It means being serious about what you want, really serious. Process is important but purpose is king.ĭeveloping discipline requires mental toughness. On the contrary, being disciplined means always searching for ways to be more effective and efficient to make sure the discipline you apply is appropriate to achieve the outcome you desire. Being disciplined and forming good habits doesn’t mean being dogmatic or refusing to evolve or change your habits over time. Forming good habits will help you to focus and get stuff done. Your discipline drives you to stick to your routine and refine your systems and processes until they become habitual. Developing discipline normally results in establishing systems, processes, and routines. Motivation is just your vision! Everything else is self-discipline.ĭiscipline has an amazing, almost illogical way of setting you free. This is unsustainable and will lead to failure unless it transmutes into discipline. Most people fail because they don’t have a plan or the will to execute it and try to use motivation to inspire action. Discipline comes from being able to create a vision of where you want to go, a plan for how you want to get there, and having the will to execute the plan. Discipline will see you through the pain and allow you to ‘just do it’, to quote the Nike ad.ĭiscipline is the driving force that underpins the success of whatever you want to achieve, and the good news is discipline is something you can develop. Despite the hardship, discipline is the driving force, when your motivation fades. Discipline, on the other hand, gives you the sustained energy and power to continue through the pain, doubt, and difficulty. Its effect dissipates quickly and leaves you feeling empty and needing more. Motivation is great at inspiring you and getting you to the door, but it’s like eating sugar for energy. That takes commitment and it takes discipline. It won’t make you commit to taking real action and achieving real results. What motivation won’t do is force you to take your first step outside and every other step after that. Motivation will get you out of bed and to the door but it falters easily, leaving you standing looking into the cold, wet abyss. This is the problem with relying solely on motivation. I’d love to do it and I really want to, but it’s just so cold. Then the next day you get up and go to the door and this time it’s freezing cold, so, you think I don’t have the right gear to go outside and do this. You go back inside and convince yourself that tomorrow will be the day. You open the door and it’s raining again, and you think to yourself wow, two days in a row, I need a better plan. The next day your alarm goes off, you get out of bed, get dressed, and go to the front door. You think, I’m not giving up, but I’m not going out! I’ll just start tomorrow. But then you discover it’s raining and your motivation wavers. It gets you to the front door and inspires you to open the door to look outside. Motivation is the thing that gets you out of bed in the morning.
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