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Episode 3 Discipline is Not a Trait ! · Built for Chaos

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Speaker 1: Nobody wakes up disciplined. That's the lie. That disciplined people
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Speaker 1: are built different. That they got some gene the rest
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Speaker 1: of us are missing. I'm here to tell you everybody
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Speaker 1: or every disciplined person you admire makes the same decision
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Speaker 1: you keep avoiding. They just make it earlier in the day.
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Speaker 1: I'm Brian Weatherby. This is Built for Chaos, Episode 3. Today,
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Speaker 1: discipline isn't a personality trait. It's a decision you make
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Speaker 1: every single morning, and I'm going to show you exactly
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Speaker 1: what that looks like. Starting off, we're going to talk
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Speaker 1: about what discipline is and how it's a decision, not
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Speaker 1: a trait. Let me kill the myth first. People look
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Speaker 1: at me, 21 years in the Army, running a chemical
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Speaker 1: plant as an operations manager, up before my alarm most days.
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Speaker 1: and they assume I'm wired different. I'm not. I don't
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Speaker 1: wake up motivated. I don't bound out of bed excited
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Speaker 1: to do hard things. Some morning, the last thing I
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Speaker 1: want to do is get up at all. The basic
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Speaker 1: discipline definition in the military, so that we understand of
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Speaker 1: what we're talking about here, The military definition of discipline
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Speaker 1: in the Army is discipline is a state of obedience
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Speaker 1: characterized by a soldier's prompt and willing responsiveness to orders
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Speaker 1: and compliance with regulations. The military is very heavily ran
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Speaker 1: by regulations, SOPs, chain of command. That's the structure that
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Speaker 1: the military runs off of, and that's what discipline is
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Speaker 1: based off of in the military. Discipline in the civilian
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Speaker 1: sector refers to a system of rules, expectations, and practices
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Speaker 1: designed to promote orderly behavior and align employee actions with
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Speaker 1: organizational goals and to maintain reductive and respectful work environments.
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Speaker 1: The difference between me and the guy who stays in
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Speaker 1: bed isn't motivation. It's a decision I made a long
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Speaker 1: time ago. The alarm goes off. I get up. It's
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Speaker 1: not a debate. It's not a negotiation. It's a decision
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Speaker 1: that was already made. And I already made it. That's
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Speaker 1: the whole secret of discipline. You don't decide every morning.
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Speaker 1: You decide once and then you execute every morning. Motivation
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Speaker 1: is whether it changes by the hour, or motivation changes
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Speaker 1: by the hour. Discipline is a climate, and you build
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Speaker 1: that climate on purpose, on a kept promise at a time.
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Speaker 1: In the Army, discipline wasn't optional, and it wasn't personal.
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Speaker 1: It was a standard. Your boots were bloused, or they weren't.
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Speaker 1: You were on time or you weren't. And the army
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Speaker 1: on time meant 15 minutes early prior to any engagement
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Speaker 1: that you were involved in. Your weapon was clean or
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Speaker 1: it was dirty. There was no, I'm working on it.
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Speaker 1: There was a standard and there was always the standard
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Speaker 1: that we live by. And there was everything else. And
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Speaker 1: here's what that does to a person. It removes the negotiation.
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Speaker 1: You don't wake up and decide whether today you'll meet
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Speaker 1: the standard. The standard is the standard and you'll rise
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Speaker 1: to the standard. You meet it or you answer it.
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Speaker 1: 21 years of rewire, that rewires you. Two tours in Iraq,
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Speaker 1: one in Afghanistan, Bosnia, two tours on the DMZ in Korea.
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Speaker 1: In those places, discipline wasn't about looking sharp. It was
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Speaker 1: about staying alive. The soldier who got lazy on patrol
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Speaker 1: or who skipped a step because he was tired, that's
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Speaker 1: how people get hurt or get killed. So you learn
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Speaker 1: the sentence that has carried me through everything since. The
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Speaker 1: standard doesn't care how you feel. You need to be disciplined.
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Speaker 1: And here's what nobody tells you when you hang up
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Speaker 1: the uniform. The day you get out of the military,
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Speaker 1: the standard disappears. Nobody's inspecting your boots. Nobody's holding you
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Speaker 1: to 0500 formation. And a lot of veterans drift, not
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Speaker 1: because they're weak, but because the structure that held them
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Speaker 1: up for 20 years or so is suddenly gone. If
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Speaker 1: that's you, hear me. The discipline didn't leave when the
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Speaker 1: uniform came off. It's still in you. It'll always be
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Speaker 1: in you. Once a soldier, always a soldier. You just
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Speaker 1: have to become your own First Sergeant now. The one
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Speaker 1: thing I challenge everybody who's listening to this right now
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Speaker 1: is to look in the mirror and to go to
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Speaker 1: war with yourself. That's who you want to go to
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Speaker 1: war with for the next six months to a year.
