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Discipline
Small repeated choices that become a life.
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Discipline · 35 sec read
Reflection
A small effort repeated often tends to outlast an intense burst of motivation done once and then abandoned.
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A little, repeated often, outlasts a lot done once.
1 Corinthians 9:27New Testament"I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave."
Discipline · 40 sec read
Reflection
The effort that's hardest to make today is often really a gift to the person you'll be tomorrow, even when it doesn't feel like it now.
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The effort you don't feel like making today is a gift to the person you'll be tomorrow.
Proverbs 25:28Old Testament"Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control."
Discipline · 45 sec read
Reflection
Restarting after slipping isn't starting from zero — everything learned the last time is still yours to keep.
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Starting over isn't starting from zero — you keep everything you learned last time.
Proverbs 16:32Old Testament"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city."
Discipline · 50 sec read
Reflection
The most visible kind of strength gets more attention, but the ability to hold steady, wait, and not react is its own, less flashy, form of it.
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Holding steady when you'd rather react is its own kind of strength.
Hebrews 12:11New Testament"No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace."
Discipline · 55 sec read
Reflection
The payoff of a disciplined choice is almost never available right when you make it — it shows up later, quietly, as ease you didn't have to think about.
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The payoff of discipline almost never shows up on the same day you practice it.
Galatians 5:22-23New Testament"The fruit of the Spirit is... faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."
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