IQ vs Self-Discipline?

Which do you think is a more important factor in determining success – IQ or self-discipline?

We’re asking if you’d rather have super smarts and be loose and lazy when it comes to doing what must be done, OR be of average intelligence and have an iron will when it comes to controlling yourself and doing the right thing to be successful. Take your pick…

It turns out self-discipline is a far more important determinant of success.

How’s your self-discipline?

The right amount of challenge

If you have no challenges in life, you will be bored and never develop your talents or find our what you are made of.  If you have too much challenge you’ll feel stressed and experience failure often, and feel you have no control.

The right amount of challenge makes life exciting.  Approach your challenges as a game. Win or lose – the most important thing is to have fun.  The point of the whole thing is to be happy and enjoy the daily process.  Don’t lose sight. 

Power in the present

We can not undo the choices we have made or the hurt we have caused, but we can change the future – through the power we have in the present moment.  We can control the choices we make right now.

What attitude, action, state, and behavior can you take right now that will make now and the future better?

Immovable objects

A most important practice is differentiating between what we can change and what we can not; what we have influence over and what we do not.  

The time spent hurtling yourself at these immovable objects is time not spent on the things we can change.

Are you spending time trying to change things that can’t be changed?

You can remake yourself

A glorious thing about being human is that we can remake ourselves.  

Because our past has been dark does not mean our chances are dim.

Whatever our past, whatever our present, the sky is bright for us because we can remake ourselves.

Want to make a great friend?

Include the excluded.

Is there life before death?

Nobody seems to be grappling with that question.  

It’s now.

The importance of saying no

If we are to be free, we cannot say yes all the time; for we will be overwhelmed.

Yes is a great word.  We love to say yes.  And we should say yes to experience life, the world, and all its possibilities and dimensions.  

But in the pursuit of freedom, “no” is an important word.

Don't feed the demon!

We all have a disempowering voice.  It’s the hurt, the fear, the anger, the insecurity, the …..

That’s the demon.  And we feed it by giving it time, by thinking about it, and by not crowding it out with opposing thoughts of strength, confidence and love.

Don’t feed the demon.

It's not a good idea to win when you're wrong

We all want to win arguments.  We may be more brash, bold, or have a better ability to debate or think what to say next.  But if you are wrong you are killing the relationship, hurting your reputation, and saying things that a more mature you in the future will wish he didn’t say.

Be careful what you argue.  You could win the battle but lose the war.