<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you aspire to be a leader within your chosen field? If so, the one of the core qualities that you’ll need is a strong sense of self-discipline. By showing this yourself, you can inspire others in your team to improve themselves. Education House Leeds is an institution that understands that in order to lead, you must learn self-discipline, and that’s why our team has put together the following set of advice on ways to boost your own self-discipline.</span>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">1. Recognize Your Own Weaknesses</span></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The first step to solving a problem is to first acknowledge that there is one. Many job interviews ask candidates “What do you think is your greatest weakness?” The most successful candidates are the ones who first can honestly acknowledge their weaknesses, but also talk about how they are trying to improve upon them. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The journey to self-discipline begins with one first acknowledging where one’s weak points are.</span>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">2. Set Realistic Goals</span></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the biggest traps that people fall into when it comes to setting targets is being unrealistic about them. If you set yourself a near-impossible (but impressive-sounding) target, then you are just setting yourself up for failure. The key is to start small and build.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Start with small and simple targets that you know you can achieve with reasonable effort. Over time, you can build a kind of momentum of success. The satisfaction of completing one goal spurs you on to complete more.</span>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">3. Find Discipline Outside of Work</span></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Discipline is rooted in good and healthy habits. These are not restricted to the workplace or study space. Use your goal-setting technique on other areas of your life, too, such as healthier eating, reducing your intake of alcohol, exercising more, cutting down on or quitting smoking, etc. The discipline you nurture in yourself in these areas can easily transfer into your studies and working life.</span>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">4. Find Role Models</span></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">A good way to build your own sense of self-discipline is to find others to inspire you. The modern world is so connected thanks to social media. Platforms like Instagram are jam-packed with individuals who inspire and motivate with their positive messages and daily reminders and tips on how to live better. Try to incorporate their beliefs and their actions into your own life.</span>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">5. Don’t Despair When You Fail</span></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Failures and setbacks are inevitable along the way. It’s critical that you develop contingency plans to help you get over setbacks quickly and learn from them. If you treat mistakes and failures as learning opportunities, you will come back from them stronger and more motivated than ever before. It’s when you see a failure as the end of the entire mission that you are truly failing yourself.</span>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take Small Steps; Move Ever Forward</span></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Building that sense of discipline in yourself comes from experience and reflection. Here at Education House Leeds, we provide a series of experiential learning courses that are designed to help you put theory into practice. They are a great accompaniment to the individual looking to bolster their self-discipline to become a stronger, more productive and successful person.</span>