Chapter 254
Discipline and rules are indispensable in our daily work, study and life. Many facts can illustrate this truth, such as the queue to buy a ticket; Follow the traffic rules when walking on the road; Even our usual every move is subject to certain requirements and constraints, otherwise there is no order in anything. As students in school, we are in a period of transition to society, and there are countless disciplines and rules that require us to do what to do and what not to do.
However, it is difficult for us to make progress if we are always in a demanding environment to study and live, so we should learn to restrain ourselves, demand ourselves, change from passive to active, consciously abide by the daily behavior norms of middle school students, and use it to restrain our words and deeds. Pythagoras said: He who cannot restrain himself cannot be called a free man. Our self-discipline is not to let a large number of rules and regulations bind us layer by layer, but to use self-discipline to create an orderly order to strive for greater freedom in our study and life.
The school has set up a self-discipline committee to supervise and encourage us to be self-disciplined. It is not an organization that asks a group of students to manage other students, but a new student group that encourages everyone to supervise each other and do a good job of self-discipline, just to keep our study life in good order. As a member of the Self-Discipline Committee, I believe that every member is like me, and I hope that I can help and serve everyone in this area of self-discipline.
To be self-disciplined, of course, there must be specific requirements. In cooperation with the quality education that is now being implemented, we must improve our own quality, establish a sense of self-discipline of self-esteem, self-love, and self-improvement, have a strong sense of responsibility for the school, class, and individual, and be able to correctly handle interpersonal relationships and conflicts in daily study and life. In terms of learning, we must be independent, think independently, solve problems independently, and complete homework independently; Second, we must consciously do what we should do, including doing a good job of pre-study and review, listening attentively in class, and completing homework on time. In terms of behavior, we should use the daily code of conduct of middle school students to regulate our words and deeds, be civilized and polite, and take care of public property. In terms of appearance, we should show the simple essence of students with simple, generous, clean and neat clothing.
If everyone can join the ranks of self-discipliners, they will find that the things and environment around them will be very different. Self-discipline is not only beneficial to our current learning, in a few years, when we end our student career and go to the society, we will find that it also has a great impact on our future work and life in the society, because when we are still young, we have the opportunity to start again and start from scratch after making mistakes, but in the society we must be responsible for every mistake or mistake we make and bear the consequences, which makes the role of self-discipline more obvious. Therefore, we should supervise each other, be self-disciplined, create a better environment for current learning, and also lay the foundation for developing good habits in future work and life.
Self-discipline action
1. Work out your priorities and do them in that order
If a person only looks at his own mood and acts at the convenience of the moment, he will definitely not succeed, let alone be respected and followed by others. There is a good saying: "There are two indispensable partners in accomplishing important tasks: one is planning, and the other is not enough time." "As a leader, you have a pretty tight schedule, so you have to plan. If you can figure out what is most important and deliberately disconnect from other things, it will give you enough energy to accomplish your first task. This is the basic spirit of self-discipline.
2. Take a self-disciplined lifestyle as the goal
Learn from highly disciplined and successful people like Jerry Rice, and you'll find that self-discipline can't just be done occasionally, it has to be your way of life. The best way to develop self-discipline is to set a system and routine for yourself, especially in projects that you consider important for long-term growth and success. For example, in order to continue writing and speaking, I keep the materials I read every day for future reference. In addition, I had a heart attack in December 1998 and have been exercising every morning since then. These are not things I do to stop and stop, and I will continue to do so for the rest of my life.
3. Challenge your excuses
If you want to cultivate a self-disciplined lifestyle, one of the first things to do is to get rid of the tendency to make excuses. As Franco, a French writer of classical literature, said, "Almost all the mistakes we have made are more forgivable than the methods used to cover them up." "If you have a few reasons why you can't discipline yourself, then recognize that they are just a bunch of excuses. If you want to be a more effective leader, you have to challenge your excuses.
4. Before the work is completed, remove the reward
The famous writer Mike Delloney once said this wise saying: "If any enterprise or organization gives equal treatment to the losers and the contributors, then you will find more and more of the former and less and less of the latter." "If you lack self-discipline, then you're probably the kind of person who enjoys dessert before the main meal.
The following short story illustrates the power of pausing rewards. An elderly couple came to the camping area to set up camp, and two days later, a family also arrived at the camp next door. As soon as the family's holiday bus came to a safe stop, the couple and their three children rushed down, one child quickly removed the freezer, backpack and other supplies, and the other two children immediately set up their tents, and in less than 15 minutes, the entire camp was ready.
The old couple next door was dumbfounded. "Your family is really a rare camping master!" The old gentleman praised his new neighbor with admiration. "Actually, it's much easier to do things as long as you have a system," replied the young father next door, "We have stipulated in advance that no one can go to the bathroom until the camp is set up." β
5. Keep your eyes on the result
At any given time, it's easy to get discouraged if you focus on the difficulty of the job itself, without thinking about the results and rewards. If you immerse yourself in it for too long, you will develop a problem with self-pity. Therefore, the next time you are faced with a task that you have to do, and you start to try to take a shortcut instead of following the rules, remember: dispel yourself and turn your attention back to the goal. Weigh the benefits of doing it step by step, and take the time to do it thoroughly.
Related Stories:
1. Bai Yushuang is a famous drama actor with very high acting skills, and is known as the "Queen of Drama Commentary". In order to be self-aware and self-disciplined, no matter the scorching heat or the harsh winter, she will practice and practice her voice whenever she has time. Someone said to her, "You've become famous, why are you still practicing so hard?" She smiled and said, "The play is endless." And she can listen to other people's opinions with an open mind, and she is very happy to point out the shortcomings of anyone.
