Day 43/180

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.

Day 43/180 (ChatGPT version)

“Motivation is what gets you started.” — Jim Rohn

Jim Rohn once shared that his friend’s motivation to change his life was malnutrition. A reason so urgent it forces you to move.

I’ve had many motivations over the years, but one has always stayed the same:
I want to give my parents the best experiences.
Everything I enjoy today is because of their sacrifices.

But lately, even that hasn’t been enough to push me into action. My side hustle tasks have been sitting untouched. My goals have been collecting dust. I just couldn’t find the spark.

Then, while I was at work the other day… something clicked.

I realized exactly what my new motivation is:

I want a scheduled, uninterrupted lunch break.

I work in healthcare, and in an 8- or 11-hour shift, I don’t have a real lunch break. I eat whenever I can squeeze in a few minutes, and even then, I might be called to help a customer mid-bite. I genuinely love my job, but when every staff member gets all three of their breaks and I get none, it wears me down. Deeply.

I’m tired of rushing food down my throat.
Tired of eating only when there’s a “gap.”
Tired of being interrupted even in that tiny window.
Tired of feeling like my time isn’t my own.

And in that moment, I thought:

I don’t want to be in this position forever.
I deserve better.
I can create better.

That realization lit a fire in me.
If I want a work life where I can simply sit down and eat in peace, I need to grow. I need to level up. I need to move toward opportunities that give me the life I want.

This is my new motivation.
Simple, but powerful.