Do you have bad self discipline?

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I'm horrible at self-disciplining. I wish there was a way to improve it. Is there?

VERY BAD! my self discipline sucks............my mum finds it "scary" that I'm happy to just read my books in my room and never really accomplish anything in my life (I admitted this to her recently).

By self-discipline is not very good. I have a hard time focusing on stuff I don't want to do, so I end up on Wrong Planet instead. It doesn't help that I often get so absorbed in something that I'll forget or overlook everything else. I'm really disorganized, too, so I only manage to get things done if it's a pet project of mine, if someone gets on my case about it, or if I'm on deadline.

I can be dicisplined, my issue is motivation.

Not wanting what other people want it's real hard to please myself.

Clean my room, why? nobody comes over, and a clean room don't make me feel good. For me I clean for efficiency, and hygene. So my motivations are slightly different. The same with school, I can't study for money or getting it done, I have to do it, because it genuinely interests me.

Anyhow I feel all your pain, trying to be motivated is a brutal task.

Amen to what everyone said. I have a hard time starting and an even harder time finishing.

Getting organized is always near the top of my To Do list, but it never seems to get to the top of the list. I'm not sure what would happen if it did. Probably nothing good.

One thing I've found helpful is mindfulness meditation. It doesn't keep me from getting distracted, but it does make it easier to see distractions as distractions. It also makes it easier to resist distractions. It even makes it easier to drop them even if I can't resist them. That is definitely something new.

I'm still way differently organized, and my To Do list doesn't seem to get any shorter. But somehow, more stuff is getting done. And maybe best of all, I'm not as upset about the stuff that isn't getting done.

Has anyone tried it? Thoughts?

I can really relate to this. It seems like the things I have the worst self-discapline about are things that have to do with taking care of myself. Case in point: I can never seem to get myself to go to bed at a reasonable time. It's almost 2am right now in my time zone. Other things I'm bad about include excersizing, brushing my teeth, showering...

I hate showering. part of me is warm, part of me is cold (and if take a long and hot enough shower for there to be enough steam for all of me to get warm, I run out of hot water). I hate washing my hair. And I'm really hairy too, so no matter how much I try to dry off, I'm still wet, and I hate the feeling of getting dressed while I'm still wet. Yet I (usually) do it anyway (except when I don't have to work that day -or if I oversleep and I'm short on time so I have to skip either breakfast or shower, I'd much rather skip the shower).