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. 

Control

A thousand different things determine the outcome of your life. 

Of those thousands of things, you have control over only a handful. 

The temptation is to waste energy and effort focusing on things outside your control. 

Resisting it takes discipline. 

The discipline to identify the handful of things within your control and own them like crazy. To forget about the rest and banish them from your mind. The discipline to live in the present moment undistracted by what’s going on around you. 

Discipline keeps you on the path when those thousand different things come calling.