The Only Motivation You Will Ever Need
It’s 5 am, and you are wide awake. Today, you didn’t need that alarm clock that woke up an entire neighborhood just to make you awake enough to snooze it before you surrendered to the warmth of your cozy faux mink blanket.
It feels different. It’s new, and it’s scary; it’s something you have never felt before. You are eager to get out of your bed that’s been holding you back for the last 4 hours. You want to feel the cold granite floor, open the window to let the first ray of morning sun kiss your dark, damp room for the first time in months, smell the freshly brewed Ethiopian, while a sunny side up sizzles nearby.
The eagerness is uncontrollable, you can feel the chills running through your body, a sense of urgency, yet you are not nervous or scared. You want this feeling to last; you want to get addicted to it. You’ve never felt this energy rushing through your body, especially after a short 4-hour sleep. Is this residual effect of coke you tried one drunken night at college? No! It can’t be; that was ten years ago. Whatever it is, you want more.
This feeling is inner motivation — a zeal to get up every day, consciously striving to be a better version of yourself. If you haven’t been feeling like this every single day, you are not doing something right. It is time to do some thinking, a self-assessment, and course correct your life. Everyone has skills that can make them successful that they are inherently good at; however, many of us spend our entire life, not knowing what it was.
In the end, we only get one life with a limited number of hours in a day, do not waste it working 16 hours a day for someone else’s dream or doing things that you are not passionate about.
Here are a few things you should focus on,
- Find a niche, a passion that you care about
- Spend 2 hours every day improving your skill and becoming a better version of yourself
- Limit work to those 9 hours you get paid for — You do not get paid to spend long hours at work; you get paid to be highly efficient within those 9 hours
- Start a side gig to earn those extra bucks — Use your skill, become a content creator and share your knowledge and experience, help others
- Spend quality time with family and friends
- Do not take your mobile phone in your bedroom
- Read, read and read as much as you can
None of these will happen if you aren’t taking the first step. Get up and get going.
