A Creature called Motivation

So I wanted to talk a little bit about motivation today. Motivation or lack there of comes in many different forms both positive and negative.

Sometimes when your positively motivated you can crank out work, be productive, and impress others and yourself.
Maybe your motivation comes from a lack of something. For example, my current job doesn't allow me to problem solve enough.
Sometimes my personal want and desire for that lures me into a programming session. This could work much in the same way if your unhappy. I do not always enjoy my current job. This motivates me to move faster, learn more, study harder, whatever is needed to look forward and gain the skills and knowledge I need to reach that light at the end of the tunnel.

Being unmotivated can take hold also. When we ride that high wave of motivation many times we do not look forward to see the shoreline coming up and plan for when that wave crashes. When it crashes, most of us fall into an unmotivated state. Being unmotivated happens to everyone at one point or another. How we handle these periods of demotivation is what separates out the victorious from people who give up.
It is hard to truely fail, but it is easy to give up.

I haven't written a blog post in a few weeks, I haven't failed because I haven't given up. I haven't been as motivated to write, and truely all I have is excuses because I have not made time for it.
I could talk about preparing to go camping, putting more time into exercising, and give all these reasons in which I was productive with my time...but at the end of it all...they are excuses. I did not make time to write out a blog post.

I've found myself in a weird programming spot as well. Similar excuses have engulfed my last 5 days or so, and could easily consume my next 5. So I made a commitment to myself that starting tonight, I would sit down and spend at least 30 minutes give or take working on JavaScript.

Even on the days I want to go program I find life excuses. Having full realization of this will entitle me to go home, and hold myself accountable to hit on my goals.

I spent the last part of my lunch writing this blog just to ensure that I set out with my best foot forward. My goal is to get back to a minimum of one post a week.

Stay motivated! You can do it!

I love this from Michael Jordan, one of the greatest basketball players of all time. If you need something to look at every day to stay motivated, regardless of what you want to be motivated in, pick up this wall sticker.
"Its not about being the best, its about being better than you were yesterday." -Michael Jordan

Every office, of every company could use this somewhere.