Creating Your Leadership Discipline
Cleggett, Joe
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Add to basketDedication, v,
Acknowledgments, ix,
Prologue, xi,
Chapter 1 The Shortcut, 1,
Chapter 2 The Changing World, 17,
Chapter 3 Understanding Who You Are, 37,
Chapter 4 Talents, 61,
Chapter 5 Discipline, 85,
Chapter 6 Communication, 107,
Chapter 7 The 'Beginning' At 'The End', 129,
The Stories, 146,
Endnotes, 187,
Bibliography, 191,
THE SHORTCUT
The first thing you have to know about this book is that I like to tell stories. Most of them are 'probably' true, although on occasion the vivid imagination of my childhood may alter some of the facts. But I assure you this will be of no detriment to what you may learn from reading this book. When telling stories, it is sometimes important to be repetitious in what is being said, so you may read the same point two, three, or even four times in different parts of the book. This lets me drive home an important point about how to discover your talents and to create discipline to promote what you do best. I hope you enjoy reading the book as much as I enjoyed writing it and I hope my stories help you to know and understand yourself and what you can get out of this book.
The first and probably the most important story is appropriately called "The Shortcut". It takes place when I was about five years old and is about how I got to school as a kid. I am the youngest of five children; my next older sibling is Bill who plays a key part in this story as he also did in many stories throughout my life.
We lived about a mile from the Monatiquot School and the route to the school, although on back roads, was up and over a pretty high hill. My mother would pack me up in the morning in my hand-me-down clothes and give me my lunch in a paper bag and send me off with my personal escort and guardian Bill. We would usually meet up with the notorious Smith boys, Peter was Bills age and Paul was a year older than me. As has been the case throughout my life, I was the youngest and always last in whatever we did. Bill and I would leave the house and the trek would begin. Bill would always be about fifty feet ahead of me and would constantly yell "hurry up, or we'll be late". That mattered to him because he was in the sixth grade, very popular, and wanted to make his mark at the beginning of each day with his friends to assure himself of his stature in the school. I on the other hand was in kindergarten, had a nickname of 'Butchie' and was only interested in blending in and being Billy's brother. We would usually meet up with the Smith boys and the trek would continue. Bill and Peter would lead the parade with Paul somewhere in the middle and Butchie picking up the rear. It would all go pretty well except for the constant bullying I had to put up with from Paul, who was a large (fat) kid who always had to be poking or prodding someone smaller than him. Occasionally the command would come from the top, Bill or Peter, "leave him alone". If it came from Bill it would usually include "or I'll kick your ass". This would stop any problem with Paul, as any one knew that if Bill said he would 'kick your ass', he would.
About ten minutes into the trek we would be entering the Thayer Academy woods which would be the first 'shortcut' in the journey and that was pretty nice. We would walk on paths cut through the woods covered with years of pine needles that had dropped off
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