# Motiviation vs Discipine

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/motiviation-vs-discipine/1290>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [October 24, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/motiviation-vs-discipine/1290 "2015-10-24T09:24:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![insti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/insti/32/545_2.png) [@insti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/insti)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/motiviation-vs-discipine/1290/1 "2015-10-24T09:24:45Z")

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I read a couple of good articles about motivation vs discipline today:

Part 1: [http://www.wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you-need-is-discipline/](http://www.wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you-need-is-discipline/)  
Part 2: [http://www.wisdomination.com/practical-discipline/](http://www.wisdomination.com/practical-discipline/)

I think Beeminder is a great tool for helping with the discipline side and the articles have some good hints that are applicable to setting your road. (Small changes are better than big ones.)

Any other interesting points you found in the article?

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**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/motiviation-vs-discipine/1290/2 "2015-10-24T16:23:16Z")

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Loved these articles.

If it were an article about Beeminder the part about “worst case scenario” would be that you get by in life without Beeminder for some time but then you’re really screwed when something catastrophic happens because you never developed any discipline. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mce3yiMF4iQ&t=0m13s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mce3yiMF4iQ&t=0m13s)

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**Author:** ![tomjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tomjen](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/tomjen)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/motiviation-vs-discipine/1290/3 "2015-10-24T23:52:24Z")

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> The proper question is “How do I make my feelings inconsequential and do the things I consciously want to do without being a little bitch about it?”.

Awesome stuff

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**Author:** ![dollarflipper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dollarflipper/32/109_2.png) [@dollarflipper](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dollarflipper)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/motiviation-vs-discipine/1290/4 "2015-10-28T10:10:12Z")

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Ah, a new Beeminder Tagline.

> Beeminder: keeping you from being a little bitch.