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Friday, January 21, 2011

If You Still Can’t Discipline Yourself After Reading This Article, I Swear to God I’m Going to Scream

Life is not a Nike commercial.

Being told to “just do it” is not enough.

If it was, you would have “just done it” by now.

BURN THIS INTO YOUR MIND: Self-discipline requires hard and consistent mental, physical and emotional labor.

It is not the path of convenience.
It is not a glamorous way of living and working.
It is not something most people are going notice about you.

But.

As I learned from self-discipline strategist Rory Vaden, “Those who learn to deal with discipline gently and persistently (eventually) flip a switch that they can never turn off.”

And that’s when discipline turns into freedom.

Let’s explore a list of strategies to help you sink into self-discipline:
1. Commitment is the offspring of values. If you can’t discipline yourself to do something every day, there’s only one explanation: It’s simply not that important to you.

People always make time – not find time, but make time – for what matters to them. That’s how commitment works: It deletes distraction. It makes you wake up early. It turns habits into non-negotiables. When you’re committed, you drop everything and get to work. Every day.

The hard part is telling the truth about your current level of commitment. And if you’re having trouble with that, here’s an exercise you might try: Write down a list of the five things you’re most committed to. Then open your calendar. See if your life agrees.

If you’re not happy with the result, either find something else that is important to you and commit to that, or take the current thing that isn’t important to you and reframe it as – or reconnect it with – something else that is. How will you use commitment to open the door to discipline?

2. Bait multiple hooks. If you inherited five million dollars tomorrow, would you invest all of it in one stock? Of course not. You’d diversify it across several accounts. That way your portfolio would have a stronger foundation, making it less vulnerable to external conditions.

This same principle applies to creative professionals who have trouble disciplining themselves. Personally, I’m always working on about fifty things at once. Because in my experience, attacking multiple projects simultaneously has several advantages.

First, it prevents burnout. That’s what happens when your creative efforts are more diversely deployed: You don’t give yourself the chance to get sick of something and abandon it.

Second, by varying your creative endeavors, you establish thought bridges, subconscious connections and unexpected integrations between seemingly unrelated ideas. And as a result, you start to notice natural relationships and structures in your work you never would have seen by working on a single project.

Ultimately, this approach relaxes the process and helps contribute to greater consistency in your body of work. Are you willing to allocate your creativity attention to multiple endeavors?

3. Build a portable creative environment. A real artist can be creative any time, any place, with any tools. That’s the mark of a master: She shapes her immediate surroundings to feel in harmony with the small slice of the universe in which she finds herself.

As I learned in Beyond Boredom and Anxiety, “Whether the conditions in which they find themselves are luxurious or miserable, geniuses manage to give their surroundings a personal pattern that echoes the rhythm of their thoughts and habits of action. Within this environment of their own making, they can forget the rest of the world and concentrate on pursuing the muse.”

What are your portable creative environments? What enables you to enter into the creative flow at the drop of a hat? Have these on standby at all times. You’ll discover that by keeping alternative workspaces ready to go with transportable lightning rods tailor made to your tendencies, you’ll feel more in control of your surroundings.

That way, when inspiration comes unannounced, you’ll be ready to pounce. Can you do what you do anywhere?

4. Discipline derives from the wellspring of why. Willpower is overrated. If you want execute what matters most – every single day – you need to tap the reservoir of whypower.

Here’s the reason: When you actively cultivate the purpose driven nature of your work, discipline becomes a non-thought. What was once a desire becomes a habit. And what was once a habit becomes a non-negotiable. A positive addiction. Just something you do.

That’s why I’m able to write for seven hours a day, every day: Because I keep a list of one hundred reasons why I do what I do, in my wallet, and I read it to myself every morning. That’s your challenge: To become a walking translation of stunning clarity of purpose. To pinpoint the deepest motivations behind what you’re trying to discipline yourself to do. Find that, and you’ll have no problem slogging it out every day.

Remember: Daily bread without daily meaning tastes like daily crap. How are you fueling your discipline with a firm why?

5. Cultivate a more acute sense of resistance. Part of self-discipline is learning how to override yourself. That means becoming a master of your disinclination. That means discovering what frustrates your ambitions. And that means not allowing yourself the indulgence of saying you’re too busy.

Here’s the reality: The problem isn’t decreasing productivity – it’s diluted priorities. And you will lose the discipline game if you fall victim to what’s latest and loudest.

My suggestion: Extinguish whatever distractions seduce you. Drown out the world’s chatter and find the energy that urges you forward. And for the love of David Allen, stop performing minor tasks that engulf you in pointless, trivial action.

Instead, create around the constraint. Take the energy you’ve been burning on creative avoidance and redirect it to help you execute what matters. What’s your system for stamping out redundancy?

