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Discipline equals freedom.

Jocko Willink

Don’t try to plan for every contingency. Doing so will only overburden you and weigh you down so that you cannot quickly maneuver.
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Quick Try Willing Yourself
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
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
Cover and Move, Simple, Prioritize and Execute, and Decentralized Command.
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Act 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
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Leadership Philosophy Tolerance
Remember to keep your ego in check. Don’t judge people.
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Judgement People Remember Yourself
Establishing an effective and repeatable planning process is critical to the success of any team.
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Establishment Planning Success Team
A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success.
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Goodness Leadership Problem Success
All animals, including humans, need to see the connection between action and consequence in order to learn or react appropriately.
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Action Animal Connection Human Learning
If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.
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Effort Goal See
I can remember many times when my boat crew struggled. It was easy to make excuses for our team’s performance and why it wasn’t what it should have been. But I learned that good leaders don’t make excuses. Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.
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Goodness Leadership Learning Myself Remember Struggle Time Win
Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.
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Care Material
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
Repetitive exceptional performance became a habit.
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Performance
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner

Discipline equals freedom.

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