Practice Tough Love by Robin Sharma- From The Book Who Will Cry When You Die

Who Will Cry When You Die

The golden thread of highly successful and meaningful life is self-discipline.

Discipline allows you to do all those things you know in your heart you should do

but never feel like doing. Without self-discipline, you will not set clear goals,

manage your time effectively, treat people well, persist through the tough times,

care for your health, or think positive thoughts.

I call the habit of self-discipline “Tough Love” because getting tough with yourself

is actually a very loving gesture. By being stricter with yourself begin to live life

more deliberately, on your own terms rather than simply reacting to life the way

 a leaf floating in a stream drifts according to the flow of the current on a particular day.

As I teach in one of my seminars, the tougher you are on yourself,

the easier life will be on you. The quality of your life ultimately is shaped by the quality

of your choices and decisions, ones that range from the career you choose

to pursue to the books you read, the time that you wake up every morning,

and the thought you think during the hours of your days. When you consistently

flex your willpower by making those choices that you know are the right ones

(rather than the easy ones), you take back control of your life.

When you consistently flex your willpower

by making those choices that you know are the right ones

(rather than the easy ones), you take back control of your life.

Effective, fulfilled people do not spent their time doing what most convenient and comfortable.

They have the courage to listen to their hearts and to do wise thing.

This habit is what makes them great.

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to so,”

remarked essayist and thinker E.M Gray.

“They don’t like doing them either, necessarily.

But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose”.

The 19^th-century English writer Thomas Hendry Huxley arrived at similar conclusion, noting:

“ Perhaps, the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself

do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not”.

And Aristotle made this point of wisdom in yet another way:

“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it:

men come to builders, for instance, by building,

and harp players, by playing the harp. In the same way,

by doing just acts we come to be just;

by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be brave.”

Who Will Cry When You Die?