You Don’t Need Motivation You Need Discipline

A closer look at motivation and discipline

Photo by Drew Beamer on Unsplash

Motivation is what we feel we need to be the driving force of our actions; however, upon taking a course of productivity. I then began to realize this could be further from the truth.

Motivation operates on the assumption that a particular mental or emotional state is necessary to complete a task. Thus this makes us rely entirely on being in the “right mood.” But as we all know, life is not that simple, and we can not force ourselves to be in the right mood.

The image below shows the process of seeking motivation…

Taken From https://deepstash.com/

The Effects of Gratitude

This is a vicious cycle, where we repeatedly repeat the same thought patterns to result in nothing.

But this is what we do need to eliminate motivation

What we need is discipline. Discipline acknowledges that we have an issue with…