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Speaker 1: Because you are the most important person in your life.
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Speaker 1: You are the most dependable person in your life. Don't
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Speaker 1: rely on anybody else. Only rely on yourself. Discipline will
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Speaker 1: get you there. consistency will get you there. Being consistent
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Speaker 1: will make you disciplined, okay? And that's very important. When
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Speaker 1: you have discipline, a lot of things are going to
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Speaker 1: fall into place. They're not going to fall apart. People
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Speaker 1: are going to follow you if you're disciplined. People are
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Speaker 1: going to respect you if you're disciplined. People are going
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Speaker 1: to listen to you if you're disciplined. And that's what
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Speaker 1: it's all about. But like I said, look in the
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Speaker 1: mirror tomorrow morning. And the person you see in that mirror,
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Speaker 1: if you're not happy with what you see, then you
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Speaker 1: need to go to war with that person. You go
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Speaker 1: to war with yourself for the next six months to
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Speaker 1: a year, and you'd be surprised how things turn out.
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Speaker 1: They're going to turn out for the better because you're
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Speaker 1: going to want to do better. You're going to want
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Speaker 1: to do the things that will make you disciplined, and
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Speaker 1: your life is going to be much better. Things are
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Speaker 1: going to be much better. Things are going to be
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Speaker 1: more positive, and that's what I want you to work on.
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Speaker 1: So now in the civilian sector, as an operations manager,
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Speaker 1: now that I run a chemical plant, let me tell you,
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Speaker 1: a plant will expose under-disciplined people faster than anything I know.
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Speaker 1: Industrial gas is the kind of place where a shortcut
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Speaker 1: doesn't cost you a bad quarter. It could cost someone
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Speaker 1: their life, and I've seen it happen. So when we
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Speaker 1: run on discipline, Rounds done on schedule. Checklist completed for real.
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Speaker 1: You're not pencil whipping paperwork. You're not pencil whipping inspections.
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Speaker 1: Alarms investigated instead of acknowledged and ignored. And maintenance windows
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Speaker 1: are honored and preventative maintenance is done to make sure
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Speaker 1: that the equipment and the people are running efficiently and safely.
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Speaker 1: I run about 85 to 90% of the plant that
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Speaker 1: I work in. Production planning. working with maintenance, working with safety,
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Speaker 1: working with quality, training operators, and making sure that our
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Speaker 1: budget is in where it's supposed to be or owning
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Speaker 1: the budget. And I'll tell you straight, the plant runs well,
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Speaker 1: that run well, aren't the ones with the best equipment.
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Speaker 1: They're the ones with the most disciplined people. Same thing
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Speaker 1: with the military. The most disciplined units are the best
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Speaker 1: units out there. The crews that do the boring stuff
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Speaker 1: every shift, whether the boss is watching or not. That
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Speaker 1: also falls in the category of having integrity, doing what's
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Speaker 1: right when nobody's watching. Discipline on the plant floor is unglamorous.
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Speaker 1: It's an operator who cares, catches a small vibration before
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Speaker 1: it becomes a failed bearing. It's the shift that hands
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Speaker 1: over Clean instead of handing over problems. Meaning you fix
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Speaker 1: the problem before you hand it over to somebody else.
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Speaker 1: Or if you can't fix it, you do the best
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Speaker 1: to explain it and come up with a plan to
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Speaker 1: fix it. Excellence is just discipline. Repeated until nobody's impressed
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Speaker 1: by it anymore. Discipline, once you have it in place,
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Speaker 1: it'll take care of itself. Let's talk about the rebuild version.
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Speaker 1: Now here's where I get honest with you. Everything I'm
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Speaker 1: rebuilding right now, the job hunt, the credit, the brand,
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Speaker 1: the retirement plan, none of it runs on motivation. It
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Speaker 1: runs on daily decisions and discipline. The job hunt, I
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Speaker 1: put in three applications in one day, not because I
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Speaker 1: felt like it, because that was the day's standard. And
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Speaker 1: the standard is the standard. The credit repair, brick by brick,
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Speaker 1: the validation letter goes out certified mail disputes get filed
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Speaker 1: nobody gets paid a dime until they prove the debt
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Speaker 1: every step is a small unsexy disciplined action the brand
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Speaker 1: samples ordered for the clothing line inspected against the checklist
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Speaker 1: wait list of people who want to buy the products
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Speaker 1: one post at a time. That's discipline. You're building your brand.
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Speaker 1: None of this is to tell you this to be dramatic.
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Speaker 1: That's the point. Rebuilding your life is one big heroic
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Speaker 1: moment and everybody can do it. I don't care how
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Speaker 1: bad your life is. You can always fix your life.
