What is Self-Control : (Please Be Very Detailed) &?

Question

What is Self-Control : (Please Be Very Detailed) &?
Why, how, or when is it important or not important, necessary or unecessary, mature or immature, constructive or destructive, comfortable or uncomfortable, wise or unwise ? Does it make good sense or bad sense? How does it relate to: ethics, morals, history, sciences, technologys, arts, medicine, parenting, matuity, behaviour,etc?

Answer 1

Self-control is a set of behaviors which:
- Accepts the reality that the only thing in life which you can successfully change and control is yourself.
- Keeps in check all self-destructive, addictive, obsessive, compulsive, irrational, and unacceptable behaviors.
- Gives you a sense of personal mastery, autonomy, and competency over your own life.
- Is under your control and power to direct and orchestrate with no need for interference or manipulation from others.
- Makes you the master of your own destiny because it keeps in check those barriers and obstacles which are a threat to your overall success in life.
- Is a middle ground between perfectionism and laxity in self care.
- Results in your life having a balance and focus by helping you to cope with new challenges in life as they come.
- Helps you to keep your over-emotional responses in check or moderation.
- Helps you to open yourself up from nonfeeling or pulled-in emotions so that you can have a healthy emotional life.
- Is the foundation for healthy coping and contributes to your accepting personal responsibility for your life.
- Keeps your life in moderation, helping you to avoid extremes in any direction.
- Is the focus of the efforts to let go of the uncontrollables and unchangeables in your life so that you can concentrate on yourself.
- Eliminates the need for you to be manipulative, helpless, fixing others, intimidating, overdependent or a caretaker of others.
- Helps you to be detached from others and to keep your relationships in a healthy balance of give and take.
- Reflects your inner desire to grow up into a mature, responsible adult.

Answer 2

You're making this WAY too complicated.

Self-control is simply denying yourself something that you WANT but don't NEED.

Answer 3

I agree with that last answer