Willpower and Discipline - How to Get Yourself to Read

One approach that's popular in the West is that change occurs through willpower and discipline. But a totally different way of orienting yourself towards the things you don't really want to be doing is to see them as things that you haven't put your full effort into seeing clearly yet. For example, if you're a writer, you can't will yourself to something like creativity. If every word you write is completely uninspired, then you're just wasting trees at that point.