LOOK: It’s not my job to convince you to be more disciplined.

It’s hard work that nobody undertakes but you.
It’s unspectacular work that nobody notices but you.
It’s inconvenient work that nobody appreciates but you.

But discipline does mean freedom.

Freedom to be, freedom to do and freedom to have – pretty much anything.

I think it’s worth it.

LET ME ASK YA THIS…
How discipline are you prepared to be?

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* * * *
Scott Ginsberg
That Guy with the Nametag
Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Mentor
scott@hellomynameisscott.com

Never the same speech twice.

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At 5:28 AM,  maureen@makingitallfit.com said…

Scott:

You had me at the title! Thank you for the great reminder that self-discipline equals freedom. I am off to write my list of why. Everyday I ask myself this question because luckily I didn’t have to start a career at 45 but my why is my whyny. Now I get it.

This is just what I needed today, thank you!

 

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Photographers’ rights campaign spawns lens cloth launch

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Tuesday 22nd June 2010

Chris Cheesman

The photography rights lens cloth will come free with Amateur Photographer’s issue dated 10 July which hits news stands on Tuesday 6 July (available to subscribers from Saturday 3 July 2010).

Rules on photography in public places have been spelled out in black and white on a photographers’ lens cloth set to be given away with Amateur Photographer (AP) magazine’s 10 July issue.

Made of microfibre material the cloth is designed to be carried by photographers when out and about and can be attached to a keyring, for example.

It will give photographers, amateur and professional, easy access to guidelines issued to Metropolitan Police officers last year to help them deal with photographers.

Amateur Photographer Editor Damien Demolder said: ‘Despite government assurances to AP, photographers are needlessly prevented from taking pictures in public everyday. But with our Photographer’s Rights lens cloth you’ll be able to quickly and politely point out what your rights are. So long as you are on public property this should make your day a whole lot better – and it will keep your lens clean too.’

The bullet-pointed advice spells out, for example, that ‘there is no restriction on people taking photographs in public places or of any building other than in very exceptional circumstances.’

It also states: ‘Officers do not have the power to delete digital images, destroy film or to prevent photography in a public place under either power (Sections 43 and 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000).’

The magazine’s nationwide campaign to defend photographers’ rights gathered momentum after an increased number of incidents gained coverage in the mainstream media over the past two years.

Among the first anti-terrorism stops reported to AP took place in 2005, the year of the 7/7 bombings in central London.

Police were accused of acting overzealously after they stopped and searched photography enthusiast Roy Jhuboo while he was out taking pictures in Limehouse, east London.

Police told him that he could have been on a reconnaissance mission to launch a ‘rocket’ on nearby Canary Wharf. Two police vans were called after Jhuboo was spotted taking pictures of a house during a walk from Tower Hill.

Since then AP has received a growing number of reports of photographers being stopped in public places, leading to a campaign by the magazine to defend photographers’ rights.

AP staff have raised photographers’ concerns in meetings with the Home Office.

Police organisations and the Home Office have since agreed that photographers should not be restricted to pursue their hobby or profession.

And the new Government has promised to ensure it strikes the ‘right balance’ between protecting the public and upholding civil liberties, as part of a review which will include police use of the controversial Section 44 stop-and-search.

However, photographers – both amateur and professional – continue to complain at the attitude of police officers on the ground.

All will be revealed about the lens cloth in AP’s 10 July issue, so keep an eye out. The magazine containing the free gift goes on sale in shops on Tuesday 6 July and is available to subscribers from Saturday 3 July 2010.

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Video tour around Glasgow 2010. This is a nice contrast from the 1980 film posted earlier: http://tumblr.com/x7ic0bo55

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Interesting Film (stay the distance {29mins} )

Glasgow 1980

A documentary on how Glasgow would look in the 1980’s after the redevelopment of its traffic system and the construction of new housing developments, planned in the mid ’70s.

First of what was intended to be a pair of films tracing the development of the city in the 1970’s. Filming for the sequel GLASGOW’S PROGRESS was halted in 1978 as ‘there seemed to be no end to the urban renewal in sight’.

Director: Oscar Marzaroli

Narrator: Michael Harrigan

Alex Says:

“As a Child of 1971 -: The depressing thing this film shows is that Glasgow didn’t achieve it’s full aim for “Glasgow 1980” (politics & economic greed got in the way) ;worse than that.. Many of these new areas became the slums of 80’s & 90s

So… Glasgow has torn down what was *new* in 1960/70’s to start again for a new vision of the 21st Century…

Time will Tell How That Works Out”

As a Christian I say: THIS is WRONG!! its not a war of one over the other! Its not Christ vs Science! its they’re both right!