YOUR BIGGEST MOTIVATION
Wow! Is it really just
40-plus days to the end of the year already? Where’d all the days go? How many
of the things we wrote out to accomplish before the end of the year, have we
actually accomplished? How many of those things are already looking like they
aren’t going to happen this year anymore? Why is it that sometimes, we dive
into a challenge before our rational mind, famed for over-calculation can
paralyse us?
Other times, we
hesitate, calculate, plan, analyse and strategize. But guess what? I’ve noticed
that we tend to see results on the first instance, while on the second
instance, not quite. The question is “Why do we swing between these two
scenarios from time to time?” Probably we weren’t spurred or motivated enough?
Or we were sincerely motivated but just got cold feet?
Imagine how motivated
you’ll be, if when you wake up in the morning, it’s to Eric Thomas’s audio, you
then finish up a book by Zig Ziglar, and start another by Les Brown. On your
way to work, you’re able to squeeze in a few YouTube minutes of Tony Robbins. Your
head would figuratively be on fire, and you may even start plotting how to take
over the world. I’m serious. Sure you know the power of motivation.
In all these, one
thing I’ve noticed is that until your biggest motivation gives you that pep
talk, every other motivational speech, be it from Jim Rohn, Nick Vujicic, Dr.
Wayne Dyer, or anyone at that, wouldn’t amount to anything. Trust me, nothing would
change. We can be so motivated, yet not motivated enough to take action. There
a lot of people walking around who are “all motivation, no action”.
The voice of your biggest
motivation is like a seal of approval, without which nothing can be done. So
who/what is your biggest motivation? Don’t be quick to answer, before you start
mentioning Success, Money, Family, and so on. All these is a means to achieving
one purpose and that’s the FEELING of JOY attached to the achievement of any
the means. We all are beings of emotion. Hence, your biggest motivation is YOU.
If the entire motivational
speakers in the world were to come together and spend a day inspiring and
motivating you, as long as you’ve not given yourself that “Mental Ginger” (in
local parlance) trust me, every time you set foot on the ledge of action, you
will not jump. No one else sees that picture you see when you close your eyes.
Just you. No one else can give you that most important final push. Just you.
When the chips are
down, you are left to either rejoice over opportunities you allowed yourself take,
or regret the opportunities you allow yourself miss. No one else feels the full
weight of the emotion; Just You. So every day you wake up, never forget to give
yourself that pep talk. Give yourself valid reasons why you need to accomplish
that feat. In other words, find your “WHY”. The most effective motivational
speech ever is the one that comes from inside.
You Are Your Biggest
Motivation.
Cheers!
Mature Minds Talk.
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