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Motivation vs Discipline: The Golden Ticket to Productivity
Doing your work, improving your life and getting into action about anything, always involves the same process.
At first you have to beat some initial resistance, which, much like when you attempt to push a box from a standstill, often requires more energy than the work thereafter.
Once you are working you often find it easy to keep going, as that initial force you used usually carries you quite a ways.
This initial force is your Motivation.
Motivational Force is the force needed to get you into action from rest.
On some days this will be the force that gets you started on a discipline or habit that turns your life around, while on other days you need a lot of motivation to merely get off the couch.
No matter what it is, you always need some form of Motivation to do anything, and most times need multiple moments of motivation a day.
Discipline, on the other hand, is not a force, like motivation, that keeps you going, but rather a lever that reduces that threshold of energy needed to get into, and stay in, action.
The stronger your Discipline is, the lower the required Motivational force needs to be.
