I’ve often pondered upon the idea of what makes a person do something consistently, effortlessly and with a sense of dedication. What about the boring things we are often guilty of being reckless about? How do you keep yourself motivated to run errands and do the chores? Is it compulsion or discipline or just how some people are wired?
Over the years I’ve got various versions while trying to unravel this mystery. The v1.0 of this theory emphasized on discipline. But… It was highly flawed. You can only force yourself to do limited things. Eventually, your brain will trick you into an escape from what is seen as a forced routine. That’s when a super cool friend of mine said to me that it is about passion, rather than discipline – if you are passionate about something, you will find a way to spend time for it. Now, there were 2 issues with theory v2.0 – 1) Passion fades and grows into something platonic over time 2) How can you ever be passionate about things you hate to do?
That brings us to the v3.0 of Himali’s Theory of Motivation 😀 Above passion, lies fun! 🙂 Anything that we love, that is fun and joy will be effortless. Adding fun to the mundane brings auto consistency. You’d actually find an excuse to do things you find fun and relaxing. For instance, if you hate going to the gym but going outdoors is fun, running outdoors would be the perfect exercise for you.
The final bit – the v4.0 of this theory has been recently developed and perfected. A month ago, while I was on my vacation, I happened to speak with a friend and we got talking about what we had been up to for the weekend. I had my mind boggling when I heard my friend’s activity list for the weekend – it had atleast 15 things in a matter of 40 hours including the phone call with me and then a few more things before it was time to hit the bed. I honestly couldn’t believe if such level of productivity and activity was humanly possible – that too on a weekend! lol
When there is something that intrigues me, I ask without any shame for the What, Why, and How behind it. So, at first, I expressed my awe and then prodded to ask HOW – I mean what was the secret behind having such an active lifestyle. I got a very simple answer which struck a chord – If you have the intent, everything is doable.
That’s it, I found my answer, the missing piece of the puzzle. It is all about our intent.
Our actions are a subset of our intent.
Where there is a will, there is always a way. Even if there isn’t – you will make one, if you really want. Once you set your mind and heart to something, nothing is impossible! I cleared my CPA (USA) exams in a record time of 3 months with an average score of 92% (I lost a bet of getting a MacBook if i scored >= 95 marks in AUD, I passed with a score of 94 in AUD – the subject I found utmost tricky). I would wake up at 2 AM to study before I left for work at 7 AM and somehow I managed to make it through the “no social media, no distractions in life” period. It was all because I REALLY REALLY WANTED TO DO IT. It meant something to me. And that’s why I could do it.
If there is something you want to do, even if you don’t have the means, you WILL FIND A WAY; if not, – excuses. At the end of the day, your intent matters. Efforts will flow proportionately to how strong your intent is. To me, results don’t matter as much as the efforts and ferocity of your desire. I’d end this post with two of my favorite Gujarati quotes:
મન હોય તો માળવે જવાય
“Where there is a will, there is a way….”
નિશાન ચૂક માફ
નહિ માફ નીચું નિશાનIf you miss your target, it is forgivable. It isn’t forgivable to set a lower target.
Namaste,
Himali
Kudos on your successfully passing the CPA tests. I think it is intent combined with passion and commitment that makes something sustainable. Or vision, plus passion, plus action.
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Thank you, Brad! That was in 2018 🙂 I still dread those 2 AM alarms 😛
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I don’t like alarms at any hour. 🙂
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These days my mental alarm wakes me up 10 minutes before the actual alarm does 😀
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Hi
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Hey there 🙂
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How are you ?
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SMiLes.. We Humans “Will” be motivated by Pain Or Pleasure
when it comes to the Muse that Moves our Will to accomplish
what we are motivated to do in Life but as far as the Effortless
Part of Amazing Feats of Human Will That comes from a State of
Greater Human Potential in terms of my favorite Four Letter Word that
Stars with F Yes Flow.. There are many Ways to attain this State of Awareness in
Mind and Body that Dampens the Beta Waves and Neo-Cortical Dominance of Mind
in Worry State where we are constantly worried about ‘silly stuff’ like Time.. Distance..
