Self-discipline

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The ability to control our impulses and behavior, even when tempted to do otherwise.

Goal Setting: The process of identifying what you want to achieve and creating achievable objectives to work towards.
Time Management: The practice of organizing and planning how much time to allocate to various activities to achieve the objectives set.
Motivation: The internal or external factors that stimulate the drive and willingness to take necessary actions to achieve objectives.
Stress Management: The strategies for dealing with factors that can cause stress, including work, relationships, and personal issues.
Healthy Habits: The practices that improve overall health, including good exercise, proper nutrition, and adequate sleep.
Decision Making: The process of identifying choices, gathering information and selecting the best course of action given the conditions.
Perseverance: The ability to continue with a course of action even in the face of difficulties.
Consistency: The practice of maintaining the same level of effort, focus, and behavior over time.
Resilience: The capacity to recover quickly from setbacks, failures and other adversities without losing motivation, confidence or direction.
"Self-control, an aspect of inhibitory control, is the ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, and behavior in the face of temptations and impulses."
"As an executive function, it is a cognitive process that is necessary for regulating one's behavior in order to achieve specific goals."
"A related concept in psychology is emotional self-regulation."
"Self-control is thought to be like a muscle."
"In the short term, overuse of self-control leads to depletion."
"In the long term, the use of self-control can strengthen and improve it over time."
"The general theory of crime is a major theory in criminology."
"The theory was developed by Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi."
"Gottfredson and Hirschi define self-control as the differential tendency of individuals to avoid criminal acts independent of the situations in which they find themselves."
"Individuals with low self-control tend to be impulsive, insensitive towards others, risk-takers, short-sighted, and nonverbal."
"About 70% of the variance in questionnaire data operationalizing one construct of self-control was found to be genetic."
"Self-regulation, whether emotional or behavioral, is a limited resource which functions like energy."
"Self-control is the ability to regulate one's behavior in the face of temptations and impulses."
"Self-regulation is a limited resource which functions like energy."
"In the short term, overuse of self-control leads to depletion."
"In the long term, the use of self-control can strengthen and improve it over time."
"The differential tendency of individuals to avoid criminal acts independent of situations."
"Individuals with low self-control tend to be impulsive, insensitive towards others, risk-takers, short-sighted, and nonverbal."
"The general theory of crime, developed by Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi."
"Individuals with low self-control are more likely to engage in criminal acts independent of the situations they find themselves in."