Self discipline is important for a balanced life. A life which has absolutely no control and discipline can never find its final path. A person who knows how to restraint can easily achieve success. In military schools and boarding schools students are taught to live a disciplined life, the reason why they are forced to live a regimented life so early in life because it teaches them to control themselves from the building years of their life. You may find a number of people who get up late, sleep late and do nothing in between. They have absolutely no control over their heart and hence roam from one place to other. Such lives never reach where they want to because they don’t know where they actually want to go in life.
Self control is important in various aspects of life. Self control is important when we start spending money unnecessarily, it is also important when we shout at someone just because we are upset. All these instances and many other showcase that self control is an important part of a balanced life. Self control and putting restriction are two very different things. Restriction is something which does not permit you to do a particular thing but self control means controlling self from doing things which are unnecessary. If you want to have a control on yourself but finds it hard to do then this write up will suggest you some methods through which you will easily control yourself.
First of all make a definite goal of life. Find out what is the aim of life and do things which favor it. Any thing which has no link with your goal should be unnecessary for you (some exceptions are always there, like family, love and friends etc).
Things which make you happy are important but only to a limit. Do not visualize your happiness in any materialistic thing. Do yoga, meditation and hypnotism for controlling your body, mind and soul. Hypnotism is very effective in taming the subconscious mind therefore if you really want to control yourself and your life then hypnotism should be made compulsory for you. It has absolutely no side effects and there very beneficial for you.