get disciplined!

By Julia Armstrong

You can always do more than you believe you can. You have limitless potential. It comes down to choices and to discipline, wholesome self discipline.

This can mean taking rests just as much as it can mean running that extra mile, it means saying ‘no’ occasionally as much as finishing that report at midnight to ensure you deliver it when you said you would. Doing more than you believed possible is about noticing the choices you make every minute of every day.

You always have a choice – of how you act, react, or respond to an event or situation, even when you did not appear to have any choice over what happened. There is always another perspective, another stance from which to look at a situation. Your reality is derived from the angle you take.

Love takes effort!

Really loving others and real achievements take a lot of discipline. To really love others takes an ability to truly listen to their position, to validate them, and with this amazing things happen: it really does become possible to walk that mile in their shoes. Once you can do that, it is possible to see that no one is actually doing anything to you as such, because the actions of others come from their own pain. If you are able to embrace this state, as Buddha or Christ exemplified, no one can hurt you.

So does life...

The discipline to really live comes, in part, from acknowledging your own pain and from seeking to heal emotional distress – either in the immediate, or pain that is unhealed from the past. And with this healing comes the chance to regain the energy to live fully. Any achievement takes discipline, day after day. It also takes faith, faith in yourself, and maybe in a higher power or in what you have set out to do. With faith comes commitment and with commitment comes the energy to keep going when there is not yet tangible evidence of the success.

Get some focus

Focus on the area in which you want to achieve and then go to the core of your being to access the motivation for what you do. If you find it within, then the flow will be clear and the manifestation will happen as it is meant to. If you chase chimeras such as money or fame of security, you will never feel fully at ease. By going from the inside out, listening to your heart and to your true inner calling, you will find that the security, the status, the fame, the money will come as a result of you following your soul. So many people do it the other way round, chasing chimeras in the hope of security and the ability to do what they want and so know who they are. Wrong.

Know who you are. Do what you love, use discipline to keep going day after day, week after week, month after month. Rest when you need to, take action when required and you will find that you can let go, trust yourself and the flow of life. There really is a place inside that is always safe and secure, from which everything flows, and where you will find abundance beyond your imagination.

Julia has worked with people for over thirty years as a life coach and therapist.  Her skills lie specifically in enabling people to have healthy and happy relationships with themselves and others. She is an Educator for the Imago model of relationship therapy, which is a powerful tool in enabling people to really listen to one another and validate and value their differences. Julia's work leads others towards real connection, healing and personal growth, allowing relationship to become a place to experience living with more joy and creativity.  To learn more visit www.juliaarmstrong.com