As a child, I remember hearing my mother and other adults give advice on “ways to grow”. They would say, “Drink your milk,” “Eat your vegetables,” or “Get a full night’s rest.” I have to admit that while those were all key practices to living a healthy life, they were not the actual things that made me grow. Most of us understand now that our parents threw those tips at us as a way of control, (all in our best interests of course).

HERE IS THE PROBLEM

There are many ways someone could go about reaching their dreams. But I think that is where the problem lies. For example, I come from a small town in Arkansas… Blytheville. Here, you don’t see many people going after their dreams. Instead, (like in many other places) you see a lot of people trying to attain their “dreams” often times, at the expense of others.

Discipline, applied in any area, is one of the most valuable tools to becoming our most extraordinary selves. A lot of us don’t realize how much we actually crave discipline in our lives until we are willfully practicing it. Without consistently regulating our actions (or lack thereof), we can unfortunately slip into the painful opposite of what we envision for our lives.