Last couple of weeks for me has been full of travel and a lot of unplanned activities that needed my attention. And it is when things like these happen that one thing which is needed the most, has the potential to be ignored the most too. I am talking about discipline.
Yes, this is one aspect of my life, which I have always been happy about with myself for a long-long time in my life. But what I have experienced lately is that despite of wanting to be disciplined with a lot of things, I have somehow allowed for myself to not be that in many situations.
So, I chose today’s blog to be as much of a reminder and reinforcement to myself, as it is written for anyone who reads it, and can take whatever makes sense to them in what I share. The role that discipline plays to keep our lives meaningful and mindful, and the experiences I have had having lived both a life with and without discipline, is what strengthens my belief about its importance in our life.
I have always believed that discipline must eventually become our natural way of being, even if in its early stages it is something which we practice consciously to adopt as a habit in our life. My reason behind saying that it must come naturally to us is that anything which is continued to be superficially present in our life, leaves sooner or later. And even till the time it stays, it does not impact our lives as much as it could naturally have.
My very own experience with discipline or I should say lack of discipline is that there are few factors which always make their presence felt whenever indiscipline shows up in my life. The top three which I would like to share today are, prioritizing fun above passion, not being mindful of how you are spending your time, and last but very important, not holding oneself accountable.
When I talk of fun, I am pointing towards meaningless fun. Meaningless in the form of being directionless, or being overdone, or being done for the sake of it. While practicing one’s passion can be a huge source of fun, but indiscipline generally takes us to forms of fun which we do not connect naturally to us.
Time consciousness is something which suffers the most as soon as indiscipline knocks at our doors. We start to borrow time from things which need our attention and give it to that which does not contribute to our development or mindful living in anyway.
Lastly, our self-accountability takes a huge hit, for us to allow ourselves to be away from discipline. We either do not realize that we are hanging on indiscipline in how we are being, or to make things even worse, when this truth shows up on itself, we do whatever it takes to deflect it away, and live in a make-believe world that all is well.
A genuine practice of self-reflection and in case if traces of any of these three is found, taking charge of oneself, and practicing self-honesty, is what can take care not only these three, but many more such reasons which can allow us to make space for indiscipline in our lives.
I have decided to pull myself up and allow my most natural disciplined self to take charge. And I hope that anyone who reads today’s blog and finds any resonance with it, will try and introspect to locate any such traces, and subsequently will correct them for good.
Take care. Be safe.
Love, RB!
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