My Motto: Motivation

Motivation. What a deep word rooted in so much strength and positivity. I do not, whatsoever, want to sound like a broken record throughout my blog, but I mean that word, I am obsessed with. So, back to motivation. Yes, it’s the one word that determines whether you’re going to achieve your goals or not. Whether it be physically, mentally or spiritually, it takes motivation to want to actually make a change.

 

Now, I’m going to throw it back a few years, so you all can learn about me as a writer. I was originally motivated to write when I was in 2nd grade. I know. Crazy. Moral of the story, my 100 page book that I had worked on for almost half a year was deleted when there were only the big dinosaur computers and nothing saved if you didn’t ensure you clicked the save button. Computers died = book gone. I was devastated, cried for probably a day because I thought it was so well written it could have been published. So, this was my initial turning point in life I must say that I realized fallbacks happen. You can’t promise yourself everything will be “saved” so when mishaps occur, like my computer shutting down, and you lose multiple hours of hard work conjuring up someway to add depth to your life and its story, don’t give up. I know your life is not a save button but it almost can be compared to that if you really think about it. You go one day working out and eating healthy and say theoretically, “workout saved start again tomorrow”, and your mind is set to continue. However, just like my computer died without prior planning, mistakes happen. You may eat bad one day, miss a workout, fail a test, not get enough sleep, have a life event occur that throws you off. Did the computer dying and erasing my hard work affect me? Yes. But, I didn’t let it affect my whole life or the fact that I wanted to restart. In the end, restarting novels and books, work outs, eating plans, even to bring this into reality, people who you associate with, can be a reset button. Sometimes, life will shut you down and you can decide whether you want to let the mishaps discourage you, or you can move past what’s been said, done, acted upon, and restart. This is my motivation today. This is why I keep going every day, because I know some days life doesn’t want to turn on for me and I have to force my save button to be real, tangible even. It’s a lot easier to think of motivation like a game between you and life. Oh yeah, life may be against me today, maybe yesterday it deleted my progress and I let it win, but today, oh no, I will not forget to press that save button every single day; until the negatives of life have no opportunity to affect me.

 

All in all, I would love to be open and share that life has gotten in the way of my hard work MULTIPLE times, trials and tribulations are worth experiencing because you GROW from it all. Your mind is like a computer, you own it, you control it, you turn it on or off to save messages or write personal introspective stories, you choose who you want to talk to, who makes you smile or not, what you want to share, but it also serves as motivation. You cannot expect to eat clean and workout extremely hard everyday just like you wouldn’t expect a computer to save everything (back in the day) if you didn’t rinse and repeat. Allow yourself to feel free, lots of browsers, ideas, opinions, love to different people, but just remember, sometimes it’s good to not “save” everything, sometimes it’s good and you should be proud if you stick to a routine religiously without any fall backs but life happens.  You cannot let lost files tear you down or cause you to retreat from all your dreams. Like I mentioned, motivation and “saved” on a computer are my metaphoric pathways. I want to save a new life each day, a new start. If my computer lost it, “okay it wasn’t that good anyway”, “maybe I can retry” or “you can do better”. You are you’re own computer. So decide right now, are you willing to save your routine daily to relive over and over or do you need something to change that will encourage you to want to save your file. In the end, discouragement leads to the story never being finished, and conquering lost battles leads to the finish line.