Daily Discipline from BK

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Having principles is not enough.
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Brian Kight

Having principles is not enough.

Prioritize your self-awareness between having principles and living principles. Everyone has...

Compete hard and compete well.
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If you’re going to compete, compete well.

Otherwise why be in the arena? Expect nothing to be given. Understand everything must be earned....

Attitude is important but it’s not everything.
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Being nice is no excuse.

Attitude can open doors or close them. Accelerate a path or bog it down. Strengthen your resolve or...

See standards and set standards.
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See standards and set standards.

How do you define good, great, and exceptional? Here’s how I do.

Assess yourself daily against these four simple standards
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Assess yourself daily against these four simple standards

You are or aren’t doing these. The rest is distraction if these aren’t being done. Every new day is...

Do what’s worthy for reasons worthy to you.
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Do what’s worthy for reasons worthy to you.

You don’t need to defend anything to people who doubt you. You don’t need to prove anything to...

There’s nothing wrong with rules, standards just work better.
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There’s nothing wrong with rules, standards just work better.

Logic suggests rules create compliance. But rules are innately constraining, not compelling. No one...