Do it, for just 5 mins.
Sometimes that alone is enough. I start the task, the work, and time flies. Suddenly its done. Or more realistically, suddenly, I am stuck but this time closer to the destination. Or I am stuck and I am scared to pick it up so the task is not done, not even for 5 mins. It was never started.
That’s one of the reasons I don’t leave a task on “stuck” stage now, atleast 50% of the time. I try to powerthrough the stuckness and either finish it, or leave it to do at another time but at a point where I can actually come back again and continue.
Redditors often claim Discipline is all it takes, Youtubers have bulldozed the concept of Motivation just as religiously as Motivational Speakers praised it. Its in the goddamn title of their job, I see no objections to the latter!
But I guess and I know I am true here, lol, Balance is key. It has been proven, time and tested, battle-hardened fact of life, however the fuck a concept can be battle-hardened idk. Ancestors, old testaments of philosophers (bar Moses and company), your dad and the wise security guard, all understand and teach the “Balance is key”. So yes, I am damn sure I am right, to keep and preach of a balance between discipline and motivation.
At times, its the discipline that keeps me going. Discipline is more … hardened crust. You come back to things you are disciplined on, even after breaks, long or short. This diary, no one reads it. Perhaps myself, after every year or two. There is then no motivation to write it. In-fact, I stopped it on Instagram and Threads only because it was creating that false sense of “accomplishment” and “achievement” you get from a red dot across the Heart icon, that shows someone lethargic on the other end of the world found your day, a bit too boring or has a bone to pick or accidentally clicked the heart button while scrolling and drinking. It was superficial. The comments, hated them. The likes, alhamdulillah there were none. It was, and is discipline that now has me writing in Tess, daily. Well, almost daily. Similarly some other things I do based on discipline are being silent and not reacting, making bed in the morning, keeping my head and face shaved every 15/20 days, brushing my teeth. There aren’t many examples but you get the idea.
Motivation … is beautiful. Beautifulness is very time-sensitive. One wrong movement of the pupil of eye and it’s gone, facade, mirage, the end, game over, sorry. Motivation sets you up. Discipline keep you going. I am atm motivated to learn a new skill. Its been a week, still new compared to the learning curve, so I am still getting motivated everytime I see a Youtube tutorial or figure out a solutions etc. Its fake, temporary but gets the job done. I planned to spend an hour a day learning it, been 4 days, not one hour skipped. But in the valley of boredom, when problems are pillars and post of the parcel, it will be discipline, if I am able to establish one, that will keep me going. Some other things I do based on motivation atm are teaching the kiddo, reading books … yep, that’s it.
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Do it, for just 5 mins.
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