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Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes: Become Disciplined, Change Your Life · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Do something different the next ninety days than you did
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  Speaker 1: the last ninety days, like picking up the books to read.
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  Speaker 1: Do something different like the new health disciplines, relationship with
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  Speaker 1: your family, whatever it is, doesn't matter how small it is,
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  Speaker 1: if you'll start doing different things with the same circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: Since we cannot change the circumstances, but we can change ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: we can change what we do. Then he gave me
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  Speaker 1: another secret to success when he said, what you have
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  Speaker 1: at the moment, mister own, you've attracted by the person
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  Speaker 1: you've become. What you have at the moment, you've attracted
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  Speaker 1: by the person you've become. Few little simple principles here.
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  Speaker 1: Once you understand these, it starts to explain so much. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a little tough to take blaming yourself instead
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  Speaker 1: of the marketplace, taking responsibility instead of putting it off
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  Speaker 1: on someone else. That transition sometimes is a challenging mission,
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  Speaker 1: and this one was a little tough for me. Joe said,
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  Speaker 1: here's a secret, mister one. Learn to work harder on
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  Speaker 1: yourself than you do on your job. Once I got that,
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  Speaker 1: it turned my life around. Learn to work harder on
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  Speaker 1: yourself than you do on your job. He said, if
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  Speaker 1: you work hard on your job, you'll make a living.
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  Speaker 1: If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune.
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  Speaker 1: If you would have known me at age twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: you would have said, Jim Ron's a hard worker. If
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  Speaker 1: you'd have known me, you'd have said that, I'm the guy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind coming a little bit early, stay a
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  Speaker 1: little bit late. I don't mind that. You'd have said, well,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Ron's a hard worker. You say, well, how come
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  Speaker 1: he's got pennies in his pocket and nothing in the
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  Speaker 1: bank and behind on these promises. Well, I was a
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  Speaker 1: hard worker, but I was working hard on my job,
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  Speaker 1: not on my cell. I'm telling you, if you'll learn
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  Speaker 1: that simple little principle and start the process today latest tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: give you tonight to think it will and start this
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  Speaker 1: whole process of personal development. Work on your self. Make
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  Speaker 1: yourself more valuable to the marketplace. I'm telling you you
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  Speaker 1: can so dynamically change your income and economics. Is the
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  Speaker 1: least of the values that you can start earning in
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  Speaker 1: terms of equity if you'll start working harder on yourself
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  Speaker 1: than you do on your job. Work hard on your
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  Speaker 1: the skills, work hard on yourself and develop the graces,
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  Speaker 1: all of the stuff necessary to become more valuable to
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  Speaker 1: the marketplace. I'm telling you your whole life can explode
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  Speaker 1: into change. Promotions, no problem, becoming more valuable to the company,
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  Speaker 1: telling you no problem, money, no problem, economics, no problem. Future,
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  Speaker 1: no problem if you just go to work on the
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  Speaker 1: right thing, not get things out there to change. Don't
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  Speaker 1: try to change the seed, don't change the soil, don't
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  Speaker 1: change the sunshine, don't change the rain, don't change the
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  Speaker 1: mix of seasons. Let the miracle of everything that's available
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  Speaker 1: work for you and start working on the inside. Work
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  Speaker 1: on your philosophy, work on your attitude, work on your personality,
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  Speaker 1: work on your language, work on the gift of communication,
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  Speaker 1: work on all of your abilities. And if you'll start
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  Speaker 1: making those personal changes, I'm telling you everything will change.
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  Speaker 1: There is one magic word that stands out above all
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  Speaker 1: the rest. It is discipline. Discipline is the bridge between
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  Speaker 1: thought and accomplishment, between inspiration and achievement, between necessity and productivity. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: all good things are located upstream from us. The passing
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  Speaker 1: of time takes us a drift, and drifting only brings
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  Speaker 1: us the negative, the disappointment, and the failure, failure, is
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  Speaker 1: not a cataclysmic event. It is not generally the result
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  Speaker 1: of one major incident, but rather of a long list
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  Speaker 1: of accumulated little failings. If your goal requires that you
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  Speaker 1: write ten letters today and you write only three, you
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  Speaker 1: are down seven letters. If you want to make five
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  Speaker 1: calls and and only make one, you are down four calls.
