Discipline Kicks In When Motivation Runs Out

Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. 

 I'm sure you've heard the statistic by now.

95% of New Year's resolutions are gone by the middle of January, and the rest are gone by the end of January. We have these great ideas, we're inspired. Inspiration's a spark.

Inspiration is a daily dose. It's not what carries you through. My son quotes, and I'll paraphrase, my son quotes a line that he hears in the military a lot.

He's in the Army, he's in his seventh year, and he'll be retiring this year. And whenever the topic of motivation or inspiration comes up, he'll say, when motivation or inspiration is of no avail, discipline will prevail. I always thought that's a really good line.

He said, Dad, I don't care how motivated you are, how inspired you are, I don't know anybody that's looking forward to getting up at 5.30 in the morning so they can go on a 12-mile ruck with 100 pounds on my back in either 100-degree weather or pouring rain, and he was in Alaska, or 40 below. I don't know too many guys in the bunks that get up and are really excited about that. So when we don't have the inspiration, we don't have the motivation, you know what works day in, day out, every day, discipline.

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