A bad day is all it takes to derail you. Or is it? Yesterday was what most people would consider a bad day. My phone broke at the gym (irreparably so), my car turned out to be more broken than I thought, and my joints hurted like they were telling me, “Dude, just stop”. So I listen and stopped; I didn’t complete my bench press sets and went home. Now, if I relied only on motivation, I wouldn’t be in the gym today, completing what I had to do in my program. But I was. It would be easy to say that it was discipline but in psychology we don’t deal in absolutes and a little introspection actually goes a long way. The Wisdom of Elsa There is an aspect of discipline that many people overlook. And it is the ability to reset. You’ve probably heard the common IT saying,…