Priorities, discipline, flexibility, responsibility

Yesterday I wrote about developing discipline as part of responsibility. I also recently wrote that you get what you need.

So this morning I got what I need to learn that priorities and flexibility in  discipline are extremely important aspects of responsibility.

My wonderful wife Dr. Elaine Kindle, the founder and director of Life Focus Center, is an adjunct professor at Alient University (California School of Professional Psychology) where she teaches CBT (cognitive Behavioral Therapy) to Ph.D. students on Thursdays.

Today is the first day of the new academic year and so things were not quite in schedule. I had to rewrite my resume first thing as I had said that I would send it to a head hunter this morning. After I emailed my latest resume I noticed it was seven a.m. and I had the choice of cooking breakfast or moving the twelve stones as suggested in the current discipline exercise I’m doing.

This is where knowing your priorities and being flexible is very important. Obviously cooking breakfast was more important than moving the stones even though I had given my word to myself that I would do this practice at exactly 7:01 a.m. for seven days.

The choice was to be inflexible and do what was less important or give up on the discipline and restart tomorrow. That is the way we normally process the world as an either/or situation. However, a better way of looking at the universe is as an and situation. I decided that I could dp the exercise a little later and it was still within the spirit of keeping my word to myself and remaining responsible. So after doing all I had to do I moved the stones and as far as I’m concerned that’s all that matters.

Also it’s important to think of any challenge as an opportunity to learn. Ask good questions like, “How can I be flexible and make the best of this situation? How can see the opportunities in this situation?”

So remember:

Knowing your priorities and being flexible allows you to be true to your word and practice discipline while remaining responsible (response-able).

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