Category: Discipline

Happiness Chasing

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

— Don Herold —

“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”  ~Don Herold I spend my professional life helping others figure out where they want to go and how to get there.  Of the people I’ve assisted, a small percentage of them actually stay on the strategic path they created.  Most become distracted…

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Self Respect

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

— Abraham Heschel —

“Self-respect is the root of discipline:  The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”  ~Abraham Heschel This is so true. What are you needing to say no to? P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.  Proverbs 25:28 (NIV)

A Discipline of Purpose

The successful person has the habit of doing things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily; but their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.

— E.M. Gray —

  This is my favorite quote on discipline.  The last word of the quote is key and many people fail to identify their purpose in life and their life wanders aimlessly like a ship without a rudder. I’ve committed my 2016 posts to helping you make the most of yourself and that begins with finding…

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Self Control

The difference between want and need is self control.

— Unknown —

  In a society where everything seems to be able to happen instantly, self control is the key to maintaining peace, sanity and progress. Having the ability to overcome the urge to act on the short term good in order to wait for the long term great seems to be a lost art these days…

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Study and Prepare

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

— Horace —

  There are no shortcuts or free lunches on the journey of creating a quality life and making the most of yourself. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch Proverbs 15:14, “A wise person is hungry for knowledge, while the fool feeds on trash.” (NLT)

More Excellence

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

— Colin Powell —

  P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch Proverbs 13:4, “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.” (NLT)

Resolution #1

Sometimes it only takes one good song to bring back thousands of good old memories… On January 1st I did my plan for 2016. I’ve been planning out my years for as long as I can remember and my theme for this year’s plan is “Reach and Simplify.”  One of my first goals for simplifying…

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Talents Must Be Used

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

— Henry Van Dyke —

  What are your talents? Are you using them? P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Romans 12:6-8, Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them:  if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the…

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Speed Up by Slowing Down

Sometimes the best way to speed up is by slowing down.

— Unknown —

  “Adopt the pace of nature.  Her secret is patience.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “Fools wander, the wise travel.”  ~Thomas Fuller Yes. Yes. And Yes. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Romans 8:25, “But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.”  (ESV)

Focus on Personal Growth

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

— Thomas a' Kempis —

  P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com John 8:7, “When they kept on questioning him (Jesus), he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”  (NIC)