Self-leadership

"Discipline is the difference between the dreamer and the doer.  Many people can visualize a bold future and tell a good story about what they are going to do.  Some even set out to put their good intentions into practice.  But few people are able to stick to their plans. ... Authenticity means 'being true to me.'  And it's hard work.  Getting real is tough.  Staying real in relationship with others is even tougher.  It's a lifelong struggle to keep peeling back the layers of my external actions to get to my inner self and then to express who I really am in the world in a way that makes a difference, for myself and others." -- Jim Clemmer

God, how perfect is this for those of you with whom I am in the midst of life planning.  Hasn't this been the big conversation?  How do we find the discipline to stay true to ourselves in the midst of life's distractions and melodramas? 

I have found that those who seem to "make it," whatever that means, seem to be the ones who make up that their lives depend on it - on finding and maintaining that discipline.  They view it as "life or death," and when you think about it, in some ways it truly is.