Discipline never seems pleasant at the time. There is never anything pleasant about waking up at 3,4, or 5 in the morning. I remember the first person who asked me to work out with him one morning back when I was a freshmen in high school. I met Brandon at the weight room at 6:15 and I will never forgot how accomplished I felt because we got such a great workout in so early in the morning.
Discipline is often painful at first because you are in the process of training your mind and body to do new things to better yourself. You are going against the norm when you start to create discipline, and if you haven't noticed, people really don't like change.
If you talked to anyone that knows me well, they would probably tell you how disciplined I am. I am not perfect and there are so many more people who are more disciplined than me, but I've got a really good understanding about what it takes to be disciplined.
I believe in life, there are going to be things that happen for you that open the door for you to become more disciplined. Up until college it was always sports. I was going to workout every single day because my dream was to play college basketball. It didn't matter how long or crazy my days were, I had a dream that I was going to accomplish.
In college, the injuries I dealt with on the court, lead me to becoming disciplined with my physical therapy. There was nothing more worse than sitting on the sidelines during practice watching your teammates get better, while I was hurt. I would set up everything I needed to do for my rehab along the side of the court and I would do my rehab the entire practice. I wanted to be out there!
This discipline wasn't fun, it was painful.
My discipline from basketball, then my rehab, lead me to become disciplined in the most important area of my life and that is my relationship with God. I had built all these crazy good habits that helped me out physically, and I recognized, and had people in my life who helped me recognize that I could use this discipline towards getting into the word daily! Praying daily. Journaling daily. etc.
That discipline has lead to me writing 800 blog posts. (today marks the 800th post) Most importantly though, things happened in my life for me, not to me. For those who lack discipline, I would encourage you to start small. You are not going to become disciplined in everything you do tomorrow. I mean if you could, that would be awesome!! It takes time.
Focus on one area at a time, then once you reap the harvest in that area, do another, and another, and another. Reap that harvest that discipline produces.
I know I have talked about me getting into running in most of my recent posts, but I plan on reaping the harvest in September when I complete my first marathon. My running journey last December was just some fun thing to do to get in shape for our wedding. I thought it'd be great to run 5 miles everyday that entire month. Now, it's almost July and I still run 5 miles everyday. Most weekends I will do 10, 15, and even 20 mile runs each day because the discipline I created for myself has lead me to doing things I never thought I was capable of doing.
Long story short, discipline is something that I am very passionate about. If I could help even just one person become more disciplined, I would be so fulfilled! If you are someone who feels that way, don't hesitate to send me a message.
Discipline is hard, it's not pleasant, and it's painful sometimes. But those who create discipline in their lives will reap the harvest.
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