Discipline is not something you have or don’t have; nor is it something you’re born with. It is a decision you make to do something and see it through to completion, or a decision to do some things consistently or not to do some things.
It is the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.
The basic features or characteristics of discipline can be summarized as follows:
- A disciplinary action refers to one’s self-control to conform organizational rules and regulations.
- It is a determinative willingness that promotes individual and group to carry out the instructions and suggestions that have framed by the organization as acceptable behavior.
- It is a negative approach in the sense that it encourages individual to undertake some actions that restrain them from undertaking others.
- It is a positive in the sense that it imposes a penalty if the values and norms that have been laid down by the organization are violated.
- It is managing time in the most effective way.
- Discipline is completing each and every task in a preset time frame.
- It is balancing body, soul, and spirit, the three entities of our existence.
- It is the ability to stay focused and on course.
- Discipline is always keeping commitments we make with ourselves and others.
- It is the determination to keep going when the going is tough.
- It is being on time every time.
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