The hardest part of self-discipline isn’t waking up early. It’s waking up early and talking yourself out of going back to bed. It’s not doing the push-ups. It’s the mental negotiation that happens before you do the push-ups. That exhausting back-and-forth where you're the lazy lawyer and the overworked judge, pleading for comfort and pretending it's self-care. People think doing the work is the real effort. It’s not. The real grind is convincing yourself to do the work again—without slipping into the lie that you’ll “start tomorrow.” I’ve …
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