So you’ve read all the major articles on self-discipline. You’ve prepared a big fat overview of the upcoming year in an expensive journal. You’ve listened to the latest podcasts on the topic of willpower. You even went as far as attending a seminar full of ambitious people to talk how ambitions you all are. Yet, despite all of this enthusiastic desire for self-betterment, you remain blissfully ignorant of your blind spots, which prevents you from progressing.
What is wrong? Why are you still not a self-discipline ninja like everyone on your Instagram feed?
You are not David Goggins for sure. But you are not a typical procrastinator, either. You have a plan for what you want to do, you read books, you eat (kinda) well and (kinda) exercise and (usually) don’t spend more than an hour on TikTok. Why aren’t you still giga rich and sexy when you unshirt yourself?
Well, people all around the world reading, the reason is the following:
It’s not about the big things we aspire to achieve. It’s about the small, consistent things we do every day that contribute to our progress.
As there are micro habits, there are also micro acts of self-discipline that play a major part in how our lives will turn out.
If you want to learn more about the magic of micro self-discipline, do this: Grab your extravagant journal, ruin it by scratching everything you fantasized about that probably ain’t going to happen, and get ready to note down the things that can actually move the needle.
Thanks to the concept I am going to share below, you will finally have a chance against the infinite scroll whispering your name in an attempt to derail your life.
What is Micro Self-Discipline?
We are typically encouraged to think big about our lives. The job title, the house we want to spend decades repaying, the places we want to visit…
This grandiosity prevents us from tailoring how our day-to-day existence should look. What will we do on a micro level.
Micro self-discipline is about being mindful of how you act in the small moments that constitute our lives. It’s about getting to the micro level, finding what types of small daily acts sabotage your progress, and then making appropriate changes.
If self-discipline is recognized as the overall ability to control your impulses, micro self-discipline is your ability to behave in a particular way. Choose discomfort over comfort in the small daily moments of your life.
I know, this probably sounds way too abstract and unactionable. So, to make sense of this concept and understand the importance of micro self-discipline, here’s an example:
Micro Self-Discipline Examples
Your perception of yourself can be quite deceiving. You might think you are doing alright on a macro level, but you can totally suck on a micro level.
Or, as Richard Feynman famously said:
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