I have been asked so many times why I am so disciplined or regimental.
I truly never wanted to talk about discipline because reminds me of my childhood and my father enjoyed to #disciplined me.
Or comments I often hear include “oh you must learn to be disciplined in the #military”.
From my own experience I believe that discipline comes from the home, for one simple reason.
As kids, we have role models in front of our eyes 24/7, and those role models are our parents.
I will not go into detail about who has better or worse parents, whose parents have more education or whose parents are terrible in raising their own kids, but they are our role models from day 1 of our lives.
My parents were typical communist products, working in a factory day after day for miserable pay and living that utopian dream of equality and how a hard day’s work pays off.
My dad had barely 4 years of primary school and my mum 8th grade of primary school but what I do remember from my father was:
Wake up early, brush your teeth, make your bed and dress yourself.
My father would wake up 4.30 am even he was starting work at 6am and the factory was literally 5 min walk from our unit.
Regardless of my parents almost non existing education they told me, “school you must, working you must”.
So I worked over the summer in corn fields, working in different factories to get that grasp of discipline.
So yes, despite my parents being two of most sadistic people on the planet, I listened and then I transferred all those teachings of discipline into my daily life, and later in the military.
Second, if you don’t bring from your own home an understanding of what discipline is you will need to learn it either through continuous downfalls or you will see that being disciplined gives you something else.
The battle of living reactively versus proactively is a daily struggle of developing the internal thoughts and mindset that each of us implore.
Through the course of a day, week, month or year unexpected events take place and we are asked to respond to them in our thoughts and discipline.
Take ownership of your life, cultivate yourself to become more disciplined and then take a note of how this affects your overall life.
That something else is called, purpose.
Thank you for listening, Mario.
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