Thursday Seeds | Motivate Yourself

Motivating yourself is not that hard if it is regarding subjects that naturally interest you. The first item is to ask yourself the question: “what is your passion?”

Once your direction is decided, and really even if you are still in the process of deciding, you can begin with setting a routine. There are tenants for your routine that you can list out and work towards making them happen. You’d like to write? Set a routine at the same time every day with a time limit for practice. Journaling after and then research that leads into the heavy writing of your next book. These points work if writing is your decided direction. I

If your decided direction is song writing, then the routine would change based on other factors. Maybe the reading list would be similar, but not the same. Sound and listening to playlists has a different intention and priority if music is what you are writing, not prose.

Want to learn another language? Then you’ll need a practice. I hear that there is an app for that. Not all of them will cost you a lot. Want to learn how to run Photoshop? Then perhaps Youtube channels are out there that you could be learning from.

Journaling. Have you tried bullet journals? I personally think that it has kept me together during crisis and mourning of family member’s loss.

The beauty of bullet journaling is that it lends itself to hold yourself accountable for your tasks. If you have tasks that are rolling over day after day, then they either need to be amended, removed, or you need to really get busy! And priorities are key. That call to your phone company may not be a priority today, but come billing time, it will be beyond the time of proactivity.

Then be sure to give yourself a “doggie treat.”  You got that whole scema for the database ready one day earlier than planned. You should take a few hours for that pedicure! Or here is one, you can open that latest Amazon order that was delivered three hours ago. It’s your new book from that author that you heard about.

The other one is to hold “share holder” meetings even if the only shareholder is you. (This might even be more important when it’s only you!)  In those meetings, your talk to your creative self as a CEO would. Are you on target with the art?  How is the creative learning that you committed to going? Do we need to make adjustments?  Is it time to hire someone to help? How is the printer holding up? Maintenance is scheduled? (You get the idea) The Soul Sourced Entrepreneur is a great book to start this as a weekly routine item. Her recommendation is that Sunday is the day for those meetings.

Remember those resolutions and/ or Goals that you made at the beginning of 2023?  Have you looked at them? How many can you check off?  How many of those need to be edited because your direction changed?  And what goal didn’t get set because you couldn’t see that far ahead?   We are in Week #9 of 52 weeks.  Today is Thursday. 

No pressure. Are you living in the present moment? Or does it feel like the year is flying by? Spend some time on your priorities.

And here is another one that has really added depth to my Goal reviews: meditation with intention. You can pick an uplifting phrase or word and spend a little bit of time meditating. When you do this, there is stress that falls off your shoulders in huge chunks. Suddenly, things that are important to you, arrive in your immediate attention. You start caring less about what is in your inbox and more about what you can create and how you can help others.