3 Forms of Discipline: Reactive + Structural + Expansive (Areté +1 #255)

Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Arete One degree. This is another micro chapter from my book, Arete, Activate your heroic potential. Objective 5 is on mastering yourself. This is one of the first ideas in that chapter. Objective might be one of my favorites. Three forms of discipline. Reactive, structural and expansive. Phil Stutts tells us we need to develop three forms of discipline. Reactive discipline, structural discipline, and expansive discipline. Here's the quick take on each. First, we have reactive discipline, which is just what it sounds like. Something triggers you. Can you step in between the stimulus and your habitual suboptimal response with the discipline to choose a better response? Fantastic. That's reactive discipline. Structural discipline is all about the daily habits that keep us plugged in, that give our lives the structure we need to connect to and express the best version of ourselves. And of course, structural discipline is the foundation of the protocol we want to make sure we're executing, especially when we don't feel like it. Then we have expansive discipline. This, Phil says, is both the most important and and the hardest of the three. Every single moment we have a choice. Will we step forward into growth or back into safety? If we want to activate our heroic potential and have a shot at experiencing all that we're capable of being, we must more and more consistently shout bring it on. As we choose to expand, expand, expand. In short, we need to make that expansion a discipline. How about a quick inventory? How are you doing with your reactive discipline, your structural discipline, and your expansive discipline? What's awesome, what needs work, and what's one thing you can do a little differently today? Here's to your disciplines, all three of them. I hope you enjoyed that Arete plus one degree from my new book, Activate your heroic potential. The book will be shipped on November 14, right before Black Friday. In time to make it the perfect holiday gift, perhaps. I wanted to let you know that we have some special giveaways if you think you might like to pre order the book. And even more goodies if you think you might want to give the book away this holiday season. Here's the deal. Pre order one copy and get a free advanced reader copy of the ebook today. Pre order three copies and get a free advanced copy of the ebook and the audiobook and a limited edition Arete coin that we'll send to you. Pre order 10 copies of the book. Bless you. And get all of that plus an autographed advanced hardcover reader copy sent to you immediately inside the fancy Arete VIP box, which is packed with other goodies, including this Arete T shirt. A Heroic t shirt and 10 free annual heroic memberships for your gift recipients. You'd be able to give them a book and a year's worth of Heroic for free. If you pre order 25 copies, you'll get all that plus a free ticket to our launch event party in Austin November 10th through 12th. And you'll get a personal voice memo. Thank you. And a high five from me if you're feeling inspired to order over 50 copies of the book. We've been blessed to have a lot of CEOs and corporations do that. We'll give you a huge discount. Just let us know all of this you can learn more about at Heroic U.S. book. Heroic U.S. book of course you can order the book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble. Independent bookstores will be everywhere you can buy a book, Hudson's Airport stores, et cetera. And let us know of course when you've done that and purchased a copy or three or ten or more if you feel inspired to do so at Heroic Us Book. I appreciate you and I hope you love the book. I'm super excited about it, super proud of it, and I hope it helps you and your families transform your lives.