discipline and delayed gratification

[Hermes]

Hello to all:

I am self-employed, and as such to me self-discipline is all important.  Well, I suppose I have always been a disciplined sort of individual.  I have to work to put food on the table, keep my house and so on.  That may well be the external "spur", so to speak.  No work, no money. Simple.  I might not want to work, and maybe I would like to be out and about doing nothing, but, that is how it is. 

If I were employed by someone else, in the usual 9 to 5 situation, then the matter would be out of my hands.

As it is, the self-discipline makes me sit down and get on with it. 
Also it is amazing how being left with nothing, no home and all the rest of it, concentrates the mind, and discourages too much self-analysis LOL.

Best to all
Hermes

[Hopalong]

Hi Hermes,
What were the circumstances in which you were left with nothing?
Can you share generally what kind of work you do?

Forgive me if you've already told your story and I missed it...just
trying to catch up and this thread is 6 pages back and I never will!

Hops

[Hermes]

Hello Hopalong:

How are you?

I may have posted some time back about the circumstances, although I suppose words are unnecessary, because the mere fact of being married to and separated subsequently from an NPD is a receipe for being left with nothing, and explains everything.  You are just lucky to get out of the swamp in one piece!  NPDs are not great at making provision in any sense.

I do not think it is so important whether and how I was left with nothing, but the fact that one can get back a life and concentrate on what is important.  So, self-discipline is important, when you have just yourself to depend on.  I have to impose myself on myself.  Nothing wrong with that. 
My own opinion is that is is self-defeating to mull over the past, and past wrongs.  But that is purely my opinion. 

I have written about a slice of my life a short few moments ago on another thread, the (dare I say it) one about what people do or don't believe.  Voicelessness.   I would find it hard to express how I dislike not being allowed a voice, and being told what to believe.  it is one thing likely to set me off LOL. 

All the best Hops.
Hermes

P.S. Shall we just say, that, very loosely, I work in communication.