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  Speaker 1: If your plan calls for saving ten dollars today and
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  Speaker 1: you save none, you are down ten dollars. The danger
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  Speaker 1: is looking at an undisciplined day and concluding that no
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  Speaker 1: great harm has been done. But add up these days
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  Speaker 1: to make a year, and then add up those years
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  Speaker 1: to make a lifetime, and it will become apparent how
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  Speaker 1: repeating today's small failures can easily turn your life into
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  Speaker 1: a major disaster. Success, on the other hand, is just
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  Speaker 1: the same process in reverse. If you plan to make
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  Speaker 1: ten calls and you end the day having made fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: you are up five calls. You can see what a
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  Speaker 1: massive difference this sort of thing could make in a year,
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  Speaker 1: and what wealth and accomplishment await over a lifetime. Discipline
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  Speaker 1: is like a set of magic keys that can unlock
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  Speaker 1: all the doors of wealth, happiness, culture, high self esteem, pride, joy, accomplishment, satis, faction,
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  Speaker 1: and success. The first key to discipline is awareness of
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  Speaker 1: the need for and value of discipline, especially the discipline
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  Speaker 1: to make the necessary changes. What will it take, What
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  Speaker 1: must I do, and what must I become to get
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  Speaker 1: all I want from life. The second key is willingness.
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  Speaker 1: More than that, it is the eagerness to maintain your
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  Speaker 1: new discipline deliberately, wisely, and consistently. The third key to
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  Speaker 1: discipline is the commitment to master the circumstances of your
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  Speaker 1: daily life, to see and harness the opportunities to make
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  Speaker 1: something of the good as well as that which comes
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  Speaker 1: in the guise of misfortune. Discipline does many things, but
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  Speaker 1: most important of all is what it does for your mindset.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you feel better about yourself. Even the smallest
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  Speaker 1: discipline can have an incredible effect on your attitude and
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  Speaker 1: the good feeling you get. That surging feeling of self
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  Speaker 1: worth that comes from starting a new discipline is almost
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  Speaker 1: as good as the feeling that comes from the accomplishment
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  Speaker 1: the discipline brings. A new discipline immediately alters your life direction.
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  Speaker 1: You don't change destinations immediately. That is yet to come,
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  Speaker 1: but you can change direction immediately and direction is very important.
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  Speaker 1: Discipline cooperates with nature. Everything strives. It is a common
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  Speaker 1: life function. How tall will a tree grow? As tall
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  Speaker 1: as it can? Everything strives to become all it can
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  Speaker 1: possibly be. And that is what discipline is all about,
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  Speaker 1: striving to fulfill our natural potential, to become all that
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  Speaker 1: we can be. The human will in action, driven by inspiration,
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  Speaker 1: enticed by desire, tempered by reason, guided by intelligence, can
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  Speaker 1: bring you to that high and lofty place called the
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  Speaker 1: good life. Discipline attracts opportunity, which is always attracted to
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  Speaker 1: ambition and skill. In action, Discipline taps the unlimited power
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  Speaker 1: of commitment. Discipline those unique steps of intelligent thought and
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  Speaker 1: activity that put a lid on temper and a faucet
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  Speaker 1: on courtesy, That develop the positive and control the negative,
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  Speaker 1: that encourage success and deter failure, that shape lifestyle and
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  Speaker 1: control frustration, that enhance health and curb sickness, that promote
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  Speaker 1: happiness and manage sadness. Discipline the continuing process that brings
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  Speaker 1: all the good things. Remember, anyone can start the process.
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  Speaker 1: It's not if I could I would rather, it's if
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  Speaker 1: I would, I could, If I will, I can, So
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  Speaker 1: start the process. Begin a new habit, no matter how
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  Speaker 1: small it is. Size isn't important. Whether or not you
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  Speaker 1: start and whether or not you continue are all that matter.
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  Speaker 1: What's at the core of achieving the good life? It
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  Speaker 1: is not learning how to set goals. It is not
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  Speaker 1: learning how to better manage your time. It is not
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  Speaker 1: mastering the attributes of leadership. Every day, in a thousand
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  Speaker 1: different ways, we are trying to improve ourselves by learning
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  Speaker 1: how to do things. We spend a lifetime gathering knowledge
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  Speaker 1: in classrooms, in textbooks, in experiences. And if knowledge is power,
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  Speaker 1: if knowledge is the forerunner to success, why do we
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  Speaker 1: fall short of our objectives? Why, in spite of all
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  Speaker 1: our knowledge and collected experiences, do we find ourselves aimlessly wandering,
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  Speaker 1: settling for a life of existence rather than a life
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  Speaker 1: of substance. There may be many answers to this question.
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  Speaker 1: Answer may be different from that of everyone else you know.
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  Speaker 1: While there may be many answers to this question, the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate answer may be the absence of discipline in applying
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  Speaker 1: our knowledge. The keyword is discipline, as in self discipline.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter how smart you are if you
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  Speaker 1: don't use your knowledge. It doesn't really matter that you
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  Speaker 1: graduated magna cum laude. If you're stuck in a low
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  Speaker 1: paying job, it doesn't really matter that you attend every
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  Speaker 1: seminar that comes to town if you don't apply what
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  Speaker 1: you've learned. We spend our lives gathering gathering knowledge, gathering skills,
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  Speaker 1: gathering experiences, but we must also apply the knowledge, skills,
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  Speaker 1: and experiences we gather in the realms of life and business.
