Brain Food: Discipline vs. Motivation
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Brain Food: Discipline vs. Motivation
Mastering motivation is building the capacity to do what matters most to you, even when a part of you does not feel like it.
Dr Julie Smith • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold
Discipline channels our energy into purposeful, constructive action; a lack of discipline diffuses our energy into destructive outlets — and what we destroy the easiest and most often is ourselves.
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
The most common disguises of procrastination
Learning, researching, organizing, and building systems are the most tempting forms of procrastination. You can tell yourself that you're "making progress" only to avoid the point where you need to make a decision on what to do next.
Even having to get feedback on every action you take is ultimately a form... See more
Learning, researching, organizing, and building systems are the most tempting forms of procrastination. You can tell yourself that you're "making progress" only to avoid the point where you need to make a decision on what to do next.
Even having to get feedback on every action you take is ultimately a form... See more
Superhuman
our inner voice should serve the same role as our external voice does for a toddler: self-regulation and direction toward action.