MAINTAINING MOTIVATION

What’s up guys i’m coming at you from my supplement shop here in Orlando Florida! I'm so excited to be able to have an actual building where I can sit down and do what I love which is helping people and my community day in and day out. This is something that I have wanted for years and have been working tirelessly to accomplish for myself. What exactly I accomplished was getting my lifestyle to revolve around my passion and to be able to make money from it, not so much the store itself!

What I want to talk about is how I went about getting the motivation to go after my goals and how I Kept that up… because it wasn’t easy and I fell off the tracks plenty of times and I probably still will, getting up and pushing on is key though and I’ve learned this lesson so many times already that I refuse to quit at this point.

I refuse to quit…

Like I said, this is my mental status these days. No matter what, if someone asks me how I’m doing I say “I’m doing great and things are in motion!” I don’t want my weaknesses to define me and especially not my momentary emotional flaws. Meaning that if I’m upset, I try not to put it on others when it has no correlation. I remain strong and steadfast because it motivates others and that creates an environment around me that’s surrounded by motivated people.

 

Control your environment…

Everyone at some point in their life stops for a second…looks around… and thinks to themselves “what the FUCK am I doing?” “What is this, what is that, why am I surrounded by all of this!?” “HOW DO I FIX IT!?”

Well… it takes nutting up. Ask yourself this question, if you do something that causes yourself pain, is it more or less painful when the reasoning and solution is to increase your standard of living. This means leaving toxic relationships that cause pain and don’t leave you better off. Friends, family, lovers and buisiness… all of these different relationships are relevant to this conversation and pertain to your quality of life and your ability to STAY MOTIVATED.

Why do you need to be motivated so often?

Either your lazy… or your dealing with a lot. Accept either of these truths it doesn’t matter, the fact is you are looping around high energy high motivation to self sabotage and then staying down until something inside you finally pulls you out and you ride that motivation high as long as possible. Yea, been there done that, speaking from experience here!

My solution- stop self sabotaging and start mentally noting what brings you down, what brings you to those low points and get rid of them. They are probably so engraved into habit that it will feel weird to lose something consistent, even if it’s suffering but eventually this becomes your choice. The moment you become self aware of your position you have a choice. And you get to keep choosing and you always have options but sometimes you throw the most logical ones out the window… it’s time to stop. Start making the right choices and watch what happens. I’ve asked for advice a million times while knowing the answer within my heart all along. Have faith in yourself and your heart and when those waiver, go with your gut. Instincts will guide you if you become aware of yourself and how your body is speaking to you! you just gotta give yourself the same advice you would give to a friend and prioritize your emotional health over all else. Motivation will fade but habit won’t… so you have to work towards turning your motivated self into your actual self.This comes with patience and accpentacne/understanding that you are not perfect, not even close, but that is the beauty of life and that is the beauty of YOU… that you are still becoming what you were meant to be.. that you haven’t reached that point yet and you still have time to embrace the caterpillar stage KNOWING that the BUTTERFLY within will come out as long as you keep it pushing and don’t let your own hand hurt you.

Self love = Shared love

Some of the best advices comes from people who have been through the most and came out on top. Why? What is this pure sense of understanding that radiates from people when talking about certain situations? It’s self love being transferred. It’s lessons of life and it’s implementation into the deepest parts of the ego being shared from one human to any others willing to accept it. The kind of people that reach this point have discovered their own purpose and reasons/desires to live and to live fully. What I love about this is the lesson It teaches you on prioritizing yourself in order to be able to help others. When I started loving myself no matter what, whether it be for old mistakes or new ones, I was able to love others more fully. As compared to how I treat others when I am full of self doubt and self pity you can imagine that theres no way I can treat others like I truly wish to or at least treat them as they deserve and not any less. I am personally infatuated with how people put there problems on others while not being open to ideas for change. I don’t like when I behave that way and I do not like when others behave this way towards me either. I avoid this as much as possible by taking the people I involves advice and recognizing within myself that I am just complaining and not asking for real help. When I notice that I am doing that I like to address it, apologize and ask if the person listening minds if I get this thought off my chest so I can move past it. Moving past it is important and shows maturity while also allowing your friends to see the real you without it taking a toll on them, this will make them more inclined to listen and not mind as they now see you are asking for help, receiving it in the way you asked and then moving forward and not darkening the environment with your shit mood that doesn’t have any place here;-) . Before you get offended just remember that it takes on to know one so I am also talking about myself in the negative aspect as much as I talk about myself in the positive. These articles are me expressing my thoughts and beliefs and allowing others to see the progress and where I am at within my journey. I have learned that opening up about my personal accomplishments AND struggles, I am relatable to many others and have helped bring a sense of clarity or at least helped people make steps. I love myself so much for my journey that I now love everyone else just as much. I understand what it is like to be human in every aspect so even the people I hate, I love for themselves. For the people I have had to take out of my life may have been negative for me, they can still be acknowledged for going through life, taking hits and having to make decisions based on experience. Knowing this and knowing that I will never fully understand someone else experience because I am not them… makes life and the many actions taken against us much less PERSONAL. Meaning they aren’t doing it because of you, but because of what their life has accumulated to in this moment. Free will is absolutely up for debate in my mind and by realizing that nothing is personal because of this fact, then things start to hurt less overall.

 

Be as empathetic to yourself as you are to others!

I personally have issues being overly empathetic to everyone but myself. There is no insult I could give to someone that I haven’t said twice as harshly to myself. This is a sad truth and was a habit that took so much work to break. My level of confidence in every aspect of my life was gone and I didn’t trust a single decision I made, always waiting for the repercussions of making ANOTHER mistake. Another wrong move if you will… but I’m playing the wrong games. I was putting pressure and limitations on myself that were impossible to meet, impossible to keep up with. My expectations of myself were so high that I ended up hating myself for all of my failures. Failures no one else knew about because it was all within my head. Big and small it all became the same level of anger and sadness turned inward. From not getting gas the night before an early morning drive and being late to having an old friend stab me in my back and wonder why and what I did and could have done different…. it all became the same. I didn’t love myself and therefor did not give myself the opportunity to grow, evolve and BECOME. I kept myself down with negative mental speak and that… thats fucked up. We are all out own worst enemy in one way or another and if you relate to what I’m saying it’s time for you to step up to the plate.

 

Be patient with yourself.

Placing unrealistic expectations on yourself is a good way to feel like a failure. However if you set up smaller, more short term based goals that over time built into big accomplishments, you could set yourself up for success. Over the years, there may not have been many but they have been full, I have learned to be patient with others and in turn with myself. Patience and understanding have taken me far and I have to apply it to myself as well as others. The idea is to search for truths within myself as well as with others, most things are not as they seem and everyone has a story, everything was something else before it was this. Therefore you can not ever know all about said subject because you are not it and it is not you. Grasp this and you will appreciate the variety between people more and you will learn to hear people better as well as learn how to apply their lessons to your own life more effectively.

 

Okay my brain is fried, until next time, thank you so much for reading I hope this touched some part of you and if not well I hope it wasn’t too boring! Either way, I send you love and am appreciative of your time either way.

Zac Bastien