Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual by Jocko Willink ( PDFDrive.com )

You never moved. In fact: You might be even further
from your goal than you were when you started. You
might have gone backward.
Why? Why did you let that happen?
Because you lost sight of it.
You lost sight of the long-term goal. And it faded.
It faded from memory and the passion dried up and you
began to rationalize:
Maybe I can’t. Maybe I don’t really want to.
Maybe this goal isn’t for me.
And so you give up. You let it go. And you settle.
You settle for the status quo. You settle for the
easy road. You settle for “oh well.”
No.
Don’t do that. Embed that long-term goal in your
mind. Burn it into your soul.
Think about it, write about it, talk about it. Hang
it up on your wall.
But most important: Do something about it. Every day.
Every day: Do something that moves you toward that
goal—that keeps that goal alive and in sight and in
focus.
However small or insignificant that step might seem—
take it. Do it.
Make it happen. Because that goal isn’t going to
achieve itself.
It is All. On. You.