Evaluate your personal levels of self-discipline by giving an honest summary of the positive and negative aspects of your self-discipline.

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Joseph Whitelegg        Unit 4 – Task 3        43006701

Evaluate your personal levels of self-discipline by giving an honest summary of the positive and negative aspects of your self-discipline.  

It is important that a good level of self discipline is maintained in all of our endeavours, especially when there are considerable benefits to ignoring what we know we should do or how we should act. This involves behaving in the most appropriate way. Self discipline is formed by a number of qualities such as personal presentation, punctuality, time management, reliability, attendance, composure, attitude, performance and personality.

One of the main characteristics of self-discipline is the ability to forgo instant and immediate gratification and pleasure, in favour of some greater gain or more satisfying results, even if this requires effort and time. Self discipline gives one the power to stick to their decisions and follow them through, without changing their mind, and is therefore one of the most important requirements for achieving goals.

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The possession of self discipline enables one to choose, and then persevere with actions, thoughts and behaviour, which lead to improvement and success. It also gives the power and inner strength to overcome addictions, procrastination and laziness and to follow through on a goal.

I realise that it is incredibly important to develop my self discipline in numerous areas. I would regard myself as having a reasonably high level of self discipline although I must concede that when circumstances beyond my control begin to alter my own routine, I find it incredibly difficult to find the discipline needed ...

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