Posts Tagged ‘Psychology’

Self Discipline – How much could you achieve?

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

 

Do you have strong self discipline or will power?

 

Answer the question honestly.

 

If you are like most people, you feel that you would like stronger will power.

 

Self discipline and will power are basically the same thing. They are the ability to stick to a commitment or a course of action that you set for your self despite the fact that it would be easier not to.

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Train Consciously. (Or, how to get a Black Belt in half the time!)

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

This article is aimed at training in the martial arts but really, the concepts discussed apply to learning or practicing anything.

 

People start training for many reasons but one thing that is common to most people when we start something new, is that we are filled with enthusiasm.

 

We find something that we love, get excited about it and train hard  based on that motivation. We normally make great progress early on. It’s all new, so we learn the easy stuff first and experience a lot of  quick successes.

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