SELF DISCIPLINE ENFORCES SELF-DEVELOPMENT.

It is very easy to develop the habit of self-discipline. The regular practice of disciplining yourself to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not becomes stronger and stronger as you practice  it. You refuse to make excuses.

 Bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with. Good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with. And as Goethe said, “Everything is hard before it’s easy.”

  It is hard to form the habits of self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-control, but once you have developed

them, they become automatic and easy to practice. When the habits of self-discipline are firmly entrenched in your behavior, you start to feel uncomfortable when you are not behaving in a self-disciplined manner.

  The best news is that all habits are learnable. You can learn any habit you need to learn in order to become the kind of person that you want to become. You can become an excellent person by practicing self-discipline whenever it is called for.

   Every practice of self-discipline strengthens every other discipline. Unfortunately, every weakness in discipline weakens your other disciplines as well.

  To develop the habit of self-discipline,

you first make a firm decision

about how you will behave in a particular area of activity. You then refuse to allow exceptions until the habit of self-discipline in that area is firmly established. Each time you slip, as you will, you resolve once again to keep practicing self-discipline until it becomes easier for you to behave in a disciplined way than to behave in an undisciplined way.

  Practising self-discipline has the following benefits:

✓ you like and value yourself.

✓you have a greater sense of respect and personal pride.

✓you protect your image and see yourself in a more positive way. You feel happier and more powerful.

  Make no error. Practice makes perfect. You can contact experts if there's need to help impart this great skill (self-discipline)into  your life. Remember, it the greatest key to success.

REVEALING THE SECRET OF BRINGING UP HEALTHY CHILDREN AS A LOVING PARENT.

 

Mary was a good girl. She did well in school and did what she was told, but was often sad and lonely and never felt important. When she married and had her children, she knew that she didn't want to treat her children the way she had been treated. She wanted to consider their feelings and needs. She wanted them to feel valued and important.

Mary was a very loving mother. She spent lots of time with her children, playing with them, listening to them, and giving them much affection and approval. However, because it was so vital to Mary that her children feel valued and important, she often put herself aside and gave in to their demands. Because Mary had never felt important, it was easy to put herself aside. She believed that her children's feelings and needs were more important than hers. As a result, she swung the other way from her upbringing and became a permissive parent.

The consequence for her of authoritarian parenting was that she didn't value herself. The results for her children of permissive parenting was that her children grew up with entitlement issues, thinking they were more important than others, and often not being caring and respectful toward others.

Neither authoritarian nor permissive parenting is loving parenting. Loving parenting is parenting that values both the parent's and the children's feelings and needs. Loving parents do not attempt to control their children other than in actual situations of health and safety – nor do they allow their children to control them. They do not violate their children with anger, blame, or hitting, nor do they allow their children to violate them. They do not expect their children to give themselves for others, nor do they give themselves up for their children.

Loving parents are parents who deeply value themselves enough to not worry about being rejected by their children. They are willing to set solid limits on unacceptable behavior and are not available to be manipulated by their children. Their identities are not tied to their children's performance in school or other activities, such as sports. Nor are their identities tied up in how their children look. They are accepting of who their children are as individuals, even when their children are very different from them. They do not impose their way of being onto their children, yet at the same time, they solidly reinforce a value system that includes honesty, integrity, caring, compassion, kindness, and empathy.

As much as we want to be loving parents, unless we have done our inner work to heal our deep fears of rejection and domination, we will automatically be acting out of these fears without being consciously aware of them. If you grew up with fears of rejection and/or domination, you will automatically protect against these fears in your relationships with your children. You may find yourself trying to control them out of a fear of being controlled or rejected by them. You might be controlling with your anger or with your giving in and giving yourself up. Fears of rejection can manifest with children through trying to control them with anger, or through trying to control their love through giving yourself up to them. Fears of domination can manifest through controlling them with anger or violence to avoid being controlled by them. Insecurities can manifest through attempting to get your children to perform in the way you want to define your worth.

In one way or another, whatever is unhealed within you will surface in your behavior with your children. Raising healthy children means first healing the wounded child within you the part of you that has your fears and insecurities, and your desire to protect against rejection and domination.

Our society has swung back and forth between authoritarian and permissive parenting and the result of both is far less than desirable. We have only to look at the number of people taking antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, as well as the number of alcoholics and drug addicts, as well as the rise of crime and the number of people in prisons, to know that neither method works to raise healthy individuals.

Perhaps it is time to accept that we need to be in the process of healing ourselves before becoming loving parents.

Eating healthy foods improves your health

 It is said that health is wealth.  Nothing is more important than good health. Everything is nothing without good health. What you eat determines your state of health. I have realized that people don't care about what they eat. 

Remember, what you put into your system, determines your performance and productivity. In order words, what you put in is what you will give out. A poorly nourished body is less resistant to diseases and remains a fertile ground for illnesses. 

 Everyone needs a menu to make sure he or she eats variety of different foods. This includes foods rich in vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, fats and more. I propose you eat more of food that have vitamins than the other ones. This is because they improve  your body's resistance to attack from diseases. They also ease digestion and cleanse the alimentary canal. Vitamin rich foods include fruits and vegetables.

  As good food improves health and by extension yourself, remember to eat just the quantity your system can manage. I mean what your system can digest within recorded time. Eating too much will cause constipation and discomfort to your system. This is not good to your health because it renders you inactive for a while as digestion is distorted. As a result, your performance is slowed. This may likely affect your income if you were engaged in a a business as time is waisted in waiting for your system to come to normal.

Looking around, there some unhealthy things you and others consume that affect yourself and health in short term and long term basis. These include alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, just to name a few. Alcohol for instance, affects your brain and hinders logical critical thinking. This disturbs quick decision to solve problems encountered. This adversely affects your life and productivity. Cigarettes and marijuana on their parts have contributed in putting most of the mad ones you find on the streets today. You need to be careful with what you eat. Never consumer any thing because others do. Our body systems are different and will react differently to what we eat.

Health is wealth. The more you understand your body and eat what it needs, so shall you improve upon yourself and health.