We are often met with feelings of giving up on ourselves when pursuing our goals and dreams, we see the world around us and how difficult it is to achieve some of our deepest desires. Whether it is growing ourselves, our family or reaching out and growing the world around us. It can be extremely overwhelming at times and we often find ourselves buried in an unhealthy world because it seems like the only place we will ever live. Now I know without a doubt we all possess the same great and immeasurable ability. We all possess the resilience and defying nature to press through hard times and difficult tasks. Just like we are all full of excuses, anxiety, doubt, fear and the lies we tell ourselves on why we can’t accomplish things. The number one defining difference between the people who accomplish what they set out to do on a large scale or in their daily routine and the people who don’t is perspective and the amount of effort they put in.
It is often hard to sustain effort and belief in a task when the reward is not in sight. One thing you want to work on is disciplining your mind to fight through the uninspired days. Structure and small goals in your daily routine is a very good way to stay disciplined and on task. Break what you want into moments in time to achieve it. Rome was not built overnight, it was built moment to moment. You do not want to overwhelm yourself with the entire puzzle. Pick one piece, one corner or one section and chip away at it. You will gain confidence in the moment and that will drive your belief that it can be accomplished. The main goal I have set out to accomplish is unobtainable in my lifetime. The end reward for me will more than likely never come. The real payout is in the work itself. I enjoy the structure and the work very much because I know it must be done. It fills me with purpose and meaning- the two things that create passion. Through my relentless effort and belief in what I am doing, it makes me unshakable to the doubt that clouds my mind. We often get knocked down from the world around us. It is on the rise upwards where we need to believe and work hard.
One of the main things that I have learned about sustaining motivation is that the rent for staying driven is due every single day. The longer you step away from your task, the longer it takes to gather the strength to get back into the swing of things. If you don’t pay your rent for the month it simply doesn’t just go away. You continue to owe that money. That’s how motivation and passion work as well. If you are not working diligently on your task you will lose the desire to do the work. If you look around at the world you will notice how hard it works… How often the rent is paid by others. I am not just talking about the humans, but look at the ants, the bees, the other species on this planet. We are supposed to be the most sophisticated biological thing on this planet but oftentimes we find ourselves being out worked by the ant hill we just stepped on. That may seem a bit dramatic of course, but sometimes it takes a radical perspective like that to keep me motivated. We must all find some type of perspective to drive us in the moment. In the end we can do anything if we focus on the moment. We can be anyone, and we can go anywhere. The only thing we have to do is believe we can.
