The Lonely Leader helps existing and aspiring leaders become the best version of themselves.
We believe that leadership on the outside begins within.
By sharing decades of leadership experience, insights and best practice we can help you sharpen your skills.
Our unique and authentic style, drawing upon learnings from success and failure, will ensure you are better prepared to optimise your performance and meet the challenges of the modern day leader.
We regularly discuss creating and sustaining high performance, enhancing resilience, empowering our mindset and finding professional and personal fulfilment.
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The Lonely Leader helps existing and aspiring leaders become the best version of themselves.
We believe that leadership on the outside begins within.
By sharing decades of leadership experience, insights and best practice we can help you sharpen your skills.
Our unique and authentic style, drawing upon learnings from success and failure, will ensure you are better prepared to optimise your performance and meet the challenges of the modern day leader.
We regularly discuss creating and sustaining high performance, enhancing resilience, empowering our mindset and finding professional and personal fulfilment.
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Episode 101
Leadership Essentials: Discipline - The Foundation of High Performance
SUMMARY SECTION
In this episode of The Lonely Leader Podcast, James Rule explores the leadership essential of discipline. Far from being rigid or punishing, discipline is the quiet force that drives consistency, focus, momentum, clarity and long-term high performance.
James breaks down the three biggest myths about discipline and reveals why disciplined leaders outperform their peers over the long term. Drawing on insights from Tom Brady, David Goggins, and Jocko Willink, he shows how the world’s top performers use discipline to stay focused, overcome obstacles and take complete ownership of their growth.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
This episode is packed with actionable strategies to strengthen your self-discipline, reduce distraction, eliminate comparison, reclaim your attention, and create daily habits that support exceptional leadership.
Whether you’re leading a team, a business, or simply striving to become a better version of yourself, this is essential listening for anyone committed to lasting high performance.
ABOUT THE HOST
James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors.
His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level.
As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance.
EPISODES TO CHECK OUT NEXT
Episode 99 - Leadership Essentials: Productivity - Reclaiming focus in a distracted world
Episode 93 - Inside The Lonely Leader: My story, my philosophy, my purpose
Episode 11- Leadership Essentials: Delegation
CONNECT & CONTACT
Website www.thelonelyleader.co.uk
Email: hello@thelonelyleader.co.uk
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