Stop outsourcing motivation from everywhere else.
Its good to be inspired by other people, by their journey’s and successes… but if that inspiration and motivation isn’t speaking to a deeper truth or seed you already have planted inside of you, you’ve got nothing. and I won’t even lie, I’m my biggest fucking inspiration and motivation. because I’m the one who has seen my self through the fucking trenchessss lmao. like absolutely nothing and no one can inspire or motivate me the way I can for myself, and that is equally true for everyone else. and it should be true for you. only you know the shit you have been through. only you know what a win (no matter how small) means to you. only you grew through some variety of unique and personal challenges.. take pride in that!!!! your biggest Ls, your absolute lowest moments, all that shit is your biggest power. it’s the biggest sources of your personal inspiration, and the things that ultimately give meaning and immense value to your wins. you don’t need to overload on outsourcing motivational videos, books, shows any of it.. but like I said, if you do.. it needs to speak to a deeper truth that is already inside of you. if you lack inspiration or motivation to feed your dreams, to grow yourself mentally physically or spiritually, babe you can get all that for free. and the best part, its personal, its authentic– absolutely nothing is going to inspire you to love yourself deeply enough to change something more then you. the regrets you have, mistakes you’ve made… if you look at your present life circumstances and feel disscontempt looking at any part of it, then there’s your motivation right there.
I think that also touches on the beauty of self growth journeys: the fact that for every single person it is and can only be uniquely independent and personal. and that when we see other people winning in a way we are working towards for ourselves– thats proof. thats proof its real. thats proof it exists. that’s proof because anything someone else has or has achieved is equally as real, as tangible, as possible for anyone else. absolutely no one is above or below you when it comes to possibility of life. We may all start from different places, but there is nothing out of reach for anyone. so stop giving life to an invisible separation between you and anyone or anything else. everyone is human, everyone has the same capability to do anything in life,.. the fact that someone was granted ‘more or less’ then you in any capacity ultimately doesn’t matter. you are where you are, they are where they are, and life is as it is. the possibility and capacity to get anywhere, achieve anything, become anything is real. believe anything else and not only are you limiting yourself, but its a fucking lie.
Additionally, observe the way people react to wins others have. I think many people react bitterly also because they do not want to face the fact that growth journey’s can only be personal, ie personal for them. When someone is not feeding their personal vision, not actively cultivating their own dreams.. the reaction will almost always be bitter or resentful. I think it’s a great marker of growth and alignment with oneself when you react to other people’s wins with inspiration, awe, motivation, and excitement. Like look at someone else winning how you want to win and be like “Wow!!!! Look what is possible for all of us. Look at what is possible for the collective“. Seeing other people achieve things that seem so beyond me makes me so happy because I feel a sense of kinship about the fact that they are also a human. They have faced things and made it through the other side! Like how amazing! They’re a human, I’m a human.. so why shouldn’t I? Why shouldn’t any of us?