discipline

Do you think of discipline in a negative sense, the punishment imposed upon you from without for your shortcomings? Look at the high-achieving people you know. Do they have discipline imposed on them, or do they impose it on themselves? They know that a life without discipline and structure is also a life without purpose, character, passion, and achievement. Those who run the race according to the high calling of God focus their efforts and keep their eyes on the prize. They cast off every weight that would hold them back and the sin that would draw them off track that they may run the race I have set before them as winners.