If you think that pyramid right there is the symbol for Daft Punk, you’re partially correct, but not quite. If you have no idea what it is, more than likely that was the day you ditched school and had an intimate moment with your bong, dealing with your personal issues, or what have you. This post is to remind myself and encourage you to step up and stop waiting for whatever you’re waiting for. What I am trying to say is to simply stop procastinating, quit thinking that there’s enough time tomorrow. Keep motivating yourself to achieve what you’ve been procastinating, whether to lose some weight, finish school, get a masteral degree, find that perfect job you’ve been dreaming of, or whatever you need to accomplish.
Most of you know that pyramid is Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Motivation, and Personality. This theory he developed remains valid today for understanding human motivation, management training, and personal development. Maslow stresses that the hierarchy states that we must satisfy each need in turn, starting with the first, which deals with the most obvious for survival itself. If the things that satisfy our lower order needs are swept away, we are no longer concerned about the maintenance of our higher order needs. We all know self-actualization is our personal growth and fullfilment, and these comes from our achievement, status, responsibility, and reputation in life. It’s a long way up there from the bottom. We tap self-fullfilment once in awhile, but comes back down right away. Enable for us to stay up there is to achieve our goals in life, that’s if you have one. What are your goals? Not everybody has the same goals in life, but whatever that might be for you, try to reach for it before it’s too late and start chasing it.
You better do something now, because the world doesn’t owe you anything. It would be helpful if you map out and start rationalizing why you feel stuck, and then apply a useless cliche’ on how you can fix your divine self. Doing something meaningful towards your goal will lead you to the next step. Doing anything in a fresh direction will spark the inertia needed to create momentum. Set your mind towards something and everything will fall into place. Trust me. I challenged you to do something today, it’s a much more exciting conversation than talking about doing nothing.
