The Desert of Arizona
Sunny 67 Degrees
I’m not such a competitive person. In fact, seeing someone else doing something doesn’t motivate me at all to do it myself. If I don’t want to do it, they’re not going to make me.
Those “alpha male” situations where guys are (figuratively) beating their chests to prove something to someone always make me look for the nearest exit.
I imagine I wouldn’t have made it as a caveman, but whatever.
Call it weird, call it low testosterone or some other genetic malfunction, I don’t really know. All I know is that’s the way I am. It’s just not my cup of tea.
In high school, I ran cross country. I’m embarrassed to say that the only reason I started was because the coach saw me standing around one day and flattered me into it. Tricky little devil.
Getting validation and feeling included had its price in those days.
Running cross country was the price I paid. Did I like it? I loved it each and every day… WHEN IT WAS OVER. But while I was running, it was sheer torture. Not really for my body, but for my mind.
I think my fastest 5K race was maybe around 16 minutes or something. I could have done better, probably a lot better, but I never broke through the “wall.”
I never broke through that wall because I never wanted to be there in the first place.
But instead of being a REAL man and making my own decisions and leaving, I stuck around.
Instead of trying to “motivate” yourself to do something you don’t want to do, how about realigning what you do in your business with your natural motivations? How can you make doing what you already want to do work?
When you get it right, it changes everything. Because you stop doing all of your stuff in order to get somewhere. Instead, you do all of the stuff you do because you like to do it. And by actually enjoying things, you end up getting places.
Some people say happiness is having what you want. Others say it’s wanting what you have.
What do you already have in the form of motivation that you could use to your advantage?