be motivated

Not struggling with this at the moment so going to mark it done. I guess, when you do things you love to do, you don’t really need motivation as such as you want to do it anyway…
However, there are areas of my life where I could do with a bit more motivation, like studying…. or when I have a whole day free, I could be more organised and get things done… but that’s not a big issue and is probably more about time management than motivation.

seem to help with motivation. All day I struggled to get started on an application letter for a job that would be pretty cool. It’s so hard because this is about the millionth time I think ‘omg, that job is perfect for me, I’m perfect for the job! I’m so going to get it’ and then I don’t even get an interview… I found it impossible to get excited about the job and to find the motivation to write a good covering letter. I need to write a really strong and convincing letter because I don’t have all the experience needed for the job and I’m sure there’ll be a million applicants, so I need to stand out.
By 4pm I’d written two words :). I just could not bring myself to write the same BS that I’ve written a million times already. I decided to take a break and do my affirmations. Maybe it’s because I haven’t done any affirmations in a while that the affect was so instant and strong. I felt a burst of motivation immediately and wrote a really good letter in twenty minutes! Amazing. I’d say the letter’s even quite genuine. It’s only a draft, but it shouldn’t take me long to finish it off tomorrow. I’ve also come up with some good ideas for my CV, which I’ll re-write for this job tomorrow. I should definitely get an interview.

I used to have a goal called ‘be more disciplined’, which is something i still want to be, but the word ‘discipline’ feels quite negative and makes the goal feel really difficult. Some time ago I read somewhere _{again, i can’t remember where…} that motivation leads to discipline. If you are motivated to keep on doing something, then it’s easy to be disciplined. I think that’s a more positive way of looking at it and makes the goal feel much more exciting and achievable.