You didn’t get in debt overnight nor in a few months. You and your spouse did just stop communicating this morning or last night. Yes, you are behind in school, but it didn’t just happen, you have been falling behind for a while. I would venture to say that each one of us has some area of our lives that we have neglected or avoided, for whatever reason. These are the areas that can sink our ship. Just as our discipline in these areas didn’t fall off overnight, most likely, we are not going to turn the ship around overnight. Discipline takes time. It will take disciplined consistency to change and maintain a course of change. This means that we must find methods that work for us, individually. Whenever we use methods that others use, it is easy to become discouraged and quit, because they were tailor-made for someone else. Find your method, and methodically work it. In looking for your individual method, sometimes you can find a clue by reversing your steps. Walk your way back through the steps of how you got into this situation, and then do the opposite thing to reverse the process. Step-by-step, where you use to spend five dollars, save two dollars and put three towards the debt. In your relationship, where you slowly stopped talking, listening, and caring, slowly start talking and listening, and you will probably slowly start caring. If you got behind in algebra or reading, go to Youtube for dummies for algebra or reading, and learn the basics that you missed. This is the disciplined reversal technique which allows for disciplined success, rather than quick fixes. Slow and steady you will turn the ship around, and soon you will be sailing on the high seas, headed for places you never thought you would see, and doing things you never thought you could or would.