Stay faithful to the plan on the days it’s boring. That’s usually when everyone else quits it.

Plans do not usually fail at the hard part. They fail in the flat middle, when nothing dramatic is happening and the results have not shown up yet. Boredom is the real filter, and most people walk away from it without noticing they decided anything. Whoever keeps going through that stretch ends up at the front almost by default.

Decide now what the boring version of your week looks like and make it small enough to survive a bad mood. Twenty minutes, not two hours. On the day you feel nothing about it, do it anyway and let that be the whole win.