Tag: self discipline

Building on the literal meaning of discipline, self discipline is the ability to work with the instructions that come in and out of your head on a daily basis. It is learning to discern which thoughts create peace and happiness and which ones create stress and suffering. Paying attention to your relationship with your thoughts [...]

The word discipline in its most general sense refers to systematic instruction given to a disciple. The Latin root disciplina “instruction”, from the root discere “to learn,” The origin is the master giving instructions to the disciple. Further elaborating the disciple follows instructions eventually creating a habit around the instructions. The disciple has created a [...]

This past Friday, May 30th, Brad Bolding and Josh Stively, two personal trainers from our Plexus at Nemours location, ran around the Brandywine and Nemours buildings in downtown Wilmington as a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. They ran for a combined 8 hours, covering 56 miles, and raised close to $5,000. We had a [...]

A few years ago a sentence popped out from the page of Rolf Gates’ book, Meditations from the Mat. It read, “A distracted mind has no power, a directed mind has limitless potential.” I read the sentence, I wrote it in my journal and for the past five years, I have repeated it every time [...]