Jim Rohn said, “Motivation is what gets you started”. He talked about his friend whose motivation in striving for a better life was malnutrition. Now that should get anyone going.
I had different motivations throughout the years, the one that has always been constant is my desire to give the best experiences to my parents. I am living a comfortable life now because of them. But recently, that has not been enough to get me working on the tasks I have set out to do in order to work on my side hustle.
While I was at work the other day, it all of a sudden hit me, I realized I just found my motivation! I want to have an uninterrupted scheduled lunch break at work. You see, I work in healthcare and unfortunately for an 8 or 11-hour shift, I don’t have a scheduled lunch break. I eat when there’s time and what’s very frustrating is , while eating, I can be asked to serve customers. And I like my job, I really do. But If everyone else of your staff had taken their 3 breaks of the day and I have not taken any at all, it gets very frustrating. Worse, there’s no scheduled break for me, I just keep going until there’s that small window of opportunity to eat. And so I shove the food as fast as I can down my throat and given that it’s only a very short time, I often will still be asked to get up and attend to a customer. As I realized that I didn’t want to be in this position for much longer, that gave me a new sense of fire in me to improve on myself so that I can move on to a better work opportunity.
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