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Originally Posted by luv$
This particular lesson was that discipline & willpower come from emotional detachment, and one should stride forward on their own path regardless of what other influences dictate.
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Regarding this lesson, I believe you need to be a certain kind of personality (which very few are) to follow this particular course. Rather, I have learned that if you want to do things with the sincerity and enthusiasm most likely to make them work for you, and be able to do them long-term, you have to be yourself and do things you enjoy. There will be times when you need some discipline and willpower not to go lie on the beach or whatever, but that is doable. For most, keeping themselves constantly on a leash usually does not have a good outcome.
I think that the hardest lesson of all is not to take life's lessons lightly. Most of us, whether in our private lives or in business, know what we
should be doing. We often claim to ourselves and to others that we are doing those things. Yet in reality, we treat most motivational concepts as little more than wallpaper: they play little real part in our lives at all.
That doesn't only apply to individuals, but to companies too. In Tom Peter's book "In Search of Excellence", he differentiates between the excellent companies and the rest largely by highlighting those which live and breathe their slogans, and those which regard slogans as nothing more than a marketing tool.