Daily Discipline from BK

Each day, I write and send brief, simple messages from my personal notes on discipline, focus, and skill. If you're ready to DO THE WORK subscribe today.

Your life follows the targets you choose
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Brian Kight

Your life follows the targets you choose

2025-01-27 05:00:00

Discussions about goals focus more on how to pursue goals than on what goals to pursue. I told you...

3 Observations of Daily Dysfunctions
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Brian Kight

3 Observations of Daily Dysfunctions

2025-01-24 05:00:00

Three Observations:

Bricks of failure build monuments of success
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Bricks of failure build monuments of success

2025-01-23 05:00:00

If you want to succeed, you must fight your way through failure. I do not have access to a special...

Champions respond to failure better
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Champions respond to failure better

2025-01-22 05:00:00

On Monday night, Ohio State and Notre Dame played for the college football national championship in...

Optimism is a trust in the sunrise
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Optimism is a trust in the sunrise

2025-01-21 05:00:00

The dark cloud of pessimism wants to convince you that you are stuck in a relentless storm where...

Destiny is not a Delivery Service
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Destiny is not a Delivery Service

2025-01-20 05:00:00

I found myself thinking about destiny last week. Not my own destiny but destiny itself. Is destiny...

4 Hidden Conflicts That Shape Your Life
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4 Hidden Conflicts That Shape Your Life

2025-01-17 05:00:00

It’s not the experience of conflict that shapes your life but how you resolve it. Not all conflict...

Resolve (don’t resist) conflict
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Resolve (don’t resist) conflict

2025-01-16 05:00:00

Life is resolving conflict. Not avoiding it. Not hiding from it. Not eliminating it. Resolving it.

What you want to be true
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What you want to be true

2025-01-15 05:00:00

We rarely recognize how often we want something to be true, and we realize even less how much that...

The Purpose of Discipline: 15 Reasons
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The Purpose of Discipline: 15 Reasons

2025-01-14 14:06:57

You do not need a reason to chase pleasure and avoid pain. It's biologically natural, involuntary,...