Not motivated? Do this.

[Music] motivation is a tricky thing to figure out I can't think of one time in my entire life that I've actually felt like waking up before sunrise [Music] I've always been terrible at waking up early notorious for hitting the snooze button way too many times and I can sleep through just about anything so me and sunrise have just never gotten along [Music] similarly I rarely feel like going to the gym and and sometimes I don't even really feel like making videos not because I don't want to but because I don't really have any inspiration or motivation to do it it's gonna be cold out there but at the same time I've never regretted going to the gym I've definitely never regretted making a video and not once in my entire life have I ever regretted waking up before sunrise it's like why don't I do this every day yeah I hate waking up at 5:00 a.m. but they once you do it and then you're done in nine animals around it's like why am I not doing this every single day this feels so good so much more creative it's awesome [Music] recently I was trying to think about what it is that usually prevents me from waking up for sunrise or stops me from making a video I realized that it's always when I let my feelings dictate my actions instead of allowing my actions to dictate my feelings action is always the thing that will lead to motivation to inspiration to creativity if you think about it it's really difficult for us to control the thoughts and the moods and the feelings that we have in our head it's a lot easier to control the actual physical things that we do now the coolest thing about this is that not only does action lead to motivation but motivation also leads to more action so if you can just find a way to take that first very small step that's gonna help you to feel more motivated which is going to help you to take the next small action step I'm just going to make you feel more motivated it's just this endless cycle that continues to snowball and all you can do is take control of it and do whatever you can no matter how small it is just take the action so if if you've been watching this video and have had something on your mind that you know you want to do or a goal you have or a project that you want to start just do something find the smallest easiest first bit of action that you can take towards that goal and I promise that will start a cycle that will help you feel more motivated and want to take more action so get out there and take the first step [Music]

Channel: Jake Frew

Views: 996,628

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Id: BTYPTHOajhM

Length: 4min 24sec (264 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 10 2019