Don’t wait for motivation…create it!

We often hear the phrase, “I just don’t feel motivation” or “I have to be in the mood for something like that”. Motivation is often treated like the weather, we stand and wait to see if it will come good and we don’t seem to exercise any sense of personal control over it. And this is a great shame. Say you are wanting to clear your space to make way for a simpler, decluttered life. Instead of making a plan and executing those steps each day, you ‘wait for when you feel like it’. And the plan rarely succeeds or takes you so long that it becomes a saga, rather than a short and satisfying story.

We can create our motivation…and the easiest and most effective way is to just commit to STARTING a small part of the necessary task each day. Don’t envision completing it if you start to feel overwhelmed. Often, once we start, the sense of progress takes over and we become enthused and consumed by our task, often pushing beyond the boundaries of what we set out to achieve. So, today, just start. See where it takes you.