Motivation is Bullshit!

I come across people everyday who tell me that they are motivated by the exercise regimen I follow. I see motivation videos being liked on Facebook, I see motivation speeches being promoted on websites...hell, I even read about motivational theories. (Thank you HR presentation).

But in my opinion, motivation is bullshit; it doesn't get anything done. 

Sure, motivation gets you going; but DISCIPLINE gets things done. When it actually comes down to sitting down and working something out, you cannot rely on motivation. After all, it's just a feeling.

Here's my recommendation to you. Whenever you feel motivated, don't do anything grand or exciting or set any lofty/unrealistic goals for yourself. Get a pen and paper, and write down ONE or TWO things you are going to commit to doing every single day for the foreseeable future, no-matter-what. Use that motivation, and build a machine for yourself. For example, you commit on writing a journal every day. After, lets say two weeks, you don't think about writing your journal anymore. You do it because you committed to it. Every single day. No matter what. It does not matter if both your hands were chopped off and you had to write the journal with your freakin' mouth.

When a habit gets inculcated, your nervous system will not even consider writing the journal/doing that activity. It just gets done, because you committed. Write this down somewhere if you have to - Commit once. Do not commit again and again, and then do it.

Whatever it is that you pick on doing, it will help. Definitely, this thing will not be the sole responsible factor for that transformative action you are looking for, but the context of the discipline you are creating in the interim to grow stronger is what's important.

It's not the grand visions/plans; its the tiny actions that move towards a worthy ideal that's important. Stop getting motivated. You don't need motivation because it does nothing but affords some good feelings in your body. Discipline of following that regime every single day is what is going to get you somewhere.

Cheers!

RS

How to Destroy Self Doubt!

There is this question that comes to my mind sometimes, and I struggle with finding the right answer. That question is, 'How do I tackle self doubt'. How do you proceed in life if you are always doubting what/how to do the next thing.

The question most people ask

Without going into a lengthy rant on how society has conditioned us to always be in self doubt, and finding the right passage of expressing our true self, in fact our strongest self to the surface; always being stuffed down by others and questioned on our activities, I am going to try and find a solution to this.

So how do you remedy this? How do you get rid of this?

You won't find the answer the same way you found the question, i.e. letting things get in your head. Self doubt is purely a self taught phenomena; you taught it to your brain. Honestly, your heart and your ba**s have the ability to do some magnificent stuff, without letting your brain pop in the middle.

The fastest, most effective and Band-Aid rip-off solution that I find to this is 'TO DO THE THING YOU ARE AFRAID TO DO'. Do it. It is not about being confident enough going into a tough situation, it is not about having a plan, it is not about having the most detailed solution; It's about doing it. It's about courage. Courage is what you will experience if you doubt something but go ahead and do it anyway. So your problem is not doubt. Your problem is courage. Doubt will always be there, but it gets out of the way when you express courage.

Millions against 300? Bring the f*ck on!

You won't find success the first time. And success isn't supposed to be that. Success for me is moving in the direction of what my goal, my passion is. People think success is doing things with a plan. I don't quite believe it. For me, success is finding the path to progression; towards an ultimate goal. And courage is doing those things you don't know how to do. Your self-doubt will step out of the way when you build that courage to do the right thing - and the power will be added to you.

Cheers!

RS