Motivation is hard to come by sometimes, especially when you’re a normal person with a regular life. If you’ve got your health, some spending money, a family, a pet chihuahua and a couple friends… what more do you want in life? There’s really no need to break your back to do much of anything really. Life is simple, yet so perfectly mundane.
I have a problem with motivation. I know I should be working harder many times, but I encounter the “good enough” syndrome. In tennis, “isn’t being a starter on the team good enough? Do I really need to try and play #1?” At work, “isn’t a AA performance rating and 10 hours a day good enough? I used to work 11-12 hours a day, but my hunger has normalized. Online, “Isn’t posting 3-4X a week, commenting/interacting with 10 other bloggers a day while maintaining Yakezie.com good enough?” I should probably do a better job with @Yakezie on Twitter and stop by the Yakezie public forums more.
It’s easy for me to be happy with what I have and tire because of “good enough”. There isn’t much more that I want, or need, except for unsprainable ankles and more free time. Anybody else content like this? I have very little desire to want more, which is a far change of attitude up until my mid-20s. I’m surrounded by constant innovation and wealth in the Bay Area, yet I’m so happy to have a regular job and maintain the Yakezie Network. I think all of us like the tight-knit group that expands slowly, rather than build it quickly and lose a lot of our culture.
Practically everything I do, I try and fly under the radar. I want people to think I’m slow on the tennis court, dumb during debate, and know little about any venture I undertake. Just the other day, I brought up the idea of creating a personal finance and lifestyle network with my poker buddies to see what they’d think, and they laughed off the idea saying I was too much of a “twit”, and don’t have the “creativity” or the “know-how” to make it happen. I was so happy they made fun of me for the idea because it’s exactly the type of motivation I need. With every project I undertake, I purposefully seek rejection to give me that inexhaustible energy to forge on through.
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