practice discipline

PRACTICE DISCIPLINE

The Coming Crappy Crap Times call for preparedness. Obviously, the supplies are not there to prepare properly, because you were born under a cloud, Baby Jesus hates you, and your mother STILL dresses you funny, and you only just now discovered our tribal custom of obsessive hoarding. I thought prepping was smart, from age about 15 or so, just because Ivan The Bear had some tens of thousands of thermonuclear weapons pointed at whatever location I inhabited. I'm not saying I always was prepared. But I always knew of the practice.

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If you are a young'un, I excuse your bewilderment and confusion. If you are over forty, well, I love you bro but you're kind of a dumbass, aren't you? I don't judge. Well, I DO judge, but not harshly. You can still do a lot, even if it isn't the ideal. But completely prepared or not, here is something free we all need to be doing. Doing MORE than just buying more groceries or more ammo ( not that you stop doing so, just that you focus less on it ). We need to practice discipline. Hell, I need to do it probably more than any of you, having lived in a bubble for some time.

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I actually remember that one of my reasons for wanting to join the military ( I had a lot, believe me. I was offered free college, and turned it down, so focused on my desire to be a lean, green something or other ) was feeling I needed discipline. And be careful what you ask for because you always get it. I was a lazy kid, only wanting to read. Any other activity was a VERY egregious imposition on my time. But I also admired the seemingly magic trait of discipline those in the military possessed.

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But you don't have to be in the military to have discipline. I might even argue that the military doesn't make you disciplined as much as it makes you OCD. It does help learning discipline, at an early age. But nobody is handicapped by NOT joining the military. It's as simple as watching a tennis shoe commercial. Just do it. It is as simple as that. You only have to agree that life is not about pain avoidance at all cost. You need to go out of your way to embrace pain. And I don't mean stick a sharp pin in your testicles. I mean conquering the fear of discomfort.

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Discipline is avoiding discomfort and laziness, and doing that is the magic key to contentment and productivity. And for the apocalypse, that is going to be very important indeed. You need to already be used to saying Screw It to doing unpleasant things. I'm not saying to force yourself outside of your comfort zone. That is just unrewarded stress. If you are an introvert, hanging out in a crowd ( not factoring in Black Corona Death ) is not going to teach you anything other than that you are a dumbass.

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I'm saying, constantly force yourself to do things you simply don't want to do. Whatever you are addicted to, that is a weakness. You must practice overcoming weakness. Here is a perfect example. I'm sitting on my ass at least two hours a day watching YouTube. Not on my computer, at the office desk. In my reclining watching on the TV. I get comfortable and blow that time. I don't need to be doing anything important, I just need to be doing anything else other than wasting time on YouTube. Because there ain't crap on there anymore.

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Even reading a trashy paperback is doing something better ( exercising the mind ) than having my mind drift and turn to mush. Yes, YouTube is interesting. I USUALLY-not always, but usually- can use the material in my writing. It isn't the fact I watch YouTube, it is the fact I watch it WAY too long. If I want to watch long video's, I can do it at my desk, so that I don't watch drivel as a time waster. If there was a lot of good stuff on YouTube, like when Beer Virus first showed up, okay. Time is the price I'd pay to get topical information. But it has just mostly returned to infotainment rather than a form of audio/visual news/training “reading”. I let myself slip on discipline limiting my TV watching.

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But that was an easy fix, as I just deleted the channel on my Roku. Most things are not so easy. Like finishing my House Bitch chores ( NOL does not complain, rather she does it herself. This makes me feel worse, as the old gal has a few years on me ). I find myself making the excuse, well, I didn't feel like writing that third hour, but I did, so I'll treat myself and postpone mopping the floor until tomorrow. Only discipline is going to overcome bad habits. And the reason we should all do this is because you are practicing for the apocalypse.

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Today, you force yourself to mop the floor, even as you feel tired and grumpy. Tomorrow, that extra five miles humping it to your bug out location is easier to tackle in the late afternoon, when you just want to set up camp early. But putting that extra five miles a night means you get there a day early. And a day early might just save your life, as you go to ground before the really nasty fighting breaks out. Are you following me here? There are going to be some very unpleasant tasks to perform soon. Like killing otherwise innocent people, whose only crime was wanting to feed their kids.

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You MUST practice discipline every day. I used to tell you, do one little prepping thing every day. Now I'm saying, that isn't as important as discipline practice, not only every day but multiple times a day. I can't do push-ups past a certain hour. I drink most on my daily water ration in the morning, and that stops the stomach acid. I wait too long, and I get down in the position and am hit HARD with heartburn. So I was “forgetting” to do those push-ups until it was too late. This is why you must practice daily. Your mind always wants to fight you on discipline.

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Remember, the default programming on humans is Opportunistic Scavenger. We are programmed to conserve energy which was always in short supply, and in short that means lazy thieves. Lazy IS the default for all of us. You MUST practice AGAINST your programming every day. It is literally a survival skill. So, I forced myself to get through the push-ups WITH my heartburn, late in the day. Because pain is the perfect teacher. Now, I make sure I do early exercise. I'm practiced enough with discipline that I knew I had to get back into better habits, and so punished myself for being a slacker. Now, forcing those early push-ups is an easier discipline. It always gets easier, with practice, as long as you ALWAYS practice. You cannot stop.

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Forcing a LITTLE discipline now helps you more easily practice harder discipline later. Until you slack off. Then you have to start all over again. The only good thing is, that with practice over the years, starting back up after you dropped the ball, it doesn't take as long getting back in the habit. So, practice every day. Take on one more chore. Work on breaking any small bad habit. If you are a smoker, say, just discipline yourself into smoking LESS. A fatty? Tiny discipline steps, one less Twinky that day, or, one extra block walking AND one less sweet that day.

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I'm probably preaching to the choir here. But all of us can still always improve, can't we? It is a great survival skill anyone can do, instantly. For free. Free is good.

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note: as I add this link Friday AM, the first book in the Freehold series is free on kindle.  Michael Williamson writes a lot of good books ( his best, in my opinion, is "A Long Time Until Now" ).  I did not care for book one, as the female character was not well done, and I have read much better libertarian worlds books.  But it was good enough.  However, the second book was FAR superior, being more guerrilla warfare than Libertarian society.  I'd recommend that one.  But read this free one-if you enjoy it, I think you'll agree the second is well worth the price.  "Freehold" HERE 
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