Reorganize, reprioritize, itemize things into goals, break goals into steps to accomplish, take those steps, and keep going. You can break down each lofty goal into a simple series of daily steps that are ridiculously easy to follow and accomplish.
Over and above all, I find my motivation in one simple yes or no question.
“Do you want to succeed?”
If the answer is no, then cash in your chips.
If the answer is yes, then fucking do it. That’s all there is. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is action.
If you tack on a ‘but’ on the end of that yes, as in, “Yes, but…” then you really don’t want to succeed. There is no but. The light switch is on or off. Yes or no. Do you want to succeed? Then do it. Succeed.
“But it’s too hard.”
That’s quitter’s talk. Fuck you. Get a spine. If you really wanted to do it, you would do it.
“But, it’s boring, all this legwork.”
Ask it again. “Do you want to succeed?” Keep asking yourself that until you’re working. Keep asking yourself that when you’re done. Ask. and Ask. and Ask.
Solution to everything, really.
(switching topics to something completely unrelated)
I was reading (years ago) an article about complexes, and psychological conditioning. Now, we as people, don’t want to give anyone (least of all ourselves) a complex. But we do. It’s completely and utterly socially acceptable to give your child a complex, did you know that? It’s called ‘potty training’. Through months of badgering and cajoling and ‘training’ we equip our children to believe that it is wrong, nasty, and disgusting to mess ourselves. The article went on to describe a college study where they took 5 men and put them in one room, and five women and put them in another room, and gave them all sorts of drinks; cola, tea, water, milk, etc. When it came time to use the facilities, they were told that they could do it, but only in their pants.
Not a single one did it until the very last extreme, when they could hold it no longer. even then, they felt dirty, ashamed, and uncomfortable. (interestingly enough, the women caved first. Is it a physiological issue, or is it a psychological issue?)
So we give our children complexes. And it’s totally cool. It’s socially acceptable. One wonders now what ‘socially acceptable’ really means, if it’s something that’s necessary, or a huge stack of societal complexes forced on our minds by peer pressure.
If you look at needs vs. wants, you’ll see that we all need food, water, shelter, sleep, etc. the bare essentials. But there was another study done (sorry, no links, yet) where people actually itemized needs and wants. Over and above all things, Humans want to be loved, appreciated, and most of all, accepted by their peers.
They want to belong, fit in, have a cohesive and tangible place. We all desire these things above all things.
Is that so bad?
But, on the other hand, is it necessarily a good thing? A desire to have unity with one’s fellow man destroys ego and brings about stagnation of individual expressions of thought. However, the thought of being ostracized by the throng of humanity and cast out is utterly overwhelming. At the same time, though, there is ego, the desire to stand up in the shifting masses of browbeaten cohorts and make a impact. Me. I. I and I alone.
These two conflicting desires drive us.
No wonder we’re all hopelessly mad.
I’m done.
Nestor Dissertation, Imported piece, Quick Post, Rant, Sociology