What does it mean to regulate your impulses? There are urges and desires within everyone, during every hour of the day and some of us are better at regulating these urges than others. There are two ends of control when talking about regulation - like two ends of a spectrum. Too much control can be bad and too little control can also be bad. The challenge is to strike the right balance depending on the situation, and this requires willful and mindful strength. Being willful requires a certain level of willpower, a strength of mind to pull out your mental reserve to resist doing what your base urges want you to do. Over time if you can consistently master these urges, then you have gained discipline. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgement requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. - Calvin Cool
Most of us want to be successful in life because that is what matters in western society. People look at someone and yardsticks are mentally brought out to mentally measure how high in the social ladder they have climbed. The higher on the ladder, the more we admire them for their achievements. Those of us who fail to get off the bottom rung are left looking up. Unhappy with our progress and discouraged from even trying because they believe that it is a race. Life is not a race, and we all meet the same end - even at the top. The question is do you want to see the view that those at the top have seen before you go? If the answer is 'yes' then you still have time to catch that view. Health, wealth and social status. Things that people often want in life always boil down to a few things. Health, wealth and social status. Health and wealth often go hand in hand. You need a certain level of wealth to stay healthy and likewise you need a certain level of health to achieve weal