Press on : Even when you don't feel motivated to

In a world filled with distractions, it is evident that it’s becoming tasky to concentrate on tasks and to also stay consistent on them for a long course.

For instance, when we want to embark on a new goal or a new course(like me when starting out on this post). At the start, we are motivated and fired up to initiate and go after those goals.

But then anytime we are met with a slight resistance, we lose our fire(I just did here and venture into X algorithm to find my juice), and we just feel like we can’t move past that spot until we are fired up again.

At this point, the motivation that we begin with has dwindled.

And for this, we just don't want to press on…

This is a normal human psyche. Because not everyone can grasp the gruesome pain of doing something even when not in the mood or motivated to do it.

I have been in this state times without number and I can tell you I’ve seen many more others like me, and we like to complain about this stuff concurrently, and then, end it by declaring that it just wasn’t something we could accomplish or some other f&cked up excuse many seem to use to validate their laziness…

Which only helps certify the scarcity of motivation in us.

Nevertheless, there is also another category of people who would want to start again on that task until they are inspired and energized mentally again.

This made many search for motivation in the hope that they will find it

Not knowing that investigating how to get motivated again is using the little fire we have left to pursue a bigger one which often ends up burning us out(got back from X worst than I was before)

The thing about hard work and motivation is that when we are motivated, hard work becomes easy.
In that moment we are not faced with any mental resistance when working.

If you have been in a state like this, either you are one to give up when you lose your juice, or you are one to start seeking another juice to make the task easier.

I will tell you this, energy can neither be created nor destroyed

only transformed

When we are feeling unmotivated to either invest in ourselves or in something we know will bear great returns in the future, it’s best not to think — “hey I should do this when I’m fired up or comfortable enough to do it”.

Occasionally it’s just best to take things slow and hope that you get inspired and motivated along the line.

In life, we like to think that when things are not going well it’s best to go for another thing, even if those things are a distraction to us. Like when I should’ve been writing this post before looking at what’s going on on X.

I was just looking for something to distract me and for that reason, I neglected the task at hand because I just didn’t feel comfortable and in the groove to write something at that moment.

That took me hours of surfing and then doing unnecessary stuff in the hope that I might find my motivation back after a while.

But the truth is, I just got exhausted and all that energy could’ve been used to at least write the first draft of this post(which I did after taking a nap) and I can do more detective work in killing my darling later.

Many today are watching Netflix, joining online protests, talking to an Ai, and other distracting mechanisms that have been incorporated into society today.

All while neglecting the task at hand.

This is why I think being able to focus on tasks at hand and stay consistent on such tasks even when we are not motivated in today's world is a skill that many have yet to discover and turn into na habit.

And talking about habits, it’s better to be able to do what is at hand and make a habit of doing it over and over again when we are not motivated than to go in search of motivation in energy and time-consuming activities.

Do you have activities that you should been doing or goals that you could been chasing all this while but you just feel or they no that due to the lack of motivation, you are not working on them? Trust me the problem is not about motivation it's rather that you have relied on motivation too much that without it you don't want to venture into any task because they all feel like hard work.

To be able to get past this, always do it now, and hope that you will find inspiration and motivation along the way. I never thought I could make it this far with this article but eventually, I made it.

You can too, you've just got to do it and press on even when you don't want to

Until next time