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Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.

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
Calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions.
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Emotional Logic Technology
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
Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.
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Reading Start
But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.
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Discipline Freedom
Whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk.
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Business Comfortable Leadership Risk Understand War World
The most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.
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Age Change Improvement Leadership Simplicity Technology
Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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Acceptance Development Leadership Problem Responsibility
If mistakes happen, effective leaders don’t place blame on others. They take ownership of the mistakes, determine what went wrong, develop solutions to correct those mistakes and prevent them from happening again as they move forward.
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Development Leadership Mistake Wrong
The goal of leadership seems simple: to get people to do what they need to do to support the mission and the team.
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Friendship Goal Simplicity Support Team
In the SEAL Teams, the bond of our brotherhood is our strongest weapon. If you take that away from us, we lose our most important quality as a team.
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Important Lose Quality Relationship Strong Team Weapon
Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
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
Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
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Blame Leadership World
For this reason, they must believe in the cause for which they are fighting.
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Believe Fight Inspirational Reason
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership

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