Discipline a must for success

This morning a group of students came to me requesting me to change the date of a certain field trip which I had arranged to a company. The reason was that it was clashing with the fun week.

I explained to them, "the Company is willing to allow only one field trip per semester for our students and you have been the lucky ones to be going for the same. The company is just 15 minutes away from the Campus it means you have to sacrifice - only one hour for the field trip, and half an hour to go and come - hence you will miss just 1 and half hour of the fun weeeeek".

I also told them that since the fun week was not scheduled as per the academic callender I would not
change the date. Also I could not tell the company to reschedule the trip giving the reason
of funweek.

It was also told to them that some other students of another programme had already approached me for allowing them to go for the field trip and they were waiting for their negative response to jump and take the opportunity.

The students opted in the favour of the funweek. And the other group grabbed the opportunity.

I would like to highlight the attitude of the two groups. Whereas both the groups wanted to have fun in demonstration of their youthful exuberance and in reflexion of the modern youth, one group had a clear understanding of their purpose of being here, and showed a great attitude in being in the right place at the right time and by grabbing the opportunity that came their way. They had their heads on their shoulders. They knew that the field visit would add value to their Engineering programme, they had their priorities set, they had the discipline, and they knew that they were here to learn. They showed the true spirit of the youth. Hard work, Fun and Discipline.

Discipline is one thing everybody has to excercise if one has to be successful in life. There will be lots of tempting things which can easily lead you in the false path, but it is important to maintain your equilibrium by weighing the good and the bad - relate them to your priorities or goals and exercise discipline, so that you can experience REAL FUN - i.e SUCCESS.