Discipline 

The focus here is on your self love and worth, which ultimately becomes your self discipline.

You need to start treating yourself like someone you love.

But changing habits requires you to rewire your brain.

The brain rewards us for spending mental energy on expanding ourselves and learning, but it also rewards us even more for conserving our energy and choosing the easy thing over the hard thing.

This is why we struggle with activities that don’t immediately spark our curiousity, or why we tend to get bored with things over time.

We get complacent, lazy and comfortable.

The world we currently live in has been purposely constructed through technology for all of us to chase instant gratification, and it’s never been easier to take shortcuts and stay on the comfortable path of least resistance.

But discipline requires delayed gratification—the ability to sustain effort in the absence of reward.

The ability to force yourself to do the hard thing, even in the absence of motivation, is what separates the good from the greats.

Paying attention to lifestyle basics like good sleep and proper nutrition can help set yourself up for success by accessing the energy and mental focus you’ll need to stay disciplined.

But having this discipline doesn’t mean you do everything perfect all the time.

It means you choose to give a realistic effort rather than no effort on the days when it is hard.

It is the determination, grit, perseverance and passion in your being that becomes a way of life, especially on the days when you don’t want to get up and go do the hard thing.

It becomes about self respect.

How you do anything, is how you do everything.

When your mind is making every excuse under the sun to skip the workout and stay in bed, these are the days that matter the most.

The choices you make on those kind of days are what helps forge your new identity.

Life is chaotic, messy and sometimes overwhelming.

Show up , despite everything else going on in your world, and do the work.