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• ‟ The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

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• ‟ The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win - you pass the test.

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• ‟ Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say 'first alarm clock' because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

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• ‟ Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

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• ‟ Freedom is what everyone wants - to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

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• ‟ Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

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• ‟ I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don't produce isn't because they don't have vision... or talent... in most cases, it's a lack of discipline.

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• ‟ While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

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