Motivation Plus Inspiration – That is a Good Question?

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Definition of Motivation – The reason or reasons now has for acting or behaving in a particular way.

What motivates you? What gets you out of bed in the morning? What puts a smile on your face? What makes you feel all warm and tingly in side? 

Are your motivations internal or external?  Do you get motivated by money and power? Or do you find motivation in gaining recognition or respect from others?  Do you have an internal trigger that motivates you?  When you are motivated, is there a physical manifestations of that motivation of are there mental boost you receive from that motivation?  Does the motivation make you happier, stronger, smarter, wittier, bolder or more clever?  

What motivates you? 

Definition of Inspiration – The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. 

What inspires you? What stimulates your heart to feel a certain may? What touches your emotions to act and feel a certain way?  What do you see, smell, hear, taste and feel that inspires you? What places have you visited or situations you have been in or people you have meet that inspire you? 

What inspires you? 

The thing that motivates you and the thing that inspires you the same thing?  What if there was one thing in life that not only motivated you, but inspired you? What would you do in order to sustain the feel that it gave you?  

I think about my life and all that I had hope to accomplish so far. I find lots of inspiration, but very little motivation.  And there in lies the problem.  If you have something in your life that cause you to act a certain way and that mentally simulates you to create something, well, I call that living you life.  

I am on a journey to discover what that is for me.  Asking yourself those questions and I hope you find out what it is that does it for you as well.  Once you find out what that thing is that both motivates and inspires you, then be grateful and respect the gift you have been given.  

“You are 8 notches above perfection!”

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This was a quote from Lil C on the 8th season of So You Think You Can Dance.

Lil C is always so eloquent and I am sure he has been quoted ad nauseam.  He is quite the poet.  But, this quote touched me in particular.

I feel like there is nothing that I have ever done in my year on this earth that is “8 notches above perfection”.  No one has every said or even considered something I have done any where near the 1’st notch, let alone the 8th.  Worst yet, there is nothing that I have done myself that would make me say that about myself.  And, really that is what is important.  Not that I am striving for perfection.  I am striving to be proud of myself.  To me, that is perfection.  All levels of perfection.

Now I know what your saying.  You are being to hard on yourself.  You need to work on your self esteem.  There are people in this world that love you.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah blah blah!   I know and that is all great, but what I am striving for here is bigger then that.

I want to participate in something that I am proud of and where I will achieve that level of perfection that I am talking about.  I want to participate in life.  That is the first step.

In love, in relationships, in my career, in my life, I don’t think I have started to participate.  I have no idea what that person felt like hearing that said about something that she did.  I can only imagine.  I bet that she probably felt proud of herself.  She felt accomplished.  She felt that her hard work had paid off. She felt like all the sacrifices, all the shit that she put up  with him her life where so worth it at that moment.  And, she probably enjoyed the moment then pushed herself even more to feel that way again.  She participated.   I have never done any of that . . . yet!!

So, I have decided right here and now to participate.  I know what I want to do and I have the imagination and the drive to know what I want to achieve in my life.  In all aspects of my life.  Now I am ready to participate in order to achieve those things.  I feel that I can achieve perfection just by being a player in the game.  No more sitting and watching it happen to others. Or worse yet, sitting around other who don’t have the same drive.  Mediocrity is unacceptable.  I am striving for more in every category of my life.

I want to be 8 notches above perfection.  I want to see what life feel like from that height.