The hardest thing in your life is change. If you could achieve growth every day, nothing would be impossible. But with change you’re always the underdog. The only way to win is to have creativity and heart. Discipline can only help you achieve the possible. Creativity can help you achieve the impossible. And with change you have to achieve the impossible.
Discipline can be the result, but never the reason for creating anything of true value. Rules cannot create. They can only govern what is already in existence. Love and Freedom and their forms are the only creative forces in humans. And rules don’t add Love and decrease Freedom in the equation of creation. Discipline also can’t create new motivation. Creativity is what creates new motivation. Discipline is admitting your losing trajectory but delaying the loss itself.
In the battle for personal growth, you’ll always be the underdog. But you’re also the commander. Make sure in the rare chances you get to actually change, press the temporary advantage home to an actual win. Commit everything and command like a winner.
Discipline is useless unless dealing with potential critical failures. We don’t need discipline for anything that has the potential to be fun or rewarding. Surely there is a need for discipline at work? Not at all (unless you’re a surgeon or the few other professions where errors are very critical). In my business I am just having fun much of the time and the inevitable boring parts had the comforting feeling of making money in real time. I know money equals progress and freedom, so that’s an OK deal. I always have creativity or the feeling of progress. When one of those is present, you’re motivated and thus you don’t need discipline.
