Upgrading the Crazy Eddie Drive

[Crazy Eddie]

According to Wikipedia, agnus castus, along with its occasional use as a treatment for PMS, is also known as an anaphrodisiac. Sucks to be you.

Of course so is PMS itself. Oh wait, you're supposed to take it throughout your cycle. Never mind...

And congrats again on the job. A fresh start sounds wonderful.

Thanks. It is wonderful.

Now what is self-discipline? How do you get it?

Self-discipline is the ability and willingness to consistently sacrifice and strive toward your own long term goals. Therefore, before you can have self-discipline, you must have a long-term goal that you believe in. You have to believe that you can achieve it and that you'll be made happier over the long term by achieving it. If you're wrong in that belief, you end up wasting a whole lot of time and effort and missing an opportunity to achieve some other goal that would make you happy (assuming one exists... but doesn't everybody have something to strive for that will actually make them happy?). If you haven't found something that you know will be attainable and rewarding to strive for, you end up floundering, chasing after fleeting short-term gains and missing opportunities for lasting happiness and achievement.

So you've got to know yourself really well, know what it is that you don't have that you'd be better off from your own point of view if you did attain it. How do you know that, especially when you have to judge how happy over the long term something you've never had before will make you if and when you do have it? How do you know you won't grow disillusioned with it when you've attained it, or when you're halfway there, and find yourself back at square one?

(To be continued... but comments are welcome in the meantime!)