Ramisa Maliha Bhuiyan :
Behind every great achievement in anyone’s life lies discipline. We see this in every human endeavor. In the field of sports we find it again and again. Outstanding sportsmen spend all their time practicing. In the process many of them make so many sacrifices which ordinary men and women are not willing to make. Most often we see only they achieve, but once we go behind the scenes we see that they have put in a lot of discipline.
Discipline is the art, where having determined where we want to go or what we want to create or discover, we stick to our goals whatever the disadvantages until we achieve the goal. Though there are other meanings of the word, this is what concerns us most.
Since a life with discipline can offer us much, it is worthwhile discussing how it is to be done. First we have to be sure of what to achieve and how much we want to achieve it.
If one is obsessed with wanting to succeed in a certain area, the chances of attaining that what is so much more. To do this, one has to dwell on the want through visualizing it happening. The second step is determining what has to be done to attain that want. This will come to mind naturally if one’s want is a sincere and serious one. The final step is the discipline to do and it must be done until the result is appeared.
There are countless examples to show how people achieve success in this way. One example is the sage of Colonel Saunders.
The 65 year old man from Kentucky had a dream to start a chain on fried chicken restaurants all over the world. To realise that dream, he knew that he needed a restaurant owner to go into partnership with him to open the first restaurant and to fry chicken according to the secret recipe the old man had.
Colonel Sanders knocked on 1008 doors before he found a restaurant owner willing to share his dream.
It is doubtful if many of us would have had the discipline to knock even a hundred doors.
