When you have alignment it is smooth maintaining positive action. You can focus not on the distance needed, but on the destination’s satisfaction. Learn how things work (good vs. bad) to experience improvements. Once you are aware, use truth as motive for willlpower. That is the virtue of appreciating good vs. bad. Your duty is discipline in practice.
Eat Move Rest and Be a GOOD Person.
Google Learned Helplessness for additional complexity to this thought.