There are a lot of books on self-discipline and most of them promise to change your life in ten easy steps. If you just hate yourself more, if you punish yourself for all your sinful impulses, you will be able to overcome and become a perfect superhuman in just thirty days.
This is not that book. This book is going to help you see that you are the person you need to trust in order to change your life. Self-discipline can only come through genuine love and knowledge of self.
I've been in a place where I didn't love myself and I didn't have any self-discipline. I slept until noon, ate badly, and wasn't achieving anything I wanted to do. The difference only came when I had a sincere understanding of my calling and what I wanted to do with my life.
In essence, self-discipline is about choosing long-term goals over short-term pleasures. The thing all those other books get wrong is that the most important task is to get a clear sense of what drives you and what those long terms goals should be. What gives meaning to your life? Why should you do all the hard work that being self-discipline takes?
This book guides you through the process of becoming self-reliant and free, helping you develop the mental patterns for creating meaning and purpose in your life. This book doesn't make grand promises, but it does give you an argument that will help you understand how you can be the master of your own destiny and be happy, no matter what your circumstance.