On motivation:
I lived much of my life with the impression that there was a manual on how to live, but I never got my copy. We all feel that way at some point (I hope). It is a feeling that lingers, that burns and begs to know, what are you missing? What are you? I had dreams, but no drive to reach them. No path to follow.
To escape that feeling, I became a seeker. I have read books, watched TED talks, listened to professors, called hotlines and talked to the people who seem to have the manual on life. Slowly, I realized what I had missed. I experienced a moment of clarity.
Timothy Ferriss, the author of The Four Hour Body, calls it the harajuku moment or tipping point.
Brendon Burchard, author of Motivation Manifesto, calls it declaring a personal agenda.
Wayne Dyer, psychologist and author of numerous motivational books, calls it becoming a no limit person.
What all of these, and numerous other motivational philosophies have in common, is they recognize the truth of how people become motivated. Motivation is not something we find or even have tomorrow. It is not something we can wait for. Motivation is something we make, something we do. Motivation comes from within.
If you want to play the piano one day, all it takes is playing the piano today. You will find more motivation to play piano in practicing for ten minutes than in hours of thinking about playing piano. There is more motivation in the practice of one arpeggio than in all the daydreams you have ever had. That is the way with everything in this life.
And so congratulations, you have made the choices to seek out what you are reading. You came this far; you should give credit where it is due, and it is due to you.
If who you want to be does things that you cannot do today, you are just moments away from being a more authentic version of yourself. All it takes is to do the very thing you want to do.
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