Life is a battle for territory/space. Life is also a war for Transformation. This transformation is represented in the pursuit or defense of economic and/or political power (advantage) to create change or have control over circumstances.

When you stop engaging in the battle for improvement and transformation, that day you qualify for captivity in the camp of socialization. The challenge with not fighting for transformation is that, when you do not fight for what you want, what you don’t want will quickly settle into your life and environment.

Therefore, you must have an active battle rhythm not a simple rhythm to life. In an active battle rhythm, a trained soldier will not entangle himself with matters of civilian.

This means that the commitment of a soldier is focused on the higher order of winning the war. You can lose some few battles when you slip into unguardedness or indiscipline, or failure of intelligence/wisdom but the goal is to ultimately win the war.

For the war towards transformation in a system, the leading minds know that:

1. Their ideal is to sweat more in training – preparatory battle rhythm – so that they can bleed less on the day of war or cross examination. Staying active in preparation is essential for growth. And growth is a pre-requisite for sustainable success. Preparation with sustained sacrifice is the key to greatness.
2. A defending Battle Rhythm never wins a war, you must be on the offensive to win. You must take that certification exams, you must embrace that change, you must learn that skills, go for that training, you must be in motion towards your goals.
3. Your life must have a purpose. A reason deeper than the superficial realm for existing. All disciplined battle rhythm must have a focus and an objective to be achieved.
4. Always beware of disguise and deep-seated deceit in yourself, your environment, or your system. Beware of the 5th Column. Purge yourself of every deceit within you. The concept of the 5th column as I use it in this write up is the inner weakness, blind spot, or hidden gap which can cause self-destruction if not dealt with or kept under watch. This 5th column could also be leveraged upon by an external threat to destroy a person or a system. Discipline and active battle rhythm is needed to do continuous scanning for a 5th column and deal with appropriately when discovered. 
5. Don’t allow the enemy to break your communication line with your source of Wisdom & Strength. Use surprise as a weapon, if necessary to keep your continuous collaboration with your mentors, coaches, and teachers.
6. The purpose of life is not just to exist and arrive safely at death. Don’t just hang in there or show up, you must decide to fight. You should build capacity and fight. Do not wish it would become easier and lighter as the journey progresses, it’s for you to become stronger, more active, better, and wiser to adapt to changing realities. Wisdom is superior to power.
7. The bigger the vision you hope to accomplish, the more the discipline required to drive the structures and systems required to maintain your battle rhythm. The more the capacity that you need to build early on in life. It is off essence to take on the battle from childhood and do it consistently. Transformation always takes time. The sacrifices and the prices required to be paid for transformation has no short cut.