Self-Discipline

Five Areas That Lack Self Discipline


1. Time Management
I spend way too much time wasted. I tend to dilly-daddle. Or I do the fun stuff first rather than doing the dull stuff (usually my math homework)


2. Eating Habits
Back home I was a very healthy eater. I rarely ate packaged food and I mainly dined organic locally grown food.


3. Keeping My Drawers Neat
I HATE HATE HATE folding clothes so obviously my drawers are a bit messy.


4. Cleaning The Bathroom 
Ew I know but my suite mates, roommate, and I all don't want to and we all forget to do it.


5. Bedtime
I am already a bit of a night owl, but since I have been at college I find myself up late working on homework that is not due for a week or fiddling around.


1. To improve my time management I could start bringing my smaller tasks (like thank you notes, reading, or flashcards) around with me to all my classes. Also I notice if I plan out my day literally by the hour I am way more efficient and I get more work done. I also am able to get a few hours of free time in if I plan my day very specifically.


2. It is hard to go back to my regular eating habits because for breakfast I usually stick to a packaged cereal or English muffin. But I have started eating more fruit with my breakfast and bring back one of my favorite breakfast foods...Greek yogurt. Also I take more time when I go to the cafe to pick out what I eat. I am sort of one of those "hippy-dippy" people who really like to be aware of what foods they eat. But it is of course harder in college to eat right.


3.  Well I hate folding. I really have to force myself to do it. I need to by hard on myself about doing that petty little task. Maybe if I did while talking to people it would make it more fun. Who knows really this is a hard one for me to get some self discipline.


4. OK who really wants to clean the bathroom? I think if we made a chart with tasks on it the bathroom would get cleaned. Although I never talk to my suite mates, we could maybe have a little pow-wow about cleaning the bathroom and dividing the tasks. The only way I could really discipline myself to clean the bathroom is if I knew others were cleaning it as well.


5. This one is a hard one. First I am a night person. I get a lot of work done late at night, but what kills me is when I go off into the lounge area on my floor and socialize for a good hour or more with the girls on my hall. We will all be really goofy and make up raps or do other silly things and I am not out there I feel like I am missing out. I really need to discipline myself to stay in my room and get my work done.




My best friend Caylin has the most amazing self discipline. She is EXTREMELY (borderline OCD) organized. It makes me jealous how insanely good she is at being organized. She ha very strong self discipline. For instance I called her on a football game day at her school and she was definitely staying in her room to work on the four papers she had due that week. I was impressed she could force herself to stay in like that and get work done. 


I am accountable for holding up my personal standards for myself. I am accountable for pleasing myself. That means trying my best at everything, working hard, being nice to people, having a positive outlook, and upholding my moral values.


I am first accountable to myself, then my parents. I really want to make my parents proud in all I do. I really want them to know how hard I work and see how much I want to make them proud. I also sometimes feel accountable to my little sisters. I really want them to be pleased with me. I want my little sisters to be proud of my and not ashamed of their older sister. I want to be able to set a strong example of what they could do to if they worked really hard and put their mind to it.