Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
There's one habit that makes every other habit possible and it's the one most people avoid.
It's self-discipline.
But first, character. One of the most important habits of all is honesty: always tell the truth, no matter what the price.
And then comes the foundation habit itself. The best definition of self-discipline is this: the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
Because anybody can do it when they feel like it. It's when you don't feel like it (and you do it anyway) that you build the self-discipline that makes everything else possible.
There's one habit that makes every other habit possible and it's the one most people avoid.
It's self-discipline.
But first, character. One of the most important habits of all is honesty: always tell the truth, no matter what the price.
And then comes the foundation habit itself. The best definition of self-discipline is this: the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
Because anybody can do it when they feel like it. It's when you don't feel like it (and you do it anyway) that you build the self-discipline that makes everything else possible.
