I have struggled with motivation for years, what to use to motivate myself, esp. in the mornings and especially if I’m feeling bad. I’ve been asking myself lately, how to overcome my negative upbringing and childhood to be the person I want to be.

Motivation tapes, such as the Zig Ziglar kind, do do it for me, but they are always too much, getting me overexcited, and they take quite a lot of time out to listen to. Getting overexcited I would quickly become exhausted and end up regretting ever getting excited because I then couldn’t sleep for excitement! They would also tend to make me think I could do things I probably can’t or things that aren’t right for me at least.

Then other things I tried, tapes I listened to, or books I would read, wouldn’t get me excited enough.

So this has been a quest of mine for many years. And I think I may have found a happy medium, which is writing my own motivation list, which consists of all my favourite things: things I’m really interested in, things that get me really excited, projects I’m doing and one I want to get going in the future, and goals I want to achieve. This can include books I want to read, places I want to visit, shoes I want to wear, instruments I want to play, books I want to write or poetry, classes I want to take, e.g. art classes and drama, photography collections I want to embark upon, jewellery I want to make, and so it goes on.

Another example would be my partner is really into martial arts and fighting/defending oneself from attack. He is always talking to me about different fight/attack scenarios and how to defend himself against them. This bored me, quite frankly, as it’s on the periphery of what I’m interested in, so one day I said, write it down as something to look into, and asked is there some way you can do something in your life that encompasses some on of this so you get some satisfaction out of doing something with in, and then you wouldn’t have to tell me about it all the time. That led me to thinking, what about making a list of all the things you are interested in, and add to it every time you come across something that gets you excited, like X-creatures, for instance, that you want to explore further?

That then made me realise that perhaps this was what I had been searching for, a list of things I love, to get me going in the mornings, instead of listening to someone else’s motivational material. Just a simple list by my bed would maybe be enough to get me out of bed in the mornings and get me going on all my projects that excite me, instead of wasting time lying in bed trying to get the energy together to get up.

I could, of course, embellish the list with some details to get me really fired up, or put coloured markers or flowers against each item or importance and urgency against them to make it more appealing/attractive and prioritise. I am wondering whether it will work. I’ll try it and let you know. I’m too excited to wait and see if it works. I want to tell people about it now.

I’ve made similar lists before, but they’ve always been in the wrong place, somehow. I’ve never tried having one by my bed or looking at it first thing. Maybe you could meditate on which project to do today, and so on.

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