Why motivation sucks

or why is discipline more important than motivation?

by Alex Dovhyi

Actually, I do not quite understand why anyone needs to be motivated.
After all, there must be a reason why you born on this planet in human form.

You know what and how much you need and how much you can achieve. Why do you need to be motivated? People go to motivational seminars, jumping and breathing, and they stay motivated for a couple of days or weeks.

Then everything starts again.

After all, you could be born a tree. Or a dove. That would explain why our actions are limited. But you are a human. What kind of motivation do you need? You have so many possibilities.

You should understand that if you will not act your chances to succeed are equal to zero. But if you’re doing at least anything your chances are 100% more than zero. The action removes the fear. So if you’re afraid of anything just do it, and fear will disappear. It’s all about your desire to achieve your goal or dream. You could create a vaccine against the deadly virus, or go round the world trip with your wife and kids, or fly into space, or build a business, or just learn how to wake up with the sun. But you can’t, because you’re lazy. It’s hard for you to lift his ass off the sofa in front of TV and take a step towards its goal.

The saddest thing for me is watching how people burn their time. In the meaningless conversations, bars and alcohol. Or sleeping for 12 hours. How then you’re going to watch your children or parents in the eye?

Therefore, for me, the motivation is still some vague understanding.
It should be from inside of you. But you have to understand, this should not be as an effect. This should be your normal state.

Agree?

It is believed that motivation is everything. Without it, you will give up, your business will not succeed, your eyes will stop burning, and you will end up sitting on the sofa watching a British TV series endlessly and procrastinate. 
But — it is a profound error.

There are disciplined people. Those who have never snoozed the alarm for 10 minutes later in the morning and have always gone to bed at 23:00, who feed exclusively on organic food and work like a luxury Swiss watch. Such people often stop at some level of their growth and can’t continue their path. Some successful point becomes the last for them. These people increase their discipline, but doing so does not help to go forward.

There are other people — dreamers. Things are burning in their minds. These people dream of their plans and lie with eyes open over a few nights, thinking of how to implement their plans. Sometimes these people are capable of working without sleep and rest, but a discipline for them still remains terra incognita. They are working like crazy, and resting like crazy. And these people also tend to be left without benefits. They are always a little bit not further squeezed, they don’t overcome the area where it’s necessary to blow up the space of your own efforts, but simply to drag the working load properly and evenly. They burn out during such periods and lose motivation.

Those who want to succeed need to become a synthesis of these two types:
A disciplined dreamer.

This man always starts with a simple and clear action — he wants to find his dreams.He is seeking it, using all possible techniques. If it’s necessary — he will meditate; if it’s necessary — he will travel around the world. But the fact is, he’ll find what makes him happy.

Statistics show that more than 50% of people do not like their job; however, we spend almost one-third of our life at work, so why should we flush our lives down the toilet?

But our disciplined dreamer doesn’t do this. When he has found an interesting occupation, he proceeds to create a clear plan.

It’s proper to split a big goal into two sub-goals.
1. Goal A. The minimum goal. A certain indicator, a red light, which should light up when you have reached that what you wanted. You should complete this no matter what. Goal A is regulated by discipline. Without it (discipline), it (Goal A) is unattainable.

2. Goal B. The maximum goal. This is a “bonus component” of Goal A. This is what you’re dreaming about. Without a dream “Goal B” is unattainable, no matter what discipline skills you have. Only a fire of dream could make you achieve this goal.

Discipline could help you to achieve Goal A; dreams will help you to achieve Goal B.

The desire to engage with only what you love looks like a drug addiction. It’s good if there are things that you love to do — you can work on these things almost all the time — but they account for only a certain percentage of the total number of cases in your life.

The truth sounds like this: sometimes you have to do very boring and fatiguing stuff, which, however, is very important for further progress. It is not written in any glossy book on motivation, but it’s true. I am very sincere sometimes I have to do what I hate. Routine work. The work is not for “my soul”. I’m doing it not because I’m terribly motivated by it, but because it is necessary. And this applies to every person. It is infantile to think that the world is a rainbow place filled with only pleasure and favorite work. Sometimes you have to work your fingers to the bone.

The word “necessary” should be firmly imprinted in the subcortex of your brain. It should become a red button, which, when pressed on, you instantly remove any bad moods and start to work.

Then it’s time for another surprising paradox of our brain: having started on a boring task, after some time, after deciding a few routine questions, you start to love what you’re doing. You want to do more your brain is tuned to work. That is why the morning is very important to force me to work. This is the reason why I’m starting my morning with complicated tasks.
When you start working hard, you realize your brain is capable of much. The main thing doesn’t give your brain easy life, remember: atrophied muscles become very weak!

Discipline is a starter that gets me up every morning.

Motivation is a navigator, which shows whether I’m moving in the right direction.

Motivation drives us while we realize our true desire to get something or someone. But, when this period passes (and it passes, in my case, for example, after a week or two), you begin to procrastinate.

George Bernard Shaw said

“The secret of our suffering is that we have too much time to think about the fact we are happy or not.”

At that time, Meanwhile, when the motivation is based on emotions and emotional state, a discipline is based on the fulfillment of the desired objectives whether you like it or not, have the mood or not this should be done.

Do not confuse these two concepts. You can get somewhere without a navigator, but you wouldn’t get off the ground if you don’t start the engine, even if you have with a super cool Garmin Dezl for $500 onboard.