5 Ways to Design a Self-Disciplined Life in One Month

Time is a strange concept. You remember specific details for a year when important things happened. A graduation, a new job, moving to another city or country, experiencing a loss, getting to one of those big birthdays, finally receiving recognition for all your efforts at work. And then there are gaps in time where you can’t account for certain months. What was going on back then? Was it a busy time, stressful time, got-things-done-but-nothing-worth-remembering time, or just wasted time?

Time is fluid, and one month can seem like a very short space on your personal timeline. Or, if you shift your perspective, it can be the exact opposite. You get to live 30 days. What you choose to do with them is up to you. You can, for example, see those days as 30 opportunities to get a habit started, practice it, experiment and see what works and what doesn’t, and course-correct so the rest of the month consists of making better, wiser, more productive choices.

In that month, you can perform 30 experiments that will pave the way for becoming that version of you that you’ve thought about, wanted, longed for, but for a number of reasons you just didn’t have the time or the motivation (or maybe the plan) to explore.

What could happen if you chose to design the next month of your life by being more self-disciplined…