Comments on: Axis Control http://learn-to-tango.com/axis-control/tango-videos/intermediate-tango/axis-control/ My world hasn't changed because I teach tango, I teach tango because tango changed my world! -Rusty Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:50:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve http://learn-to-tango.com/axis-control/tango-videos/intermediate-tango/axis-control/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Steve Tue, 05 May 2009 21:58:03 +0000 http://learn-to-tango.com/lessons/?p=64#comment-3 If I would only finally understand that self-discipline is something one uses, not something one has, then I could use it to accomplish virtually any goal I ever set. I could use it whenever I wanted, or leave it behind whenever I wanted. Instead, I worry. I worry about whether I've got what it takes. Whether it's "in" me. Whether my parents and guardians put it there. (Some think it's put there experientially, some think it's put there genetically. It's neither. It's never put "in" there at all. Self-discipline is a tool that anyone can use. Like a hammer. Like a dictionary.) Enlightened coaches (like mine) get more out of their clients because they know that each of their clients already has everything it takes to be successful. They don't buy the excuses, the apologies, the sad fatalism that most non-performers skillfully try to sell to them. They just don't buy it. And I am so glad they don't. Fearlessly in this club with you, Steve If I would only finally understand that self-discipline is something one uses, not something one has, then I could use it to accomplish virtually any goal I ever set. I could use it whenever I wanted, or leave it behind whenever I wanted.

Instead, I worry. I worry about whether I’ve got what it takes. Whether it’s “in” me. Whether my parents and guardians put it there. (Some think it’s put there experientially, some think it’s put there genetically. It’s neither. It’s never put “in” there at all. Self-discipline is a tool that anyone can use. Like a hammer. Like a dictionary.)

Enlightened coaches (like mine) get more out of their clients because they know that each of their clients already has everything it takes to be successful. They don’t buy the excuses, the apologies, the sad fatalism that most non-performers skillfully try to sell to them. They just don’t buy it. And I am so glad they don’t.

Fearlessly in this club with you,

Steve

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