Jocko Willink

This disconnect between you and you is unnecessary though.

The pattern of hoping you fulfill the role of a better you and disobeying that desire every time is completely in your hands.

So there's some certainty within yourself that needs to be built.

That's not going to happen by accident.

It's interesting to me that the comfortable route is seen as the safest path.

But the undeniable disappointment that comes from giving up the ideals of the true self doesn't seem so safe to me.

Don't indulge in the comfort that comes before effort, because that comfort is nothing but a lie.

You gotta want it as bad as you want to breathe.

You've got to create a lot of different emotion to heighten your sense of awareness and focus.

Motivation is a feeling that comes and goes and it doesn't matter whether it's there or not.

Discipline is infinitely more important.

So no matter how you feel, get up and do what you're supposed to do.

That's it.

And that's discipline.

That's not motivation.

If you only did what you were supposed to do when you were motivated to do it, that's leaving it to chance.

But if you're disciplined, you go do what you're supposed to do.

That's the way it works.

Do something that's hard and do it every day.

That's one of the nice things about jujitsu.