MOTIVATION TO WORK HARD

Hey, so finally after procrastinating for the time since April, getting busy with the exams, making a food blog and catching up with old friends, I finally choose to write about something and what could be more appropriate than a good article on motivation to work hard, which I slowed the process myself by not focusing on this blog but dozen other things and now finally balancing each one of them.

It is not another research article on how to follow the million steps to work hard, or how by just the few steps you will reach the much-desired routine or the hard-working capacity. Honestly, there is no secret to the fact that working hard, requires the effort to do so and most importantly to do the things that we are procrastinating on.

One of the biggest examples can be :

I wrote a document on “How to help in ending procrastination”.

Trust me, that was mid of April month when I wrote that and that was the only line in it.

So, there will be tips and dos, maybe some don’ts as well, but first there is going to be a lot of pep talk. Why, you ask? Because that pep talk is going to get you into the mood to at least know that you have to start working, not hard, not slow but just at your own pace.

You know, sometimes, we’re not ready to face the thing head on, we procrastinate or delay as much as we can to avoid doing it as much as we could. A part of me believes that it is clearly some sort of destiny/fate or the “right place and right time” when a certain thing will happen, when it has to happen. On the other hand, I also believe that you can never be ready, sometimes you just have to dive straight into those deep waters and understand that you were always ready, it was just your thought process holding you back. (and, believe me when I say this, 90% of the time, it is what we think that stops us from becoming the best or the worst versions of ourselves.) And the other 10%? Well, that deceives us for being ready, getting there to get ready, or buying more time, or just as easy, has always been ready but you never paid any attention to its calling because you were too busy delaying it to get there to get ready at the right time of course.

There are several websites and articles and motivators around there to tell you do this and do that. I AM NOT ONE OF THOSE. Why? Because nobody should tell you or force you or manipulate you or make you ready other than your own self, until you want to be ready! I am no god or your therapist to tell you what you should or shouldn’t do. It’s your life buddy, go with your own pace. (Specifically your own pace, DO NOT COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHER’S LIFE). This is what I will tell not to do, something based on some else’s personal experience, it never works out in the good side. Comparing yourself has side effects. And that side effect is slowing down your own progress which could be doubled if you don’t compare.

Some days you’ll need good friends to tell you how good and how passionate you are about the things that you love and live to do. Some days you’ll need your cozy corner in the bedroom, a novel, your favorite movie, your favorite video game, your favorite drink and such little things that give you the warmth of being comfortable even in the midst of all things that you feel you will never be able to figure out. But it takes time and it will be crystal clear once you start to push yourself a little to start working towards it. I am not telling you to take huge steps, but small, yet productive ones. This article didn’t come up on its own in a day, as I told before, I thought to write it in the mid of April and now I got the chance or the words I feel I should write. Honestly, I made it to be my to-do list’s number one thing for three weeks in a row and yet I didn’t start until today. The point is, planning fails if your words do not match your actions. (Not to be kidding, everyone has days to take an off, go in an escape route and be in their headspace for a while, brainstorming stuff) I am no exception to such lazy or off days.

There are two basics to all these laziness situations :

1. CONSISTENCY

2. NOT GIVING UP

Well, there’s one more thing and that is pushing yourself hard each time because you know the harder you push yourself to work, the better you’d be the next time.

Now, the explaining of these two things-

CONSISTENCY : It is not a necessity to be consistent, more like it is the drive to get you there. How? There’s a tiny simple process to prove it.

Step 1 : You see what you need to change or do better.

Step 2 : You plan to do the greater good for yourself.

Step 3 : You execute the plan and get a result better than before.

Step 4 ; You now repeat the steps to get better and better and receive better and better results. (In all good sense, these results are not just academic, but also professional and personal. The more you progress in even one of these fields, the others lift up on their own. And the more better the personal growth and its results, the better becomes the drive to do more and stay consistent.)

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU STOP?

A simple answer actually, because I’ve been there and done that. Yes, stopped, paused, whatever you call it. And in my mind, the consequences were pretty sad.

Your progress, it stops. You stop caring to do any work let alone hard work. You start to think you’ll get it done later that day, then the next day, then the next and so on and it makes it weeks and months and in no time, without you even realizing you start to procrastinate. You become lazy and oblivious to the things around you that helped you push harder. When you come to the reality and be practical again, you start to feel where you left off, was a bad decision because if you hadn’t stopped, your results could have been reaching the sky.

When you compare the previous results with the recent ones, you realize that the results were better when you were consistent. And sometimes, that hurts, sometimes it drives you to do more, and sometimes, it might just make you lazy enough to stop trying. (no kidding, been there too)

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE UP?

The last thing anyone clings on to is a positive hope. The hope that everything will be better in the end. When that person gives up, the hope goes away and the sad thoughts make way for making you even more resentful to hard work.

Giving up is not just by saying or getting tired, it is in the ways that you will not even notice. It will be you, picking up other interests, trying to avoid the work you want to or were working on. You would do gestures, behaviors that might show your disinterest in that thing anymore. You might not admit it at first, and till the time people tell you or you realize it, it will be way too far.

IT CAN BE FIXED

I am not saying that this cannot ever be fixed. I believe in the eternal thought of, “slow progress is better than no progress”. But hey, who knows what might trigger you back to work harder and faster than ever before. It all depends on your hope, your drive, and that one reason that you will hold on to, no matter what, to prove people wrong, or make it your entire world to do that thing and become who you want, as long as it is a good hope, a good notion, and it shouldn’t hurt anybody.

HOW TO START TO GET THERE?

Just do it, don’t think. The more thinking time that you give to yourself, the more your mind will trick you to delay or convince you to not do it. Think of the good cause, and just go ahead and do it!!! Slow and steady, you will get there. But if you don’t start, you won’t move an inch. That will make you nothing but an imaginative person who just travels in the dreams and enjoys the self build deceiving world of thoughts, which could have been real, but won’t be, until worked for it. Make yourself your idol, expect the best of yourself for your work, or anything that you want to work hard for/to get. You can also idolize someone else and follow the footsteps, but always remember, this is your life, your battle, your work, all yours, try doing it your way, without destructing others or being the hindrance. Surround yourself with the people who love you, support you, motivate you and inspire you to do better. You don’t need people who are hating you for what you’re becoming or who tell you it is bad because they want to stop you. WHY? Because they themselves could never have the courage to do what you can! Be smart to not let people use you or crush you and your hopes, just because they can’t do it. GO AND GET IT WHAT IS FOR YOU, JUST WORK FOR IT.