Earlier this week I shared that arenas don’t produce outcomes, you do. 1,000 people can be in 1,000 arenas. They won’t produce anything of value until someone does something of value. Excellence in any arena is the product of people who bring excellence to it.
I then encouraged you to identify your current arenas, so you can decide whether those are the arenas you want to be in and how to operate in them.
Yesterday, I clarified that how you live a principle, or whether you live it at all, is a measure of your discipline more than your belief. While principles exist, they can’t act on themselves. A principle you believe in but don’t do holds little value, possibly negative value, because you’re fooling yourself. You must bring each principle to life through action if you want to experience its value.
Now combine these two messages—arenas and the discipline to live your principles.
The life you’re leading requires that you succeed in the arenas you’ve chosen. The life you’re building will require that you succeed in new and evolving arenas. Every arena in your life has principles that make a significant difference in that arena.
To succeed in the arenas of your life, you must live principles that drive success in those arenas. More than that, you must be good enough at them to produce the results you want.
If you know the principles, but don’t do them, the result is the same as if you didn’t know them at all. The arena doesn’t care what you know. It cares only what you do in the arena and how well you do it.
Your strength and skill in any arena follows the strength and skill of the principles you live.
The strength and skill of your principles follows the strength and skill of your discipline.
Event + Response = Outcome. Do the work.
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