Help yourself. Nobody can make you care enough to try except you.
Not everyone is an entrepreneur. Some people just have good ideas but need a regular job because they lack the motivation 🤷
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I have more care then most people dudde
You don't want motivation, you want discipline. The Jocko podcast was game-changing for me in that regard.
Great question my brother. Some would say it's one of the greatest questions of all time, "how to get AND stay motivated".
Take this with a grain of salt but here are a few recipes I have found helpful, some you likely already do so perhaps this will just be some reminders to consider:
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Maybe the most important: don't wait until you "feel" motivated, or in the mood. You just do it, regardless of how you feel. Any time you feel negative, mad, frustrated, that's nature's alarm telling you it's time to get going and doing something, ANYTHING.
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The little things you have 100% control over: Make you bed every morning, don't scroll on your phone in bed in the morning or night, drink 8 glasses of water, eat better, don't eat after 6pm.
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Write out some goals. Have the guts to write out what you want. Have even more guts to look at it every day.
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Give yourself grace. You can't get to your destination over night but you can change directions over night. Chip away at these little things and acknowledge yourself for completing them to help mentally shift from "I should" to "I do".
You need to get rid of things which distract you. I wasted a lot of time because I could not focus on my business.
Why did you start the business?
Discipline is easier when you have a close network of similarly aligned friends.
For motivation, I like to keep a small tight group that always keeps me accountable and puts me back on track when I stray from the path.