MOTIVATION, IF ANYTHING, IS AN OUTCOME.

You can’t control motivation.

It can’t be directly pursued.

What you can control is the series of factors that underpin motivation.

Just knowing this can help you:

👉🏼 stop waiting for a green light to get started (stop saying next week, or on Monday, or after my birthday)

👉🏼 Realize that, even if it’s hard, taking action gets you closer to the goal that keeps you up at night

👉🏼 Understand that doing the right thing in the moment is totally within your control

With this approach, no matter what happens, you can move forward and make progress on any given day. And that progress, even if small, feels good and can be enough to keep you going… until the next day.

This is how you achieve great things. Yes, it might be a long, slow, hard journey. But when we look back on our lives, what we remember most will be the things that were worth struggling for—and the way it felt to earn our happiness. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️