Even On The Days You Do Not Want To
Why You Must Take Steps Forward Every Day
Even On The Days You Do Not Want To
Why You Must Take Steps Forward Every Day
Today Is One Of Those Days.
You Know Them.
More Well than You would ever want to Admit.
The Days where You Feel Terrible.
Things are Going Wrong.
All You Want to Do is to Lay Down and Give Up on All the Things Going Haywire.
Maybe Cry a Bit.
My Laptop went Haywire, and I am Not a Tech Savvy Person.
Technology is My Bane.
In Efforts to attempt to get it to work again...
It seems that I may have accidentally Reset the Entire Laptop.
Everything that I had downloaded and everything that was Set Up to My Needs...
Gone.
Now, the Good News is that My Files were Backed Up on the Cloud, so I do not appear to have lost any of that...
But the Bad News is that the Laptop is Not Ready to Use.
I've been at it for Hours Now with Little Progress.
Definitely Not How I wanted to Spend My Weekend.
But, on top of It, I hadn't Written Today's Article Yet.
If You've Been Following since I Started my Project, Thank You!
Now, if You have Not been Following Me, then let me Catch You Up to Speed.
I've been Writing and Publishing Daily Articles since January 1st, 2023.
That makes Today...
Day 861.
With the Goal to Reach 1,000 Days...
Though, I will likely Keep Going After I Reach that Goal.
One Article, Written and Published, Every Day...
Without the use of AI...
Without Pre-Writing...
When Sick...
When on Vacation...
On Weekends...
On Holidays...
Every Single Day.
Now, the Truth is that there are Many Days...
Many Many Days...
Where I Do Not Want to Write.
When I have No Motivation.
Where the Idea of Putting Hands to Keyboard Feels Repulsive.
Where I Feel Exhausted and Filled with Emotions like...
Anxiety from Stress...
Anger from things Not Going My Way...
Sadness from the Happenings of Life...
Yet...
Even on the Days I Do Not Want To I Still Write.
Now, you may Wonder "Why" I would Write even when I Feel All those Things.
Shouldn't the Work You Do be Filled with Passion and Joy?
Shouldn't that Work Help You Feel Fulfilled?
The Reality of it is that Writing Does Fill me with Passion and Joy and Helps me Feel Fulfilled with what I Do with My Life.
But what You May Misunderstand is the Order of these Things.
If You Believe that Motivation and Positive Emotions Must Precede the Work...
You'll Never Make It Far in Anything You Pursue.
It is Impossible.
There will Always Be Days You Feel Not Motivation.
Our Emotions are Constantly in Flux, and there may be Days, Weeks, Months, and Sometimes Years where the Primary Emotions You Feel would be Considered "Negative".
If you Rely on These to Drive You...
You Will Fail and Miss Your Potential.
If You want Success and Move Toward Your Potential...
You Must Do the Work First.
It is in the Doing of Incredible Things...
In the Progress of Growth that Occurs...
In the Striving to Improve the World Around Us...
It is Only in This where We Experience the Deeply Satisfying Passion and Joy of a Well-Lived Life that is Fulfilling.
It is in the Taking of Steps Towards the Hope of Something Greater.
Even if You Never Reach that Destination You Seek...
It is the Daily Steps that Make the Journey Worth Every Moment.
So Yes...
There will be Days where You Will Not Want To Do Anything...
When Things Go Horribly Wrong...
Where You Want to Give Up...
It is On Those Days Where You Gain the Power to Overcome...
To Strive for Your Potential...
That is Why...
Even on the Days You Do Not Want To...
You Must Take Steps Forward.
Begin Doing What You Know You Must.
Today is the Day.
This Moment is the Moment to Seize.
Go Forth and Be Great.
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