The Buddhist Antidote to an Unmotivated Life: The 5 Levels of Motivation
Most of us start off in life with high aspirations.
Build a successful career. Start a family. Accomplish something great. See the world.
But on the way, the vast majority of us get distracted, have doubts, forget, get distracted again, find something new, have a setback, have more doubts, get distracted…
Before we know it, our whole life can have passed us by and all we’ve done is played video games, explored Reddit, and eaten burritos.
The modern world is full of things that can hijack our aspirations.
Instead of becoming a dad or working for world peace, our life’s mission can in an instant switch to exposing people on Twitter and watching every episode of Stranger Things.
But the problem isn’t the internet age.
The problem is the timeless question of motivation.
Being born human, we will always want to be happy and feel good.
Happiness and good feelings are an important part of life.
However, if we let them become our highest motivations, then even the strongest of aspirations may be forever put off for cake and Netflix.
