got everything done that they set out to do the day before *on time,* because they have elite discipline.
Perhaps, then, discipline in some instances is not necessarily “doing the work when you’re tired and don’t feel like” it but rather never getting into situations or circumstances where you are tired and don’t feel like it.
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