Quote of the Week

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. -Lao Tzu

For my first post of 2012, I wanted to share my motto for the year. It comes from this quote and I hope it’ll be a good reminder for me to stay disciplined.

My motto this year is: MASTER OF MY UNIVERSE.

There are lots of projects I’ve been working on and if I am able to manage my time better and get through my personal hurdles. I think it’ll be a great step towards having a fulfilling new year!

This year I really want to focus on discipline, especially for my Heart, Body and Soul.I found this great articleon self-discipline and I hope I can do it!

Habits, when carefully chosen and systematically implemented, have two main benefits:

*Habits exercise our capability to choose.

*Habits automate our thinking and our behavīor.

Now that we know how habits help us in our goal to build self-discipline, it’s time to look at a framework for creating habits that last.

There are five distinct steps to habit creation:

**Choose a specific habit.*

**Identify your motivation.*

**Change your environment.*

**Measure your progress.*

**Reward your success.*

Like the proverb above states, mastering yourself is true power. I think its time that I started making better decisions and building good habits that will enable me to reach my goals in life. I have such a great network and a support system that it really is upon me to reach as far as I possibly can. A journey starts with a single step!