Doing just the minimum will not get big stuff done. No matter how much you want something, if you don’t work for it you’ll never get it. And you can’t rely on motivation because motivation is unstable.
We miss workout days and the many other tasks we fail to do because we don’t feel like or we label the work as too much. We’re just not motivated. In every case, we require more than motivation. Why? Motivation is not predictable, motivation never lasts long enough. If you wait for motivation, you’ll wait a long time. If you wait for your brain juice to start flowing before getting started, you’ll wait a long time — unnecessarily.
The truth is that you can’t say you want to lose weight and keep on having multiple cheat days. You can’t say you want to read a book a day and keep on using your free time for something less rewarding or of a lower priority. How can those actions lead to the desired results? That’s antithetical!
‘Discipline comes from a motive’. I heard that last week and it struck home. If we need to get work done and stick with it, we’ll always need to ask ourselves why we started it and why we’re still doing it.
Deep this: If you know you need a job, you will do the work of applying to offers regardless of the number of rejections. Do the work, stop talking about it.
A good part in this is that you don’t need to love only the goal. Learn to love the process if only for the person you grow into.
A favourite quote of mine says:
Every action you take is a vote towards the person you become.
Lads and ladies, stay focused and do what matters. To lazy out or lose focus is expensive, you’ll never get closer to your dreams if you don’t do the work.
Credit to Deep Work and a sermon for drilling this into my brain :)
Until next time,
Dayo
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