Scouts of the broken past.

Chapter Seven

Motivations are overrated.

If you ever find yourself struggling in a situation you were in and you are looking for motivation to keep working, I want you to listen.

Motivation will help you to keep moving for a small period of time, but what will happen if you're already lacking of it? What will happen if you runs out of motivation what are you gonna do? Stop? Or maybe you're gonna look in the internet, searching some motivation that would boost your energy to keep moving forward.

Searching for motivation will take some time than working, I know that... 'Cause I've been there.

There is one time I already lack of motivation and no matter how many times I read some quotes that I saved on my gallery, I only did nothing and I always tend to keep reading and reading the motivational quotes but then, nothing happened. I already lose the motivation that would keep me working hard.

So what I did? I kept searching and searching on the internet but nothing happened, I even watched some videos of the greatest speeches of all time but then again, I lack of it.

Motivations are overrated what you need is discipline.

In order for you to achieve it you must first challenge yourself in doing the things you are not used to.

People tend to do some things when they are motivated, but what is the real deal of motivations? Motivations cause you to feel such emotions that would make you finish some task.

Motivation=Emotions=Excitement>Movement

Discipline=Lack of emotion=Dullness>Movement

Things get boring no matter how passionate you are with what you are doing, If you love playing basketball there is some time that playing would bore the s**t out of you. If you love playing instruments there is some time that doing those would make you want to fall asleep. If you love writing some books there is some time that It would bore the hell out of you.

All of it are normal and It's also normal to lack in motivations.

But here are the things you need in order to keep moving forward even though you like it or not.

Inside; self discipline cravings, and obsession/passion.

Outside; compliments, support, and critiques.

Without self-discipline you have nowhere to go to. You can't continue the work because you lack of motivation? What a lame reason. You don't need that, 'cause if you really want to become successful you must focus on your work, motivated or not. You must tell to yourself that no work, no party. No work, no reward. No work, no eat. (I think this is too much, but try it.)

Wanna know why you don't have self discipline? It's because you are just after the mastery of something, you are not craving for It. What would happen if you already mastered something? Of course doing it again will bore you 'cause you're already good at It. But if you're craving for something better not just for mastery of it you're gonna tell to yourself to work hard even though you don't have to 'cause yeah, you're already good at doing It.

Be passionate and obsess with that you are doing, lack of passion will cause you to stop in the middle of the journey, It's because a journey is a long process. You're gonna be able to experience where things started to get boring, doing the same thing is boring, hard work is boring, but does the success is boring too?

Being obsess with the things you love to do, I swear the word obsession will scare the people around you 'cause they might think you're overdoing It, that you're already crazy for doing the same thing all over again. You seek for success so don't min what they are gonna say.

Robert Greene once said, "If you really love what you are doing you're gonna think of It even though you're not working." He was right though, I became obsess with writing to the point that where ever I go, even when I'm with my friends I'm still thinking of what's the next chapter of my book. At this point I can clearly tell that I'm obsess with writing, I started writing books just because I was so lost and then now It became my passion and now I'm obsess.

You may find me crazy but I don't care, being obsess that would do you good is okay than being passionate for something that cost you bad.

I'll tell you all about how I've pass the phase of searching for motivation, but now let's continue.

Outside; compliments, support and critiques.

Each one of us, when we are doing the things we are passionate about we all search and seeks for compliments. When we know we are doing good we wants to hear some compliments to become motivated to keep doing the good job. But what will happen if we don't hear any such compliments for a long time? Of course you'll feel unmotivated and you'll think of stopping 'cause you never heard such compliments no matter how good you are with what you are doing.

Support from friends, family and relatives is one of the happiest thing that you would ever come across when you're doing what you are passionate about, but what will happen if they don't support you? If they are against It? Of course you're gonna feel so down and question yourself... "Maybe they're right, maybe what I'm doing is just a waste of time." No they're not right, prove it to them. And prove it to yourself that you can do what you've been stopping yourself to do.

As you can see the only person that stopping us from achieving a lot of great things is our own self. It's not the other people, yeah maybe they'll do their best to stop you by insulting or saying some words that would discouraged you, but what can they do when you will just simply ignore what they said and just keep your focus?

All of what happened to you is the cause of your own decisions, whatever you feel is not because of what they did to you, It's because of how you react. You can just simple ignore, but why choose to give a f**k?

Practice your mind to ignore the outside world and focus on building your own future, with motivation or not.

Critiques, just like what I said in the previous chapters, we all seek for mistakes when we are on the process 'cause we all wants to do something better.

Without critiques you're probably gonna wonder if you're doing good or not, if you're doing It wrong or not, you're gonna be conscious about what you are doing. You're gonna ask for someone to gives you some critique and even if they does, you're gonna seek for something more and that's a good thing.

'Cause craving for critiques means you want to improve and you want to learn more.