What I Think: Motivation

Image via WikipediaMotivation has always been an important aspect in my life. Whenever I’m motivated enough to do something or get something that I want, more times than not I often succeed in getting it. Weather it be something stupid and meaningless such as achieving the next level for my character in a video game or something important such as a job, if I’m motivated enough, I’ll achieve it eventually. So now, with so many important things going on in my life (school, work, and planning a variety show), where do I turn when my motivation seems to be gone?

Getting motivation isn’t a complicated process. When you’re excited about a task you motivate yourself to do the best you can possibly do in said task. When you get offered something fabulous such as a trip to a foreign destination because you did well in a job, you motivate yourself to do your job well. There are many methods to getting the motivation you need to do well in something, but losing that motivation is unexplained, hard to detect, and often times, unpreventable because you don’t know when it’s going to hit you.

I’ve lost my motivation lately. I was in school but by the second or third week I stopped going to classes because I didn’t feel motivated enough to go. I have a job and even though I’m excited about it now I’m afraid that sooner or later my motivation will fade and I won’t be excited about work anymore and simply go because I depend of my new job for survival. Finally, The Q entitled me with planning a variety show for the month of November and even though I know I will have a great time planning it and throwing it I haven’t felt motivated enough to take the first step.

The worst part about losing your motivation is that often times you don’t know why you lost it. I mean school was going great. My classes were amazing, my teachers liked me, and my classmates were awesome, but I don’t know… Not going excited me more than going. Also, my new job as a Sales Associate for the company Charming Charlie looks like a great job, but I’m not sure how long I’ll like the job. There are many good things about the job: Good pay, great co-workers, flexible schedule, and it’s a store that sells woman’s clothes so I won’t blow all my paycheck on buying things from there, but how long will the pros outweigh the cons?

And finally, we get to the variety show. I don’t know why I haven’t taken the first step in planning it. Making the variety show a success is my first step to getting what I would consider a dream job: A community organizer for the Q. I love the Q with all my heart and I would love getting a job there. It’s about the only thing in my life that I’m motivated enough to go to often enough and never tire of it. I love the people there, I love the atmosphere, and I look forward to all the events we do every week and every month.

However, I am confident about one thing: My motivation will return. Even though someone's motivation is lost in time it always finds someway back into a person's heart. Maybe it will happen seconds after I post this blog or maybe it will take days, but sooner or later my motivation will return and a renewed sense of being will grow in my heart and everything I hope to accomplish will be accomplished. All I need to do is find a way to lure that ghost or muse that bring about motivation to come back to me, but I believe with all my heart that I will...