Greetings beloved family, welcome to another special edition, week19 Edition 02.
Self discipline is indeed one major key to acquiring success in whatever assignment we have to do in life. A man who is not disciplined is bound to fail and live a life with many goals unachieved. Though it costs a lot but it worths it.
My Experience
The one time I had to exercise self discipline was when I got a teaching job. Teaching is indeed a cool job, but it has a lot of prices attached. One amongst many is punctuality, those of you that teach in private schools would understand what I mean better.
As a teacher you need to live by example, you can't encourage a student or pupil to come to school early while you are guilty of late coming. If your pupils or students must be punctual then you have to make the first move.
After I was employed as a teacher in that school (Great Little Lamp Academy), the first rule my proprietress made emphasis on was the issue of late coming. it is highly prohitted in the school. My heart sunk, after many emphasis. And I began to wonder if I could cope because i am not used to waking up early. Prior to that time I wake up around 7:00am or 8:00am . Here is the issue school time is 7:30am and teachers are expected to be in school by 7:00 and latest 7:15am. This became a serious matter for me as I know i on a normal day I won't be able to cope with that, and there is no punctuality without waking up early. If it were only that my proprietress warned me concerning late coming and stopped there it would have been an easy one but she,added before I left her office: the penalty for late coming is the sum of five hundred naira (#500). And I was going to be paid eight thousand naira (#8,000) monthly. For instance I came late to work five times in a month that would be two thousand five hundred naira (#2,500). How much would I have left? Imagine I came like fifteen times , my whole salary is almost gone . Gosh!
Then I decided to start working on myself toward punctuality, I started with an alarm, because of house chores , I set my alarm at 5 :00am every morning . I do my chores and then get set for work. My house is far from the school but it is trekkeable. I just started the work I don't have any money to use a motor cycle so I trek instead, that is part of the reason why I choose 5:00am. It was not so easy at the beginning but with time it part of me because of how consistent I was, I got use to it. To an extend I do not need an alarm any more. Once it is 5:00am I wake up, It became like a principle to me, every 5:00am am awake no matter what, if I wake up some minutes late I feel very disappointed and uncomfortable. I trained myself to it, once am awake I leave the bed and get started with work. Should I tell you one more funny thing? That was how I got use to timming I hate people who do not keep to time. It's a rule with me.
This continued even unto weekends. I don't miss that time. I made it part of my life. I became one of the most punctual teachers in my school my proprietress always makes reference to me when it comes to punctuality.
The price I paid
At first it was very hard, sometimes I wake up and feel like going back to sleep but each
time I remember the penalty I quickly get up from the bed and start doing the needful. Sometimes after getting a very busy day and stressed out I just have to put everything away, displease my own body, put it into subjection and force myself to get up. Of a truth I really love sleep but I just have to let it go. I fell sick at some point because of lack of proper sleep.my body has gotten used to 7 or 8, now it has adjust to the new demand. I have to start sleeping very early and cut away from night gists and watching movies at night. I also have to minimize the rate at which I chat on social media so that I could get enough sleep before 5:00am.
Lessons I got from waking up early.
1 . For us to achieve any set goal we have to sacrifice our pleasures, we have to inconvenient ourselves from things that comforts us. Nothing good comes easy
2 . Waking up early saves times and helps us to do things without rush, it keeps the mind at ease
3 . If one determines to achieve anything in life he or she can get at it, though it might not be easy at first but surely , it would come to pass.
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