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  Speaker 1: We must learn to use what we've learned, and once
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  Speaker 1: we've applied our knowledge, we must study the results of
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  Speaker 1: that process and refine our approach. Finally, by trying and
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  Speaker 1: observing and refining and trying again, our knowledge will inevitably
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  Speaker 1: produce worthy, admirable results. And with the joy and results
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  Speaker 1: of our efforts, we continue to fuel our ambition with
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  Speaker 1: the positive reinforcement of continued progress. Pretty soon we'll find
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  Speaker 1: that we're swept into a spiral of achievement, a vertical
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  Speaker 1: rise to success, and the ecstasy of that. Total experience
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  Speaker 1: makes for a life triumphant over tragedy, dullness, and mediocrity.
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  Speaker 1: But for this whole process to work for us, we
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  Speaker 1: must first master the art of consistent self discipline. It
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  Speaker 1: takes consistent self discipline to master the arts of setting goals,
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  Speaker 1: time management, leadership, parenting, and relationship. If we don't make
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  Speaker 1: consistent self discipline part of our daily lives, the results
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  Speaker 1: we seek will be sporadic and elusive. It takes a
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  Speaker 1: consistent effort to truly manage our valuable time. Without it
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  Speaker 1: will be consistently frustrated. Our time will be eaten up
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  Speaker 1: by others whose demands are stronger than our own. It
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  Speaker 1: takes discipline to conquer the nagging voices in our minds,
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  Speaker 1: the fear of failure, the fear of success, the fear
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  Speaker 1: of poverty, the fear of a broken heart. It takes
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  Speaker 1: discipline to keep trying when that nagging voice within us
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  Speaker 1: brings up the possibility of failure. It takes discipline to
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  Speaker 1: admit our errors and recognize our limitations. The voice of
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  Speaker 1: the human ego speaks to all of us. Sometimes that
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  Speaker 1: voice tells us to magnify our value or accomplishments beyond
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  Speaker 1: our actual results. It leads us to exaggerate, to not
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  Speaker 1: be totally honest. It takes discipline to be totally honest,
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  Speaker 1: both with ourselves and with others. Certain of one thing,
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  Speaker 1: every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others, destroys
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  Speaker 1: our credibility. It makes all that we say and do suspect.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as a business colleague figures out that we
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  Speaker 1: tend to exaggerate, Guess what he'll think. We always exaggerate,
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  Speaker 1: and he'll never quite hold us in the same regard. Again.
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  Speaker 1: The tendency to exaggerate, distort, or even withhold the truth
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  Speaker 1: is an inherent part of all of us. It starts
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  Speaker 1: when we're kids. Johnny says I didn't do it, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it. Well, maybe Johnny didn't do it, but
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  Speaker 1: he probably had something to do with it. And then
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  Speaker 1: it continues when we're adults, exaggerating the benefits of a
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  Speaker 1: product to make a sale, exaggerating our net worth to
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  Speaker 1: impress old friends, exaggerating how close we are to closing
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  Speaker 1: a deal to impress the boss. Only an all out,
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  Speaker 1: disciplined assault can overcome this tendency. It takes discipline to
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  Speaker 1: change a habit, because once habits are formed, they act
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  Speaker 1: like a giant cable and nearly unbreakable instinct that only
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  Speaker 1: long term, disciplined activity can change. We must unweave every
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  Speaker 1: strand of the cable of habits, slowly and methodically, until
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  Speaker 1: the cable that once held us in bondage becomes nothing
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  Speaker 1: more than scattered strands of wire. It takes the consistent
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  Speaker 1: application of a new discipline, a more desirable discipline, to
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  Speaker 1: overcome one which is less desirable. It takes discipline to plan.
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  Speaker 1: It takes discipline to execute our plan. It takes discipline
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  Speaker 1: to look with full objectivity at the results of our
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  Speaker 1: applied plan, and it takes discipline to change either our
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  Speaker 1: plan or our method of executing that plan if the
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  Speaker 1: results are poor. It takes discipline to be firm when
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  Speaker 1: the world throws opinions at our feet, and it takes
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  Speaker 1: discipline to ponder the value of someone else's opinion when
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  Speaker 1: our pride and our arrogance leads us to believe that
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  Speaker 1: we are the only ones with the answers. With this
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  Speaker 1: consistent discipline applied to every area of our lives, we
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  Speaker 1: can discover untold miracles and uncover unique possibilities and opportunities.