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Mission Monday #1

Mission Monday #1

Discipline, Motivation and Belief

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Christopher Jolma
Oct 10, 2022
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Happy Monday!

And happy Columbus Day - or “Happy Imperialist Colonizer Day,” if you’d like. I kind of miss the annual Columbus Day statue-defacing outside of Union Station in DC. That reliable performance of street activism always heralded the beginning of my favorite season. #Stability.

I love Mondays. I’ve always been a bit of a freak with that, I suppose - Mondays are the days when I can do something with all of those ideas that popped up over the weekend. Since I have the day off thanks to my cushy corporate job, I have ample time to get clarity, focus, and things done on both the personal and professional fronts. 

For today’s post, I was going to dive into how discipline is greater than motivation. You know - everyone is motivated to do something, but it’s the discipline that gets you there. As I’ve heard it said, and tell myself frequently, “You don’t rise to the occasion; you fall to the level of your discipline.” 

But I quickly realized that belief was on my mind. How long can you maintain effective discipline without an iron-core belief that you CAN attain that which you’re working for? I’d say that you can’t. You need to know that it’s within your powers to either do or to figure out. This belief must have its own internal power source. Fusion powered, if possible. 

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