The pain of discipline is the pain that you must endure to create the habits that will grant you your desires. Only through right habits can you succeed; it is right habits alone that grant you your desires.
Right habits come through pain. Fortunately the pain of developing right habits is a temporary pain, but the benefits of right habits will last a lifetime.
It takes about six to nine months to form a sustainable habit. I didn’t say three weeks, I said it takes about six to nine months, depending on what the habit is. You may be thinking “That’s hard,” yeah, well so is a lifetime of regret.
The pain of discipline is a small pain to endure, when you consider all that it promises.
As an example, the pain of creating the habit of working out and eating right over the next nine months is not nearly as grievous as the pain of living an unhealthy life. The pain of discipline is a temporary pain.
As another example, the pain of developing the habits that the most successful people in your industry possess will take time indeed, but they will serve you well for the rest of your life.
Your life will produce results based on your kinds of habits. You can’t produce a successful life, if you don’t have successful habits. Like I often say, everybody can run, but everybody doesn’t have the habit of running everyday. Everybody can work, but everyone’s not committed to having the
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