4 Disciplines of Execution

Having discipline is way harder than a person may think, and trying to decide if something is really important or just a distraction, is eye opening when you are approaching a deadline. After watching ‘The 4 Disciplines of Execution in a Nutshell’ I feel it's better for me to write out and do a to-do list every month, week, and day so I can be better disciplined and stay on task. In discipline 1, he discusses how to focus on one goal at once instead of tons of goals little by little. I agree with him on this because finishing one and moving on is more fulfilling than finishing piece by piece and seeing no progress. Discipline 2 tells us how to focus on the outcomes and how to get to that outcome. Lags are the things we constantly stress over and leads are the ways that can help us fulfill the goals we are trying to accomplish. McChesney tells us to focus on the leads rather than the lags. What do we want out of the goal and how can we get to it? Focusing on the lag is pointless because by the time we see the outcome/ results, the time has already passed and the work has already been done. Discipline 3 explains how engaged a person must be in knowing if they are winning or losing at their goal. The best way to win at one's own goal is to create a personal scoreboard/ deadline. Don’t look to others or coaches to come up with the deadline because only you know what you are capable of.

Discipline 4 all comes down to holding ourselves accountable and doing what we are supposed to to achieve a goal. When being disciplined, one must make a commitment to self that this is what we want and this is what we are going to do to achieve it. Having discipline is hard, so holding yourself accountable, keeping score, checking off to-do list, having a sit down and going over what's left once a week or once a day is all a part of winning and achieving the goal. When holding yourself accountable, we must first see what worked and what did not. Make a to do list and check off things as it's being done. Once the week is over and we go back to that list, we should ask ourselves if we accomplished everything, and if not, ask why and what can be done better or differently. For the things you did accomplish, ask yourself did it move my scoreboard and is this going to help win my goal or was it just a distraction. Then after rendering and pondering on that list, start to make a new list for next week and think of ways everything can be accomplished by that week's deadline.

McChesney, C. (2016, December 29). The 4 Disciplines of Execution in a Nutshell. YouTube. Retrieved June 22, 2022, from https://youtu.be/aEJDliThj7g