Harris Kern / Karen Willi
Your mind is your greatest asset and guiding force in acquiring
discipline. We show you how to acquire discipline for yourself
on your own terms. The amount of discipline you possess
determines the level of success in your life. As a result, you will
learn how to make the best of every minute – everyday.
Discipline embodies many positive attributes that help you
eliminate those negative obstacles that you struggle with on a
daily basis. Self-help books that target specific areas, i.e.,
weight loss, achieving success, confidence-building, etc., are
totally ineffective if you lack discipline. That deficiency has
kept you from applying those previous readings to your life.
Charts for your Current, Recommended and PRIME (Personally
Regulated Improvement Model to Excel) routines are included.
Suggestions are given on everything from daily exercise
routines, eating healthy and sleep experimentation. How you
manage these areas determines the quality of your life.
Discipline is the most critical tool that we all need to consistently
strive to be better – and it can be learned. This knowledge is not
only important for you, but also for your children, society and
generations to come. Our goal is to make discipline a household
word again – one mind at a time.
Karen Willi
Karen Willi spent six years climbing the computer industry ladder
from 1984-1990. She then became a military spouse and her
career shifted to government contract as well as a myriad of
Civil Service jobs for the next seven years. A few of those positions
included data analyst work for the Army, Naval
Telecommunications messaging to ships and Air Force medical
administration providing critical data for pre-deployed
squadrons. In 1997 she settled into her full-time CEO position
of the Willi Family Corporation (WFC) to be a stay at home
Mom. WFC is a fast-paced, highly mobile operation, which
serves its customers throughout their entire lifecycle. She is now
an editor, co-author and website advisor for Harris Kern's
Enterprise Computing Institute.
Harris Kern
A world-renowned author, publisher, lecturer, and IT consultant,
Harris Kern is the industry's leading mind on simplifying IT –
and making it work. His extensive IT background serves as the
foundation for his best-selling books. As executive editor of
Harris Kern's Enterprise Computing Institute, he united the
industry's leading minds to publish "how-to" textbooks on
critical IT issues. The series includes titles such as: Managing
IT as an Investment, Building Professional Services, IT
Services, IT Organization, IT Systems Management,
Technology Strategies, High Availability, IT Automation
and Software Development. Harris also authored the New
Enterprise series featuring: Building the New Enterprise, and
Discipline: Six Steps to Unleashing Your Hidden Potential, an
autobiography revealing successful management of both
personal and professional life.
Self-help books usually provide you with the 'how-to' but don't
provide you with a proven method for continuous self-motivation. Motivational speeches only pump you up for a few
hours or maybe a couple days if they're extraordinarily good
speakers. New Year's resolutions are nothing but hot air
because they are empty promises based solely on a date on the
calendar. Most people just don't do a very good job of
managing their personal life. They would falter on their goals
and objectives, change their priorities on the fly, commit to
people and never follow through, etc. For us and we're hoping
for you as well, life is all about accomplishments. They could be
learning something new, working towards a promotion, buying
your first home, balancing your life so you're committed to
spending a set number of hours with your family each week, etc.
Nothing is more rewarding than feeling like you've gone through
a week or an entire month keeping all your commitments and
accomplishing important milestones. Wouldn't it be great to feel
that way for an entire year or even better, the rest of your life?
"Every man dies. Not every man lives."
Brauchear
In the first book, Discipline: Six Steps to Unleashing Your
Hidden Potential, the importance of discipline is discussed and the
six simple steps it takes to acquire discipline are given.
Throughout the book, the image of a person opening a door and
through the door seeing a reflection of him or herself in a mirror
is referenced. This is an image called upon again and again
because it symbolizes the relationship Harris built with himself
in the years it took to acquire discipline. It was all about
fulfilling a contract with himself. The book is about you and the
constant struggle you have with yourself to fulfill that same
promise. If you step through that door and don't like what you
see in the mirror, then the book can help you develop the
discipline to enjoy stepping through that door rather than
dreading it. It's a daily battle as you seek out that elusive
element to balancing home and career, personal time and family,
and the other forces that life hurls at you on a daily basis.
" One can never consent to creep when one feels an
impulse to soar."
Helen Keller
The goal was to write a very simple book with a very simple
message. The book could be read by anyone at any age. In very
little time the reader will quickly understand the steps necessary
to acquire discipline. We all know how important discipline is
and always will be. So why don't people do a better job of
applying it to enhance and organize their lives to get as much
accomplished as humanly possible each and everyday?
Harris thought his objectives were accomplished. The sole
purpose for writing that book was to not only teach people about
discipline but to help them acquire it as well. You might say that
accomplishing one out of two goals isn't bad, but Harris felt that
he hadn't completed that goal in its entirety. People were still
asking me the same questions after the first book was published.
- Why is it so difficult to put some structure in my life?
- Why is it so hard to focus on my priorities?
- Why can't I be consistent with my exercise?
- There aren't enough hours in a day to do everything –
I have so much I want to accomplish and I can't keep
up with it all!
- I can't motivate myself – I need a push.
Harris says, "At first I was perplexed because I thought I was
preaching discipline 101. In my mind this stuff was easy to
comprehend. It wasn't rocket science. So what's up with these
people? Why couldn't they get their act together?
After hearing these above statements I realized that
understanding the steps for acquiring discipline and learning how
to acquire it is one thing and doing it is something else
altogether. Attempting to practice it consistently is where people
normally fail. Therefore, the guiding principle behind this book
is helping people motivate and push themselves by training their
mind. Our goal for this book is to teach people how to acquire
discipline for themselves."
This book is about training the mind so you can use it as a tool
to manage your life as if it were a business. This is the business
end of what it takes to get your life headed in the direction that
you want it to go. You will learn how to train your mind and
what the power of a trained mind can do for you. As with the
first book, this will also be very easy to read, absorb, and
comprehend.
"Don't go through Life, Grow through Life."
Eric Butterworth
Discipline is the one thing that encompasses all the positive
aspects of ourselves in order to remove all those undesirable
things that challenge all of us everyday of our lives. This is why
all those self-help books that target specific areas (losing weight,
building confidence, career enhancement) are gathering dust and
you are still searching for some divine intervention to come into
your life. You're holding it in your hands right now. You know
its true. Take a minute and think about it. For everything that
you have struggled to overcome in your life the reason it remains
an issue is a simple lack of discipline to pull it off. Don't be
fooled. There is nothing simple about it, but it remains the one
single attribute that stands between you and your goals. If you
had discipline you never would have felt so overwhelmed by so
many things – ever. Lack of it has kept you from applying all
those previous readings to your life.
This book is for anyone who is tired of battling the same old
bothersome issues in their life and knows they can beat them. It
doesn't matter how many issues stand in your way, even one is
too many once you welcome discipline into your life. We don't
just tell you how to apply it, we show you. You will build your
own Personally Regulated Improvement Model to Excel
(PRIME) to incorporate discipline into your own life and on your
own terms. You have complete control of it. Once you've
successfully PRIMEd your life, you can use that control to
enhance the quality of your life any way you please.
