Self-Discipline

GOOD HABITS (SECTION #2) – Week 1
“You Don’t Have To Want To Do It, You Just Have To Do It”.

Start the lesson by gathering your students into a tight huddle and ask these three questions:

What does it mean to have good habits?
Why is it important to have good habits?
Can you give me an example of having good habits?

Then share the following story or lesson and ask the questions listed.

This week we are going to talk about having self-discipline.
Having self-discipline is not easy. It means doing what you should be doing, even if you don't feel like it. Remember, a self-disciplined person knows that they don’t have to want to do it – but they do it anyway.

Once there were two kids. Neither one of them wanted to do their homework – they both wanted to go out and play. The first one decided that he shouldn’t have to do his homework if he didn’t want to and went out to play. The second, thought to himself, “The sooner I get it done the sooner I can play.”

Which child has Self-Discipline?
Which child gets better grades?
Which child’s parents are the proudest of them?

How many of you have done your homework or your chores even though you didn’t want to? Good for you!! (Praise the ones who raise their hands.)

Let me ask you another question - Do you think that people that don’t do their homework or their chores when they are supposed to, know that they should do it?

Of course they do. Someone that doesn’t have self-discipline knows what they are supposed to do, they just don’t do it. They have weak self-discipline.

It only takes 21 days to develop a good habit. What good habit would you like to develop? Are you willing to use self-discipline for 21 days?

Please stand up and find three fellow classmates and tell them what you are going to do.

Gather the class back together and say:
Remember, someone who has self-discipline knows what to do and does it.”