“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.” Vince Lombardi ( Long-time Green Bay Packer Coach)
Talent merely gives a person the building blocks to potential success. Discipline stacks the blocks. You need to work when things get hard. Talent without discipline won’t take a person far. Talent with discipline races like a thoroughbred. Novelist Stephen King knew that. King observed, “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” “There are no short cuts to any place worth going.” Beverly Sills, (Opera Singer)
People who won’t work hard, who don’t practice self-discipline, head into a downhill spiral. They neglect to do what they could and should. Not doing what’s necessary causes them to feel guilty. Guilt erodes self-confidence. As we lose confidence, we don’t work as much. When we work less, we get fewer results. As our results diminish, we grow negative. As our attitude sours, our self- confidence shrivels even more. And the cycle goes on and on. The good news is that the negative cycle can be broken! We can’t change our past, but we can take charge of our future. We need to control our life by taking control of it. Practicing self-discipline makes life better. We need to start with the little things. Start saving money , start showing up on time. “ It is not enough to have great qualities. We should also have the management of them. ”La Rochefoucauld,(French Author) If we practice self-discipline, we will learn an important lesson. If you discipline yourself today, you’ll enjoy your life more tomorrow. National Football League football player know that lesson. NFL players seem to have it made. They enjoy sturdy bodies and terrific salaries. They benefit from youth, good looks, fame and national attention. But those perks come at a price. No matter how tall or quick or strong a player may be or how accurately a person can throw a ball, on one automatically becomes an NFL player. Making an NFL team requires sacrifice and self-control. Long-time Dallas cowboy coach Tom Landry taught his players discipline. During Landry’s tenure, his teams won two Super Bowl titles, five National Football Conference titles and 13 Division titles. No coach in NFL history can match Landry’s teams 20 play off victories. Despite having players who would have preferred to skip two-a-days in the Texas heat, Landry produced hard-working winners. Coach Landry once described the job of a leader as “getting someone to do what they don’t want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.” That’s the definition of self-discipline! “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everybody else.” Henry Ward Beecher. Doing what you don’t want to do (saying ”no” to dessert, getting up early to exercise or read, volunteering for extra projects at work or practicing a talent until it becomes a skill) will help achieve what you want to achieve. Many people don’t want to practice self-control. They resist self-discipline. They want to do only what they like to do believing that discipline sucks the fun out of life when, in fact, discipline gives us the freedom to enjoy life. “Many people want to be free to do as they please, but consider this: If you take the train off the tracks, it’s free- but it can’t go anywhere. Take the steering wheel out of the automobile and it’s under the control of no one, but it is useless. The reality is that until the sailor disciplines himself to be obedient to the compass, he will have to stay within sight of the shore. However, once he is obedient to that compass, he can go anywhere in the world the sailboat will take him. Discipline is the missing ingredient that will make the difference in your life.” Zig Ziglar
Take control of your life! Discipline yourself today to enjoy life more tomorrow.
“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.” Vince Lombardi ( Long-time Green Bay Packer Coach)
Talent merely gives a person the building blocks to potential success. Discipline stacks the blocks. You need to work when things get hard. Talent without discipline won’t take a person far. Talent with discipline races like a thoroughbred. Novelist Stephen King knew that. King observed, “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” “There are no short cuts to any place worth going.” Beverly Sills, (Opera Singer)
People who won’t work hard, who don’t practice self-discipline, head into a downhill spiral. They neglect to do what they could and should. Not doing what’s necessary causes them to feel guilty. Guilt erodes self-confidence. As we lose confidence, we don’t work as much. When we work less, we get fewer results. As our results diminish, we grow negative. As our attitude sours, our self- confidence shrivels even more. And the cycle goes on and on. The good news is that the negative cycle can be broken! We can’t change our past, but we can take charge of our future. We need to control our life by taking control of it. Practicing self-discipline makes life better. We need to start with the little things. Start saving money , start showing up on time. “ It is not enough to have great qualities. We should also have the management of them. ”La Rochefoucauld,(French Author) If we practice self-discipline, we will learn an important lesson. If you discipline yourself today, you’ll enjoy your life more tomorrow. National Football League football player know that lesson. NFL players seem to have it made. They enjoy sturdy bodies and terrific salaries. They benefit from youth, good looks, fame and national attention. But those perks come at a price. No matter how tall or quick or strong a player may be or how accurately a person can throw a ball, on one automatically becomes an NFL player. Making an NFL team requires sacrifice and self-control. Long-time Dallas cowboy coach Tom Landry taught his players discipline. During Landry’s tenure, his teams won two Super Bowl titles, five National Football Conference titles and 13 Division titles. No coach in NFL history can match Landry’s teams 20 play off victories. Despite having players who would have preferred to skip two-a-days in the Texas heat, Landry produced hard-working winners. Coach Landry once described the job of a leader as “getting someone to do what they don’t want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.” That’s the definition of self-discipline! “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everybody else.” Henry Ward Beecher. Doing what you don’t want to do (saying ”no” to dessert, getting up early to exercise or read, volunteering for extra projects at work or practicing a talent until it becomes a skill) will help achieve what you want to achieve. Many people don’t want to practice self-control. They resist self-discipline. They want to do only what they like to do believing that discipline sucks the fun out of life when, in fact, discipline gives us the freedom to enjoy life. “Many people want to be free to do as they please, but consider this: If you take the train off the tracks, it’s free- but it can’t go anywhere. Take the steering wheel out of the automobile and it’s under the control of no one, but it is useless. The reality is that until the sailor disciplines himself to be obedient to the compass, he will have to stay within sight of the shore. However, once he is obedient to that compass, he can go anywhere in the world the sailboat will take him. Discipline is the missing ingredient that will make the difference in your life.” Zig Ziglar
Take control of your life! Discipline yourself today to enjoy life more tomorrow.