Motivation From Within

In the past few weeks I've had more than one person ask me how I "do it", meaning of course how I keep my attitude up and my energy up farther day in and day out. As to why they asked me, I may never know, but its not my turn to ask a question at this point. Instead, I've opted to put it down here so that I have a record of my ramblings to refer to should I ever be asked the question again. The easiest way to answer the question is to say that I get it all "From Within". Its rather vague on the surface, but here's the best I can do to explain...

When I say I pull my energy and what not "from within", I am literally revealing the entire process through which I find the limitless amounts of energy I appear to have on a daily basis. There's nothing special about it, I just notice myself getting angry or depressed and stop for a moment. I tell myself that I'm better than this, and that as a result I can do better than I'm doing.

From that point on its just a simple tug of war between my feeling of motivation to "do better" and whatever emotion it is I'm battling with at the moment. I don't know if this is unique, I don't know if its the most effective method either, but it works for me, which is the real point isn't it?

I apologize to anyone that might find this post to be very short, but then again I never did promise that it was an extraordinary thing which I did to motivate myself. Just remember though, the only reason this works for me, is because I found out that it works for me. I have no idea if it would work for anyone else, so this is not an advice column. Figure it out for yourself, and if this helps you in anyway, I'm glad.

- Andy