Recently I’ve come across some trouble in business that after analyzing it, it seems to come down to a paradox I have known for quite some time.
Hard choices easy life, easy choices hard life. By world champion Jerzy Gregorek.
But this truth seems to far exceed ‘discipline’, what Jerzy to me seems to refer to.
It’s also about doing the hard things in times that are easy. So you can do the easy things in times that are hard. Not only choices.
Building dikes in the years that it seems that the water will never flood.
Working on your relationship when it seems that you’ll never grow apart.
Brushing your teeth when they’re still whole.
This is about discipline. But moreover, it’s about perspective and looking ahead. It means you need to pay attention to the things you think about “it’ll be fine”. Because it will only be fine until it’s not. And then it’s too late.