Why is Discipline Important ? 10 Benefits Worth Considering

Discipline is a way of life, where one tries to be on time and live systematically.

It is not limited to money, riches, or poverty, but it is just a personal orientation towards life.

It is a habit and not an adaptation in life. So one can practice discipline for a better life.

Many successful people attribute their success to discipline.

For them, more than knowledge, communication, or skill, discipline played a key role in their way to success.

Discipline in life has many virtues like being focused, staying healthy, and also avoiding problems. As per the current lifestyle and social trends, discipline techniques seem to be essential life skills.

Discipline is one of the factors by which people judge others. Those highly talented and hard-working people cannot be successful if they are not disciplined.

Discipline extends to personal life, career, work, study, lifestyle, and even social life. So it is good to inculcate student discipline in schools.  This school discipline can help children habituate it and can be carried on for life.

Importance of discipline

Being disciplined helps gain many advantages in life. Strict disciple helps

1. To Be focused

Being disciplined helps one stay focused on his work, activities, or goals.

Have you notice people with strong goals are more focused and work on time in everyday life.

On the other hand, those who are not focused on life seem to be indisciplined.

This indicates that being disciplined helps one stay focused in life.

They systemically perform their activities, avoiding mental disturbances or deviations.

2. Be respected by others

Discipline helps command respect from others. Many people struggle to gain respect from others in the workplace. But the easiest way to get respect is to be disciplined.

Have you ever come to people who are disciplined and not respected?

People around and also the sub-ordinates respect a disciplined person. The reasons are

• Firstly it is tough to be disciplined for anyone. And if you follow it, then you will have respect from others for that ability.
•  If you are an employee, due to discipline, you tend to complete work in time, be in the workplace at a time, etc. This helps you win respect from your boss or employer.
• In studies, being disciplined helps you complete your homework, exam preparation in time and helps you gain the highest score. This wins you respect from your colleagues.
• If you are a boss or leader of the group, being disciplined helps you command your subordinates’ respect. In turn, they tend to be disciplined and helps to complete your goals and reach higher levels.
• There are chances that, based on your self-discipline, others might consider you as a role model.

3. Attain self-confidence

Self-confidence is an essential attitude a person needs to make an effort in life. For any major goal or work, self-confidence help to take up the task, learn and work for and achieve the goal.

Being disciplined helps one achieve sufficient levels of self-confidence in yourself.

4. Stay healthy

Disciplined life includes regular habits like taking food, medicine (if any), having a bath, exercise, walking, and sleeping at the right time.

Exercise and other regular habits will tune the body and mind to always remain healthy. Even in case of a chronic disease taking medicines at a regular time helps get well soon. Having food on time is very important because even food is also medicine. Read the importance of food for life.

5. Live active

Discipline is a way of a positive outlook on life. There are enthusiasm and self-confidence from within. So it keeps one active and not lazy instead.

Notice anyone who is disciplined; he/ she is always active in comparison to others.

Also, due to disciplined habits like having food, sleep, and exercise regularly, they stay active the whole day.

6. Gain Self-control

A person with self-discipline has more self-control over himself. He is careful in using words while talking, his behavior, etc. avoiding being entangled in silly problems. This way, he also builds good relations with people.

7. Perform Better in academics

Discipline in education is essential for better education. Education is incomplete without learning discipline. Classroom discipline helps students to listen to teachings well and also cover the entire syllabus. While coming to school in time helps them awake early, attend nature calls, have a bath and breakfast in time. Hence discipline in schools helps students stay healthy, which is good for the growth of both body and mind.

8. Achieve goals in life & be happy

If you have larger goals in life, you can achieve them with a combination of passion, discipline and hard work.

Being disciplined helps get things done faster and at the right time. Though some things happen late due to other factors, still one with discipline gets them done faster than others due to his self-discipline, like being on time.

So this leads to peace of mind and keeps one happier.

Consider yourself in a situation when one of your family members asked you to go out in the evening. If you are disciplined, you complete your work in time and try to give your time to them. If not, they get hurt by you and this leads to loss of happiness. This is a common or routine issue in many families. So try to stay disciplined. It helps you to keep your family and friends happy as you can give them extra time.

9. Have more time in a day

A disciplined person has more time in a day than an undisciplined person. So more time means there is more chance to do extra works or other pending works. We can overcome procrastination and laziness at work.

10. Avoid stress & remain tension-free

One has tension during competitive exams or daily routine work. This is internal anxiety or unknown fear about the outcome of the work. Staying disciplined helps one study well in advance and not just before exams, so he remains tension-free. If it is a workplace, the work is planned well and executed in time due to discipline, so there is no stress. So discipline helps one stay stress-free, raise your self-esteem and also get out of possible depression.

Now let us see how discipline affects different ways of life.

Discipline in school and the classroom

Every student or teacher needs to be discipline for the proper functioning of the school and classroom.

One attends the school or classes on time, maintain the correct academic syllabus schedule. This also helps the student gain interest in education, complete homework on time, and prepare for the exams well.

For leadership

Have you seen any leader who is successful and indisciplined? As mentioned before, a person with self-discipline commands respect and it is an essential feature of a leader.

A person could be a good orator, strategist, politician, etc. But if he lacks discipline, he would not be able to take steps at the right time and the right moment.

This could lead to failures and provide scope for others to succeed. Hence, discipline is essential for a leader.

At home and in family

Lack of discipline at home could lead to frequent chaos in the family. In a family, everyone should be disciplined in aspects like having food on time, bathing, getting back home after work, waking up in the morning.

Though this could be less important for kids and toddlers, as one grows older in the family, they need to be disciplined to avoid causing problems to others.

A happy family and a peaceful home is a result of proper discipline.

At work and in an organization

Businesses and other places of work demand greater discipline to provide efficient and time-bound services. This is essential in almost all the jobs like in the military, healthcare, banking, security, etc.

For instance, nursing is an essential part of healthcare where nurses administer medications and provide other services to the patients on time.

If a patient in critical care is treated, a dosing schedule is prepared to provide quick relief from symptoms and avoid side-effects or other problems.

Any lapse in schedule due to indiscipline on the part of nurses could have serious consequences to the patient and the hospital organization.

In sport and athletics

Sports and athletics are other areas where self-discipline is very vital. Timely diet, exercise and sleep make the persons physically and mentally fit.

Even during the time of performance, the discipline in terms of going to bed on time and warming up decides the final outcome.

♦ Thus, the list of the above advantages of discipline indicates that proper guidance and discipline are necessary from early childhood.

Parents need to habituate self-discipline techniques in children.

For this, they can take the help of schools as they are the places where the sense of high discipline is imbibed with ease.