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Sometimes it helps to get a little dose of encouragement-along with a good cup of coffee!-to start the day. Today we discuss "dissonance."

Hopefully, the message below will help you get off to a good start for the week. Please feel free to forward the newsletter along to others who you think would benefit from the content.

Dissonance

Every year, I try and pick a word to guide me through the year. This year it's discipline. Unfortunately, the word "dissonance" has been pushing its way into my life way too often-and, in the process, pushing aside discipline. However, I'm aware and taking steps to address the intruder!

For me, dissonance occurs in my mind when there is a disconnect between the person I want/aspire to be and the life I am living in the moment. Dissonance occurs when:

• I don't exercise on plan.
• I eat too much.
• I procrastinate and fail to get things done on time.
• I act in a manner that is inconsistent with my values.

In each of the above cases-as well as many more-dissonance takes over my mind AFTER I fail to apply discipline to my actions.

Fortunately, life is NOT all or nothing, and I'm able to leverage the discomfort/annoyance of dissonance to make small modifications to my behaviors. Do these modifications ensure that I stay on track perfectly? Nope. But they do cause me to make small, consistent changes to my behaviors-changes that better align to the vision of the person who I want to become.

Dissonance can be an incredible force when leveraged correctly.

That brings us to this week's question:

• How are you responding to dissonance in your life?

Thanks for sharing a bit of your time with me this Monday morning.  

Have a great week!

Curt

About MMM: Each week I publish "Monday Morning Motivation" in the hopes that at least one person will find a bit of inspiration and that this inspiration will have a positive impact on their life. My motivation comes from experiences, reading, sermons, and discussions.

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