I heard the other day that “self-discipline leads to confidence, and confidence leads to happiness”. If you think about this logically, it seems true. If you are self-disciplined, you can set goals for yourself and attain them through work. Once you begin to do that, you will develop a knowledge that what you want is within your reach, all you need to do is work for it, and you are capable of that. Would you agree?
#1 by weews on November 18th, 2010
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Just doing it already requires self-discipline.
#2 by Amaranta on November 18th, 2010
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yes, but try to run after joy… happiness is fleeting but joy remains a lifetime… You can get joy through having personal realtionship with God, and in getting joy you also need self-discipline….
#3 by swanjarvi on November 18th, 2010
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It is one of the important areas: combine that with the right attitude, compassion and vision, and the result will be happiness from success and optimum results!
#4 by Sherry on November 18th, 2010
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self discipline is not a key to happinesss , happines is the satisfaction you gain from obtaining what you want ( could be a food , could be marrying someone , could be anything you love ) for getting people and the things you love , you don’t need to discipline yourself
#5 by Red on November 18th, 2010
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Yeah I guess I agree, but sometimes you have to let loose and do something spontaneous! Sometimes doing something crazy makes you happy!
#6 by Martha Evans on November 18th, 2010
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I do think that confidence can help you become happier, but also, if you are confident and selfish, then you won’t be happy. I think happiness has a lot to do with how much we give to this world and not how much we get for ourselves. We can be confident and self-disciplined, but lacking the ability to see beyond ourselves, and that will not lead us to happiness. It has to do with how we see our world and how things affect us or don’t affect us.
#7 by pumuckl_08 on November 18th, 2010
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Self-discipline creates boundaries, rules and goals for the individual, which, are hopefully set by the individual, not prescribed or adhered to, by way of / or in order to, achieve favor with an external force; counter productive and ulterior as this would be.
Although, an external motivator, what ever that might be, can inhibit or encourage the actualization of one’s intent with life and ultimately affect the life of those around one.
#8 by xero on November 18th, 2010
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I prefer the term self-motivation. ‘Self-discipline’ implies restriction and being anti-authoritarian I can’t stand being told what to do, even by me. As far as confidence creating happiness is concerned, i found insanity by far the best option. Not enough of it about. Having spent most of my working life as a free lance designer proclaiming that “nothing is impossible if you’ve got the cash” (and shot myself in the foot on many occasions because of it).
Other slogans in use are:
“Never!—-let your EGO screw-up a good idea”.
“If you want to stop smoking buy a flute”.
“If you see a dog—kick it”. (in the country it’s a pig).
In spite of these ‘axioms’ appearing frivolous they
do make sense and, used liberally, may cause happiness, (caution: do not drive or operate machinery and if you find it, for f–k sake keep it to yourself).