self discipline
Governing your impulses
Self discipline is the ability to control your impulses, emotions, and behavior to pursue long-term goals despite short-term temptations.
It involves doing what needs to be done whether you feel like it or not: She had the self discipline to write every morning before work.
Often hyphenated as self-discipline.
- willpowerMental strength resisting impulse
- iron willUnwavering mental determination
- restraintControl over impulses
- impulse controlRegulating sudden urges
- determinationFirmness of purpose
focus · grit · resolve · mind over matter · no excuses · habit · routine · daily grind · persistence · delayed gratification · temptation · saying no · sacrifice · commitment · consistency · control · mental toughness · endurance
- schoolteachers, classrooms, classes, student, grades
- skillsskills, skill, ability, abilities, competencies
- Learning Barrierslearning disability, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, ADHD
self disciplineself-indulgence
Excessive yielding to desires
indulgence · impulsivity · recklessness · hedonism · loss of control
self disciplineweakness of will
Failing to follow conviction
self-destruction · vice · dissipation · dissolution · degeneracy
self disciplinelaziness
Unwillingness to exert oneself
sloth · procrastination · negligence · carelessness · aimlessness
self, discipline, selves, selfhood, selfish, selfishly, selfishness, selfless, selflessly