Strategic Discipline Blog

In Cancer Cured Chapter V - My Father’s Love, I shared the story of my lack of confidence after making the “A” team in 7th grade. Just one year earlier, as I described in CANCER CURED CHAPTER IV – Patience & Focus, I had only been good enough for the “C” team. That embarrassment drove me to commit to daily basketball practice and self-improvement.

My father noticed my commitment, my intention, and my attention to growth. After I made the “A” team, he looked at me and said, “Don’t be giddy.”

At the time, I didn’t even know what the word meant. My dad, though temperamental at times, wasn’t given to criticism. His statement wasn’t meant to crush me. It was his way of redirecting me from foolish thinking, an attempt—whether intentional or not—to elevate my confidence and remind me not to let excitement collapse into self-doubt.

I don’t think I fully understood what he meant until decades later, during Dr. Joe Dispenza’s weeklong retreat in Nashville.

Believing in Others vs. Believing in Ourselves

I’ve always had a deep belief in others—their potential, capabilities, and power to achieve remarkable things. But that same belief in myself has often crumbled. I’ve failed to meet the same expectations I hold for others.

Marianne Williamson said it well in A Course in Miracles:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure… Your playing small doesn’t serve the world… As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same.”

Too often, I recognize brilliance in others while shrinking from it in myself. Have you ever done the same—doubting your own capacity to be “brilliant, gorgeous, talented, or fabulous”?

The Power of Meditation: Escaping Separation

Dr. Joe explained that in space-time—in our 3D world of body, environment, and time—we always feel separate. Time itself creates lack. In separation, we cannot attract what we long for.

That’s why meditation is so powerful. It takes us beyond this 3D world into the quantum—the field of infinite possibilities. In that place, when we’re filled with elevated emotions, we can align with Source. There, the rules are different. Possibilities are endless.

The truth: 95% of our lives are spent in the unconscious—replaying the familiar past or rehearsing a predictable future. Only in the present moment—the Now—do we have the power to create.

Stay in the past, and you rob yourself of the future. Step into the Now, and you reclaim your ability to design it.

Becoming: The Real Work

As Dr. Joe often reminds us:

“Stay at it. It’s not about getting rich or what you attain. Ultimately, it’s who you become in the process.”

Becoming requires:

• Believing in a greater future
• Behaving as if it’s already true
• Becoming that person through new thoughts, choices, and emotions

It’s about accountability—to ourselves, our loved ones, and the vision we want to bring to life.

No one is coming to save you. You must keep choosing you. The more present you are with family, friends, and yourself, the more you practice becoming, and the more joy you’ll create.

Union with Source

Meditation connects us with Source—the highest energy where separation dissolves. Matter is the slowest form of energy. Source is the fastest. When we release time, place, and identity—when we are in no time, no place, nowhere, nobody—we open ourselves to infinite possibility.

That’s where transformation happens. That’s where we stop playing small.

Action for You:
Don’t wait. Begin today. Step into the Now, practice meditation, and envision the person you want to become. Stay at it. Believe, behave, and become. That’s where joy lives, and where your light shines brightest.

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Growth demands Strategic Discipline.

In Change Your Mind. Create New Results, we share two powerful videos that illustrate what it feels like to experience elevated emotions. Our mammalian brain is wired to anticipate worst-case scenarios—believing that if we prepare for the worst, anything less will be survivable.

The problem? This mindset traps us in survival mode, anchored to the familiar past and a predictable future.

But survival isn’t where creativity—or transformation—lives. To reach our true potential, we must shift how we think, act, and feel. Elevated emotions are the key. They move us out of limitation and into possibility, opening the door to genuine creativity.

That’s the focus of next week’s blog.

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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