Let me share with you this note from The Maxwell Leadership Bible on the 21 Qualities, Self-discipline: Travel on the Inside First (p. 197).
We must travel on the inside before we can travel on the outside, because the journey of growth and success is first an internal one. The first person you lead is you—and you can’t lead effectively without self-discipline.
Every day our lives are filled with responsibilities to make decisions one after another. The decisions that we make will determine the course of our lives. It is critical for us to make not only good decisions, but the best decisions. I believe this is also the desire of our God. He wants us, His own beloved children, to make the best decisions. In fact, He does not leave us alone in this process of decisions making, but if we ask Him, He promise to help us and guide us in revealing what is the best decisions that we should make. The key here is to understand that we have a part that we need to play. We need to ask Him. The Bible teaches us to ask and it will be given, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened (Matthew 7:7-8). The sad thing is that many of us will not bother to ask God to help us and guide us in our decisions making. We feel we are smart enough and we are quite knowledgeable to make decisions based on our own ability and understanding. This is the reason why many of us are frustrated because we keep making wrong decisions one after another.