Always Felt Like I Couldn’t Survive This Overly Competitive Era, then I Realized How Important Daily Self-Motivating Is
By: Farras Vedrian
Tags: Motivation, Self Motivation, Product Management, Stress Management, Self Development

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Have you ever felt like the world is pressuring you so much? That you always feel restless but at the same time you know you’re going to lose if you don’t keep pushing yourself. Productivity would at times matter even more than our own daily satisfaction. For the sake of our “end goals”, sometimes we overthink a lot of things when we got tired and burned out due to all the jobs, studies, works, whatever daily activity that we must carry on.

I believe most people ever stumbled upon the thinking of “being free” or “money isn’t important, our own happiness is” while we also know that money certainly buys things that makes us happy, or that we know reaching success is not an easy path to go through and there is a price we have to pay before we become successful in any way. We often tangle ourselves up in our mind over the fight between “putting yourself and your ass in pain for the sake of being productive, reaching our goals and dreams, and all those kinds of sayings” and “I just want to be a free spirit and live freely with the nature and just die happily”. One way or another, you know that we need to balance it out, including elements from both thoughts. We all certainly know what we actually have to do, but it is always easier said than done.

At times where I get tired and demotivated, I oftenly try to root out the cause and find the best solution for me to still excel in all professional things, yet still maintain my happiness. What I never happen to realize for years is, self-motivating is not only about “okay I am going to read books so I get motivated and smarter”, but it has to become a part of our daily routine supposedly. We are humans, and we are never designed to multi-task, have super powers, or excel perfectly at everything we do. I know, by the time you read this you know that perfecting your crafts and filling up your knowledge could be bartered with your time and energy. But that’s the point! That is why you always hate yourself when you’re tired; you feel like a failure and you feel powerless then start blaming yourself for being “a stupid fool” or “useless”. It is like when you let yourself become a lazy person then every work you have to do just piles up until you sees it as “too much work and pressure” for you to accomplish and you stresses out.

Simple thing, motivate yourself everyday, because you need to keep up your spirit mentally. Rest to recharge yourself physically. Self-motivation is just like working out or sleeping; it recharges you mentally (and sometimes spiritually as well if you integrate a meditation session afterwards). Remember the saying “surround yourself with successful people if you want to become successful”? That saying actually implies how you are affected psychologically by the conversations you have with those people, the habits you see from those people, and the vibe you get when you are in their environment. It matters a lot, so start feeding yourself with motivation every single day, so that you can turbo yourself everytime you feel a little bit tired or pressured.