Discipline

Hard work without discipline is just exhaustion with good intentions.

I sat at a restaurant table in Daytona Beach, staring at a check I could not cover. My football career had just ended. My business was collapsing. At home, my daughter still believed her daddy was Superman. That night a stranger pulled up a chair, bought my dinner, and spent two hours repeating one word: Discipline.

Over the next decade I learned the truth most people are too busy to face. Motivation is a feeling. Disciplin...