self-motivational garbage

throw a pitcher of water on a boulder
  and see the boulder react with bravado;
   nothing happens!

have drops of water drip on a very point of that same boulder,
   day and day and day and day again;
   and that boulder has hole now.

there is a time and place for intensity,
 but disconnected and erratic intensity is next to worthless.

 intensity must always grow out of -  and build on - consistency;
 what really matters is consistency.

that is why discipline is key to basically everything humans strive toward.

everyone can be a hero or a saint for a day; that is doable.
but for a week, for a month, for a year, and for a whole life? -

yes - now we are talking about something entirely different.

discipline is only a prison for those looking at it from the outside.
for everyone within, it is the only key to freedom and meaning there ever was.