It's day 75. I have been writing this for 75 days now and I gotta be honest that there have been times that I have been ready to give up. The hardest part is maintaining my motivation.
Maintaining my motivation is something that is not only hard in this task of writing a blog daily, but often in other areas of my daily living. I may get excited about something but how do I maintain being motivated? Is my lack of motivation because I am tired all the time now it seems? Or is my motivation lacking because I just want to give up at times? I think right now the lack of motivation is because of physical problems.
Our environment affects our motivation. If we will our lives with people who are positive and are motivated themselves, we can stay on that path. If we have alot of people in our lives who are the eternal skeptics or are the pessimistic type and doubt their own ability to stay motivated then it affects our own abilities to stay motivated.
I am fortunate to have some people in my life, who by my being around them for a few short hours, help rejuvenate me and help me stay motivated. By being around them I can effectively move out of my occasional "bitch mode" mood.
The challenge comes from whether I make sure that I find the time to be around those people...that when I need to get that motivation that I find those people and rejuvenate myself through them. So, I guess there is such a thing as maintaining my motivation to stay motivated! Crazy, huh?
By "motivation", do you mean that you want people to kick you in the butt? That's what it takes for me sometimes, and I just happen to be around a person who can take care of that periodically.
ReplyDeleteReally, I think that you show motivation by writing this at 6:16 in the morning. I can't even find the keyboard until at least after my first cup of coffee. I think that you are showing motivation by writing this blog for 75 days. I don't believe that I could have done it for that long. It just isn't quite like writing your diary. That would be like, "Okay, it's April 9th, 2010; Dear Diary, what I did today.....well, let's see.....I got up, ate, pooped, ate, watched TV, etc, went to bed. April 10th, 2010; Dear Diary,......." Now that, I could do, but what for? That would accomplish nothing, and does zilch for improving your life. What this blog can do, and should be doing, is to not only maintain, and help you to improve in areas, but can also be a help to others. Has it helped me? No, I'm perfect already. Who am I kidding? I can't give up specifics, but I know that by reading what you think, then relating that to what I think, is much like talking it out with a, uh, oh, (a dirty word), "Psychiatrist", but without the $200.00 fee.
Okay, I agree that this Virtual Psychiatrist could possibly help me to keep my comments a little bit shorter. But I can get excited about things, and this little computer goes off in my mind, and I just can’t seem to end it up. Oh okay, enough for now.
hi neighbor!! great post:) i am soooo lacking motivation lately:( for many reasons, as we talked about!
ReplyDeletei want you to know that you are welcome to come over and chat ANYTIME!! i love chatting with ya and you have been a great help to me with many things just by your advice:) you are a great friend and i hope we spend more time hangin' in the backyard this summer, lol!!