Motivate yourself

Nowadays there is a need for motivation, people has a need to feel motivated in life, as if it were a magical drink or medicine we have to take to feel good about ourselves and be happy. To be motivated is the key ingredient for an action or a project.

An action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it. When we are motivated we do things, motivation is useless when there is not an action to do or perform. Most of us commit to action only if we feel a certain level of motivation, not all motivation is enough to take action.We feel motivation only when we feel enough emotional inspiration to take action.

Emotional inspiration → Motivation → Desirable action

The main dilemma is to do things even if we don’t feel motivated to perform them, and that is the main problem about life: we must find motivation everywhere we can, and if it is not outside, remember the purpose we have at the beginning to pursue the task. If we want to accomplish something but don’t feel motivated or inspired, then you assume we are just screwed. There’s nothing we can do about it. It’s not until a major emotional life event occurs that you can generate enough motivation to actually get off the couch and do something. 

Inspiration → Motivation → Action → Inspiration → Motivation → Action → Etc.

We produce more emotions as we keep on acting, we are responsible for producing them, we need to focus on the right emotions, those that motivate us to keep moving forward, no matter how stressing can be or hard, produce good emotions to keep on going towards the end desired. Taking advantage of this knowledge, we can actually reorient our mindset in the following way:

Action → Inspiration → Motivation

If we lack the motivation to make an important change in our life, do something, whatever action, but do it, so we will have more motivation to keep on going. Our motivation doesn’t produce itself, but by other actions that keeps the engine moving. Each action motivate us to do more actions and so on, like a snowball, we produce our own motivation as long as we act upon what we decide. And with simply doing something leads us to success, even failure pushes you forward.