Word of the Week #359:
For a long, long time, I have believed that I was fuelled by a small number of the brightest, warmest emotions available to humankind—love, joy, hope, the usual.
Lately, though, my mindset has evolved beyond that.
After all, can we always rely on residual positive energy to get things done? Important things? Things that need to be done?
That’s the thing about positive energy, right. It is a result of our circumstances. It is something that happens, not something that can be done. Ergo, not reliable.
Life cannot wait for us to find the right timing or energy or motivation or whatever, can it? It just keeps moving forward. Things need to be done, and you just have to do them. That’s the mark of an adult.
Discipline. That’s our path forward.
It’s ridiculous how strongly I would’ve disagreed to that statement a few years ago. I suppose I really have grown up.
Well, at least I have seen that one cannot count on moments of insane inspiration or random motivation to get any important things done in life. The little good habits we cultivate over the many decades of our life… The little patterns of behaviour that we build through thousands of rounds of repetition—both conscious and unconscious… That’s what matters.
Discipline is how we build our lives.
We keep moving forward.
