Discipline gets easier over time because repeated actions become familiar. As patterns stabilize, less effort is required to continue the behavior. At the beginning, discipline feels like effort. You have to think about what you are doing, remind yourself to stay on track, and push through resistance that seems to show up at every step. It can feel like something you have to force. That is why many people believe discipline is difficult by nature. What they do not always see is how that experience changes over time. Discipline feels hard at first because the behavior is new. You are interrupting patterns that have been repeated for a long time…