ARE YOU DISCIPLINED? OR DISORDERLY?

I used to hate the word discipline because in my mind as a child I associated it with punishment or ‘licks.’ (Ask a Trini about ‘licks.’😜… it actually means a good ole-fashioned Trinidadian spankin’).😩

Now that I’ve matured, I’ve realized the importance of discipline, especially when I view it in the light of disorder. If you had to choose between the 2, discipline or disorder … I believe I know exactly what you’d choose because I don’t know anyone that likes disorder in their lives.

One of the confessions I speak over myself is, “I am one of the most disciplined people that I know, and I always produce excellent work!” The more I say it, the easier it is for me to become more disciplined. Once during my 9-5 job-life I worked with a boss by the name of Angela who asked me to type a letter for her (in the days of typewriters, lol!) I typed it but there was an error and I used ‘white-off’ to erase it and retype. (Touch your neighbor and smile if you know what ‘white off’ is!😜)

When I took the letter to her she noticed the error and sent me back to re-type the letter.👎🏾 I don’t remember now why we were all supposed to leave work early on that day, but I was ready to leave when she asked me to retype the stupid letter.🙄 I yanked the letter from her hand and walked out of the room, rolling my eyes (no discipline, lol!)

I retyped the letter without error this time and took it back to her, everyone else was gone except for Angela Solomon and me. She thanked me profusely and said how happy she was that I retyped it. (Did I have a choice?🧐🤨😏😒). She gave me a ride home that day but what I remembered the most from that experience wasn’t that I had to retype the letter or even anything she said to me, but it was the fact that I kept thinking to myself from that moment on, that I MUST ALWAYS PRODUCE EXCELLENT WORK.

Excellent work was going to be the mark of Sherma Jacqueline Felix from that moment on, and to this day I still keep that in mind. I am nowhere close to being disciplined in every area of my life and Lord… was I ever challenged when I began learning how to trade because I wanted to work without a schedule! I was fine running online stores, Coaching, and had a couple of stores I was selling my African artifacts to and life was good!

I have always wanted to trade the markets, ever since I was 19 years old and didn’t even know what trading was. So here I am at the time of my life where I can afford to pay Mentors to learn the art of trading, but you’re telling me that I need to be at a certain place at a certain time to trade in the live foreign exchange markets? Say what? 😳☹️Discipline had been thrown out the window for several years because I had become accustomed to working without a schedule!

So when it came to disciplining myself to set schedules to learn how to trade, I balked, but I didn’t have a choice but to become disciplined! I had to remind myself that I am one of the most disciplined people that I know and I always produce excellent work! It was not easy, but I eventually began to be disciplined about showing up for mentorship trading, in order to learn the skill that could make the money. Discipline in any area is a challenge, but it’s an absolute necessity to be successful. I suggest we all take a faith stance where discipline is concerned so that we are all able to live better lives!

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