This is the Warrior Kid Podcast number 15 Ask Uncle Jake. This podcast is based on

the two way of the Warrior Kid books. The first one, Wimpy to Warrior, the Navy

Seal Way, and the second one, which is called Mark's Mission. And both those books

are about young Mark who faces a lot of the problems that kids everywhere face.

But Mark gets some help solving those problems from his uncle Jake who was a

Navy Seal and he stays with Mark in the summertime. And so this podcast is for

kids to hear some more lessons from Uncle Jake and also get a chance to ask

Uncle Jake questions. So here we go. The first question is from a six-year-old

Warrior Kid named Creed. And his question is, will you please help me

understand what having discipline means? So I talk about discipline a lot, but

I'm gonna clarify it again for Creed because sometimes we don't understand

things at first and we got to hear them again and that's actually good to ask

questions if you don't understand something. So Creed asked the question, no

problem. Here we go. Having discipline means doing things that are hard to do.

It means doing things that might not feel good while you're doing them, but they

will feel good when you're done because you know you've done something good.

For instance, having discipline means saving your money instead of wasting it.

It means eating healthy food. Food that makes you strong instead of eating junk

foods which might taste good, but they actually make you weak. Having discipline

means studying. When you actually feel like maybe you want to watch some TV, it

means practicing your guitar or whatever instrument you play. It means practicing

that instrument instead of playing a video game. Having discipline basically

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