Greetings!
One thing about this life we are in is that, this life will not give us what we deserve. This life has its own way of dealing with its inhabitants and whenever it deals with us, that's when we now come to its realization. No wonder there's a saying that, “it's a person that has not experienced life, that will call himself a man.” What this assertion is telling us is that, when life happens to us, no man can be called strong or super.
So, life can happen to anyone and when it happens, it demoralizes us and atimes, takes one into depression, such is the power of the challenges of life, but whenever it happens, one should try and stay strong and be optimistic about what the future beholds for him or her. These two things mentioned in the above line can serve as motivation to us when passing through the hell of life and most especially, when the chips are down on us.
Now, back to the topic before us which has to do with what used to keep us going when not motivated about what we are passing through or the setbacks of life. Before I jump into the full discussion, one thing I want us to know as humans is that nothing in this life can motivate us and this is because of our anxiety about life and the fear of the unknown before us. Not only this, the saying that life will not give us what we deserve as stated earlier by me is also a contributing factor to the unmotivating system of life to the individual human being.
But notwithstanding, when passing through the challenges of life, I have always tried to calm myself down and stay motivated through my thoughts about myself and the future that lies ahead of me. So, my SELF BELIEF has always.been my motivation whenever the challenges of life are dealing with me and I have always overcome depression by this my self belief.
Sometimes last year, January to be precise, I entered into a partnership business with a colleague of mine at work. We both came together to invest in livestock farming. Piggery business in particular, but along the line, I was down with the happenings in the business and also with the attitude of the man I was partnering with. These things really got to me big time and I was down and unmotivated. Even during that time last year, all my piglets died and I was down and not motivated to continue with the business. Though my plan was to enlarge the business by investing more money into it, what happened along the line really pissed me off and I was greatly depressed.
But, I was in that state of depression for a while but immediately I found my feet back into life, I took it upon myself to have a self retreat/review of what has happened to me in the course of the business. This assessment really helped me to find solutions to the problem of the past and it also connected to the future ahead. But aside from that, I was motivated by the belief I have in myself and my expected future.
So, since then, my SELF BELIEF has always been my motivator when the chips are down on me and most especially when I'm unmotivated about the goings and happenings around and it's really helped me alot.
This is my entry to the hivenaija weekly prompt.
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