Knowing Motivation When it Slaps You in the Face

I can honestly say that this has been a good summer.  I’ve really enjoyed the days where I could just sit back and do whatever I wanted, days where I could have an amazing time, and days like today, where I could just say “Today is a nice day to spend quality time with my family via school shopping and other various—WHOA WAIT WHAT?  SCHOOL SHOPPING?  SUMMER IS OVER?  THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING!”  No really.  It’s hit me like the smack on the desk you get as you start to dose of in the middle of class.  (Oh, may I tell you, with how my insomnia has been acting lately, how much I’m going to enjoy that this year?)  I’m so not ready for this.  Okay, I understand if that sounds cliché, but hear me out.

One of the biggest problems I have with—well, everything—is the fact that there is very little motivation to accomplish it.  I’d list out all of the projects I have yet to finish, but that would be another project left to finish, and I really seriously doubt you want to read all of the ideas I have in my head.  I probably speak for 25% of my generation when I say that sometimes, it’s a challenge to do something other than reading pages of the Facebook Newsfeed or the Tumblr Dashboard.  (It’s pathetic, I know, but the way the world does a lot of things is pathetic and much of it leads to our lack of motivation.  That’s probably a future blog post.)

But, I’ve come to this realization recently, and hopefully this year I will be able to work on that and succeed.  (This is one of those problems where I need to create the solution.)  My mom has told me that I will lose my phone and computer if I have one missing assignment, and the time of loss will increase exponentially with each occurrence.  I have to be honest, however. I don’t think consequences of the future, whether punishments or rewards, have too much of an effect on me.  I think that may actually become one of the main focuses of this blog: finding motivation in a world where there is little of it.

Needless to say, I will be working on that and posting the results.  I’m kind of a person who believes that, while experience is the best teacher, using your experience to help deter someone from bad consequences can be a lifesaver sometimes.