Rewards Through Discipline
63In life, you will reap what you sow.
A unique part of the Law of Sowing and Reaping suggests not only that we'll all reap what we've sown, it also suggests that we'll reap much more. Life is filled with laws that govern and explain behaviors but a major law will will need to understand is that through every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards.
This is a wonderful concept. If you render unique service, your reward will be multiplied. If you're fair, honest and patient with others, your reward will be multiplied. If you give more than you expect to receive, your reward is more than you expect. The key word in this though is discipilne. A side caveat is also that doing something with expectations of a reward will leave one unsatisfied while doing something out of the true goodness of ones heart will leave one quite satisfied.
Everything of value requires care, attention and iscipline. Our thoughts require discipline. (We must mind our thoughts because thoughts become things.) We must consistently determine our inner boundaries and our codes of conduct, or out thoughts will be confused. And if our thoughts are confused, we will become hopelessly lost in the maze of life.
Confused thoughts produce confused results.
Remember the law: “For every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards.” Learn the discipline of writing a card or a letter to a friend. Learn the discipline of paying your bills on time, arriving to appointments on time, or using your time more effectively. Learn the discipline of paying attention, or paying your taxes or better yet, paying
yourself. Learn the discipline of having regular meetings with your associates, or your spouse, or your children, or your parent. Learn the discipline of learning all you can learn, of teaching all you can teach, or reading all you can read.
For each discipline, multiple rewards. For each book, new knowledge. For each success, new ambition. For each challenge, new understanding. For each failure, new determination. Life is like that. Even the bad
experiences of life provide their own special contribution.
A word ofcaution here for those who neglect the need for care and attention to life’s disciplines: Everything has its price. Everything effects everything else. Neglect discipline and there will be a price to pay.
All things of value can be taken for granted with the passing of time.
We call this the the Law of Familiarity. Without the discipline of paying constant, daily attention, we take things for granted. Be serious about life. Life’s not a practice session.
If you’re often inclined to toss your clothes onto the chair rather than hanging them in the closet, be careful. It could suggest a lack of discipline. And remember, a lack of discipline in the small areas of life can cost you heavily in the more important areas of life. You cannot clean
up your life until you learn the discipline of cleaning your own garage. You cannot be impatient with your children and be patient with your neighbors or friends. You cannot inspire others to “be better” if you yourself are not “being better”. You cannot suggest to people that they read more when you don’t.
Think about your life at this moment. What areas need attention right now? Perhaps you have had an disagreement with someone you love or someone who loves you, and your anger won’t allow you to speak to that person. Wouldn’t this be an ideal time to examine your need for new
discipline? Perhaps you are on the brink of giving up, or starting over. Perhaps the only missing ingredient to your incredible success story in the future is a new self-imposed discipline that will make you try harder and work more intensely than you ever thought you could.
The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose on yourself. Don’t wait for things to deteriorate so drastically that someone else must impose discipline upon you.
How could you possibly explain the fact that someone else thought more of you than you thought of yourself? That they forced you to get up early and get out into the world when you have been content to let success go to someone else who cared more about themselves?
Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. It will be a warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.
Do not wait until tomorrow.....GET STARTED WITH YOUR NEW LIFE NOW!!!
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Dorian Salazar says:
7 months ago
Very inspirational. Do you give seminars? If not you should!!!