How good is the life of self-discipline? As long as you insist on doing some small things, such as getting up early, reading, and exercising, you will be able to make a big difference with others.

Self-discipline is no big deal, but it can take you to the distance you yearn for, the distance called freedom.

This is the norm for most people:

Often talk about self-discipline, but intermittently complacent, continue to eat and wait for death.

Because you envy others to play the guitar well, you bought one you like, but now the guitar has been covered with dust for a long time and the strings are loose.

You've always wanted to practice your words well, but the ink is still full, but you're done.

You promise to practice your vest line, but your fitness card has expired and you can't remember how long it's been.

In the fighting spirit and indulgence constantly repeatedly, constantly switching, until the years can not be traced back, only a sigh: if at that time

But life is a single itinerary, no ifs.

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Lack of self-discipline is not just a lack of self-control.

Many people will attribute lack of self-discipline to lack of self-control.

After all, you can sleep late, who wants to get up early, who can eat and drink, who wants to sweat with the iron bumps of the gym.

Take the matter of getting up early, which resonates with many netizens.

Before going to bed, the pride in my chest reached its climax:

Tomorrow I'm going to get up early and go for a morning run.

And then review my notes.

Drink a cup of super healthy Fresh Juice

Choose a good dress and make yourself look great.

Be kind to everyone.

Study hard, tomorrow belongs to me.

In fact, the next morning, I was so resolute:

No, no, no.

It is only natural that people are not saints, and people always prefer the comfort of the moment.

But can not self-discipline is really just because the willpower is not enough? I have put this question to my friend, who is a typical example of self-discipline and gets up at six o'clock in the morning for years.

Instead of answering in a hurry, this friend smiled and asked me a question:

If you get up at six o'clock every morning to study for an hour and stick to it for a month, I'll give you ten thousand yuan, will you?

Fools don't want to. I replied immediately.

The friend nodded and said:

That's right, in fact, self-control is on the one hand, and there is a deeper reason why we can't stick to it: we still have doubts about self-discipline.

If you're not sure if self-discipline will get you what you want, you can't stick to it without distractions.

I thought about it and understood what my friend was trying to say.

You practice oral English for an hour every day, but you are not sure whether it will be effective or not.

You want to keep reading habits before you go to bed, but deep down you can't help but wonder if reading is useful.

So at a loss, at a loss, how can you expect yourself to stick to something you don't like?

So sometimes our lives are destroyed not by our self-control, but by the lack of belief that self-discipline will succeed.

After all, only in the future can we have the motivation to trek on.

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The smallest effort multiplied by 365 days

Will be great, too.

Will self-discipline succeed after all?

I once heard a short story.

There are two apprentices under the Zen monk seat, the big apprentice is talented and intelligent, whether it is to understand Zen Ming Sutra or to learn martial arts a little bit, but the young apprentice is as stupid as a wooden pimple.

On one occasion, the Zen monk taught two disciples a martial arts, which could be accomplished in as little as half a year or as much as a year.

Since then, regardless of the wind and rain, the big apprentice and the young apprentice have been practicing martial arts in the courtyard as soon as the morning chicken crows.

The big apprentice is already small after less than half a year.

However, a year later, the little apprentice felt the threshold and was discouraged and planned to give up practice.

Seeing this, the Zen monk called his little apprentice and pointed to an apricot tree in front of him.

Everyone has an apricot tree on the road. Some people can reach it by walking ten miles, while others may have to travel thousands of miles to get there. But no matter sooner or later, keep going, and what will come will come. Don't be impatient.

Life is like a flower, some flowers bloom one season a year, some bloom one every ten years, we are not sure how long our flowering period is, but as long as we are patient and watered silently, we can wait for the bright bloom quietly.

Sometimes we have to admit that people are born unequal, and some people may start at the end of their lives; some people have different talents, make great progress in life and become famous when they are young.

But even so, you have to believe that if you continue to be ordinary, this era will not stop you from shining, and a lot of suffering will not cover your glory.

I have always liked a passage from Calvino in the Paris Hermit:

I have no confidence in anything that is readily available, fast, instinctive, impromptu, or ambiguous. I believe in slow, peaceful, long-flowing power, steadiness and calmness.

I do not believe that individual or collective liberation can be achieved without self-discipline, self-building and hard work.

Yes, can keep the prosperity, settle down the heart, gather sand into a tower, dripping water into the sea, and then small efforts multiplied by 365 days will become great, maybe the journey is very long, but there is an inch of joy.

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Only a self-disciplined life can be hung up.

When it comes to the end of life and self-discipline, it reminds me of Ayunga.

Ayunga really walked into the public's line of sight because of "sound into the hearts of the people".

On the stage, with a straight suit and handsome appearance, he stands out among the stars.

At first I subconsciously thought that those who could afford bel canto and musicals would at least have to be well-off to support them.

Perhaps the root of human inferiority is that it is too easy to attribute other people's success to their unique conditions, and I am no exception.

After I learned about Ayunga's life experience, I knew that behind the glamour, he was self-disciplined with a gray face.

At the age of 3, Ayunga's father suddenly bid farewell to an acute heart attack; at the age of 6, his mother left him, and Ayunga became a rootless duckweed.

When he was studying at the local art school, when he was 13 years old, he cried until his voice was hoarse, but he still insisted on going to the practice room every day, where his clothes could be wrung out of sweat and his dancing shoes were worn out.

When he was studying at the Beijing Dance Academy, during his part-time job, he specially insisted on waiting until the last one to get off work at night, because only in this way could he touch the piano in the store.

You just have to discipline yourself. God has a plan. Ayunga's efforts and persistence for so many years have attracted a lot of attention on the stage.

Han Hong praised unsparingly that A Yunga was the number one man in the musical.

The friend I mentioned earlier is also a beneficiary of self-discipline.

I haven't seen him stay in bed in four years of college.

Once, the whole dormitory went out at night and the party didn't end until one o'clock in the morning.

At six o'clock in the morning, I got up vaguely to go to the bathroom, only to see that he had been studying hard under the lamp.

His starting point is not high, ordinary high school, freshman performance is mediocre, but four years later, accumulated strength, if you go to graduate school, you can send off, if you work, there are various famous enterprises competing to send offer.

Maybe we all ask why we should exercise self-discipline.

Probably because the word is closest to success, it opens up a path that everyone can take.

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There are fifteen paintings to give up and sixteen paintings to insist on. There is only a moment between persistence and giving up, but it leads to a different life.

Today, I can't forget the shock of the movie "Wind and Rain Harvard Road", especially when Liz, the heroine in it, once said:

I know there is a better and richer life outside, and I want to live in that world.

Everyone has a world they desire, and self-discipline is the key that can be opened.

This reminds me of a question on Zhihu: what kind of experience is a high degree of self-discipline?

I think, probably is no longer dragged forward by life, but living between your square inch, the future becomes controllable, everything is going on in an orderly way, and the life you want becomes within reach.

It is an irrefutable truth that self-discipline can change life.

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