Motivating is gained like muscle—by working against resistance.
To strengthen our will, and our resolve, we must face the resistance of doing the things we do not want to do. If there is no resistance, there is no good reason to do it.
Because nobody is faced with resistance to watching TV, to eating fish sticks, or sauntering on down to Happy Hour.
No, resistance is only attached to the things that are worth doing, like chasing your dreams, and broccoli, and its weight increases in direct proportion to the significance of that thing towards the development of good health, and the evolution of your soul.
Motivation is not a bus, so don’t wait around for it; less you have a perfectly comfortable seat.
To increase your motivation, you have to work at it, like anything else, and get used to doing the things you don’t want to do.
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– Pat
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right on the mark! When you do not want to exercise you have to do it. An abbreviated session is way better than none.
Love this!!
Desire has to fuel motivation. “I want!” — Not “I should”, “I could”, “I need”, “I’m supposed to”, the list goes on and on. — Simply, happiness is the fulfillment of desire, you get there through motivation. The motivation has be challenged and rewarded by a series of other emotions, like trials or levels in a video game. That is the way a soul, a body is strengthened, it has to lean into the resistance. You will get there (happy) more directly and durably, by doing so.
Agree; thanks for posting. I have continual, on-going “I should” thoughts, especially as it relates to regular workouts/exercise, but they often don’t produce the action that I say I desire. It’s good to be reminded that it takes WORK, and the result is worth the short-term pain.
Nice post as always, Pat! Aristotle says that things exist in the mind, in reality, or both. From this, I often feel it is best to visualize your motivation/goals in the mind, then they exist in such as way as to be actualized.
My problem is not lack of motivation.
My problem is shoulder inpingement.I go so far, go heavy and shoulder packs up.
Been to scores of physiotherapists/osteopaths. The thing heals up I get strong again, then it gets injured again, lose all my strength and it needds rehabbing again!