WORST MOTIVATION STRATEGY

 

Motivation and goals are directly proportional. In simple psychological terms, having food is your goal, and hunger, moving your life cycle, being healthy, is your motivation to do that. Now, motivations can be gained in thousands of ways. People from outside can motivate you from inside. A billionaire can get you motivated to earn money. So, next time someone says that they don't require motivation to do anything to charm people, you can simply laugh, because that's a lie. 

Before going further, let's do a simple experiment. Suppose, you are using Youtube one day and you come across a 20 or 22 years old YouTuber about whom you learn is that, he/she earns 1+ crore rupees in a year. Is financially independent, has so many resources, houses, businesses, and that too at just a beginning age in which most people are still on their way. What will you think about that person? what will be the first thought? And what will you plan to do next? The answer, You will make that person your idol, worship them, decide to move their path, and do whatever they did, so that you can also achieve the same things, which are your new goals. The reason, they are cool for you. The human mind is unexpectedly or most expectedly highly assoholic shit! you will try to imagine yourself being talked about your resources, being given respect from every side, and all those people who hate you today regretting that why do we hate this God/Goddess? You will be excited, and then start working for a few days. And then get tired and lay back forgetting that once you committed yourself to work. Or even maybe you would keep on going again and again feeding yourself with the same Youtuber's page. And would get irritated at times when you will not get results. But the common theme in both scenarios is that you will make yourself feel like a loser. 

And then, finally, when you reach 20 or 22, you see yourself still average, and you go all depressed thinking that you couldn't make it. All sad, seeing yourself as a loser all the time now. Which is definitely not good news. Obviously, the one who was your idol, actually made, so, it was something which could be done practically. So, where do we go wrong? The answer, you go wrong in your motivation. Your idol in this experiment was a person who worked endlessly throughout the day, and the video which you might have seen from that person would have been shot at 4 A.M. in the morning, maybe. Because that's the time these types of people usually work. And they do not work because want money or resources. They work because they love their work. They love what they do, they have no boundaries for themselves. To learn something new, to experiment with new things, they can go to any extent, they can have sleepless nights for things they love. A painter who loves painting isn't bounded by any time limit. He can go to any extent to fulfill his desire of expressing himself. And that expression can give him millions. You, on the other hand in the experiment, just saw your idol's resources and success which built a desire in you. You didn't saw their work, their love for their work. And those resources were your motivation, which created boundaries in your head. Limited its reach and all the time you were just expecting results. That's where we fail. 

This example can fit in any kind of situation, not just in a career but also in many other situations of life. Comparison is the biggest poison that will kill you. It is not a motivation to change. So, the worst strategy to motivate yourself is to attach yourself to material things and bound yourself to a 50-50 chance of getting them, and if you don't get them you feel regrets, and shame. The best strategy is to not attach yourself, rather, do the things which you love doing and take them to perfection. 

Success is equal to failure. Both of them come and go. Success tells you what to do, and failure tells you what not to do. Trust them both, not just one of them.