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665: A Guide to Developing the Self-Discipline Habit - Part 2 by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits

2017-10-06 | 🔗

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits shares his guide for developing the self-discipline habit. This is Part 2 of 2.

Episode 665: A Guide to Developing the Self-Discipline Habit - Part 2 by Leo Babauta of Zen Habits (Stop Procrastination - Motivating You).

Leo Babauta created Zen Habits, which is about finding simplicity and mindfulness in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness.

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from yesterday's of your new here, I recommend checking out that first, this episode, six hundred and sixty four, but if you're all caught up, let's get right to part too, as we optimize your life, a guy to developing the self discipline habit. Part two Bali about of Zan habits, die net mindfulness with urges you'll. Have the Mr quit doing something hard or to put it off. For now, those urges don't serve. You well, instead develop mindfulness round those urges and see that you don't have to follow them, a good, to do. That is to set a time for yourself where he can do nothing but acts, for example, for next time. And ass. You can do nothing but right your book chapter or exercise, meditate, etc. When you have the urge to procrastinate or run to distractions, you'll easily see yet these are either writing a book or you're. Not when you
Have the urge tell yourself you can't follow it. You have to either right your book chapter or sit there and do nothing. Raymond Chandler use that as a simple writing system quote right or nothing, I find it works. Two very simple rules, a you, dont have to re, be you can't do anything on the reason it works is that you are setting up a time where you do nothing else without one specified task and you can see urges to run away used is to learn to be mindful of your urges and see that You don't have to follow them. Interval, training, if we combine the previous items into a system of births or intervals, you can train yourself using reveal training number one set your intention of practice. Selfish plan and not hurt yourself anymore number to set a task to focus on writing, drawing Strang training, meditating, etc. Number three set a timer for ten minutes.
Five minutes is also find of. Ten is too long, dont go longer until you get good at ten minutes, then increase at twelve and eventually fifteen. I don't find a need to go beyond fifteen or twenty minutes even want em kicking, but number four do nothing but sit there and watch your urges war pushing to you discomfort by doing the task number five, when the timer goes off, give yourself a five minute break number. Six repeat: he can train for several intervals are potentially for an hour or two then take a longer break. You another set of intervals. After that, this kind of interval training is fantastic basis. Not that hard. You really train yourself in discomfort and watching urges and and get a lot done. This way a focus on others when you find yourself struggling, dig into deeper motive. In doing your work or exercise or meditation, etc, not for yourself, but for others for example,
I'm running this article to help my kids and anyone else who might benefit. I work out to be held. Do you not only for myself but as an example for my kids and others who might benefit I meditate, not only for my own peace, insanity but so they can help others find their own peace insanity I draw right or play music to inspire others in each example. You might benefit, but also doing it to benefit others, and this benefit Others is much more motivating than doing something just for yourself. Try it try doing a difficult task for someone else tell him, gonna, do it for them beforehand, then, To my mind as you do it see if you feel more motivated victories and success and failure a huge mistake, though a lot of people make is that they mess up and get discouraged by this. They feel bad about messing up this caused them to give up and not want to think about developing self discipline. Here's the thing failure is,
Surely a victory failure means you tried, so the victory from the start, but it also means you learn something you now know that what you tried in quite work next time you can try something a bit different and more accountability. Try it out a different I am on blogger. Wireless router get work our partner anything because of your failure. You have new information, you ve learned and helps you get better. Failure is a victory. Success is also a victory. No matter what your result, you can see it as an opportunity to learn to grow and get better job. Any ideas are being perfect at this and just keeps the next time you fail, whatever your try, instead of letting it get you discouraged see it as a victory, then keep goin no matter what, because giving up is only going to hurt you some more. Getting support you're. Not in this alone, you have family friends online strangers who can help EU farmers support team by reaching out to them
Look around you and asking for their help: lots of evil skip this be their embarrassed by the lack of discipline. They feel that the way they behave it is shameful. That's not true! Billy. We all I like this by we're just afraid to show that side to each other. But the truth is, if you show your quote: unquote: dark side to people They actually love you more. Seymour and relate to more so, don't be afraid to connect with others. Vulnerable way, find the courage to ask for help them. Let yourself be supported, as you work on pushing yourself in a discomfort and hurting yourself less, you can do that you just wasn't part two of the post. Titled Guide to developing the self discipline habit I about then habits done net. That concludes this post of a new other for to Morrow and really quick before we go. Don't forget that have a facebook group where you connect with like minded people and me it's perfect for getting support, which is it
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