A Quick Word on Failure

Successful people are comprised of thousands of failures.

Search the annals of history and you’ll find that famous and successful people are forged in the fires of failure. 

They fail and they fail and they fail, until at long last they reach their destination. 

Remember this the next time you encounter disappointment. 

Failure isn’t near the big scary monster you were most likely told.

It’s a necessary part of your journey. 

Don’t bail and give up. 

Stay the course. Hold the line. 

Keep on the disciplined path. 

Most of all remember that failure isn’t breaking you, it’s forging you into who you need to be. 

You get to pick the story that you live.

You’ve heard that life isn’t necessarily about what happens to you, but how you respond to it. 

That’s 100% true. 

You get to pick your response. 

You get to determine how events play out in your own life. 

Don’t play the victim. 

Play the role of the hero in your own life. 

Think about the best heroic response possible, and then do it. 

Don’t just think of how your best self would respond, actually choose to walk that path. 

The story of your life is being written one moment at a time. 

What will yours say? 

Compulsory Discipline

Discipline that sticks isn’t forced. 

Forced discipline has the appearance of discipline, but lacks its substance.

Self-discipline or self-imposed discipline sticks for the long haul.   

It doesn’t wax and wane with the presence of authority but holds fast regardless who’s around. 

For discipline to stick in your life, that of your team, or that of your kids it must come from within. 

While it can be encouraged and extolled it cannot be forced. 

It has to be chosen freely, otherwise, it’s not discipline. 

New Day

Each new day is an opportunity to get 1% better. 

To improve upon who you were yesterday and take a step closer to your goals. 

The improvement, growth, and change you seek happen within the small seemingly insignificant things you do each day. 

Those small improvements don’t make a difference day to day. They just keep compounding day after day.

It will take months, or even years, to see just how big a difference they make. 

Discipline doesn't care

Discipline doesn’t care if you’re tired. 

It doesn’t care if you were up all night. 

Or if you don’t quite feel up to it. 

Discipline doesn’t care about these things because life and your enemies don’t either. 

It wants you to be ready and equipped for when they come calling, so it pushes you through discomfort. 

Discipline may seem like an insensitive jerk when it tells you to get up early or to do one more rep, but in the end, you’ll find that he’s had your best in mind all along.