- Why is it so hard to stay motivated?
How come it's so hard to get the motivation to go to the gym
or to work hard or to eat healthier,
to wake up early or to meditate or to read?
Why is it so hard to get the motivation,
to do all the things that we all know we should do?
Well, you're about to learn the secret to motivation
that no one else has told you.
As you were walking across the street,
a car comes out of nowhere and hits you.
You wake up in the hospital and the doctor tells you
that you've wounded your vital organs,
and that you have three hours to live.
The doctor calls your family
and tells them that they better get to the hospital fast
to say goodbye.
The moment you see your family walk into the room,
you immediately start to cry.
The thought that you will never
be able to hug your mom again,
breaks your heart.
And the thought that you'll never be able
to laugh again with your dad,
breaks her heart.
The image of your friends and family,
standing at your funeral
and watching your unconscious body
being lowered into the dirt,
breaks your heart.
As you hug your family for the last time,
the painful reality sets in,
that you're moments away from dying.
As you lay there in the medical room,
everything around you starts to go black,
and all you hear is the deafening sound of silence.
As you lay there,
you start to feel
this strange feelinG deep down inside of you,
everything slows down,
and you actually start to experience this calm,
peaceful, oneness with the world around you.
You even start to hear
the song play in the background of your mind,
but there's something special about the song.
It's a song that you feel
like it has been with you your whole life,
but you are only now hearing it for the first time.
As the song plays, memories begin to fade into your mind.
You remember the first time that you laughed so hard,
that tears fell from your eyes,
and you remember how nervous you were
before your first kiss.
And then you remember how happy and excited you felt
after it was over.
You remember that one day
as you were walking home from school
and you saw that beautiful sunset
that left you in a total state of stillness and love,
but then you start to remember the moments in your life
that were not filled with love or stillness.
You remember
how you would always get angry over stupid things,
like how the person in front of you
would always walk too slowly,
or how you would always get cut off in traffic.
And then you remember all the times
that you fought with the loved ones in your life,
over those incredibly small things
that are completely insignificant
in the grand scheme of life.
You regret how you didn't drop out of school,
even though you hated what you were studying,
you regret how you didn't quit your job,
even though you hated what you were doing.
You regret now traveling around the world
and visiting all those places
that you've always dreamed of seeing.
You regret not looking up at the stars more
and appreciating just how small you really are
in this world.
You regret not really understanding the fact
that you were sitting on a small blue ball
that is floating in infinite space,
alongside eight other flying spinning balls
that are all circulating around a giant ball of fire
that has the power to erase all life on this planet
in the blink of an eye.
You regret not cherishing that brief moment of peace
when you exhale after a deep breath.
You would give up almost everything in your bank account
just to wiggle your toes again,
or to smile again,
or to laugh again, or to cry again,
you would give up almost anything just to experience
the incredible gift of life just one more time.
The life that most people take for granted.
There's two possible outcomes
when we get to that later stage of life.
One, we look back on everything
and we feel a deep sense of peace and love,
because we didn't take anything or anyone for granted.
Or two, we look back and we feel a deep feeling
of shallow sadness,
because we never took a moment to really appreciate
how amazing life really is on our small blue planet.
After you watched this video,
take a moment to appreciate who you are right now,
not the person who you wanna become in the future,
not the person who you were in the past,
but the person who you are in this exact moment.
Appreciate how your body breathes for you
without you consciously thinking about it.
Appreciate the fact
that you have eyes to see the screen right now,
or how you have ears to hear my voice right now.
Appreciate how you have the ability
to feel any emotion of any kind regardless
if it's good or bad.
Understand the fact that in this exact moment,
you are united with thousands of people across the world
who are all watching this exact video right now.
The true secret to motivation is realizing
that your physical life here on earth,
really is like a poetic song that will eventually end.
The reason why human beings connect with things like poetry
or music or arts of any kind,
is because in many ways it represents the human experience.
They both have the power to make you feel
a wide range of emotions,
from sadness, to joy, to fear,
and they both have the power to be beautiful,
and they both have the power to be very, very dark.
But that feeling of connection,
regardless if it's with music or with each other,
or just with the world around us,
is what most human beings crave.
Deep down, we just wanna feel connected,
loved, and accepted.
But it's up to you
if you want to wait until those last moments of life
to feel this connection.
Because in those last moments,
life will declawed your senses and declutter your mind,
and it will force you to feel that feeling of connection.
Or we can start right now, right this second.
And the fastest way to feel this connection,
is the same habit that will make you motivated
to do anything.
And it's simply being totally present to the moment,
which means being totally engaged
in whatever it is that you're doing at that time,
regardless if you really like doing it or not.
Because when you truly understand,
and we truly start to appreciate the beauty
of every moment of life,
you'll start to seize every moment like it's your last,
you will feel grateful
to have the opportunity to go to the gym,
you will be grateful
to have the opportunity to go to school
or to work on your business.
Because at the end of the day,
all we really have in life is this exact present moment.
So don't let it go to waste.
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You won't regret it.
Thanks for watching,
and I'll see you all very soon.