Most of our struggles with discipline are mental and emotional rather than practical. We know what to do, or not do, and it is well within our power to act on what we know. Struggles with discipline are battles with feelings, preferences, and priorities.
We get in our own way. We talk ourselves into decisions we know are not in our best interest. We talk ourselves out of decisions we know are in our best interest.
Struggles with discipline come down to the same two issues:
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You’re not doing something you need to do.
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You’re doing something you need to stop doing.
Knowledge won’t solve either of those problems. You already know plenty of disciplines you’re not acting on. Demanding consistenty from yourself won’t solve those problems either. You’re just adding more pressure that makes discipline feel overwhelming. That’s how resistance validates itself. Neither will insisting on a perfect plan to create an ideal result. Scary uncertainty invades your mind the moment you take the first step of the plan. That’s how endless preparation validates itself.
You must do and you must not do. That is where discipline lives.
Study, think, plan, prep, envision, and decide as is required for the task. But it must move you to decisive disciplined action— to do or not do, according to the need.
Get your mind right and get to disciplined action.
Event + Response = Outcome. Do the work.
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