How To Do Boring, Tedious, Difficult, but Necessary Things

Just as Hara Hachi Bu teaches you to stop eating before you’re uncomfortably full, stopping work before the point of exhaustion leads to a more harmonious, balanced, and sustainable work ethic over time.

There is more than enough comfort, ease, relaxation, and even luxury.

And yet, we struggle to find the limit, say no, and establish some sense of contentment and sufficiency when all that’s available is excess

I am willing to pay that. I choose to pay that.”

Am I actually prepared to invest the time required to do all those things?

Disciplined people think in a distinctive way about themselves and about life. The mental frame they place around their actions and choices is precisely what enables them to build a life of order, purpose, growth, and clarity.

They fear failure yet paradoxically invite it into their lives with endless procrastination, avoidance, and delay.

They fear failure yet paradoxically invite it into their lives with endless procrastination, avoidance, and delay.

They fear failure yet paradoxically invite it into their lives with endless procrastination, avoidance, and delay

Epictetus said, “Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”

Being disciplined means being willing to answer that temptation with firm resolution: “No. The thing I want is valuable. It is worth the effort and hard work.