Hey Pop,So here's a question I ask myself on a day to day basis, and I feel that the picture with Pedro eating this huge bone is a good way to express what I am trying to find out.
How do you get up every morning, with the confidence and motivation that you have, and use that to get excited about going to work?
When I get up, I sometimes have to think of Starbucks in order to get the motivation to leave the house...then after i've tasted that delicious brew of the morning I start to feel a little more confident, and I manage to get to work, and eventually attempt to do some work. Some days are better than others and I haven't yet figured out why. But I want to know how highly motivated people like yourself, with all the confidence in the world, can just see what they want and go for it?
Pedro clearly demonstrates his confidence as he takes a big white bone, about the size of him, and just goes to town with it. He doesn't seem to mind that it's owner (not shown in the picture but very close by and watching) is an 100 pound yellow lab, that has the ability to take that bone right out from under Pedro at any moment. This enormous lab could even teach Pedro a lesson if she wanted.
If I were Pedro, I would see the big dog and sirens would start going off in my head, I might even pee a little without knowing, because all I could focus on is the potential pain the big dog could inflict on me if I were to take her bone.
And so it goes for my life...
I think I see some opportunity or "big white bone", and then I see all the slobbering beasts around what is in front of me and their potential to inflict pain, and I resort to thinking that my current safety is more important and that other opportunities will come, without the extra danger. I also realize that the feeling of complete safety may never come, and that I need to face my fears and do it anyways.
So back to my question of where do you get your confidence and motivation? and how might I gain my own confidence and motivation to wake up everyday with a satisfying plan fresh in mind?
J.R.
