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

REMAIN VIGILANT
It wasn’t in a war.
It wasn’t in a battle.
It isn’t in a melee of fire and destruction that most
of us succumb to weakness.
We are taken apart, slowly.
Convinced to take an easier path.
Enticed by comfort.
Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle.
We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant
surrender at a time that chips away at who we should
really be.
It isn’t that you wake up one day and decide that’s
it: I am going to be weak.
No. It is a slow incremental process. It chips away
at our will—it chips away at our discipline.
We sleep in a little later.
We miss a workout, then another.
We start to eat what we shouldn’t eat and drink what
we shouldn’t drink.
And, without realizing it—one day, you wake up and
you have become something that you never would have
allowed.
Instead of strong—you are weak.
Instead of disciplined—you are disorganized and lost.
Instead of moving forward and progressing—you are
moving backward and decaying.
And those things happen without you seeing them.
Without you recognizing them.
So.