Motivation is a difficult thing to keep up for a longer time of periods, especially when you have so many ideas you want to start or perhaps even need to finish some you’ve already started. Motivation is in my view similar to food, one day you want some really delicious home cooked food then next day you go buy something from some fast food chain or pre-made. There are days you don’t have enough motivational energy to get yourself to create, even the smallest thing. You just end up sitting in bed or on the couch waiting to do something. The motivational energy depletes fast some days and other days you have a lot of energy you don’t know how to get rid of. How to motivate yourself is very different for each person and sometimes it takes time to find your own version for how you get energy and motivation. But I’m gonna try my best to tell my ways of how I motivate myself so perhaps you find yours. *Make a mission for yourself to start and finish.
By this I kind of mean like, take an example: if you do art and you decide to make a gift for someone, you’ve started a mission of an idea you want to do and will eventually finish. However this is not something that will work for everyone. And may it take time, because something I’ve realized is that I have difficulty in handling the stress and anxiety in time limits. So an example is that I find out about a special day for someone I care about, then decides I want to make a painting or something small creative to give as a gift. (it becomes a motivational mission). I can start sketching, maybe finalize the line art (digital cleaning), then put it on some surface (canvas or paper or other creative materials) and then eventually start painting. But first time is not always perfect or easy. And sometimes I end up not giving them the gift on that decided day I wanted to give them, because you know, life. Either I manage to give them the gift when I meet them if I remember to take it with me or I just end up keeping it with me as a memorable art piece. To try to sum it up is that once you've made up your mind in doing something, perhaps for someone you can get motivational energy enough to start and finish something. And for me, I have more difficulty in motivating myself doing things for myself. But how do you really motivate yourself?
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May 2024
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