But that’s not the whole story. Sure, it’s no fun to be disappointed with yourself, but it’s much worse if you don’t subject yourself to the pain of discipline.
There is the pain of not making money. Not paying your bills. Not being able to care for the people in your family. Not being able to build them a future. Not delivering for your clients when and how you tell them you will deliver.
There is the pain of the anxiety rising in your chest as you watch what you’ve wanted to build burn to the ground around you. You get one present moment and it’s gone just like that.
The man who strings together lots of good present moments builds a great future and he does this with self-discipline.
You get one moment at a time and one future. Do not mess it up.