Today, I’d like to offer two pieces of advice that I’ve heard over the years from loved ones. They can be helpful when you have goals but are less motivated than you’d like to be.
— A dear friend of mine is a therapist, and she often tells her clients,
“Don’t ask yourself, ‘Do I want to do this thing?’ Ask yourself, ‘Will I have wanted to do this thing?'”
In other words, are you aware that this will benefit you, and that once you’ve done it, you’ll be glad you did? How does that impact your motivation to do it?
— Another friend of mine says,
“If you’re in a place where you’re waiting for ideas, or you’re working on personal growth, and you’ve hit a plateau, ‘cultivate the soil.’ We don’t always have the energy to work at the precise goal at hand, and we can’t always expect immediate results, but we can work on the environment we’re in so that the goals and the growth are more likely to happen.”
Good pieces of advice.
— Renee Roederer
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