2. When Wu Han was at Tsinghua University, he wanted to buy a copy of "The Chronicle of the Ming Dynasty", but because he had no money, he rushed to write a "The Story of the Qingming Riverside Picture and the Golden Bottle Plum" in exchange for 10 yuan for a manuscript remuneration and bought this book. But he was not very satisfied with the article he wrote, and said in a letter to his teacher: "I was hastily drafted in the summer vacation, and I didn't want to publish it, because I wanted to buy a copy of "Ming History Chronicle" and couldn't get enough money for a while, so I could only send it to the school weekly, and I got 10 yuan, and I probably could buy one. Wu Han was deeply guilty of this incident, and wrote a supplement for this article the next year, further correcting and filling in the gaps for this article, so that his views tended to be perfect.
3. Zhang Boling, who has been the president of Nankai University for a long time, once saw a student's fingers being burned yellow, so he pointed at him and said: "Look, smoke your fingers so yellow, smoking is harmful to young people's health, you should quit it!" But the student retorted, "Don't you smoke too?" What do you say about me? At that moment, Zhang Boling took out all the Luzon cigarettes he had stored, destroyed them in public, and said that he would never smoke again.
4. James Lanfedis is a famous architect in the United States, and the eleven-year-old James and his family live on a small island in the middle of the lake. Here, the dock in front of the house is a good place for fishing, and his father is a master fisherman, and little James never wants to miss any opportunity to fish with his father.
That day is a good time to fish for sunfish, and bass fishing is available from the early hours of the next morning. In the evening, James and his father hung worms on the hook β a favorite delicacy of the sunfish. James expertly flicked the hook toward the calm surface of the lake in the setting sun.
Gradually, the moon crept out, and the silvery water continued to ripple quietly...... Suddenly, James' fishing rod was bent violently, and he immediately realized that it was a big guy. He took a breath to calm himself down and began to walk the big dick slowly. The father didn't say a word, but from time to time he turned his face to look at his son, and his eyes were full of appreciation and approval.
Two hours passed, and the big dick was finally exhausted by James's walk, and James began to slowly retract the hook. Little by little, the big guy came out of the water. James's eyes widened: Oh my God, it's 10 kilograms! It was the biggest fish he'd ever seen. James tried his best to suppress his nervousness and excitement, and carefully looked at his trophy, and he realized that it was not a sunfish, but a large bass!
Father and son looked at each other for a moment, then looked down at the big fish. In the dark green meadow, the big fish flipped its shiny body vigorously, and its gills kept fanning up and down. My father struck a match and struck his watch, and it was ten o'clock in the evening, two hours before the time allowed for bass fishing!
The father looked at the big fish, then at the son, and said, "Son, you have to put it back in the water." β
"Daddy!" James shouted.
"You'll catch other fish."
"Where can you catch such a big fish!" The son protested loudly.
James looked around, and in the moonlight, there was not a single angler, not a boat, and certainly no one would know about it. He looked back at his father again.
The father did not speak again. James knew there was no room for negotiation, and he closed his eyes hard, his mind blank. He took a deep breath, opened his eyes, bent down, carefully removed the hook from the mouth of the great fish, picked up the heavy, still writhing fish with both hands, and laboriously lowered it into the water.
The body of the big fish swung through the water and vanished. James' heart was very sad.
That was 34 years ago. Today, James is a successful architect in New York City, and his father's cottage is still on the island in the middle of the lake, where James often takes his children to fish.
It's true that James never caught that big fish again, but the big fish often appeared in front of his eyes β and when there was a moral question, the big fish would appear in front of his eyes.
As his father taught him, moral issues are simple questions of right or wrong, but they can be difficult to implement, especially when you are faced with great temptations. Can you stick to what is right when no one sees you behave in the right way? In a time emergency, would you run a red light or drive in the wrong direction? Without anyone knowing, would you take something that doesn't belong to you for yourself?
It was always so clear in James's memory, he was proud of his father, he was proud of himself, and he was proud to tell it to his friends and his children and grandchildren.
Related quotes:
1. Determination is based on words, self-cultivation is the first - Tang Wu Shuda
2. A person with incomplete knowledge can make up for it with morality, but a person with incomplete morality can hardly make up for it with knowledge - Italian Dante
3. Self-control is a kind of order, a kind of control over pleasure and desire - ancient Greek Plato
4. Character is a person's interior, and reputation is a person's appearance - English Shakespeare
5. Don't take evil as small, don't take good as small and don't do it - "Three Kingdoms, Shu Shu, Biography of the First Lord"
6. Don't suffer from the inability of others, but suffer from one's own reluctance - Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty
7. Once a person understands things, he must first be honest and temperate - Delacroix, France
8. If you don't work hard, your heart will be depressed; If you don't restrain yourself, your heart will be unbridled - Zhu Xi of the Northern Song Dynasty
9. Conquering all your weaknesses is the beginning of a person's greatness - Shen Congwen
10. If you want to conquer the whole world, you have to conquer yourself - Odostoevsky
11. Any kind of behavior that is not intended for the collective good is an act of suicide, which is harmful to society and harmful to oneself - Makarenko of the Soviet Union
12. There is no point in individual bravery, what is important is the subordination of the individual to the whole - German Hegel
13. A young man, when his mood is cold, his mind will become sound - Balzac, France
14. We should restrain our complacency and criticize our own shortcomings from time to time, as if we have to wash our faces every day and sweep the floor every day in order to clean and remove dust. ββChina***
15. Introspection is not guilty, how to be compassionate. - "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Ban Chao"