How to Build and Solidify Your Motivation Over Time
12 December 2008
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Read this carefully: I only allow you to give up on a dream when your life is over. Only then can you say something like, "I was too ambitious," or "My life was too short to fully achieve it," or "Now it's too late." Only then will you be right, but not before.
Do you think, like many people, that having rock-solid motivation requires some kind of inexhaustible energy tank? If you'll allow me, I'd like to offer a different perspective. When people embark on a path, they encounter an obstacle and stop. Often, they realize that reality is different from what they imagined, less easy, and then they quit. Yes, you read that right: it's at the first obstacle that people give up. Not the second, or the third.
Why this phenomenon? The reason is simple. If you are able to get back up after a first failure, what will stop you from getting back up after the next one and the one after that? Nothing. You will stay motivated no matter what, until the end of your days. So there are two kinds of people, and you must be part of the right one.
To have rock-solid motivation, all you need to do is learn to get back up after a failure, nothing else. If you don't know how to get back up after an obstacle that has knocked you down, you will systematically abandon your dreams and projects and spend the rest of your life brooding or lamenting. You will be part of the category of people who give up at the first difficulty. On the other hand, if you have learned to get back up when you fall and you know how to continue on your way, then you will seem to possess this inexhaustible energy that will make you a person with rock-solid determination. On that, you can trust me!
Also, here's a tip: don't try to achieve your goals! What, you're smiling? Believe me, it doesn't depend on you. Who knows what can happen? Who knows when you can really achieve them? A thousand things can happen, and you might get discouraged. No, be more reasonable, more down-to-earth: just keep moving in the right direction and systematically get back up after each obstacle, nothing more.
The result will be the same anyway, and that is your real objective, your mission. That is your only responsibility, the one that depends only on you. Also, as you realize that the path is lengthening: learn what you are missing, develop the skills that seem necessary, or call on your friends, but above all... continue!
You know, in life, few things will be served to you on a silver platter. Of course there will be difficulties, unpleasant surprises. That's the challenge. Will you be able to cope? In the end, do you want me to tell you? It doesn't matter if you reach the end because you can always say to yourself: "Hey, what a path I've already traveled!" and that will make you happy for the rest of your days...
Posted on December 5, 2008
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Do you think, like many people, that having rock-solid motivation requires some kind of inexhaustible energy tank? If you'll allow me, I'd like to offer a different perspective. When people embark on a path, they encounter an obstacle and stop. Often, they realize that reality is different from what they imagined, less easy, and then they quit. Yes, you read that right: it's at the first obstacle that people give up. Not the second, or the third.
Why this phenomenon? The reason is simple. If you are able to get back up after a first failure, what will stop you from getting back up after the next one and the one after that? Nothing. You will stay motivated no matter what, until the end of your days. So there are two kinds of people, and you must be part of the right one.
To have rock-solid motivation, all you need to do is learn to get back up after a failure, nothing else. If you don't know how to get back up after an obstacle that has knocked you down, you will systematically abandon your dreams and projects and spend the rest of your life brooding or lamenting. You will be part of the category of people who give up at the first difficulty. On the other hand, if you have learned to get back up when you fall and you know how to continue on your way, then you will seem to possess this inexhaustible energy that will make you a person with rock-solid determination. On that, you can trust me!
Also, here's a tip: don't try to achieve your goals! What, you're smiling? Believe me, it doesn't depend on you. Who knows what can happen? Who knows when you can really achieve them? A thousand things can happen, and you might get discouraged. No, be more reasonable, more down-to-earth: just keep moving in the right direction and systematically get back up after each obstacle, nothing more.
The result will be the same anyway, and that is your real objective, your mission. That is your only responsibility, the one that depends only on you. Also, as you realize that the path is lengthening: learn what you are missing, develop the skills that seem necessary, or call on your friends, but above all... continue!
You know, in life, few things will be served to you on a silver platter. Of course there will be difficulties, unpleasant surprises. That's the challenge. Will you be able to cope? In the end, do you want me to tell you? It doesn't matter if you reach the end because you can always say to yourself: "Hey, what a path I've already traveled!" and that will make you happy for the rest of your days...
Posted on December 5, 2008
entreprendre-et-reussir
