MOTIVATIONAL
MOMENTS
chilly? My best answer is: it just is. I still
remember when I watched a ton of self-
improvement videos on YouTube one
day (Captain Sinbad, he is cool, go check I chose
brain has
Scientists
anything,
the word “habit” because our
a tendency to repeating itself.
found out that if you do
good or bad, and maintain
it out) out of my daily dose of immense
fatigue and boredom, and all of a
sudden, I wanted to try out all these new
habits by myself; whenever I woke up on
one of these days feeling one tiny bit of
doubt that if I still want to go on, I just
casted it out and kept going as usual.
Now I have enough energy to complete doing it for 21 days, it will turn into what
we would call “habit” and it will be hard
to stop. So, I guess motivation is like
making a fire, all it needs is a spark, then
the big flame will just keep burning and
burning. To my fellow readers, I will say,
just find… or wait for your spark.
at least one task every day. So far, I have
mostly written the draft of my research
proposal that received a “good to go”
response from my instructor; kept my
pace with all the assignment and
presentation without missing any one of
them; I did my presentations for my
class with such clarity and confidence
never seen before by myself; once a
week I go to a social gathering and I have
been making new friends with whom I
have been having meaningful and
enriching
conversations
and
connections… the power of starting your
day right! And it all comes with that
sudden surge of motivation.
IT Magazine / April Issue
32