FriLife: Motivation

What are you excited for?

Seriously, think about. 

What is it tomorrow that you can't wait for?

Or later this afternoon?

Or right after reading this?

What it is that puts your eyes on fire and your heart beating in your chest?

That brings you back to childhood, before you got so caught up in what you were told is life?

There are days and patches of time where you could be having the best time of your life, but you can't be bothered. You know the feeling. "I should do that, but I sort of just wanna sit here..." (or insert other lazy excuse). But you had no anticipation for doing it, on excitement, so you're not really letting yourself down much if you don't do it. So it's pretty easy just to do something mediocre instead. 

Or you just don't know what to do on days when you have all the time on the world. So you waste your day. Not a lazy day, but a day when you go to bed being annoyed at yourself for not doing something with your day.

So I'm saying get excited. Do something with your days. And anticipate the doing something. Don't let yourself down and get excited for your day tomorrow, as you have a shower or just before you go to bed. Hell, even get a dose of excitement whole you're brushing your teeth or on the toilet. Just. Do. It. And don't let yourself down. You were excited for these things, don't just give up on it.

And while you're thinking of what you're excited for don't believe that's there's nothing special waiting for you in your day tomorrow. You're living you're day tomorrow, you're leading your life. Of course it's going to be special. So come up with five things. I'm not kidding. Five. Five whole moments that you're excited for.

And that's all they have to be, a moment. It can be eating breakfast, then listening to music on the bus, getting home, watching a movie and going to bed. It can even be things you don't particularly want to do like going for a run or having to deal with the kind of scary librarian called Debra. Hell I've even had a job interview as one of the things I've been doing excited for.

Just tell yourself that you're excited for it and it makes things easier. You get things done. You're days feel fulfilled. You have more time. And you spend more time smiling. What's the harm?