Discipline is the hardest part of success, because it demands your time. It is not enjoyable,
it is not the part that gets you the limelight. Discipline has no pizzazz. Discipline is private -- it is the internal
decision to work on your skills no matter what. It's what makes you get up in the morning to do it all over again.
You do things that you don't feel like doing when you don't feel like doing them. Discipline is what you do in spite
of your desires. It is also what separates the pros from the amateurs, and the successful from everybody else.
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Michael Jordan's high school coach, when Jordan was just another kid in the neighborhood -- he hadn't even
made the varsity team yet -- remembers coming in early to work every morning during summer school and hearing
the thud, thud of the basketball on the concrete of the outside court. He heard this sound throughout the day, as
the heat rose. He would check outside the gym doors, and there would be Michael, alone, for hours, working on
his game. That discipline is still paying off today.
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Self-discipline is the bedrock upon which to build a successful life. It contains within itself other critically
important virtues: Humility, because you are consistently acknowledging your weaknesses as you work to improve
yourself. Honesty, because you are constantly assessing your progress and measuring your performance; a
disciplined individual has no incentive to fool himself. Self-control. Patience. And optimism, because you are in
control of your life.
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It is discipline that allows you to capitalize on opportunity. If you live a disciplined life, working on your
performance, you will be ready when it comes. And it will -- because this is India.
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