“We all have to endure one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

Jim Rohn

Will this be hard? Will I be sorry? These questions often come-up simultaneously.

We can revisit Kipling’s amazing quote from another perspective. We can imagine our future selves, somewhere near the end of our lives, with diminished physical and cognitive forces; time will be scarce, and without that precious resource, our potential will have vaporized. Author Bronnie Ware recounts this for us in The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. Motivational speaker Jim Rohn summarizes the lessons of this book with this one simple quote.