Personal Success & Discipline

Achieving peak personal performance and creating personal power begins with a mental strength mindset and empowering beliefs.  Reaching your personal goals starts in the mind and finishes with peak performance…taking massive action.

This is one in a series of mental strength life coaching tips to help start your week of strong so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.

I take one subject and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct questions.  The intention of this virtual ‘life coaching’ session is for you to write the questions in your success journal and then reflect on them and write your answers and thoughts in your journal.

These series of posts are for YOU!  If I’m not able to coach you personally one-on-one over the phone  I want you to at least get the benefit of a “virtual” mental strength coaching session.

Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:

Help you understand the importance of discipline and delayed gratification over pleasure when it comes to achieving your personal goals and personal success.

Let’s Get Started:

Think for a moment about your beliefs and philosophies as they relate to discipline and delayed gratification.  I want you to get a feel for what role discipline has played (or not played) in your life to this point and its effect.  Also consider how much more the mental strength skills of delayed gratification and discipline you believe are required to reach your personal goals.

Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:

• Do you believe most successful individuals are more disciplined or just luckier then others?
• What does the term discipline or delayed gratification mean to you?
• Can discipline and delayed gratification ever be enjoyable?

Unsupported Beliefs about Discipline

• Discipline is painful.
• Discipline isn’t fun.
• Discipline isn’t worth the reward.

Mental Strength Beliefs about Discipline

• Discipline is what separates the successful from the “also ran’s.”
• Discipline creates the excitement of knowing you’re on your way to achieving your personal goals and personal success.
• Discipline means making a decision and sticking with it.

Outrageous Questions:

• Based on your results, how disciplined are you?
• If you were more disciplined, would you be living your dream?
• What is your lack of discipline and delayed gratification costing you?

Reflective Questions:

• On a scale of 1-9, 9 being the most disciplined, how disciplined are you?
• What would you have to do to become disciplined enough to reach your personal goals?
• As your virtual life coach, how can I help you become more disciplined and understand the importance of delayed gratification?

Mental Strength Coaching:

Remember that the average person believes discipline and delayed gratification is painful, and will avoid it all costs.  The mental strength skill of discipline produces many benefits in the long run.  Here’s want Harry S. Truman said about "discipline”

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.”

Improvement in this area of your life, not just self-discipline, but discipline in all areas,  will move you closer to achieving your personal goals, personal success and your greatest life’s vision.  Getting the average person to embrace the idea of discipline is no easy task, and you’re not average…are you?  Keep your emotional motivators fully engaged and this will help you develop a disciplined mindset.

Final Thought

Once you wake up from the current trance and realize that developing the mental strength skill of discipline has the power to change your life, results will immediately begin to show up.

My role as your virtual life coach is to be your alarm clock that jolts you out of this trance of ‘average person thinking’ and into one of ‘discipline equals personal success'Personal Success.

If you’d like to get started on developing a mindset of discipline for personal power,  peak personal performance ask for your Introductory Consultation today!

Roland Gilbert

With over 20 successful years in corporate America, Roland Gilbert is now living his passion through helping others find and live theirs! Roland is a personal coach working with a wide range of clients’ issues through helping them change their thoughts and actions about their worlds – both personally and professionally.

Roland works one-on-one – via phone and face-to-face – and with MasterMind Groups. Through Couples Coaching Roland helps clients communicate better, find the love they want, and create relationships of significance.

Contact Roland at 800-974-3692 or rgilbert@perennialgrowth.com  to determine if coaching is right for you. www.perennialgrowth.com