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Motivation - It's a fickle thing
Fickle, I know, it's probably not a term that you would normally associate with motivation but I find it difficult to find a word that pairs with it quite so well.
If you're unsure on what Fickle means here is what google says: changing frequently, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections.
"celebs trying to appeal to an increasingly fickle public"
I used to wait for motivation to jump at me. Wait for the perfect surge of energy that allows me to be creative, push forward and ultimately chase down my Legacy. I thought that if I had the right level of motivation I would be able to push forward as an unstoppable force.
That was where I went wrong.
You see, when you think of motivation in that way you create a dependancy with it. You start to believe that the only way that you can succeed and move forward is by having an abundance of Motivation. This is what led me to fail because motivation is nothing more than a fleeting moment.
It comes and it goes. It knows no loyalty. It owes you nothing.
It will come to you like a slow moving train but leave quicker than Grandparents dropping the kids back off. Motivation is simply the starting point. It's the belief that you can achieve your goals, it creates the desire.
The truth is, by simply believing that motivation is what you need to excel and get to yourself to greater heights then you already have it, because you already have the desire to move forward. What you're waiting for is the feeling when in reality what you need to do is create action.
Action creates the feeling.
It's well known that action creates energy and releases those all important chemicals such as endorphins and dopamine which in turn pushes you to do more. What does action need? A decision. Here is where the real kicker comes in. A decision needs action. So I suppose the message here is do it, do the thing that you want to do and watch the motivation come into play.
When you have it, utilise it.
this isn't to say that you shouldn't use it in face use and abuse it. Use it as a spring board to help you have a big push forward but do not rely on it by any means. Instead, and I Don't want to sound too cliche here but excuse me if I do, be disciplined - do the thing that that you have been putting off because that feeling you have. The knowing that you should be doing more but choosing not to - in other words procrastinating - is nothing more than your intuition trying to push you to do the thing you should actually be doing.
I don't know why I didn't listen to my intuition many years ago and I don't pretend to know fully why you decide not to listen to it either. What I do know is this - do it a few times and you won't stop listening.
Basically, stop making exuses, stop repeating the BS stories you tell yourself about having no time and just go and fucking do it.
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