{"id":3672,"date":"2013-04-15T02:47:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T09:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/add-vodka.com\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2015-07-07T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T21:43:50","slug":"on-embracing-your-motivation-when-you-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/add-vodka.com\/on-embracing-your-motivation-when-you-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"On Embracing Your Motivation When You Have It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all go through “phases”. Right now I’m on a health kick; I’ve avoided fried food, I’ve been drinking my coffee black to stay away from refined sugar, and I’ve been going to the gym 5-7 days a week depending on the week (whether I’m <a href=\"http:\/\/add-vodka.com\/why-babysitting-is-an-awesome-side-hustle\/\" target=\"_blank\">babysitting<\/a> or if I have an event to go to).<\/p>\n<p>I’m also reading Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, which has given me a lot of motivation to better my career and make myself more marketable; to really build my brand and “lean in” to my career.<\/p>\n<p>Before, I’ve squashed my motivation to do things with thoughts like “why bother if it’s not going to stick?” or “well, I’ll never stick with it, so there’s no point in starting”.<\/p>\n<p>I am definitely realizing how foolish this is.\u00a0It might be “onto the next thing” in a month, but I’ve been learning that I need to embrace my motivation to really kick it up a notch while I have it – because sometimes, it’s fleeting (or, other things\u00a0vie\u00a0for my attention).<\/p>\n<h3>Why You Should Embrace Motivation While You Have It, Too<\/h3>\n<p>In 2011, I lost 22 lbs through diet and exercise. It took me six months to do so, and it improved my fitness, my health, and my self confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I lost motivation to continue losing weight, or even to maintain my weight, and I gained about ten pounds back.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, even though the motivation was temporary, I am now still 12 pounds lighter than I was in 2011 when I first started my weight loss challenge, which is a whole lot better than zero pounds lighter and still wallowing in self pity because I’d gained weight.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I’m on a health kick again, I’ve been able to shed another few pounds, so now I only have six to go to get back to the weight I was at when I had lost the 22. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, and it is a LOT closer than it would have been if I were at my pre-weight loss weight.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you aren’t looking to lose weight, being healthy for six weeks and then going back to your unhealthy ways is substantially better than being unhealthy always.<\/p>\n<p>Paying off $1000 of debt aggressively while you are on a debt-payoff kick is much better than paying of $0 aggressively while making your minimum payments.<\/p>\n<h3>If you embrace your motivation while you have it, you won’t regret it<\/h3>\n<p>I’ve frequently started projects that I have lost interest in or that I haven’t had the time to finish. They’ve been left on the sidelines when I have dropped them, but they have never disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Even this blog started on a whim. It was a project that I definitely did drop for a little while when my motivation waned. It didn’t disappear, and when I started taking it more seriously, I already had the foundation of the blog set up. Half the mountain had already been\u00a0conquered. I’d already posted and networked and started a Twitter account and Gmail account. I was already established, and it was waiting for me to spend more time on it.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaning half of your house is better than cleaning none of it. Taking half of the courses that you need for a designation is better than taking none of them. If it’s something that you truly want, your motivation may ebb, but it will almost always flow back and you’ll be glad that you started the project in the first place.<\/p>\n<h3>Even if you fail, you’ll learn from it<\/h3>\n<p>I’ve tried to start projects that I thought would turn into great business opportunities, but they didn’t pan out. I do not see them as a waste of time and money at all. I see them as\u00a0steps that have\u00a0helped me be successful now.<\/p>\n<p>I learned from my failed projects, even if it was just me learning that it’s not something that I really wanted to do in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Failing at something is better than wondering, 5 years down the road, what it would have been like to do it.<\/p>\n<h3>Phases build memories<\/h3>\n<p>I was talking to a friend who was really into dancing for a couple of years. She’d\u00a0traveled\u00a0with her class, going to performances and competitions. She spent a lot of money on the opportunity to build her dancing skills. She told me about this and then, right after, said “it was just a silly phase that I went through that I didn’t stick with”.<\/p>\n<p>Even if it’s a phase, it’s something that you get to experience. It’s another thing checked off of your bucket list, even if you only stuck with it for a couple of months. It’s something that you can tell your kids that you did – or at least tried to do. It’s something that you can remember.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>Even if you know you won’t stick with something, do it anyway. Embrace your motivation when you have it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you good at embracing your motivation?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all go through “phases”. Right now I’m on a health kick; I’ve avoided fried food, I’ve been drinking my coffee black to stay away from refined sugar, and I’ve been going to the gym 5-7 days a week depending on the week (whether I’m babysitting or if I have an event to go to). …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On Embracing Your Motivation When You Have It<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Are you good at embracing your motivation when you have it? 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