the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it’s called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don’t care, but because you care too much.
What a privilege to be tired from the work you prayed for. What a privilege to feel overwhelmed by growth you used to dream about. What a privilege to be challenged by a life you created on purpose. What a privilege to outgrow things you used to settle for.
The best skill I've developed is figuring out how to stay in a good mood even when there’s so many reasons I could be in a bad one. when you start doing this you don’t have bad days you have bad moments in a good day.
If you do not define your mission, the world will assign you one, usually to serve someone else’s agenda under the illusion of morality, productivity, or “doing the right thing”; only by becoming mission-obsessed do you escape the trap of being permanently used.
If you knew how every complaint you voice trains your brain to hunt for more things to complain about, then you would bite your tongue until it bled before speaking another grievance, you'd realize bitching is voluntary brain damage