Here’s a curious question for you.
Which is greater — the power in your possession or your discipline to use it?
Where your power exceeds your discipline, you have abilities that go untouched, emotions that go unchecked, and possibilities that go unrealized.
It’s like an iPad in the hands of a child. Extraordinary power limited by the awareness, discipline, or skill of the user.
Where your discipline exceeds your power, you exhaust your abilities (then expand them), channel your emotions, and realize unimagined possibilities.
It’s like a brush in the hands of Michelangelo, a pen in the hands of Emerson, a microphone in the hands of Churchill, a tennis racket in the hands of Serena, a basketball in the hands of Caitlin Clark, a camera in the hands of Christopher Nolan.
I don’t know if any of us, including those I just listed, ever reach the true limits of our power in our lifetime. I have my doubts. Not because our discipline is so weak but because our power is so great.
But it’s not about whether we actually reach our limits, if limits exist at all.
It’s about reaching for them, however unknown and elusive they may be. It’s about not inventing false limits, not imposing limits on ourselves, not claiming we can’t when the truth is we won’t, not leaving untapped power on the table that could impact the people and things we care about.
Your power passes through the gates of your discipline. An ocean of power does little good behind closed or narrow gates.
Keep your gates of discipline strong and you can open them wider than you ever imagined.
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