Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Preparing for Greatness ~

Discipline.

Where there's a will, there's a win.

H.P. Liddon said, "What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline."

Simply put, discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.  The areas we need to be disciplined in are the areas we don't like.  That's human nature.  There are three areas of continued development.

Disciplined Thinking -  Playwright George Bernard Shaw remarked, "Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

Disciplined Emotions - We have two choices when it comes to our emotions: We can master them, or they can master us. 

Disciplined Action - Albert Hubert said, "Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field and hope that the cow will back up to them."

We must take action when faced with tasks we don't like.  Thomas Huxley remarked, "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing  you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns."

Discipline is a quality that every team member must have.


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