Discipline

Discipline is always needed in a successful life.

Discipline drives the way you live your life, directs your emotions, regulate your relationship with others and maintain your mental and physical health.

If you are discipline enough to wake up an hour early every morning, then this extra one hour can be used for many gains in your life eg exercising to improve your health, execute planning for the day etc. Similarly, you must be disciplined enough to do the right requirement of physical exercise and not to over do it.

In financial aspect of your life, one must be disciplined enough to spend within one’s means. You can always be disciplined enough to encourage yourself to be happy with just simple things around you without letting envy of high value products disturb your simple taste.

Good discipline also involves regular fixed time for food, sleep, relaxation and enjoyment.

It is well known that an average person needs 8 hours of sleep per night. It is also known that the liver starts to recuperate and release toxin between 11pm to 2am and so our body should be disciplined and scheduled to sleep 2 hours before that. Of cause, those with health problems should be disciplined enough to have a good and longer rest to allow the body to recuperate. Allowing the body to rest is a basic discipline everyone must adopt daily so that the body can perform well for the day and the rest of our lives.

Plain water serves the best liquid to quench our thirst. Every body should drink an average of 8 glasses daily and the volume of water can included other forms of liquid intake eg soup, juice from fruits like water melon, beverages etc.

For food, I have recently discovered that fruits should be eaten 1/2 hour prior to soup and the main meals ie rice and dishes. In such practice, fruits will dissolve first as solid food take longer to dissolve.

Although discipline do wonder for everyone, over discipline can result in self damaging, destruction and lead to poor stage of health. When over disciplined, it may lead to deprivation, restriction and pushing too hard on ourselves. One should maintain balance on discipline and enjoy to live life to the fullest.