Most people think motivation comes and goes on its own.
Some days you wake up energized and focused. Other days, motivation is nowhere to be found.
It feels like all you can do is get through the day.
When an internal sense of motivation isn't present, it feels out of your control... like something you just have to wait for.
But the truth is motivation is not random.
Motivation behaves like a fire.
You can't sit in a cold room and hope a fire appears. You have to strike the match. And once it is burning, it only stays alive if you keep feeding it.
Motivation works the same way. It grows when it has something to feed on. When you tell yourself you're going to start waking up earlier or working out, and you do it once, nothing dramatic happens.
But if you're able to hit three times in a week, something shifts. If you write down and track improvements, another shift. If you see that you have kept your word to yourself more often than not over the course of a few weeks, it becomes harder to believe you're simply unable to accomplish your goal.
Then, it becomes about maintaining that consistency at all costs.
The proof of taking an action is fuel.
Motivation feeds on evidence that you can make the effort. Even meager, inconsistent efforts are a movement in the direction of producing a desired result. Once the effort does in fact start producing the desired result, the fire grows substantially. Growth is not random. It responds to what sustains it.
When you create small wins and actually record them, you create something solid for your mind to respond to. Without evidence, motivation fades quickly. With evidence, it strengthens. The more evidence you produce in terms of effort that leads to the desired result, the easier it becomes to find motivation and work through when it's missing.
This is why tracking what you are doing matters so much. Writing things down makes progress real.
It turns a vague sense of trying into something measurable. And once you can see that you showed up yesterday, it becomes easier to show up today, regardless of motivation.
If you have been waiting to feel motivated before starting, try reversing the order.
Make the effort you know is necessary to meet your goal. Record it. Repeat it tomorrow.
Start the fire. Then, keep feeding it.
Progress is powerful, even when it is simply doing today what you did not do yesterday.
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