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Discipline isn't about doing what you don't want to do.  Most people think that, I did for a long time.  Going to work (for some people most of the time, for all of us occasionally) isn't so much an act of discipline but an act of needing to pay the bills.

Discipline isn't about obligation, but priorities.  It's choosing to pursue what you see the value in.  I train because I love it and I know it makes me a better person--physically and mentally.  When I'm sitting on the couch with my book, though, it's pretty hard to get moving.  But I know, as I go to bed and reflect on the day I'd rather have practiced.  So I do it.

...nearly all of the time.  

But if I saw my practice as one more thing to get done, it would fall behind other priorities, stuff that seems more important because it demands to get done today.  I need to go the registry, to study, whatever.  I can't even imagine what that list looks like with a kid.  By keeping what training does for me in front, though, I set my priorities properly by what does me the most good. 

In other news, two months.  Terrexited.