There are four steps in completing an action: (1) desire, (2) decision, (3) determination, and (4) discipline. For example, think of a person who desires to meet with God before going to work. He knows that in order to have enough time to do so, he must get up early, so he makes the decision to get up at 6:30. The next day he oversleeps because his desire and decision alone could not complete the action. He then determines to use an alarm clock to get him up. But the real test comes when the alarm goes off. He must have the discipline to get up and not go back to sleep.
Most of us have trouble with the discipline part. As do do I. But if we work hard we can overcome our laziness, and form good habits. Matthew 20:6-7 (KJV)
And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? [7] They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
You see in this case the idle men would not work because no one had come to them (or maybe no one would hire them because they were lazy) but Jesus told them to just go to work and stop being a couch potato, and the rest would fall into place.
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