What It Takes

DISCIPLINE

Lastly but certainly not least in the list of life hacks to help you do what it takes is none other than discipline.

What separates tier-one government assets from the rest of the department of defense? What makes one team or individual athlete perform head and shoulders above the rest? The answer is plain and simply discipline.

Since the world’s first recorded professional army conscripted by King Sargon of Akkad, through the ancient Greek world-renown Spartan warriors, the famed Roman legions and the highly revered U.S. Marine Corps, the one common denominator shared by all was, and still is to this very day, discipline.

Passion waxes and wanes. Consequentially motivation comes and goes, but what must remain a constant are both your commitment and discipline. The more important of the two is discipline. In the end if you lack discipline, you lack the regimen to stay mentally and physically focused. Without such focus you lose sight of your objective. Loosing sight of your objective compromises your commitment which causes a cascading series of deteriorating events or downward spiral derailing you from your original goal.

The body cannot accomplish what the mind cannot grasp. To do what it takes must include a set routine. In the case of wanting to raise your shooting level – one of the necessary steps is to increase your dryfire. Building a daily or weekly routine to do so can only take root using discipline.

Let’s say you commit every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to dryfire once a day. You create your dryfire routine and you purchase a timer and extra holster and the like. You then commit to those days and specific time—for example 30 minutes. Visualize yourself diligently practicing three times a week for six months. Do you believe your skill level will rise or fall?

Any time you build a routine and stick to that regimen you employ discipline. Being disciplined builds mental toughness, good habits and a strong foundation upon which to set your commitment and dedication.

When you get bogged down, hit a plateau or just don’t feel like practicing it’s only discipline that can carry you out of that swamp. If all else fails, you can rely on your discipline pull you through.

Although initially motivated by passion, commitment remains critical to mission success. It’s imperative that you remain dedicated to your goals and to do this is to continually commit the resources of time and work effort. As motivation tends to rise and fall, you can rely fully upon your discipline to stay the course. Finding your passion, making that commitment, and using your discipline are all what it takes to meet your personal goals.

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