Hannibal on the former television show, The A-Team, used to say, “I love it when a plan comes together.” There is something amazing about watching disjointed parts of any schema coming together like the pieces of a puzzle. In a dotted sketch, it is the connecting of the dots that completes the profile. Vision creates the dots, discipline connects them. The greater the vision, the more dots there will be to connect. The more dots there are, the greater the discipline needed to connect them. Just as separately the pieces of a puzzle make no sense until they begin to connect, the dots are only dots until they are connected by lines. Then the picture develops.
In similar fashion, our experiences, thoughts, dreams, etc., are only disconnected pieces and specs until they are connected. We must connect them in order to see ourselves clearly. Discipline can help us bring order out the chaos so that we can focus on developing a clear and consistent picture of the beauty and power to be revealed as the dots are connected and the pieces come together.
Even we do not know what we can become, or what awaits us behind disjointed pieces and unconnected dots. Let us discipline ourselves with such a consistent pattern of behavior that we are always connecting the dots and connecting the separated pieces in our lives. Watch the picture of ‘you’ develop! Success is in inevitable when discipline is in play.