PMA: SOS – Self-Discipline

SELF-DISCIPLINE

Before you begin the study of the principle of self-discipline, we will outline some of the benefits which will accrue to you if you master this principle and put the ideas contained in this lesson into action:

• Your imagination will become more alert.

• Your enthusiasm will grow more keen.

• You will develop greater initiative.

• Your self-reliance will increase.

• You will look at the world through different eyes. The scope of your vision will be widened.

• Your problems will melt away.

• Your personality will become more magnetic and you will find people seeking you who had previously ignored or overlooked you.

• Your hopes and ambitions will be higher and stronger.

• Your faith will be more powerful.

No other single requirement for individual success is as important as self-discipline. Self-discipline, or self-control, means taking possession of your own mind. This has been mentioned repeatedly throughout the course. You are now at the point where you can tie together the other principles which you have studied, and recognize the relationship which exists between them.

All of the principles of this philosophy are for the express purpose of enabling you to develop control over yourself. The matter of self-discipline is one of the greatest of all essentials for success. Indeed, if one cannot master himself, he has little hope of mastering anything or anyone else.

If it were possible for you to master self-discipline after studying only one lesson, the others could be eliminated. But a long study of human nature by the greatest minds the world has produced, from the ancient Greek philosophers down to the moderns, has proved that the most difficult lesson man has to learn is “to know thyself.” That is why there are seventeen principles, or lessons, in this course.

You are now studying the lesson which has been referred to as the “channel through which all of your personal power for success must flow.” The word channel, as used here, indicates a controlled passageway which funnels all of the rivulets of power you have been mixing into one smooth flowing river of great capacity. Your mind is the think tank, vat, or reservoir in which you have been creating and accumulating potential power…

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