SELF-CONTROL

                 “If you learn self-control, you can master anything.”

There was a time when I was at the mercy of my wants. I used to enjoy my sleep and never even thought that I should wake up early and exercise. There was no goal in life as I was a homemaker. All that I wished to do was, to keep the home spic and span & cook well. But once my son was born, I developed some discipline. I wanted to do everything on time for him. In what I wanted to do, I was disciplined. There was no compromise. My needs always took a back seat. My family was my priority. Something that I loved doing, brought discipline into my life. So, I realized that, if you really love something in life, you will learn to prioritize and do it whole-heartedly, without being distracted. That is called self-control. As an educationist, I am absolutely disciplined. I subordinate my likes and dislikes to the Purpose of my life.

As teenagers, you sometimes get carried away by the attention you get from the opposite sex. Then you don’t know where to stop. You tend to even cross the limits and succumb to these temptations. On gaining maturity, you will realize your folly and will live a life of regret and even hate yourself for losing out on your moral values. Hormones pump high at that age, but what is your priority? To live a morally right life and not to succumb such temptations? Or to live life frivolously.  There are so many teenagers who focus on their future with single -minded devotion. All their energy is focused on their goal, so they don’t give any attention to anything that is not futuristic. When you live life out of momentary pleasure, you will never experience peace in life. Every time you falter in life there is bound to be some casualty, and that will be your happiness. Why should you lose your peace and happiness for momentary pleasure or instant gratification? Let it always be mind over body.  That is self-control.

Everything else that is not important should be on pause mode as far as your growth is concerned. You need to develop tremendous will power to achieve self-control. Start loving yourself much more than anything else. You must be the most important person in your life. Don’t allow anyone or anything to pull you down in life. I am not asking you to be selfish. But understand that even to be useful to the world, you need to have a high net worth. You can give only if you have. Any kind of contribution to the world can happen only if you possess what is required. So, use all your time productively.

 To be one of the scientists who put the rocket on the moon, or a world champion in chess at a very young age, or a Neeraj Chopra who made India proud in javelin or an entrepreneur who has put India on the world map, you have to exercise great restraint to reach where you have reached. They too would have had temptations and distractions on their way to glory. But their self-control helped them from falling in life. Thus, they rose to glory. Nobody or nothing could stop them from achieving their goal. That is possible only if you have self-control.

There are many ways in which we can contribute to the world. But, to reach there, we need to exercise self-control. Without self-control, all our time and attention will go towards trivial things and we will make nothing out of our life. Your life is precious. How well you utilize your time, will define your growth. Don’t allow anyone to steal your time or divert your attention or trigger your feelings unnecessarily. Be the master of your emotions. Don’t get carried away by the trappings of life. Hold on to your dreams. You are only an evening away from glory. All you need is, SELF-CONTROL!!!

“Self-discipline starts with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do.”

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