Question:

How can I be more disciplined at work?

Answer:

Everything you need to know about discipline you can learn from eating a whole pint of Haagen Dazs ice cream.

Truly.

Right now I want you to fantasize about eating a pint. (Or go ahead and eat one right now.) (Not a bad work assignment for the day, eh?)

Now keep in mind the image of you rapidly finishing off that pint.

The lesson to be learn from this image: Passion = Discipline

When you love what you do, you don’t mind doing it, and so you keep on doing it ... and doing it.

Hence why it doesn't take ANY discipline to eat spoonful after spoonful of Haagen Dazs.

Nobody's ever gonna say to you "Wow, look at your discipline -- how you just keep spooning down that pint!" Yet you keep on spooning. Why?

You’ve got passion.

HOW TO GET YOURSELF PASSIONATELY SPOONING UP YOUR WORK:

1. Remind yourself WHY you were passionate about your work in your honeymoon period ... then ask yourself why your honeymoon waned. Un-wane the wane!

2. Does your work improve people's lives? Remind yourself how what you do MATTERS!

3. Ask yourself WHO you want to be NOT JUST WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. Get your identity re-synchronized as a successful, happy, confident, communicative, problem-solvin' genius of your craft, dammit!

4. Link your success to something else ... like baby needs a new pair of shoes ... or mommy needs a new pair of Pradas.

In summary: Keep on reminding yourself what you love about your career ... and why others' lives will be improved by your career goals/widget you produce ... so you stay in a heightened state of excitement and passion to work at your highest level!

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