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August 1, 2025 9 mins

This week on WORDS MATTER, Deanna Ley, The Catalytic Coach, shares the powerful practice that’s been holding her steady through canceled plans, unexpected injuries, and life’s endless detours. This episode is a heartfelt invitation to feel your letdowns, but not hand them the pen to write your story.

“Discipline your disappointment.” — Tony Robbins

From a 30th anniversary Grand Canyon dream that couldn’t happen to the reminder that life is always happening for us, this episode explores how disappointment is really just the gap between expectation and reality, and how disciplining it can change everything.

What Listeners Will Learn:
• Why disappointment is inevitable, but staying stuck is optional
• How to reframe setbacks as self-love and protection for your future self
• The three-step practice Deanna uses to discipline disappointment
• Why life’s detours can become new adventures
• How to move forward when everything in you wants to stop

Memorable Quotes:
“Discipline your disappointment.” — Tony Robbins
“Disappointment is inevitable. But staying stuck? That's optional.”
“Life is always happening for us, not to us.” — Tony Robbins
 • “Discipline can be the highest form of self-love.”
“I refuse to let this setback define me. I will not hand the pen of my story to disappointment.”
“Don’t let the let down be your leader.”
“Every time we choose to discipline our disappointment, we choose to believe in something bigger than the setback.”

Disappointment doesn’t get to define the next chapter. You do. This episode will remind you that when you feel it, name it, and frame it, you reclaim the power to keep moving toward the life you want.

Your WORDS MATTER, because YOU MATTER.

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