In recent blogposts I have written about logging into your life each day, doing daily inspections, preventative maintenance, tune-ups, overhauls, and making sure that clean filters are in place. If you are tuned-up, logged in, and have completed your daily inspections, you are now ready to hit the ground running. If you think of all the little things that you can accomplish today, the possibilities are endless. Like a well-oiled machine you can move effortlessly, making the hard look easy and the easy a joy to accomplish. Unencumbered by distractions, debris, and blockages, you can focus on completing one thing at a time, transitioning smoothly to the next thing on your agenda. Before you know it, just the satisfaction of getting things done will energize you and keep you flowing.
The word ‘discipline’ sometimes brings up thoughts of strained effort, or something laborious. Once you get in the habit of staying on mission and focusing on the task at hand, the strain falls off and discipline merely becomes an easier lift and a smoother flow. I now understand better the advice of an older man I referred to in an earlier blogpost, as he said, “take life easy, take it easy.” The best discipline is that which has become who you are, without pretense or strain. The discipline that makes you successful in any area of life, is the discipline that becomes easy and routine.
So, as you go through your day today, work on your flow. Don’t let anything, or anyone, keep you from functioning at your best. Each day as you hit the ground running, your creative, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual systems will flow in harmony, like a well-oiled machine.