Time is an equal opportunity for everyone. We all are allotted with a gift of twenty four hours in a day. But how we make use of time varies with every individual. It is almost like a block of marble to someone. Give a block of marble to someone who can’t see its potential and you end up with the same block of marble. But put it in the hands of master sculptor , and that very same block of marble can be transformed to a beautiful masterpiece.
Discipline which signifies improvement through tribulation, is learned though acceptance; that is not by hearing, reading or thinking, but by experiencing it. – As quoted in St. Augustine’s Exposition on Psalm 119
Every sculpture looks at his ‘block of marble’ with an artist’s eye. Committed to the discipline of his craft, slowly and surely, he chisels, shapes and polishes the stone until the lifeless block is transformed into the object of beauty.
There are few things that can fuel a person’s commitment, and among them is one’s dedication to excellence. The desire for excellence is what carried out by Michelangelo through to the completion of his work on the Sistine Chapel. The same desire is what drove Thomas Edison to keep persisting until he finally created the light bulb.
The one vital ingredient necessary to maintain the superior level of commitment whilst in pursuit of excellence is discipline. The word itself is a derivative of the word ‘disciple’. It therefore stands to reason that one can’t be committed disciple without it.
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