Last week, I introduced how your discipline can serve different functions based on the role you assign it: Primary, Simplifier, or Quality. Each role supports and drives your thinking, decisions, and actions to advance your purpose.
This week, I explained how your discipline belongs to you and is always within you, no matter how far off-path you’ve drifted. We all drift. We all disconnect from our discipline. That doesn’t mean your discipline is gone. It means it is dormant.
You must reactivate it. You must reconnect with it. That reactivation and reconnection is one decision, one action away. Turn a thought into a decision into an action. Take immediate, decisive action to do or not do something. Begin a journey. Improve a skill. Intensify an effort. Adjust your course.
Consider the possibilities of the paths ahead of you. Think about the decisions to make, the actions to take and the ones to avoid, the skills you will need, the lessons to learn, and the endurance to fulfill your purpose.
Discipline wants a role in your life. Internal and external forces try to disconnect you from your discipline. They push you off-path, pull you off-mission, tempt you with pleasure, and scare you with pain.
These forces are strong. Your discipline must be stronger. Because the strongest force will win.
Event + Response = Outcome. Do the work.
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