What is the difference in Will Power and Self Discipline?

[ricky]

Where does will power come in and where does self discipline come in?
Do you need will power to create discipline?
I have had great success disciplining myself to create new habits and eliminate some habits also. But am getting confused about the difference between self discipline and will power. I came across Steve's Self Discipline series last year (that's how I found his web site) and have had a lot of success with many of his methods and many methods of my own.

Let's take a hypothetical real estate example for now:
You need to sell one house and you have heard that if you talk to 100 people regarding real estate, at least one person will buy or sell their through you.
So, all you have to do is talk to at least 100 people regarding real estate.
Now, you are very afraid of rejection and can not even imagine yourself talking to strangers.
But you also know that without talking to people, you'll not have money since real estate is 100% commission based.
How do you go about doing this? Do you use will power to get yourself to talk to these people?
How can will power help in this case?
You can say that you will talk to 10 people every day and that would be considered disciplining yourself?
But if you are afraid that means every single day you have to summon up your will power to talk to these people??

[Gary]

If you are afraid of rejection you have to overcome that fear of to take action.

In this case your fear of rejection is where you have invested some of your personal will power. To overcome that fear each day requires that you commit that same amount of will power, and then a little bit more, to overcome your fear. This is a lot of effort (or you could call it self discipline.)

If you recover the personal power from the beliefs of fear of rejection it will take very little effort to talk to ten people. You will have no internal resistance (fear) doing so. With out internal resistances of fear taking disciplined action takes very little will power. A little bit of commitment is enough to get you going. You just decide to do it.

It is even easier when you consider that by dissolving your fear based beliefs you will have recovered more personal power with which to accomplish what you want.

[ricky]

Originally Posted by Gary

If you are afraid of rejection you have to overcome that fear of to take action.

In this case your fear of rejection is where you have invested some of your personal will power. To overcome that fear each day requires that you commit that same amount of will power, and then a little bit more, to overcome your fear. This is a lot of effort (or you could call it self discipline.)

If you recover the personal power from the beliefs of fear of rejection it will take very little effort to talk to ten people. You will have no internal resistance (fear) doing so. With out internal resistances of fear taking disciplined action takes very little will power. A little bit of commitment is enough to get you going. You just decide to do it.

It is even easier when you consider that by dissolving your fear based beliefs you will have recovered more personal power with which to accomplish what you want.

So, in this case, will power is not really needed to get one to do the work as much as to overcome the fear of rejection? So, once one is over the fear of rejection, working towards the goal, talking to 10 people per day in this case, might be relatively easy.
Makes sense. Thanks