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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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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
The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.
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Accomplishment Best Focus
More than a decade of continuous war and tough combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan gave birth to a new generation of leaders in the ranks of America’s fighting forces.
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Born Fight Force Leadership Tough War
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Democracy Enemy Remember
Our egos don’t like to take blame.
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Blame Ourselves
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?
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Acceptance Generosity Life Myself Philosophy
So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
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
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
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Accomplishment Company Leadership Lesson People Team
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
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
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

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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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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