When a person with self-discipline agrees to meet you, they'll show up.

When an undisciplined person agrees to meet you, they may or may not show up.

• Some people do what they say.
• Some people make excuses and procrastinate.

You will have many problems unless you have self-control

• If your emotions control you, you are headed for trouble.
• When you control your thoughts and actions, your life will be so much easier.

When people create problems for themselves, people say they have no willpower. Your will is like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the more disciplined you become.

Your life won't get better until bad habits are replaced by good ones

• Don't let the computer or television be your boss.
• Make time for daily prayer and the Bible.
• Eat and sleep at regular times.
• Keep living and work areas organized.
• Find time to exercise, even if it is only walking.
• Give God first place in your life.

Your life will become much happier. And you'll become the person that God wants you to be.

A disciplined person makes the right choice even if it's not the easiest choice.

Saint Paul stressed the need for self-discipline.

In 1Corinthians (9:24-27), he says that if an athlete exercises willpower to gain a temporary crown, then a Christian should try even harder to gain a crown that lasts forever.

Saint Paul’s own strong will, strengthened by the Holy Spirit, enabled him to endure unbelievable hardships and to go wherever God led him.

It is not easy to keep our eyes fixed on the prize, which is eternal life with Jesus Christ. There are so many distractions and temptations. Prayer and the Eucharist give us strength.

Despite repeated failures, we need to keep trying.
“For although the just man shall fall seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity” (Proverbs 24:16).

Over time, we succeed more than we fail. Eventually we finish the race and win the prize — life with Jesus.

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