Strategic Discipline Blog

What if—instead of feeling frustrated or grinding through each day—you actually loved how you lived and worked?

Sound unrealistic?

It’s not.

Change Your Mind. Create New Results training can deliver this kind of transformation.
But not without challenge—and not without you changing.

The Real Problem Isn’t Your Goals—It’s Your Identity

Most people try to improve results without changing who they are being.

They react to stress.
They get pulled into drama.
They feel frustrated with teammates.
They take failure personally—or resent others’ success.

That’s not a performance problem.
That’s an identity problem.

In his 3-2-1 Thursday Atomic Habits newsletter, James Clear captured this truth perfectly:

“New goals don’t deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.”

Habits Reveal Who You Believe You Are

How often do you pause to notice why you do what you do?

You wake up the same way.
Drink your coffee the same way.
Follow the same morning routine.
Walk the dog on the same route.

These aren’t just habits—they’re expressions of identity.

If you drink your coffee black, you might even brag about it. Why?
Because it’s who you are.

You stay stuck where you are—getting the same results—because you keep reinforcing the same identity through unconscious routines.

Why Most Resolutions Fail

Every January, millions of people set new goals—and most abandon them almost immediately.

By the second Friday of January—often called Quitter’s Day—motivation collapses. By mid-February, most resolutions are gone.

Why?

Because people chase outcomes, not processes.
They try to change results without changing identity.
They rely on willpower instead of habits and energy.

Can You Actually Change Your Identity?

YES.

Change Your Mind. Create New Results training is designed to help you do exactly that—by shifting how you think, act, and feel.

But let’s be clear:

It will require difficulty.
It will require discomfort.
It will require you to change your energy.

When your energy changes, your habits change.
When your habits change, your identity changes.
When your identity changes, your results follow—naturally.

You stop chasing outcomes because you’re living the process.

Greatness Begins Now

As The Science of Being Great reminds us:

“Do not merely think that you are going to become great; think that you are great now… Begin to deal in a great way with small things.”

This is the work:

• Believing differently
• Behaving differently
• Becoming someone new

Not someday.
Now.

Choose the Process. Choose Yourself.

At Positioning Systems, we help leaders and teams break free from the familiar past and intentionally build envisioned futures—personally and professionally.

Ready to create your future?

It’s time to choose you.

If you’re ready to rewire your thinking, elevate your emotions, and create new results for yourself and your organization, explore NCS – Change Your Mind. Create New Results. training.

Challenge yourself.
Challenge your team.
Challenge your business.

👉 Contact us today for a free exploratory meeting—and begin becoming the hero of your own story.

Let’s create your envisioned future—together.

Growth demands Strategic Discipline.

Your envisioned future doesn’t begin when circumstances are perfect—it often begins much earlier than you realize.

I’m currently reading The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, and one thing becomes immediately clear: Warren Buffett didn’t stumble into success. His vision for working in the stock market began at a remarkably young age—and he consistently took action in alignment with that vision.

In next week’s blog, I’ll share a powerful segment from the book that illustrates how Buffett’s long-term success was the result of envisioning his future early—and behaving in ways that made it inevitable.

His story isn’t about luck or brilliance alone.
It’s about clarity, consistency, and commitment to an envisioned future.

So let me ask you:

What’s your envisioned future—and what actions are you taking today to bring it to life?

That’s where real change begins.

Building an enduring great organization requires disciplined people, disciplined thought, disciplined action, superior results, producing a distinctive impact on the world.

Discipline sustains momentum over a long period of time, laying the foundations for lasting endurance.

A winning habit starts with 3 Strategic Disciplines: Priority, Metrics, and Meeting Rhythms.   Forecasting, accountability, individual, and team performance improve dramatically.

Meeting Rhythms achieve a disciplined focus on performance metrics to drive growth.

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