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WanderingEng  ·  2795 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I drank my last bottle of soda today

For me, discipline is deciding once to be the type of person who runs three or four times a week. Motivation, for me, is deciding if today is a day I'm going to run. It's too easy for me to say no, not today, I'll run tomorrow instead.

At times I don't want to run, but how I feel that day doesn't matter. I've decided I'm a runner, and my lack of motivation that day doesn't matter. I'm still going to run.

Maybe that's a really narrow difference and doesn't work for you. We're all different, and what works for me may not change anything for you.