<h1><span style="font-size: small;">Discipline</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Your world needs to be predictable. It needs to be ordered and planned. So you instinctively impose structure on your world. You set up routines. You focus on timelines and deadlines. You break long-term projects into a series of specific short-term plans, and you work through each plan diligently. You are not necessarily neat and clean, but you do need precision. Faced with the inherent messiness of life, you want to feel in control. The routines, the timelines, the structure, all of these help create this feeling of control. Lacking this theme of Discipline, others may sometimes resent your need for order, but there need not be conflict. You must understand that not everyone feels your urge for predictability; they have other ways of getting things done. Likewise, you can help them understand and even appreciate your need for structure. Your dislike of surprises, your impatience with errors, your routines, and your detail orientation don't need to be misinterpreted as controlling behaviors that box people in. Rather, these behaviors can be understood as your instinctive method for maintaining your progress and your productivity in the face of life's many distractions.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Seek out roles and   responsibilities where structure exists.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Don't hesitate to check as often as necessary to ensure that   things are right. You feel an urge to do it anyway, and soon enough others   will come to expect it of you.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Learn how to use a time   management system. It will make you even more efficient and give you more   confidence.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Create routines that make   you follow through systematically. Over time, people will come to appreciate   this kind of rigorous predictability.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Recognize that mistakes might depress you. Precision is a core   part of who you are; however, you must find ways to move through these   moments of annoyance to prevent becoming dragged down.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Help other people add a little order to their lives. Do it in   the right way and they will appreciate it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Be ready to:</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Explain your Discipline   theme to your close associates. Initially they might resent your   perfectionism, but once you have explained how it works for you, do not be   afraid to let your perfectionism show. Others will want to see it in action.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Recognize that many   others are not as disciplined as you are. More than likely, their clumsy   process will frustrate you, so try to look beyond it, and instead assess them   on their results, not on their process.</span></p>
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