What makes you tick?

What motivates you?

The most common obstacles for man’s greatness is lack of motivation and uncertainty mixed together.

At start of any goal we all are full of motivation, without any traces of self doubt. You have this one idea in you mind and you are saying to yourself: “Yes, I can do that. No. I will do that!”, but then comes next morning, next week in best of cases next month and this dream kind off drifts away.

Why?

Why in next day/ week/ month we just let or dreams run away?

I think there are 3 cases:

1) When You gave up next morning.

I guess anyone had went trough this one. When in evening you have this one great idea to run every day from now/ to start practice guitar play/ to learn something new/ to change your life. But then in next morning nothing changes. You are still old you. You still live in your old house/ your old life. Then realization hits you: “I am comfortable of who and where I am. So why bother to change anything?” and dream dies not even really born.

2) When You gave up after day/ week.

In this case the idea of you life changing change comes up in day or evening when you just hadn’t nothing else to do and you thought to yourself: “What I am doing with my life? It has to change. I will start (Enter what ever you want to do or achieve)”. So You go outside for a run/ you find beginner guides to guitar play/ you take or buy “Dummies guide to (whatever)” / you search for articles or posts “How to change your life” (like this one), but when you experience first pain or failure you start to think:”This is to hard, It’s not worth it. I have better things to do ” and again you just give up

3) Last case scenario, at least what I experienced is when you have this one great idea how to change your life, you have your goals, you know how you will accomplish them and you just do it. When first pains comes you just muscle tough them, because you know you aren’t where you wanted to be and you know that this pain is just a little obstacle in your way till your goal. But after 3 weeks/ month/ 2 months of hard work you realize one of two things.

3.1) You reached your goal and there is nothing more to fight for, so you stop.

3.2) After all this hard you are still 1 hour behind from half-marathon WR/ you still can’t play like Jimi Hendrix/ you still can’t do as half of what you wanted and after this all self doubt you give up.

This are 3 phases of giving up what I experienced in my still short life. (I will talk a bit more how to get over them and don’t go to there traps in future posts) What was your last goal and why You let it go? Or what makes You stick to it still?