100 Days of 100s
In which I challenge myself to always keep it 💯💯💯
Background
Popular reference site Urban Dictionary defines “keep it 💯” as being true to oneself. It’s something I’ve always aspired towards and try to emulate every day. One of the biggest areas I’ve had trouble in is motivating myself.
Keeping the Candle Lit
I’ll get sudden bursts of energy at random times, although I’m sure my mom would hope to see it happen at more regular hours than 4 in the morning. These spontaneous sprints are great in the moment, but the passion I feel will often melt away as the sunlight lazily spills into my window. Recently, I’ve had issues with keeping the momentum going and reminding myself why I do what I do.
I want to change that.
“What motivates you?”
Monkey see, Monkey do, and this monkey wants to see what other people do to keep that candle burning through the long haul. I’ve always found that I learn most by 1) doing, 2) observing, and 3) observing others doing. I consider myself a people person, and my best work often comes from interacting with others. This is why my 100 day project emphasizes human responses.
From role-models to models that roll, from sugar rushes to rushing the deadline, from flipping the page to paging the 90’s, I want to document how the people around me process their motivations and see if I can apply this to my own life.
The Setup
Every day, I will find someone and ask them a simple question, “What motivates you?”
This question can be an encouragement to dive deep into the psychology of what motivation means, but it is also an invitation to honor the small, everyday things that push us to be better than we are. If you are reading this and I ask you about your motivation, feel free to get creative!
Next, I will take their photo and make a medium post about their quote with a small reflection on how I interpreted their response. That part is for me to stay truer to myself and learn from it, making sure to keep it 💯
The End
Fast forward 100 days, what happens?
One, high fives all around. Finishing a project like this takes discipline, discipline that I need and want to learn. This project will help me not only learn about motivation but also what pushed me to keep the candle lit the whole way through.
Two, hopefully people can use these posts and small musings to learn more about what motivates others and what they can do for themselves. The ideal would be to have people make their own posts and start a revolution, but I’ll save that for Che Guevara for now.
Finally, this is meant to be for fun. The small quotes and reflections on life are not meant to always be super serious or incredibly deep because life is too short to take seriously. This is to learn about people and every person has their own, personal take on what the prompt means.
Stick with me on this journey, and hopefully we all learn a thing or two. If you see me running around or breathlessly asking you to “helpmecompleteaprojectbyansweringaquestionandtakingyourphoto” please do.
Until tomorrow!
P.S. Shoutout Gina H Kim for motivating me to start this. Check out her 100 day challenge here: https://medium.com/@ginakkiim
