Strategic Discipline Blog

Most of us never realize this simple truth:
The only thing standing between you and the success you want is the person you are right now.

If you were already the person worthy of the results you want, you’d have them.

To achieve anything new, you must become someone new—someone who thinks, acts, and feels aligned with the future you want to create.

You want more.
You want to change.
But to get more, YOU must change.

Because if you stay the same, you get the same.
Every outcome you’ve ever created came from the identity you’ve been living with.

Your Greatest Obstacle: Your Comfort Zone

Your comfort zone is not safe—it’s just familiar.
And familiarity is the enemy of transformation.

This is what Change Your Mind Create New Results training is all about:
Elevating your identity so your past no longer limits your future.

And Dr. Joe Dispenza is not the only one who teaches this. The greatest thinkers, coaches, and scientists all agree:
Identity drives results.

Change your identity, and your results must follow.

A Real Example: The Client Who “Couldn’t Change”

For years, I’ve worked with a client who would commit, quit, come back, quit again… always frustrated with himself and his business for not growing.

He has superior intelligence.
He has the desire.
He has the capability.

But he keeps failing for one reason:
He refuses to change who he is.
Or more truthfully—
He believes he can’t change.

In Change Your Mind Create New Results training, we define addiction as:
Something you think you cannot change

He can’t see that he’s addicted to his present environment—an addiction reinforced by his body’s chemical cravings for familiar emotions. Those cravings keep him reliving the past, which means he keeps recreating the same predictable future.

And he’s not alone.
Most of us—including me—don’t realize how addicted we can become to our own circumstances.

Emotional Addiction: The Hidden Trap

Ask yourself:
What’s the first thing you feel when you stop any addiction?

A craving.

Your body craves what it’s used to:
– the suffering
– the anxiety
– the fear
– the frustration
– the familiar problems

This conditioning keeps you trapped.

Learn more here:
Read: Can YOU Be Addicted to Emotions?
Watch: Why Are People Addicted to the Lives They Don’t Even Like?

These emotional cravings are triggered by cues in your outer world—a co-worker who pushes your buttons, a customer complaint, a familiar stressor. Your body reacts before your mind even notices.

Why You Haven’t Changed (Yet)

In Your Personality Shapes Your Personal Reality, I shared an exercise that reveals the truth:

If you believe you can change without changing YOU, this exercise proves otherwise.

Every change you’ve failed to make happened for one reason:
You stayed the person you’ve always been—thinking, acting, and feeling the same.

You cannot change your life while remaining the same old self.
You can only change when you become someone new.

The First Step: Awareness

Change doesn’t begin with action.
It begins with awareness.

Be aware of how your comfort zone—and your emotional addictions—keep you repeating the same identity.

Tom Hopkins said something that became a cornerstone in my life:
“If you feel you can’t do something, then YOU MUST.”

Anything you believe you “can’t do” is a wall around your potential.
A limitation.
A lie.

You and I are unlimited.
The only things holding us back are our beliefs and our unwillingness to change.

And remember:
Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Ready to Create Your Future?

Now is the time to choose you.

At Positioning Systems, we help leaders and teams move beyond the familiar past to build cultures of inspiration, accountability, and growth.

If you’re ready to rewire your thinking and step into your envisioned future, explore our 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 start becoming the hero of your own story.

Growth demands Strategic Discipline.

In Change Your Mind. Create New Results training, we share three things to make your dreams come true. We not only share what these are, but also what steps you need to take to achieve your dreams. In next week’s blog, we’ll explore the three things you need to make your dreams come true.

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

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

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