How to motivate yourself

What motivates you to get up every day? It’s a good question to ask yourself.
Unfortunately, many people get up every day without really knowing why they do things and what they’re looking for. This lack of awareness leads them to live in a routine and “automatic” way.

I often ask this question to many people when I interact with them professionally, and the most common answer is usually:
Initially, some lackluster response, then a few seconds of silence, and finally: “Ugh, I don’t know what to tell you.”

For me, it’s vital to know what fuels you, motivates you, and gets you up with enthusiasm, energy, and passion every day of your life, because if you don’t know, you’ll surely act from inertia, unease, and autopilot many days.
When a person is trapped by the perspective of “living on autopilot,” they don’t resonate, they do things without passion, they don’t live in the moment, and their mind is filled with negative thoughts.

This leads them to live with constant complaining about everything they do. Unfortunately, the most common complaint you hear from many people is related to work (the activity to which they dedicate most of their time throughout the week), and this includes: bosses, colleagues, clients, suppliers, commutes, maintenance staff, etc. That’s why, when some people come to me with constant complaints about their work, I answer them: “If you don’t like the job you do, why do you do it?”
You can imagine the answer: “For money.”

Well, if money is the reason you do a job you don’t like, you already have a reason that motivates you to get up every morning, because thanks to that financial compensation, you cover your economic needs

Surely, earning that money will help you eat, pay for housing, your children’s school, clothe yourself, and treat yourself to certain luxuries, so you have a good reason: you do that job because it allows you to cover many needs. If you do a job you don’t like because the money you receive allows you to satisfy your needs, that will be your fuel that motivates you to get up every morning. But I ask you:

Is that fuel enough to make you feel useful, fulfilled, and eager to get up most days?
When a person doesn’t like their job and their only fuel is the money they receive in exchange for covering their needs, sooner or later, they will fall into complaining, demotivation, and their mind will be absorbed by negative thoughts

A person held hostage by complaining and unease ends up sinking emotionally, enjoys little, is unaware of the good things around them, doesn’t live in the present, feels empty; in short, their state is what I call “dead while alive.”
The key is to have something that motivates and propels you to get up every day with energy, optimism, joy, and a desire to live each day.

And this doesn’t mean you won’t have obstacles and problems to overcome each day, of course, you will! But the difference will be that you’ll face them from a different perspective, with enthusiasm and the conviction that you will overcome them and learn from them.
It’s very important to have good fuel that motivates you every day when you get up, because this will help you welcome each day with enthusiasm.

Having one or more reasons to get up every day is what will make you feel alive, useful, inspiring to those around you, and strong enough to keep going in the face of adversity

Knowing who you want to become and having a clear purpose in life is what will drive you to get up every day with enthusiasm, motivation, and excitement. You can leave me a comment, and if you liked the post, please share it.