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Discipline Is Worship: What I Realized That Changed Everything

It all begins I used to run for self-improvement.
To push harder. Be better. Outwork the man I was yesterday.

But that day, something shifted.
I didn’t run to prove anything. I ran as a thank you.
Not “me vs. me”—but me before God.
Gratitude, not grit, was driving me.

That’s when I realized:
Discipline isn’t about achievement. It’s worship.
A quiet yes to God… repeated daily.with an idea.

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