Category Archives: Mental

The other day I was watching the movie, The Karate Kid with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan when all of a sudden the last scene inspired me to write this post. At the end of the movie, when Dre (Jaden Smith) was all beat up and laying on the bed, he insisted to Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) to help him go back out there to fight that mean little Chinese dude, Cheng – which in my opinion is a bad-ass! Noticing how passionately Dre insisted, Mr. Han asked him, “Why? Why you need to go back out there so badly?” And Dre’s response was, “Because I’m still scared!”
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There are many people who have so much trouble getting things done because of lack of motivation. The sad truth is that if you’re not a self-motivator, you will continue to struggle to get to where you want to be. I hear people often say, “I need someone to push me to go to the gym,” or “I’m too tired to do this,” or how about “I have writer’s block!” Well, I’m not saying that we must always be motivated, but there are always ways to get you going. Here’s a list of 10 things that motivate me.
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For a long time, I’ve been struggling to get this website up and running. I’ve been procrastinating and asking myself the same question: Why am I not getting things done? Then I started thinking and analyzing how I made use of my time. What I realized is that I would always find other things to do and recycled my most important tasks back on my to-do list. I would waste time reading and answering emails, reading the news, writing things down over and over again, doing research, reading books and magazines, etc. I don’t feel too guilty about the reading or research part because these are the things that have helped me learn almost everything I know now. But there comes a time when we start suffering from information overload and we become paralyzed from moving forward.

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