It’s easier to call motivation forward when you are facing the right challenge.
I’ve tested out challenging myself, I’ve tested out having my heroes challenge me, and I’ve tested having strangers challenge me. Here’s the breakdown.
Challenging Yourself
It’s a great initiator. Challenging yourself brings forth the motivation to start. Challenging yourself is a personal win, not often shared by others. Unfortunately, playing against yourself is only fun for a short while. Then it’s time to lean on the next challenge.
Heroes Challenging You
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with, that’s a given, but to get better than the people you surround yourself with you have to blow their expectations away. I find asking your idols, mentors, teachers, heroes to challenge you. Ask them to give you something that goes over your head. The motivation heroes’ challenges creates is enough to get you a level up and often through any rough patches.
Strangers Challenging You
I once got a birthday card with a man cliff diving on it. The quote beneath the image was from Walter Bagehot. “The great pleasure in life is doing something that others say you cannot do.” When strangers challenge you, they call forth the motivation to prove yourself right. You’ve used the positive powers of self-motivation and inspiration with the first two challenges – this one is about using the more…”passionate” we’ll say, side.
Go forward and use these challenges to motivate yourself to reach your wildest dreams, especially the ones no one thought you would.
One last thing, notice how I didn’t specify that those who challenge you ought to also teach you.
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