The Tool Of Discipline

Discipline is a tool.

Yup, that's right. Not a virtue or something somebody has or doesn't have -it's just a tool. Like a hammer, a shovel, a level, a script, whatever.

I love this concept. Steve Chandler talks about it all the time and I love it because you don't have to be a "disciplined person" in order for this to work. You only need to apply the tool of discipline and USE it for something. It's all about how you show up!

I've always thought about discipline (pre-current distinction) as something that you either were gifted with or not. Now when I write this blog I can say, "I'm going to USE the power of discipline to get this blog done." Or, "I'm going to use the tool of discipline to get my sales calls done." Or, "I'm going to use the tool of discipline to get my commitment to acknowledge my employees completed each day! -That's what I'm committed to!."

The good news is that it doesn't matter how you are showing up or that you have a history of being unreliable to yourself. Like this week I took on using the power of the tool of discipline to workout. I said, "I know that I don't WANT to workout but what I want is the RESULT that working out provides -so in order to get THAT result I'm grabbing the tool of discipline and I'm going to make it happen anyways!"

That's being powerful!