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But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.

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The U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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Challenge Leadership Present Success Team Tragedy Transformation Understand War Win
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act Simplicity
Don’t fight stress. Embrace it. Turn it on itself. Use it to make yourself sharper and more alert. Use it to make you think and learn and get better and smarter and more effective. Use the stress to make you a better you.
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Fight Learning Thinking
All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.
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Accomplishment Greatness Support Team Togetherness
Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.
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Discipline Inspirational Morning Night Practice Success
There is no one else to blame. The leader must acknowledge mistakes and admit failures, take ownership of them, and develop a plan to win.
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Blame Development Failure Leadership Mistake Oneself Win
Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.
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Control Discipline Freedom Result Time
Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.
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Leadership Person Team Togetherness
To not move around, observe, and analyze, in order to make the best decisions possible, was to fail as a leader and fail the team.
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Best Decision Failure Leadership Possible Team
Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Decision Force Greatness Leadership Stay
Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.
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Control Decision Ourselves
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.
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Acceptance Expectation Leadership Tolerance
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.
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Importance Worth Yourself
Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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Ability Action Decision Right Wait

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