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What motivates you the most?

For the past few years I’ve been mastering the art of self motivation successfully which has been challenging considering I was diagnosed with clinical depression among other things that I’ve been fighting against nearly my whole life.

I always say my biggest motivator is human connection. I care about those I know or even those I’ve known in my past so that encourages me to get up and be productive in order to be my best self for them. If I can’t or it’s too hard which did happen more often than I’d like. I have very mean voice in my head that makes things very simple.

It tells me I’m not allowed to say I care for others if I’m not willing to put in the work for them. Talk is cheap. You either get up and move to action and prove how much they matter, or you sit there and waste away proving how much they actually don’t. The choice is yours and it will tell everyone who you actually are. Not these ideas you come up with.

I will lock away my ability to say anything else matters behind this decision. You either care about those you love or you don’t. The only way to know for sure is through action. That’s it. Don’t overcomplicate it. Don’t have excuses. That isn’t love. To act or not is the choice. No more. No less.

When I reduce the entirely of my existence and everything that matters to me, when I boil it all down to a simple choice of prove it through action or don’t. It just becomes easier to act. I don’t know if that’s healthy or not, but it works for me.
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akindheart · 61-69, F
i would say you have been successful in figuring things out. keep going