Money and fame often serve as motivation. So too does doing good for the world. You’d think it’s impossible to be motivated every day.
But you don’t have to be 100% motivated to get stuff done. It only takes a little motivation to get started.
Fortune favors the motivated
Motivation is not a prerequisite to doing the work.
People often work even when they don’t feel like it. Whether they’re following a passion project or exercising pure grit, fortune favors the consistent.
For some like artists and athletes, the daily grind is a profession. It is through starting, action, that is both the cause and effect of motivation.
Motivation is a psychological muscle. If everyone was purely ruled by mood, they’d probably reach for a candy bar or a red bull. The right type of motivation takes looking inside yourself — intrinsic motivation — for the push forward.
Self-help blogs, books, and streams are wonderful but they only provide temporary motivation. Motivation is fickle.
The trick to getting better at any craft is through persistent practice.
Never let being extraordinary prevent you from starting. Even more, spending time thinking about how well things may go can also become also a demotivating force.
If all else fails to inspire, ask yourself whether you were really interested in the first place.