The resilience-factor nr. 5. Confronted with the word discipline many people suddenly get the feeling of powerlessness. A bit of this kind of a story: ‘Tried it each year, but gave in after a couple of weeks.’ For many people discipline has something of a slightly demotivating and unreachable ideal. People with a high resilience-factor however, have a rather well-developed form of discipline, and are therefore better capable in enjoying life. They are less dependent on the change of mood or luxury-problems (like too much fat on the bones, too little or too irregular sleep, too little exercise, etc.).
In his newest book ‘Great by Choice’ Jim Collins gives an overview of 10 companies that even amidst of the great turbulences within the markets have kept on growing constantly and are still very successful and healthy. One of the principles that is distinguishing these companies from their main competition is ‘the 20 miles march principle’. If you are walking each day for 20 miles from out of LA, you’ll get to New York within 100 days. The Roman army forces have also lived by this rule (literally). They marched each day for 20 miles, and made camp at exactly that spot, no matter if it was only 3 PM or already 7 PM.
