Devotion, not discipline is the secret to sustained action

The Devotion-Friction Matrix of devoted action has four states:

Flow (high devotion, low friction) where action feels natural and repeatable;
Strain (high devotion, high friction) where caring is high but the cost of doing it is high too;
Coasting (low devotion, low friction) where you keep going mostly because it’s easy;
Avoidance (low devotion, high friction) where the task feels both unrewarding and hard to start, so it gets postponed or completely dropped.

Discipline is Overrated: The Devotion–Friction Matrix – Ness Labs

This is a perfect visual to the state of play.