One of the things that is obviously needed in any type of ILP practice is a sense of discipline, an ability to persevere and maintain a practice schedule, in the face of the busy-ness of life.

I read an article the other day, about success in life.

Correlation of success - and happiness - with those with a high degree of self-discipline, in comparison with those with high intelligence - those who were self-disciplined and less intelligent acheived more, and were generally happier, than those of higher intelligence, but less self-discipline. 

Now of course, those with high self-discipline and high intelligence, they average out to having the most success.

However, the ILP Kit, in general, doesn't really address the area of self-discipline, but in a sense, "assumes the close", or assumes that the self-discipline ncecessary is pre-existent.  (Although care is taken to simplify things, so the flow of practice is easier, meaning less self-discipline needed.)

We all know the expression - "give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day - teach him how to fish, he's eat forever".

The ILP Kit definitely works from this approach.  Give people practices, they will engage the practices that work for them, and grow, expand, and find meaning in one's internal, communitarian, and spiritual life.

But the basis of doing practice (at least I haven't seen it so far) isn't addressed.

It definitely attempts to simplify the choices that are out there, and the workbooks are okay.  I will defnitely have more to say about this later, as I go through the Kit.