Motivation brings that ignition, but discipline keeps it burning. Many people love listening to motivational sayings, which inspire them to keep going, but along the way, the motivation seems to go off, and they feel lazy about the project. This is where discipline comes in, it sustains that spark.
Young people get in love with motivational speeches, and they listen to these words every morning before they begin their work. It is a nice driving force to get themselves pushed, but the question is, how long does this last? They can be motivated in the morning to do something meaningful and feel tired during the day. Discipline keeps us striving for success irrespective of the mood or situation.
Why so many people fail in a project or business is due to lack of planning and discipline, some might be motivated to just start a project/business without proper planning or even with proper planning but they become discouraged if they don't get the required result at the early stage, now discipline is patient and knows what the future brings.
I was motivated on Hive when I saw some users' posts getting highly curated, like I was already imagining myself getting such huge votes, my mind was already made up, and I wanted to try a similar post. I prepared my quality post and made an entry, hours passed, and days passed, and all I was able to receive on the post was just $0.01 vote and zero comments, the motivation just went deep down. I was just thinking of the time I spent getting that. My motivation was not placed on something solid; even if it was, it would be affected by emotions.
After weeks of just observing and not making posts, I had to change strategy and make quality posts and comments with or without visibility or votes. This works because consistency brings results. Now this is where discipline comes in, discipline keeps us going irrespective of the mood and emotions. If you have that discipline of doing what you're supposed to do, then failure has no place in that project. "Motivation gives us that boost to get started and discipline keeps us going"
To achieve growth and Success, the best thing you would need is Discipline. Picking discipline over motivation doesn't mean I dumped motivation totally. What do you think gives you that spark to succeed? It is motivation, which gives you the reason to start a project. To attain success, you need to be consistent before you can achieve growth or success, and we said discipline keeps us going. Discipline is what you need to achieve that growth and success.
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