Andy Stumpf

And the thing I liked a lot about McRaven's messaging around the bed is that it started your day with a small act of discipline that could seem meaningless.

But then what if you pair another small one with that and then another small one with that?

I think that can really set you up for success in your day.

And yes, at the end of the day, boom, your bed's ready to go and you can hop back into it.

It just feels better to get into a main bed.

I don't think it's ever by reflex.

I think it's always by will.

And it's not fun.

And don't get me wrong.

I'm not perfect at it.

But if I can look back at my lives or my life at times where things were a little bit less fun,

effort involved in being successful or making traction, it wasn't in chaos.

It was in a little bit more of a controlled environment by me, again, controlling what I can control, which is my actions in the morning.

If you sit down in front of a desk and you can't even find the thing that you're looking for to do the work on it, I don't know anybody who has become ultra successful in life with that model.

But I think we could both sit down and talk about some people who are nailing it.

And I think the vast majority of them would fall into that tidy category or disciplined category.

But it's microdiscipline.

They can make it seem as if you have this macrodiscipline, but that's not actually what it is.

It's the little things that nobody sees.

That's what leads you to that end state.