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Pushing for small self-defined actions when we don’t feel like it!

By Bamboo In The Wind

There is a strange thing about doing things on schedule. Schedules make us plan for things ahead of time. 

Every slot in it is immaculately planned. And, when the time for action arrives, we simply want to walk away from the very thing the next time slot is meant to be for.

Why do we work so hard to plan but find excuses to strike off what we intended for?

One reason is that schedules are done with someone else's priorities for us. Someone else tells us what they need from us, or they tell us what is good for us. If we are accommodating these external inputs in vastly self-prepared internally thought schedules, we are usually comfortable with it.

But what if our schedule is vastly driven by external triggers?

That is when we tend to drop the ball. We don't have the emotional stake or the commitment required to complete every external trigger. Belief in the task assigned is a crucial aspect that drives motivation. 

Motivation is the highest when we create a structure for actions for prioritizing our daily needs and then accommodating others into our schedule to make sure we can live a collaborative part of our commitments at work or in life involving other people around us.

We must push for small actions of our own when we don't feel like pursuing the schedule that is in front of us. 

We must stuff in as many priorities that are self-defined as possible. And we must allow for changes that keep the new intense activity even when we don't feel like doing the task ahead of us.

Motivation comes because of deciding to do something ourselves. Motivation goes up every time we complete what we decided to do.


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