13 Discipline Hacks To Launch Yourself Forward 10X FASTER:
1. Use the Pomodoro Technique. Working in sessions prevents burnouts and increases efficiency. Work on just one task for 25 minutes, then take a 5 minute break and repeat. Make a bigger break after 4 sessions.
2. Determine Your Biological Prime-Time. It’s the time when your mind is naturally most focused. Once you know when you work best, schedule some uninterrupted work time accordingly.
3. Mute All Notifications: Any incoming notification from your phone or computer will easily distract you and raises inattention and hyperactivity. Once distracted it can take you up to 23 minutes to focus again.
4. Apply The Spider Technique: Learn to not pay attention to distractions with the spider technique. If you get easily distracted by people entering the room, try to ignore them by maintaining the focus on your task.
5. Know Your Weaknesses: Knowing your weaknesses is a good thing for building self-discipline muscle. It will encourage you to be more positive in developing and understanding what you need to change.
6. Delegate & Follow the 70% Rule. If 70% of something can be done by someone else, just delegate it.
7. Unplug From Technology: Turn off mobile phone, close your email and route your office calls to the voicemail to avoid distractions.
8. Reward Your Good Behaviors: Since we usually want to discipline ourselves to avoid certain bad habits anyway, the only way to get around this is to start releasing dopamine from our healthier habits and more often. A little incentive goes along way.
9. Remove All Of The Temptations: The best way of avoiding temptation altogether is practicing the “out of sight, out of mind” theory. So if you stay up too late, remove the TV from your bedroom.
10. Master Positive Self-Talk: If you would like to master your self-discipline, you also have to have enough motivation to start for the first 20 seconds of any given task in which you would like to complete.
11. Work On A Side Hustle Venture: Having a passion for something will not only inspire oneself to be more self-disciplined but it will also allow you to easily carry it through because you are enjoying what you are doing.
12. Show Up Every Damn Day: When you are building your self-discipline muscle, be aware that with anything that you undertake, self-discipline not excluded, that it’s going to be hard, and realistically, that it’s going to take time.
13. Drink 2-3 Litre of Water a Day: Being well-hydrated will give you more energy & improve your mental clarity. Sounds obvious, but try it for 30 day straight. Tell you don't feel more refreshed & focused.
