To be successful in anything, including managing your finances, you need to repeatedly practice good habits. In order to repeatedly practice good habits, you have to first realize the importance of self-discipline. Forming good habits through self-discipline is more specifically about being able to control your impulses, behavior and even your emotions.

It’s the ability to resist the desire of instant gratification today for the satisfaction of fulfilling your more meaningful, long term goals of tomorrow. Self-discipline provides you with that feeling of real accomplishment earned through sheer intensity of sustained focus. It’s that focus of your mind and efforts that will allow you to preserver until you accomplish your goals.

“Stay focused and stay determined. Don’t look to anyone else to be your determination – have self-determination. It will take you very far.” – Justice Smith

It doesn’t mean you have to give up everything you enjoy. It just means you need to learn to focus on making conscious, deliberate choices as opposed to allowing your emotions, bad habits, other people’s opinions (or whatever), determine the choices you make or actions you take. Sometimes it’s about changing your perspective so you focus on what will give you the results you want.

If you truly want to succeed at anything, then self-discipline is essential. Anyone who has attained any type of great achievement has done so because they have been able to control and direct their own inner lives and activities to the degree which has enabled them to become super achievers in what they do. So, get disciplined with your finances, stay focused and achieve financial freedom!

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