This document discusses the importance of discipline for leadership. It defines discipline as "doing the right thing, the right way, all the time." Discipline comes from within and is essential for achieving goals and becoming the person you want to be. The document provides tips for developing self-discipline, including organizing your life around priorities, managing your time effectively, and committing to small goals over 30 days to practice discipline. Developing mastery over oneself through discipline is seen as the foundation for being able to lead others.

1. Foundational Leadership Part III
Discipline

2.  What is leadership?
 Leadership is influence
 What is the foundation of leadership?
 Character
 Define Character
 Who you are when no one else is looking
 Define Commitment
 A Promise

3.  What is discipline?
Discipline
Doing the right thing, the right
way, all the time.

4.  Tom Landry said it in another way –
“Discipline is ‘Making yourself do what you
don’t want to do in order to achieve what you
want to achieve.”
 Tom Landry p. 279
 Discipline comes from within!

5.  Have you ever spent much time around a
“difference maker” in this world, someone
who has really impacted the world? If you
have you probably have noticed that they
have a vision, and are driven to see the vision
materialize. Because of their drive they have
an unnatural amount of self-discipline.

6.  “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but
painful. Later on, however, it produces a
harvest of righteousness and peace for those
who have been trained by it. Therefore,
strengthen your feeble arms and weak
knees.” Hebrews 12:11-12

7.  Why?
◦ We are our own worst problem.
◦ “When we are foolish we want to conquer the world.
When we are wise we want to conquer ourselves.”

8.  If we do not have self-discipline we will never
achieve the things we want to achieve in life.
◦ “What we do upon some great occasion will
probably depend on what we already are; and what
we are will be the result of previous years of self
discipline.” - H.P. Liddon

9.  If we do not have self-discipline we will not
be able to become the people we want to
become.
 We have to have control over ourselves before
we can even begin to think about leading
others. The mastery of the self through
discipline is essential.

10.  Organize your life.
◦ Have you figured out what is important to your in
life? Have you sat down and made a list of what
you want out of this life? If you do not have a set of
values or principles and a direction in which you are
headed you will be disorganized and headed in
every which direction.
◦ Prioritize what is important
◦ Manage your Time by learning to say no

11.  Prioritize what is important.
◦ “Most people say their main fault is a lack of
discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not
the case. The basic problem is that their priorities
have not become deeply implanted in their hearts
and minds.” Covey p 157-158

12. Mi k e S i n g l e t ar y Pr i o r i t y Bo x
Fishing trip Golf
Community softball
Activities Relationship
to God
Lunch with friends
Family
Serving Others

13.  Saying “No” is even more difficult when your
choice becomes something that you would
rather do than stick with your priorities.
 Give some examples

14.  Managing your time is one of the keys to
surviving as a student-athlete. There are
enough hours in a day to go to every class, to
study for every class, to practice, to eat, to
socialize, and to sleep. Most studies show that
student athletes perform better in the
classroom during the season because each day
is so structured and there is no time for
procrastination. If, however, you do not
manage your time certain areas of your life will
suffer. Time Management takes organization
and self-discipline.

15.  Tips:
 Rick Pitino says to make a daily to do list. Do the things
you want to do least first to get them out of the way. The
things you want to do least will bog you down all day if
they are not finished first. For the rest of the day you can
do things you enjoy.
 Complete Projects one at a time.
 Organize your work space.
 Develop systems that work for you i.e., computers,
phones, calendars, to do lists, etc. Find out how you work
best and develop that system.
 Examples

16.  Tips for planning:
 Study your most difficult subjects at the times when you are
most alert.
 Eliminate dead hours. Use a spare fifty minutes to review for
a class rather than as an extended break.
 Use daylight hours to study.
 Study before recitation classes.
 Study after lecture classes.
 Study math and foreign language classes each day.
 Know your sleep pattern and put it in your schedule.
 Plan recreation.
 Plan study breaks.
 Allow time to eat well-balanced meals.
 Avoid too much detail in your plan.

17.  Directions: Make a weekly schedule. First,
fill in all of the hours when you know what
you will be doing; classes, work, meals, sleep,
meetings, travel time etc. Secondly,
plan your study and recreation
hours.

18.  Think about something in your life that you want or need to do, but
have been unable to do. Do not think about life goals but something
smaller and more manageable to achieve in a 30 day period. The
challenge is to not only choose something but to commit to working
on or accomplishing the task by finals week of this year. It is best to
choose something that requires either daily discipline or a Mon.- Fri.
discipline. Once a week things are ok but over a relatively small
period of time like we are working with it is less effective. The key
to this exercise is realizing something that you want to do. The
second step is to make the commitment for a 30 day period and the
final step is to discipline yourself to follow through. You can
practice discipline and therefore you can get better in your
discipline. No one is a lost cause. In the space to the side write in
your commitment and sign you name. This will make you a better
person and ultimately a better leader. Remember is you cannot lead
yourself, then you will never be able to lead others.