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Having the Self-control to stick to your fitness regime and diet makes you healthier by giving you freedom from disease and dysfunction.

Having self-control with your finances will help you save money and have more financial freedom.

Self-control makes you free. If you’re not in control of yourself who are you in control of?

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. – Publilius Syrus

What does a life look like without self-control?

Addiction, gluttony, and pain.

If we want to do anything worthwhile it all starts with self-control.

Focus on this and you can’t go wrong.

Where to start:

Have the self control everyday to:

Get up early.

Read.

Workout.

Write a blog post.

Do the hard things at work.

Tidy your house.

Eat well.

Hydrate.

And I promise your life will change.

Without self-control we:

Say and do things we regret.

Give up when the going gets tough.

Pick the easy unfulfilling path over the harder yet more fulfilling one.

Drink too much.

Eat too much.

Are lazy.

Are whiny.

Are unproductive.

The Bottom Line

Self-control is one the most important virtues we can cultivate in ourselves. It’s impossible to anything that isn’t right if we’re fully in control of ourselves. Most of the problems in life such as addiction, pain and poor health arise because we never had the self- control to do what was right.

“If, at some point in your life, you should come across anything better than justice, honesty, self-control, courage—than a mind satisfied that it has succeeded in enabling you to act rationally, and satisfied to accept what’s beyond its control—if you find anything better than that, embrace it without reservations—it must be an extraordinary thing indeed—and enjoy it to the full”. – Marcus Aurelius