Discipline

Hudson Taylor wrote, “At first the task looks difficult, then it is impossible; then it is done.” Disciplines of health, parenting, work…it takes discipline to get started, endurance keeps you going. At the end of the day, the discipline of exercise, getting on my bike, followed by endurance to finish the race. I do it to maintain health and life balance, and to spend time with my kids…not always easy, but necessary.

Coming into an office after weeks of unprofitable calls, there is a discipline in getting started again – endurance to continue to process. How tempting it is to “fritter and waste the hours…” when the task looks impossible. Reaching the goal requires more than skill – it requires discipline, endurance, determination. Failure comes, not so much from a lack of skill, but more often by giving up…