Discipline, Integrity & Empowerment, What's it mean to, D.I.E?

Of all the things I've failed to master, why is it that I keep coming back to this struggle, with self-discipline?

From self-imposed Discipline comes Integrity, which is the foundation on which Empowerment stands firm. Without this, Change has no impact, no influence, no power.

The four pillars are inter-dependent, like the points of a triangular pyramid (tetroid) and they are: 

Discipline, Integrity, Empowerment, and Change. 

Like a golden capstone, Change is a beacon of hope - Life is Change, Change is Life, thus we first must D.I.E, in order to Live.

To D.I.E is to exercise deliberately, with purpose, Discipline; to maintain and keep our Integrity; and to seek out opportunities and challenges that lead to Empowerment.


---There will be more on this over time as I wrestle with these thoughts but at this time, as I sit and type away, it seems that my struggle with discipline (self-discipline) is THE missing element I've needed to effect real and lasting personal change, self-growth and development. 

While I've stood for the possibility of Integrity and Empowerment, I've never really got beyond "Possibility" i.e. to step it up to a reality. I've been missing something, never quite "got it" until now. So now the question is, do I really stand for such possibility,and what am I willing to do to make it a reality?

I AM The Herald of Change.

Random thoughts of mind

I woke up today, after some feverish dreaming, wrestling with the following thoughts trying to find a connection between that makes sense to me. For now, I just wish to record them:


A man's most troubling questions - "Who am I?" "Why am I here?" "What's it all mean?" "What's my purpose in life?"


There is magic in names: the power to control; and, the power to call into being.


Fear = False Evidence Appearing Real


Fear profits man nothing.


We live in fear: fear of dying; fear of aging; fear of pain; fear of suffering; fear of violence done against us; fear of change; fear of success; fear of recognition; fear of starting; fear of finishing; fear of failure; the list goes on... We fear to live.


The Kingdom of Heaven is within.


We are all gods.


We use barely 10% of our brains; it is in the other 90% that the power of the divine resides.


Nirvana is a state of mind.


Silence is golden.


From out of the void (the silence) came the Word.


The child within must die so that the man within may live.


The manner in which we die, dictates how well our deeds in life, are remembered.


I stand for the possibility of Integrity and Empowerment.


The aim of close order drill is to develop in the individual soldier a sense of instinctive obedience which will assist him at all times in the carrying out of his orders.


Strength, Guts, Determination.


What does it mean, "to suffer?"


What is discipline?