After our unsuccessful attempt to talk about, understand, and create vision, we decided to move on to the next chapter "Self-Discipline" at this condensed meeting.

We were mostly fixed on one very insightful statement by Mr. Maxwell - "I define discipline as the choice of achieving what you really want by doing things you don’t really want to do."  Most of us agreed with this statement and some of us even confessed that we did things we only liked without considering what we wanted to achieve.  I also raised the issue of some acquaintances who continue to focus on the short-term yet keep achieving spectacular results (at least according to popular notion).  We all agreed that focusing on the long-term will definitely yield better long-term results.  Only time will tell if that is true

I did not have the mind map ready for this session so we wandered a bit but promised to create one before the next session on September 17th.  So, please look out for a brand new mind map on Self-Discipline over the next few days.

We had an extended discussion on “asking the right questions” during our first-ever afternoon meeting of Bizbookclub. We focused most of our discussion on confronting people when a leader needs to.

Mr. Maxwell recommends that a leader should try to substitute “confront” with “clarify” if it is threatening to others. However, we agreed that some people and situations actually yield better results if confrontation is used tactically.

We then moved to an interesting sub-section on confrontation called “10 commandments of confrontation”. We had some very exciting segues into vital behaviors, core characteristics and other psychological aspects of humans. We generated a very exciting idea about vital behaviors during this side-conversation and I will dwell on that in future posts. As it is becoming a trend with our meetings, we could hardly get past 1 section of 1 chapter, albeit for a good reason. We concluded the meeting at the 8th of the 10 commandments.

For more details about this chapter, please review the mindmap at: Chapter 7: People