What's my motivation here? Scratch that, better question, how does one find their motivation? How do we pry ourselves off the couch and do stuff, take action, live la vida loca? A lot of folks suffer from this malady, present company fo sho! It can be very frustrating, especially when you have a strong inkling that something fun or desirable should be done. You look out the window as you shove another handful of Doritos in your face and see all the other kids doing stuff and wonder to yourself, "where do they get all their energy?" "what motivates people?" "how can I create that kind of excitement in my life?" And then, goose egg, no answers come to mind for that query so it's back to the Price is Right. I suppose maybe I wasn't meant to achieve anything. I mean without underachievers, we wouldn't know what overachieves are right? I'm just playing my part in the universe, and I'm damn good at it!
I spent quite a lot of time pondering questions like this. I wasn't really just sitting around watching Bob Barker giver away cheap furniture to tourist from Iowa. I actually had a job and friends and some hobbies, but I wasn't living full tilt. I was sort of living in acceptance, sort of. You see, I think there is some confusion about acceptance, it doesn't mean complacency which I think I was mistaking acceptance for. Looking at my life, not being completely happy about certain parts of it, not being sure what would motivate me into action for change, and then just saying that I accepted this situation because it just is.
This is the quagmire I allowed myself to get stuck in, a helpless victim subject to fate. But am I a victim? Is anyone really a victim of their circumstance? And what exactly is fate? It's been proven that 95% of all of our decisions are made at the subconscious level. Harvard business school professor Gerald Zaltman uses this statistic in his book, The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer. So we aren't even aware of having made 95% of our decisions. The subconscious beliefs that are at the root of these decisions are what many of us confuse as our fate. A more proactive approach would be to accept the situation, be grateful for what you do have, then take an internal look at what I can change. What is it that I am unaware of that's causing this lack of motivation? What is in this abyss of beliefs, this 95% that I keep calling my fate?
You see, it really isn't that I don't have any motivation, or that I am a procrastinator or that I need to find something or add something to me. I'm also not doomed to some lame fate that got doled out by some jerky universal bureaucrat in charge of making some peoples lives cool and other peoples lives crappy, I'm not a victim!!
What really needs to be done, maybe the most important thing we can do while we're experiencing this life, is to make an internal journey. Become friends with my subconscious. Ask it what I must believe about myself in order to be experiencing this lack of motivation, or love, or relationships or employment, or whatever else maybe my perceived dilemma. Lack of motivation or "being" a procrastinator is something I'm doing, it isn't me. My reason for doing things or not doing things is based on my beliefs. Remove the subconscious beliefs that say "I'm unworthy", "I'm a failure", "nothing I do is good enough" and there I will find my natural motivation. Clear away all of the garbage that is not me, and I don't need to find anything, I just flow in the river of life. What's my motivation? To know thy self, sans all the limiting beliefs that separate me from what I'm already naturally here for: To BE life.
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