The results from your daily review are in, and whatever the review revealed, it is time to revisit the mission. At the end of the day, succeed or fail, progress or regress, the mission is still primary. Tomorrow’s plans must be made based on the purpose and mission and not on today’s progress or setback. Perhaps you have heard the saying, “it’s time to go back to the drawing board.” Usually this saying is associated with failure but if we go back to the drawing board each day, keeping the mission in mind, new plans come out of success or failure.
Approaching each day with the value added from yesterday’s review gives us fresh eyes on the mission and a less encumbered view of today’s plan. Imagine coming to each day with fresh enthusiasm and a new set of eyes on the world. It does not mean that ongoing challenges and problems disappear, but like the sun rising on a new day, we rise each day with a new perspective on the mission. Driven by the purpose for which we are here on earth we take up the gauntlet and face the challenges of a new day.
Disciplined for success means starting each day with the added value of what we learned from yesterday’s portion of the journey. It takes discipline to disconnect from yesterday. It takes discipline to live today and relegate yesterday to the past. The only way to truly be disciplined for success is to stay on mission today.