Master Self-Discipline: Gentle Strength

Self-discipline is the cornerstone of success and lasting change, a key trait that outstanding people such as Olympic athletes and millionaire entrepreneurs have in common. Many of us mistake self-discipline for sheer willpower. Perhaps you’ve tried at some point in your life, to try to change our behaviors but also failed miserably.

If you've struggled to cultivate better self-discipline, this course is designed for you. Together, we’ll explore why willpower alone isn’t enough and uncover limiting beliefs about self-discipline that are holding you back.

This course was borne out of my lifelong struggle with self-discipline: These insights have helped me improve and transform my relationship with discipline, enabling me to rise at 5 am, row before sunrise on the river during the winter season, go for an entire month without eating artificial sugars, transition from being an employee to a solopreneur and engage in other behaviors and achieve other feats my old self would have never imagined possible.

This course will equip you with the tools, techniques, and concepts to help you redefine your relationship with discipline so you can become someone you admire and respect, realize your full potential, and live your best life.

Lección 1: 3 Types Of Self-Discipline

Today we start your journey by exploring the Three Types of Self-Discipline and a short reflection exercise to help you take action to become self-disciplined. There are three main types of Self-discipline: active, reactive, and proactive. Understanding each type can help you develop more control over your actions, thoughts, and behaviors.

Lección 2: Water: Your Beliefs Relating To Self-Discipline

The Water Element is associated with your Zhi, your will, which deals with the power of focusing your mind on your intentions and your life purpose. For today’s lesson, I’ll share with you five powerful reflection questions, some of which we’ll revisit at the end of your journey. We’ll explore the underlying beliefs and associations you have relating to self-discipline. You’ll clarify your intention for embarking on this journey to cultivate gentle strength.

Lección 3: Wood: Unlock Infinite Willpower

The Wood Element is associated with spring, the time of sunrise, and the energy and power of rebirth, renewal, initiation, and the beginning of all things. Within today’s exploration, we’ll explore how your mindset shapes your reserves of self-control and mental focus, and the small but powerful shift to harness unlimited willpower.

Lección 4: Fire: Uniting Self-Discipline With Self-Love

Explore the power of Self-Love in cultivating self-discipline. The Fire element is also associated with your inner champion and your heart, and the virtues of self-love, authenticity and power when balanced.

Lección 5: Earth: How To Release Guilt & Make Discipline Easy

When out of balance, the Earth element can manifest as worry, rumination and guilt. On the journey to becoming self-disciplined, many of us struggle with the feeling of guilt and shame which we feel when we don’t manage to do what we set out to do. Learn how to let go of procrastination guilt and make self-discipline easy.

Lección 6: Metal: The Positive No

When in balance, the Metal element manifests as a capacity to set healthy boundaries, and clearly and objectively assess your relationships, actions, and behaviors without feeling self-critical. Explore the concept of the "Positive No," developed by master negotiator William Ury.

Lección 7: Beyond Willpower: Two Kinds Of ‘Discipline’

Learn how you can go beyond willpower to explore the two kinds of self-disciplined people, or two scenarios relating to self-discipline and how you can foster self-discipline by positive or negative emotional associations.

Lección 8: 3 Insights & The 1 Thing You Need To Do

Today’s lesson, which includes three key insights and the one single thing you need to do to cultivate self-discipline, comes from my other course, Procrastination to Inspired Action: Power of Creative Cycle Challenge.

Lección 9: Obstacles In Your Way & The 1 Secret To Success

Today’s lesson, the 1 overall “secret” to success that observed in people with admirable lives comes from an article written by Authentic Business Coach & Published Author George Kao. You'll also learn how to overcome the excuses and obstacles in your way of cultivating self-discipline.

Lección 10: Concluding Your Journey

Today we’ll revisit the five powerful reflection questions you explored at the start of your journey. And if you wish you can retrieve your answers from the beginning so you can compare and see what has shifted for you since the beginning of this journey.

Reviews

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I have put the skills learned to action with good results.

Thank you for an excellent course. There were many useful insights that translated to direct action.

This course was well guided and well paced. Each day offered interesting perspectives and I left with at least one new insight every day. The instructor’s voice is calming and encourages introspection, so you make your own connections between your personal motivations and the material. This is much more effective and long-lasting than self-discipline courses that simply try to “pump you up” and give only temporary results. Solid course and worth your time!

This course gives practical and insightful tools to assist in making positive, life changing actions.
I will be taking it again!