Week one was adrenaline.
Week two is sludge.
You woke up yesterday still “committed,” yet the work felt like shoving a truck with the brake locked.
That is not laziness. It is what happens when intensity outruns infrastructure.
Most resolutions die here: the body is willing, the system is missing.
So you default to white-knuckling, hoping ambition grows teeth.
It never does.
Discipline is not a battery you charge on New Year’s hype and pray lasts twelve months.
It is a flywheel.
Give it scaffolding and it compounds; leave it naked and it collapses after seven days.
Want to keep moving when the buzz rots?
Stop chasing feelings.
Build an engine.
Most people stop here. Here’s what to do instead:
This Is Where Most People Quit. You Won’t.
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