365 Days With Self-Discipline: 365 Life-Altering Thoughts on Self-Control, Mental Resilience, and Success



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365 Days With Self-Discipline 365 Life-Altering Thoughts on Self-Control, Mental Resilience, and Success by Martin Meadows (z-lib.org).epub

Day 89: On Not Making Excuses

You have to deliver results when making excuses is an option.

—Dan Waldschmidt

 

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Self-discipline  comes  down  to  choosing  between  instant  and  delayed

gratification.  Instant  gratification  feels  good  today  but  compromises  your

long-term goals, while delayed gratification usually doesn’t deliver much in

the way of instant pleasure, but it can lead to bigger rewards in the future.

Sometimes you’ll find yourself in a situation in which you’ll be able to

make  excuses;  they  may  even  sound  so  sensible  that  (upon  hearing  your

rationalizations) nobody would question your backing out of that situation.

However,  don’t  let  them  fool  you  —  even  if  there’s  some  legitimacy  to

them,  in  most  cases  it’s  still  nothing  other  than  choosing  instant

gratification.

For example, if you want to establish a habit of jogging three times a

week and one day it rains and you’re afraid you’ll get sick, you have a valid

excuse to skip exercise. After all, there is a higher risk of getting sick when

running in bad weather, right?

However, it sets a dangerous precedent: you’re making a decision that

your habits depend on the weather. Your self-control (or your lack of it) is

now at the mercy of external factors, largely dependent on whether jogging

in  the  given  circumstances  is  easy  or  not.  Is  this  the  right  way  to  build

mental toughness and self-discipline ?

If you decide to keep going instead of defaulting to the easy choice of

using  (partly  valid)  excuses,  you’ll  immensely  strengthen  your  resolve.  It

takes even more discipline — and consequently offers a greater opportunity

to exercise your self-control muscle — to stick to something when you have

a good justification to not do it.





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