Whenever you set out to achieve a goal, no matter what that goal is, it’s always going to require a certain amount of self-discipline. Any type of personal success can’t be achieved without it, whether the success you’re striving for has to do with your career, your health, fitness, even your finances.
It is probably one of the most, if not the most important quality necessary to achieve excellence in anything you do. You might think that natural talent is what allows other people to reach their high levels of success, and although that may play a role, even natural talent won’t count for much unless it is supercharged by self-discipline.
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” – Colin Powell
To some extent, self-discipline can overcome lack of natural talent. Exercising self-discipline could make the difference between an averagely talented individual doing something surprising with their lives and a natural talented individual realizing very little of their potential. No matter how much natural talent you have, it will be wasted without self-discipline.
Self-discipline, like a muscle, could be developed with practice. As the famous quote by Aristotle goes “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” So, self-discipline is the consistent practice of good habits that will allow you to achieve excellence. So just like achieving any other goal, if you want to achieve financial success, you’ll need self-discipline.
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