You Can Do It - Stick to It Challenge Day 13 (Saturday) Check Ins

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
- Frank Herbert

I love this one! I feel the need to explain it and tell you how I think this works. A constant search for flexibility and options in your plan (whether it be for greater fitness, wealth, business success or whatever)will cause you to be in a place where you are always choosing and moving very slowly toward (and sometimes away from) your goal. The flexibility or options you build in for yourself are actually causing you to be in a continued, intense state of longing for the goal simply because your actions are not taking you quickly to where you want to arrive. You make sacrifices in pursuit of the goal without actually consistently making the sacrifices that are most critical for attaining your goal. You feel frustrated because you feel that you are making sacrifices without reward (thus becoming a captive of your desire).

On the other hand when you seek to become disciplined enough to work your plan day in and day out without constantly seeking to build in options and flexibility, you move quickly and consistently toward your goal. You feel your sacrifices are worthwhile. Your confidence grows since your efforts are producing results. Knowing that your disciplined action taking produced a desired result is extremely liberating.

The Bible even speaks on this subject of seeking discipline. Check this out:

He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly. (Proverbs 5:23)

No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. (Hebrews 12:11)

Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper. (Proverbs 13:4)




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