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Speaker 1: You can always fix what's going on in your life
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Speaker 1: because you are the CEO of your life. You're the
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Speaker 1: one that decides who you hang around with, who you
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Speaker 1: put in your circle and if you hang around people
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Speaker 1: who are successful or people that are just negative and
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Speaker 1: they're going to bring you down no matter what you
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Speaker 1: do that's your decision it's a thousand small kept promises
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Speaker 1: you don't fix your credit in a day you don't
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Speaker 1: build a brand in a week you do the next
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Speaker 1: right thing today one step at a time and then
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Speaker 1: you do it again tomorrow that's consistency And if you're
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Speaker 1: a veteran in your own rebuild, the job search, the
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Speaker 1: VA claims, the credit, figuring out who you are without
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Speaker 1: the uniform, this show is your resource. We're here to help.
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Speaker 1: We want to know your experiences, and we will. Everything
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Speaker 1: I learned doing this live, you get. That's the deal.
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Speaker 1: We're all here to help each other. The Bulldogs eat
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Speaker 1: those say, stay humble. Stay ready. Stay on high alert
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Speaker 1: at all times. Here's the daily version. Decide tonight what
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Speaker 1: tomorrow's non-negotiables are. Then execute them like the standard doesn't
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Speaker 1: care how you feel because it doesn't. Your turn. So
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Speaker 1: here's your homework. Three things. The first thing I want
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Speaker 1: you to do is decide tonight before you go to
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Speaker 1: bed Pick up tomorrow's one non-negotiable that you're going to
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Speaker 1: set in stone. Not five, just one. The gym, if
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Speaker 1: you're going to go to the gym. The application, if
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Speaker 1: you're going to look for a new job or you're
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Speaker 1: looking for employment. The phone call you've been avoiding because
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Speaker 1: you don't want to do it. You just don't want
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Speaker 1: to be bothered. Write it down, do it, and stay
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Speaker 1: consistent and stay disciplined. The second thing I want you
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Speaker 1: to work on. or homework, is removing the negotiation. Put
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Speaker 1: the alarm across the room. Lay out the gym clothes
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Speaker 1: the night before so that you're ready to go the
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Speaker 1: next day. Open the application tab tonight so you can
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Speaker 1: remind yourself to apply for that job that you want
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Speaker 1: or you're looking at. Take the chance and apply for it.
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Speaker 1: Make that disciplined choice the easy choice and the lazy
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Speaker 1: choice the hard one. The disciplined choice will outrank laziness.
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Speaker 1: Environment beats willpower every single time. Remember that. And the
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Speaker 1: third thing I want you to keep in mind is
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Speaker 1: keep the promise to yourself. Because if you lie to yourself,
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Speaker 1: you're only lying to yourself. You're not lying to anyone else.
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Speaker 1: And then repeat what you've done as far as the
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Speaker 1: discipline goes and keep that consistent in your daily life,
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Speaker 1: in your daily routine. One kept promise is a data point.
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Speaker 1: That's going to be a discipline point for you. 30
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Speaker 1: is an identity. You don't become disciplined by thinking about it.
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Speaker 1: You become disciplined by stacking days and being consistent for days.
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Speaker 1: You'll see the results. Trust me, over time, you will
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Speaker 1: see the results and you will love it. You don't
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Speaker 1: need to feel like it. You just need to decide
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Speaker 1: and stay disciplined. This is the launch trilogy, who I am,
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Speaker 1: what the Army taught me about leadership, and now the
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Speaker 1: daily decision underneath all of it. From here, we go deeper,
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Speaker 1: real stories from the plant floor, the rebuild, life every week,
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Speaker 1: the job hunt, the credit, the brand, all of it.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're going to be talking about in the
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Speaker 1: next episodes. And we're opening this platform up. The veterans,
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Speaker 1: we want to hear your stories and your experiences, and
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Speaker 1: we want to know what you have to tell us
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Speaker 1: and what you have to share. Your microphone is waiting,
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Speaker 1: and we're waiting. I'm Brian Weatherby. This is Built for Chaos.
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Speaker 1: If this series hit you, share it with one person
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Speaker 1: in the middle of their own rebuild, especially veterans, because
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Speaker 1: we want to make sure that this outreach continues. is
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Speaker 1: a platform that we all use and is beneficial to
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Speaker 1: all of us. And I can assure you that we're
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Speaker 1: here to help. We're not here to do anything that's
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Speaker 1: going to harm anybody, and we want to make sure
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Speaker 1: we help in every way we can. If you need
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Speaker 1: somebody to lean on, you need somebody to talk to,
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Speaker 1: or you're feeling down, this is your platform, and we
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Speaker 1: want you to reach out. Remember, as we close, there's
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Speaker 1: a bulldog in all of us, and it's time to
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Speaker 1: let it out. See you next episode.