Monday, 4 July 2011

To be a Professional: Step 2

Discipline
Lead a Disciplined life.

It is interesting to note how we have come to equate discipline with loss of freedom. It is argued that we must sacrifice freedom to be disciplined in our life.
Imagine if we didn't have traffic lights at each junction on our roads and we were free to move on the roads as we liked. Would it be freedom or chaos.
Another distortion is to think that we need to be disciplined only if there is someone to enforce it. In the absence of enforcement, we become indisciplined and create chaos and confusion all around. True discipline comes from within and it gets internalized by repeated and forced enforcement by external factors.
1. Follow the law of the land. 
2. Work within the rules of the game
3. Do what is prescribed by the standard acceptable procedure observing the safety and quality norms. 
4. Enforce discipline within and do not wait for superiors and external agencies to force it down your throat. 


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