Foolishness
What seems like a liability to most people can also be a great asset.
Our learned behaviors, or experiences, are often what hold us back from achieving our goals and dreams. It is due to experience that we hesitate, and a lot of times it's for good reason. But experience is the type of thing that can back-fire, and make you miss your window of opportunity.
Over the years, I have had hundreds of ideas about different products and services. Unfortunately though, my past failures had an adverse effect on my willingness to follow through. I am not 100% timid, heck, not even 50%, but my lack of desire to be foolish enough to do what I think needs to be done is a bit disheartening. Of course, I am my own worst critic. A lot of what I have accomplished in my life came at times when I was most daring, risk-taking, and foolish. I will take foolishness over jadedness any day of the week.
If you live each day as if it's your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.
Why Motivation Matters
Anyone who has ever worked knows this: Work requires motivation. Great work requires great motivation.
People often find themselves in slumps. The regressive wiring in our brains can make us lazy, bored and unmotivated. This is all due to people over-stressing about the current situation that they are in and not looking at the bigger picture. It could be harmless for short periods of time, heck, it may even be refreshing. However, we all need to take charge and achieve those goals that we have set for ourselves. But how?
It is really easy to stay in bed for an extended period of time, sit on the couch to watch TV or play some games for hours. Granted, we all need to take breaks or have some sort of down-time. But excessive breaking not only wastes your valuable time, it also prevents you from jump starting the things that you need to do. I am, like many of you are, a very busy person. I juggle work, grad school, a family business and social responsibilities all at the same time. It almost seems as though I have to cheat myself out of some very scarce down-time in order to do those things I need to get done. As we all know, after health, time is the most important thing in our lives. It is a resource that's not renewable. Wasting it almost seems like a crime!
So what can we do to motivate ourselves? My motivation is usually the end result. Before I start anything, I think about and picture what the end result should, and will look like. Small things like music, a memory, a certain scent can trigger additional motivation I need in order to get it done! A lot of good things in life require hard work, patience, and persistence. Without motivation, none of those things will happen.
Don't Give Up and Stay Motivated My Friends!