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    1) Self-discipline is important for achieving goals and improving oneself. It requires developing regular habits and sticking to them through consistent, steady practice over time. 2) Once new habits are formed, it provides immense comfort knowing one has gained control over their own development through their own willpower and effort. 3) While the struggle to improve is difficult at first, successful people find the process more rewarding than any external benefits of their accomplishments. Whatever goals one sets for themselves must be done for their own benefit first before thinking of helping others.

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    1) Self-discipline is important for achieving goals and improving oneself. It requires developing regular habits and sticking to them through consistent, steady practice over time. 2) Once new habits are formed, it provides immense comfort knowing one has gained control over their own development through their own willpower and effort. 3) While the struggle to improve is difficult at first, successful people find the process more rewarding than any external benefits of their accomplishments. Whatever goals one sets for themselves must be done for their own benefit first before thinking of helping others.

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    1) Self-discipline is important for achieving goals and improving oneself. It requires developing regular habits and sticking to them through consistent, steady practice over time. 2) Once new habits are formed, it provides immense comfort knowing one has gained control over their own development through their own willpower and effort. 3) While the struggle to improve is difficult at first, successful people find the process more rewarding than any external benefits of their accomplishments. Whatever goals one sets for themselves must be done for their own benefit first before thinking of helping others.

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    The Art of Self-Discipline

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    The Art of SelfDiscipline

    The hackneyed verbalism, A genius's desk is always disheveled, is an absolute malapropism. If his or her desk was untidy, it would probably mean that the genius was not brained in any particular mannerthat his or her brilliance had not uplifted her or him to that point where they could afford domestic help to straighten out their messy writing tables. Imagine for a moment that you visited the office of the president of Goldman Sachs or the president of the DisUnited States or the president of Google or that of that pathetic recluse, Elizabeth, Queen of England. Do you really think the desks of these virtuosi would be cluttered with used coffee cups or pizza cartons or empty beer bottles or snuffed out cigarette butts? (Wake up, Americans! Barack Obama is smoking behind your backs!) Have you noticed that if you do not have home-loving assistance you have to clean up your own miserable mess? Or, perhaps you enjoy living in a squalid home or office? There is nothing wrong with living as a pig does. Really. It has its advantages. You do not know what you are doing because you cannot think as humans do. You can ingest and defecate at will. You can kiss all the pigs you want. You can become overweight at your leisure. But, remember please, that when you reach that perfect weightiness, your head will be cut off and the other parts of your body will be packaged in styrofoam containers wrapped with plastic film. As a being is so it acts. Or, at least it should! If one is born a human being, it makes sense that that individual act as a bipedal primate mammal. What good is there in wanting to function as someone or something else that does not possess those characteristics which behoove rational animate beingsespecially if you are one? Human beings walk upright. Some slouch, some locomote as soldiers on parade do. City dwellers tend to move more rapidly than those living in the country because they might be hurrying to work or passing through a dangerous part of their metropolis.

    One's walking body language might inform others of the way we are thinking, the mood we may be shielding. Humans, over at least the past ten thousand years, have radically altered the way they accumulate foodfrom hunting for it themselves with instruments they had invented to do so, to farming and producing nutrients in abundance not only for themselves, but for others. They have brains, and throughout History their mental capacity has increased and adjusted to various environmental conditions including the extremes of very hot and very cold weather. Hominids are social types. They share, care for their children, and invent social networks bent on helping them and their fellows survive. Language and symbolic creative activity are also attributes which distinguish human beings from other life forms. We often intend that human beings have a mind. The meaning of mind is more often than not complex, and philosophers have mooted over its importance for centuries attempting to ascertain precisely how our intelligent purposive principles operate. And what about our body? What influence does it exert over our mind? Does our mind act on our body and to what degree? Descartes, erroneously, endeavored to demonstrate that the mind was split from the body; he envisioned the mind and body as entirely distinct entities. Hobbes, erroneously, believed that the mind conducts itself as a computer doesthat it is a materialistic phenomenon contained within the human body. Others, erroneously, have sought to describe the mind as something that is beyond our knowledgethat it is transcendental, created by a supreme being, some god. We all nurture the wish that modern Science will, eventually, solve the mystery that has befuddled philosophers for centuries, and which has brought forth from them untenable conclusions concerning the complexities of the mind and its connectedness to our bodies. The world view of most of us does not permit us to consider the body-mind enigma because we are concerned with the daily rigors of survival which are more immediate and, perhaps, more daunting. People are clambering more and more to order their lives in an environment more and more garbled. For many individuals, this battle is so nerve-wracking, they resort to legal and illegal medications and drugs to assuage their anxiousness and miserableness. Social unrest is rampant in many parts of the world, and we perceive these on-going tragedies every day. Overpopulation is depleting the Earth's resources. The real possibility of financial collapse, on a worldwide scale, is a fear all of us are burdened with.

    At this point, it could be said that there exists no reason, my dear reader, for you to continue to the end of this essay if you have no desire to bring yourself up a notch to where you might declare that you have achieved something you never thought you could do before, and that you, therefore, are self-satisfied that you would have made the effort to do so. If you have ever played a musical instrument or some sport, or if you possess a skill which others depend on you for, then you have an idea that an ability needs to be rehearsed so that it is perfected to that degree that you have all the more distinguished yourself and are appreciated by those in your work and social circles. People with exceptional talents are often paid well for their efforts. Financial advantage is not, strictly speaking, a motive for us to execute a particular competence with verve. We may do so for personal satisfaction. Let us come to the nitty-gritty. If you quest to improve yourself, to offer yourself a sense of satisfaction by accomplishing a human activity that will reflect upon your ability to realize yourself and bring the admiration of others to bear upon you, then you must be steady, consistent and dynamic at working to reach that goal you have set for yourself. You might want to clock your efforts. You might want to note your progress. You might want to be habituated to perform your drill sessions at certain times of the day. Whatever and however you choose to actualize your reality and the means to arrive at the goal or goals you have fixed for yourself, you must develop the habits to do so. Once you embark on this at first arduous jaunt, you will not find immediate gratification. A custom takes time to become a part of your daily routine, but once it does begin to stick to your existence, an enormous comfort takes hold of you because you have dominated, with your will, your own being. I once read in a Playboy article, many years ago, that some successful writers unanimously agreed that the struggle to become eminent had been more rewarding and satisfying to them than the actual fruits their prosperity had rewarded them with. It is not what you do but how you do it! Just do it! In conclusion, it must be mentioned that whatever you create must first be effectuated for you. Naturally. Yet remember that after you have established your mental and physical steadfastness, you will experience a greater joy if you do what you do for the benefit of others.

    Authored by Anthony St. John Calenzano, Italy 1 January MMXIII www.scribd.com/thewordwarrior

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