And Space.. Yes.. always the Past and Future concerns of a Highly Complex List of Cultural
to do Lists but guess what.. Humans are only evolved to Focus on Just one Activity now and
Social Empathic Artistic Activities Repress the Mechanical Cognition Reasoning part of our
Mind yes
Accounting
Versus Writing
Poetry With Smiles
both Activities counteract
the ability to do one or the other
not much different than Using Facebook
When one is Solving Analytical Problems
at Work.. mass amounts of Productivity are lost
this way to the dismay of Employers and Business
Owners trying to Enhance the Bottom Dollar amount line
of actually doing business uninterrupted as such.. in other
Words i will never ever do my Tax Return when a Poem wants
to come first of course unless it is close to Midnight on April the 15th
in the Good Old USA.. Moving Meditation is the way i attain Flow the way
i quiet the ‘Monkey Mind’ which is really no Monkey Mind at all for Monkeys don’t
have Complex Culture to interrupt their Natural State of Flow in the gain of Basic
Subsistence that is Naturally a cooperative way of Social Empathic Cognition one
Step of Life at a ‘time’ together focused on one activity at a ‘time’ with no time for
Monkeys ‘Really’ hehe as they only Live now as every Creature does except
For Creatures Like Human Beings Who Spend Life Restricted in Neo-Cortical
Abstract Constructs our Neo-Cortex Creates with Plentiful Beta Waves of
Stress to go along with that.. anyway in Flow there is little Inertia of Worry
and yes indeed one will Dance a Tight Rope until they fall
off and get back on the Horse and Ride into a Sunset
and Sunrise so beautiful that Never Ends now my
Friend Where Honestly there is no need for ‘intent’
at all As Flow becomes the Flow itself
where there is no Conceptual
Thinking Required at all
yes the Capstone
of the
Pyramid
that doesn’t
Need to see the
Lower Parts of the
Pyramid at all for the
Entire Pyramid is Working
as one Wisdom Eye of Effortless Will..
hehe just in my opinion of Course an
Opinion with Empirical Results that proves
it works for me at least always now even now
when my Finger Hurts a Bit as there are Nine
more to get the Job done IN FLOW..:))))))
Yes.. When Water Wave Ocean Particle
Wave and Field becomes As as One
Force of Wave Flow..:))))))))
OBTW
Hehe Flow
Activities may
have very little
or even nothing
at all to do with
Making Money
and that my
Friend
is a main
reason Humans
stay so stressed it’s
not that Money is the
Root of all Evil Just the
Stress off the Illusion of Time
Distance And Space that Humans
have created as a Strange way of Prison
in a Hell they pretend to enjoy day in day out in ‘time’..:)
NoW IS A River
WHere Shores
Do Not PriSon..:)
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To know you have a friend who always reads your posts is such a great thing! 🙂
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Smiles shouldn’t We All Now
Love Decoding HappYness
And Friends So much more
Than A
DisEase
As an Addiction..
Like Coffee And
Cigarettes and
‘Candy Crush’
Games
On/As
‘Smart’ Phones
Haha With SMiLes
Life is so much Better
Decoding HappYness
With Great Friends We
Purely Love and when We are not
Afraid to Admit it too.. hehe.. i will
Never Fear Love Now But Coffee and
Cigarettes And Candy Crush Nope None
of that
for me
i rather
Dance
And Sing
A Light of Love my
Real Friend Within..
Smiles i Will Sing ‘your
name’ too but “that’s not allowed”..
something to Feel about my Friend now…
i Believe Cultures have a whole lot of Maturing
Still to do to Grow Old as Young Again and Real
Where Love is Both King and Queen Meanwhile
i just scratch
my head
some
days
in A
Disbelief
of what i see….
Smiles Still Just
‘Old New SMiles’ from me..
Meanwhile Like a Real Lion Doing the Least Harm
AS KinGQueeN i Roar Love Never Fear Always Love is Best..:)
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Intent, desire and a vision. 4.0 is fantastic, Himali👍
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Thank youuuuuuu ❤ 🙂 😀
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Good read 👍
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Thank you, Pratt! 🙂
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Great ideas! When will your book come out?
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Very soon, and you are on the list of my reviewers 😀
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I would be honored.
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