Getting Control of my life

[Fate]

I am making this thread to document my journey to self control because at the moment I have none. Hopefully one day someone will come and look at this thread and it will inspire them or give them insight on how to overcome their laziness. But to be honest in a week it will most likely be deep in the archive because I won't bother updating it. :P

Basically my story is this. I have been lazy my entire life. I remember hating doing any form of work since I was tiny. I failed my way through HS. And now that I'm at Uni, I've been failing my way through that. Anyway for years I've been promising myself that I will start working harder. I would convince myself from now on I would working my ass off but it only lasted for a couple of hours. Now I don't even trust myself, if I tell myself I will do something. I have listened to Tony Robbins, read Steve Pavlina articles and a whole lot of other SI articles but nothing seems to work. The only times I've ever been able to work hard is if it's about something I'm really interested in like Poker. Or if I am under supervision which is ****ing embarrassing since I am 21 now and should have been over that by the time I got into high school.

Anyway Uni holidays are nearly finished and I promised myself that I would work towards and achieve all my goals during them. But things have gotten worse, I've stopped going to the gym. And even things like brushing my teeth seem like a massive choir. I know it sounds like I am depressed or something like that. But I'm not, I am actually a pretty happy guy most of the time.

Anyway I will be updating this post every day for as long as it takes for me to get self control. My immediate goal is just too do two solid hours of work a day. I will post about what I've been doing to overcome the problem. If you were ever as lazy as I was and have overcome it, it would be really great if you posted here and explained how you did it.

Thanks.

[Jamie]

Hi Fate,

Welcome to the boards.

I'm still working on it myself, the whole self-discipline thing. It's not easy, but if you persist, you may find yourself making gradual steady progress, week by week, month by month, year by year. That's how I see it anyway, more of a slow burn, than an instant quick fix.

Sounds good that you're setting yourself a easily achievable target to begin with (work 2 hours per day), once you get that nailed, on to bigger and better things I guess?

I've recently been working on the habit of getting up early, and I think that's a good one also, to start with. Gives you quiet time in the morning for reflection and thinking about where you are in life, where it's going.

I wouldn't get too into what other people say, e.g. self-development guru's. Sure, they may present ideas and concepts that resonate with you, and you'll find something of use there; but for me, I think at the end of the day, you have to find it within yourself, in your own language, your own 'words' (and when you do, you'll probably start blogging yourself, and become a self-help guru too, which is probably just what Steve Pavlina and Anthony Robbins did anyway!).

Best of luck!