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Motivation is was drives us to perform. Motivation convinces us to act. But are we motivated for the right reasons? What motivates you to succeed? Is the pursuit with the reward?  Does the gratification of knowing push you? What about the challenges to achieve the outcome?

The comfort of the known, cultivates stagnation.

I for one enjoy the things I know. I do not like to venture from the known out of fear of losing my safety netting. What I have is great. But what I desire is so much more. I often think about what could have been if I just took the risk. If I would have just let go of the handrail. Well in part this website is exactly that. For many years I have been telling myself that I should do it create or design something. And for years I have been putting it off. But not now. I am leaving my familiar environment and stepping out. So far this is my third entry. And this site may never get the following of others. But you know what matters? I am doing it. I am seeking what it is I want to do. And in the future I hope to venture out further into other areas. Yes, there are risks of failure and embarrassment. But I am willing to forgo those to do what I want too. To achieve what I desire. And to become more than I am now. 

Even within the very infancy of this site I have already began to find some challenges. Challenges like actually creating the site, determining what I am going to write about, or finding the time to write out my ideas. So far I have been doing extremely well, but the site is still young.

Here is to the future and all that it may hold.

I thank you got stopping by. Leave a comment if you would like. if you have any questions or concerns you can contact me via the contact page.

-Matt 

Have you ever wondered what your full potential could be? You sit there thinking what could have been if only you had done something different. If only you had the resources at your disposal, your life would be completely different. I view the world as having three groups of people. There are those that are simply great. Those that have to work at it. And finally, those that do nothing. To achieve what you want in life takes time. And more important than time, it takes effort. Your life will only begin to change when you genuinely seek change. And it begins when you change your attitude from woe is me mentality. No one is going to look out for you. Why? Because you don’t matter. Let us be honest, you don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Your time here on earth is merely fractions of thousands of seconds in the colossal comparison of time.

You can choose to sit there and sulk over whatever is keeping you down or you can step out and seek betterment. By seeking to challenge yourself, you grow. This growth is not some imaginary concept. It is real. You find what allows you to perform better. You find what drives your motivations. And ultimately, you determine what it is your great at. And it is at this point that you define yourself. You have stopped being the careless. You worked passed those that work simply to work to be. And now you are one of the greats.

If you want to be destined for greatness don’t listen to those that will hold you back. They want to watch you fail because they themselves can’t achieve. Don’t become stagnant. Seek challenges to motivate yourself until you find what drives you. And when that time comes that you have found your drive, push until you are simply the best. 

-Matt

Imagine you’re working at your job. Your boss tells you that this hot new task needs to be completed within the next two months. You gladly accept it, thinking to yourself, “I have all the time in the world to complete this.” You over the next few days you get to some of it here and there, all the while thinking, “two months is a long time for this.” A few weeks go by and you have done about a quarter of what it is you need to completed. You still have time. You show up to work on morning, all excited to complete you task. You boss walks in and ask you this question, “Why haven’t you completed that task I assigned you two months ago?” “Crap how did he know.” You say to yourself. Your mind races with all the things you did instead of this task. You seek answers. Then you blurt out, “Well if so-and-so would have helped me I would have done it by now.” So at this moment you have just blindsided your co-worker. Or to use another term, you threw them under the bus. In this brief instance you have saved yourself. The focus is now off of you and on the other person. Your boss leaves intent on speaking with the second person. You sit at your desk thinking, “Wow that other guy is screwed. I’m glad I’m not him.” you go back to doing what it was you did for the last two months, nothing.

Do you see a problem with this? You have failed to own your failures. You cast fault on to a second unsuspecting person who probably did nothing to warrant this action. The sad reality is that all the blame rest solely on you. You simply failed to complete the task.

This is what I do not understand. Why can’t you own your failures? You missed the opportunity, blame yourself. You missed a deadline, blame yourself. Sure there are things outside your control, like the speed at which the bureaucracy moves. But you can plan for it. You can adjust for its limitations. But you don’t.

All I ask is this, please do not throw me under the bus so you can save face.

-Matt