Stop Waiting for Motivation: Build Discipline That Works Even When You Don't Feel Like It - Paperback

You are not undisciplined. You are unstructured, and those are completely different problems.

Rennie Doyle ran a bakery for eleven years and got up at quarter past three about four thousand times. In the same period she tried to learn Spanish four times, gave up swimming twice, and failed for nine consecutive years to walk for forty minutes for the sake of her own back. Then she sold the bakery, and every scrap of her legendary discipline evaporated in eleven weeks.

There was never any discipline. There was a lease, a queue at half six, and an oven that took forty minutes to heat whether anybody felt like it or not.

This book does the opposite of every other book on the shelf. It asks for less. Every chapter ends with a floor: the humiliatingly small version you do on your worst day, never raised, never skipped. Plus the reason your plans always die on the day after the bad day, and why streaks do more damage than good.

A system that survives your worst week, built on a Saturday, in about twenty minutes.