Strategic Discipline Blog

Before a recent Neuro Change Solutions, Change Your Mind. Create New Results training, I met individually with each participant to review pre-training assignments. These conversations were designed to help them clarify what they truly wanted to gain from the experience.

I call this “divine discontent”—a state many of us know well. It's our very human tendency to seek more, to improve, to achieve. And while that drive can fuel growth, it often robs us of the ability to appreciate the now.

Are You Living Authentically?

In "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One, Dr. Joe Dispenza describes a pivotal moment when he stopped living as the version of himself the world expected and chose instead to live as his authentic self. At the peak of his fame following What the Bleep Do We Know!?, he withdrew from public life for six months—not to escape, but to align his inner world with the image he was projecting.

He writes:

“I said I would never walk onstage again until I was no longer living an ideal for the world, but one for myself… I wanted to have joy from within me and not from outside of me.”

That honest introspection became a turning point—not just in his life, but in the lives of those he's since helped.

So here’s the question: Are you living a version of yourself crafted for others, or are you living from within?

The Gap Between Who You Are and How You Appear

Dr. Joe calls this space “the gap.” It’s the emotional and energetic distance between our true selves and the person we present to the world. And the wider the gap, the more energy we use maintaining appearances—and the more addicted we become to familiar, often negative, emotional states.

We’ve all experienced it:

• Reacting with anger in traffic.
• Letting a coworker’s mood derail our day.
• Skipping the gym because we “don’t feel like it.”
• Pushing through stress and fatigue because time pressures demand it.

These behaviors widen the gap and reinforce our unconscious patterns. They keep us tethered to the past and out of alignment with the person we truly want to become.

Close the Gap. Reclaim Your Energy.

Imagine standing in a room, arms stretched out, holding two walls apart. That’s what it’s like living inauthentically—exhausting. But if you let go of those walls, step forward, and walk into a new room, something powerful happens: you transform.

That’s not just a metaphor—it’s physics. Energy can’t be destroyed, only transferred. When we close the gap between who we are and how we appear, the energy we once used to maintain that separation becomes available for creation.

You stop living by default. You start creating by design.

Dr. Joe explains it this way: As you unmemorize the emotions that have defined your identity, you liberate your body from emotional dependency. You release stored energy into the quantum field. The result? Joy. Vitality. A renewed sense of purpose.

Call to Action

Are you tired of living in the gap between who you are and who you think you're supposed to be?

Let’s talk.

📞 Contact Positioning Systems to schedule a free exploratory conversation. Let’s uncover what’s next—not by striving, but by aligning who you are with who you’re becoming.

Growth demands Strategic Discipline.

If you’re like me, you don’t have much patience for excuses, especially your own.

In next week’s blog, we’ll break down the anatomy of an excuse—why we make them, how they keep us stuck in the familiar past, and what they reveal about our resistance to change.

We’ll also explore why successful people understand this universal truth:

The most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

If you’re ready to stop justifying the status quo and start taking ownership of your future, don’t miss it.

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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