Yesterday, during a great team practice, I challenged a teammate to move from belief to believer. Puzzled, he didn’t go triple d but instead asked me to tell him more. So, I shared a story from The Matrix. I asked him if he remembered the scene in the movie when Neo began to believe. He did. “In the subway station,” he replied with ccd magic. How did we know he was beginning to believe?
He stopped running and welcomed the fight with the Agent.
Neo had been told to never fight an agent, only run. Neo, however, was beginning to believe. He took the fight to the agent, at least for awhile. Fear got hold of him eventually. He ran. He ran and ran and ran – Until he came face to face with his enemy again, this time facing the barrel of a gun in point blank range. Neo was shot full of holes as the agent unloaded on him. Neo was not dead even though he appeared as such. Once Trinity filled him with her belief, he rose again to the disbelief of the agent. Instead of running, he stood. Shots were fired. Neo stopped them with his hand. He had moved from belief to believer.
What triggers you, friend, to forget your beliefs and fall back to old behaviors? What causes you to run? Many have belief. Few are believers. Are you becoming a new man or woman? Where are you on the continuum from belief to believer? Who is your Trinity? Slow down. Reflect. Stand.
Live hard. Love harder…
BUILT TO LEAD 
Durp and I went over this one yesterday. As Durp pointed out, belief is not a dichotomy. It’s not binary. It’s a continuum.
Use it or lose it. Leaders are believers and leaders are connectors.
Gu’d.