You don’t need motivation. You need discipline.

You don’t need to go to Google, YouTube or Reddit and find fancy pictures of mountains with a motivational quote on them or one of 10,000 videos that spliced a movie’s motivational speech over orchestral music.

You need discipline. You need the grit to wake up each and every day and tell yourself “Today I will take a step forward. Today I make steps to ensure that I am better than I was yesterday.” You need the strength to push yourself to be stronger.

Motivation is the spark, but discipline is the fuel that keeps that fire going. Motivation may kick you off your ass and inspire you to take the first step, but discipline is what tells you to take another step..and the another.

Motivation will make you into a goal-setter. Discipline will make you into a goal-getter.

Discipline is the foundation that you stand on when your motivation falters. It is there when you don’t “feel like it” someday. Motivation won’t always be there, but you better make sure Discipline is.