You're Already Disciplined, You Just Need To Apply It The Right Way - Part 2

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I love my clients, and I love what I do. But I'm constantly shocked at how the people that come to me for coaching have little to no definition of their vision if they even have a vision for their future.

"A vague vision will get vague results, and a clear vision will get clear results."

Discipline is a much-needed tool when it comes to walking out our purpose, but without a clear vision our newly applied "discipline" can have us being very busy but not as productive.

One of the first steps to getting a good vision is getting help from someone that has been where you want to go. If I could do it on my own I wouldn't be reevaluating my current position, to begin with.

Getting the vision comes from getting help from someone who sees different than you.

Whenever I'm faced with a big decision, or I feel God calling me into something new, I pray, and then I run it by a few friends that I trust. I ask them for honest feedback.

What am I doing when I do this?

I am getting a different viewpoint, or in other words, a different vision. I need to see the path forward as clearly as possible, and extra sets of eyes help me do that.

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20-minute video with insights and practical tools you can begin to apply today.

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Here are some good questions that will help you bring definition to your vision.

Where do you want to be in a year?

What are you willing to do to get there?

What are you going to change, and what are the action steps you are going to start taking to get there?

Next step? Accountability.

Get a guide that leads you down the path and helps you avoid pitfalls.

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You're Already Disciplined, You Just Need To Apply It The Right Way - Part 1

If you think about it, people that struggle with addiction are already very disciplined people. For years we stayed focused on being drunk and high no matter what. That takes a lot of discipline.

What if the discipline you need is already in you, you just need a different mindset and value system to reap the right benefits from it.

When we were caught in active addiction our motivating factor was running from responsibilities and numbing the pain that life had dealt us, or the pain we dealt ourselves.

What if the same discipline can be accessed and used for your recovery?

Just flip the script on it

I believe the first step to seeing discipline as a positive thing is learning to see correction as a positive thing. When we resist correction (healthy correction from healthy people, that is) it shows that we think we have it all figured out, and we all know that we don't.

When my recovery started I had hit a new low. I was forced into a decision. Refuse correction and eventually die, or embrace correction and live the life I had been dreaming of. I took corrections and directions.

One of the first places I applied it was in my daily disciplines of prayer and reading. The results? Well, they were powerful and life-changing.

I could stay high and drunk every day no matter what, therefore I had no excuse to not be connecting with God and handling my business everyday...no matter what.

Discipline is active in your life no matter what, think about it...

You might say, “I’m not disciplined. I watch way too much Netflix.”

Well, it takes discipline to watch that much Netflix. You’re watching that much Netflix because you believe it’s providing you some kind of value. Is it?

Once you realize that applying your discipline to binge-watching isn’t empowering you to partake of the life you truly want you’re left with a decision. That decision is, do you still want to use your time and discipline to do something that isn't getting you where you really want to go?

So, where do you want to go?

And are the actions you're taking getting you there?

Here are 3 Quick Tips to Begin to Shift Your Discipline

1- Write down where you want to be in the next 90 days of your life.

2- Begin to pray into that 90-day vision on a daily basis.

3- As the vision begins to manifest in your life, update and adjust it for continued growth.

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Blacked Out at the Wheel

For years I ruined my life with the excuse, "I'll start my recovery tomorrow."

I hated the reality that my life had become, but I wanted to put off facing the mess for one more day. I did that for over a decade. Every time I put it off, it got worse.

I had the opportunity to be done with my insane addiction to drugs and alcohol at the age of twenty-one, but I still thought that I could manage my unquenchable thirst for escaping reality through self-medicating on my own.

At the age of twenty-one, I landed in my first treatment center. I was lost, sick, and done with life. Here is what I didn't know at the time about addition, IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE.

The treatment center I went to was a nine-month program, and I was five months in and I was doing really well. At least from the outside looking in. The truth is that I was doing the best I could to obey all the rules and avoid talking about the real issues going on inside of me.

At about that five-month mark I realized that I would have to open up soon and start talking about all the chaos that was swirling around inside of me. That was frightening. The idea of talking through my feelings, without drugs and alcohol to help, nearly made my heart explode from a panic attack.

So one night I just up and split. I ran right out the front door and called some friends. I was high on drugs within an hour, and the next day I was back sleeping in my parent's basement thinking about how I could somehow manage my addiction this time around.

Within two weeks I totaled my car in a drunken blackout, fled the scene, got away, and continued my drinking all night. The next day I was in handcuffs, again.

For years I kept believing the lie that I could manage my addiction on my own. I always looked forward to one more day of partying, and then I would start my recovery tomorrow, and for over thirteen years that mentality made my life worse and worse and worse.

It wasn't until I got help and gave up doing it my way that things started changing.

That change started over eleven years ago and continues today. If I could go back and give my twenty one year old self a bit of advice it would be this, "Face your issues today, and get some help no matter what it takes. Your addiction will always get worse, so just face it and quit before it does."

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