How to Build Self-Discipline: Resist Temptations and Reach Your Long-Term Goals

Martin Meadows

Jun 2015 · Simple Self-Discipline Book 1 · Meadows Publishing

About this ebook

How to Develop Self-Discipline, Resist Temptations and Reach Your Long-Terms Goals

If you want to make positive changes in your life and achieve your long-term goals, I can’t think of a better way to do it than to learn how to become more self-disciplined.

Science has figured out a lot of interesting aspects of self-discipline and willpower, but most of this knowledge is buried deep inside long and boring scientific papers.

If you’d like to benefit from these studies without actually reading them, this book is for you. I’ve done the job for you and researched the most useful and viable scientific findings that will help you improve your self-discipline.

Here are just a couple things you will learn from the book:

- what a bank robber with lemon juice on his face can teach you about self-control. The story will make you laugh out loud, but its implications will make you think twice about your ability to control your urges.

- how $50 chocolate bars can motivate you to keep going when faced with an overwhelming temptation to give in.

- why President Obama wears only gray and blue suits and what it has to do with self-control (it’s also a possible reason why the poor stay poor).

- why the popular way of visualization can actually prevent you from reaching your goals and destroy your self-control (and what to do instead).

- what dopamine is and why it’s crucial to understand its role to break your bad habits and form good ones.

- 5 practical ways to train your self-discipline. Discover some of the most important techniques to increase your self-control and become better at resisting instant gratification.

- why the status quo bias will threaten your goals and what to do to reduce its effect on your resolutions.

- why extreme diets help people achieve long-term results, and how to apply these findings in your own life.

- why and when indulging yourself can actually help you build your self-discipline. Yes, you can stuff yourself (from time to time) and still lose weight.

Instead of sharing with you the detailed "why" (with confusing and boring descriptions of studies), I will share with you the "how" – advice that will change your life if you decide to follow it.

You too can master the art of self-discipline and learn how to resist temptations. Your long term goals are worth it. Scroll up and buy the book now.

As a gift for buying my book, you'll get my another book, "Grit: How to Keep Going When You Want to Give Up."

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Ratings and reviews

This book seems like it is more about torture and self-punishment than it is about self-discipline. The author urges people to fast for 16-24 hours, to take cold showers, and to push past their feelings of fatigue when exercising. It is not a good idea to encourage people to push their body beyond its physical limits. So don't eat, but exercise? It also came off as fatphobic to me, especially in Chapter 5. I don't see the harm if someone wanted to eat one single chocolate bar! He mentioned the chocolate bar thing too much for me. It got annoying after a while. He even encouraged the reader to throw out their TV at one point. I understand the purpose of the book, but it could have been done in a different way. Too much explaining and too many sources. The short, numbered lists were better to follow.

Peace and Blessings To Everyone! Within reading the sample of this book, I have not only become more intrigued to the process of self-discipline; but I have become well informed to begin researching this topic independently

It seems less like a book of personal wisdom, so much as an amalgamation of other self-help gurus and life coaches. It's all good stuff, it just didn't quite live up to my expectations.

About the author

Martin Meadows is the pen name of a bestselling author who has dedicated his life to personal growth. He constantly reinvents himself by making drastic changes in his life. Over the years, he has: regularly fasted for over 40 hours, taught himself two foreign languages, lost over 30 pounds in 12 weeks, ran several businesses in various industries, took ice-cold showers and baths, lived on a small tropical island in a foreign country for several months, and wrote a 400-page long novel's worth of short stories in one month.

Yet, self-torture is not his passion. Martin likes to test his boundaries to discover how far his comfort zone goes. His findings (based both on his personal experience and scientific studies) help him improve his life. If you're interested in pushing your limits and learning how to become the best version of yourself, you'll love Martin's works.