Keywords: Productivity , Reflection , Discipline
When I don’t keep my commitments, when I choose to eat potato chips for dinner, when I slack in my work, it isn’t that I am just lazy, it is because I don’t believe it matters. To hope is to believe that good things will come. If I don’t believe good things will come of my actions, I can’t stay committed, especially when I’m tired or things are inconvenient. I have to know that the actions that I take will ultimately lead to something better in the end. What looks like my lack of discipline is really just a manifestation of my belief that the actions I should take will not actually get me to the result I desire. Or perhaps that the result I desire isn’t actually possible.
https://awrensays.com/2022/01/24/you-dont-need-discipline-you-need-hope
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