Motivational luxuries

You may not believe it and raise your eyebrows, but we now have the basic ideas of motivation in our pockets.

With self-efficacy, success orientation, and learning orientation, we abolished failure almost entirely. And with the successful actions that result from this, we tap into an indispensable source of motivation that we can access at any time. And remember: Initially and fundamentally, motivation is not so much the basis of successful action as its consequence.

So, what else do we have to take care of?

Nothing really. With these basics of motivation, you can go about your whole life and move mountains if you want to. But based on the fundamentals, you can expand your happiness and ambition a good deal further.

You can expand the fundamentals of motivation that we have just tapped into and intensify the flow of your ambition even more. We’ll get back to that option in a bit.

But first I would like to dabble in a small interim conclusion

Perhaps we are striving for greater changes in our lives. Perhaps we have big, ambitious goals. But even if that is the case, we now understand that we bring about such changes through the small, private revolutions in our everyday lives, or more precisely, here, and now.

We recognize that we reap the fruits of a desired change and development in the process of changing and developing itself. All we need to do is to continuously feed our drive and happiness with the small successes of our actions and learning. And we gradually experience that we long more for moving toward our essential goals and life contexts than to arrive at the destinations.

From this point of view, there is no way to happiness, but only paths that lead through happiness. And these are ways that provide us with colorful experiences that set our hearts aflutter.

Therefore, it’s worth focusing the largest part of our self-determination initiatives on sleek productivity and agile learning.

It is worthwhile to gradually transform our everyday life into a flow dancefloor with small, almost imperceptible initiatives.

These initiatives include the small, concrete task of this moment, over which we have so far rumbled carelessly and disdainfully. Read this text. Listen to the words. Follow the thoughts and images that the words you are listening to or reading trigger.

These initiatives also include continuous work on our inner attitude. Because curiosity, mindfulness, and the joy of learning are the real miracle cures of motivation that we look for in vain on many productivity blogs. It is up to us to cultivate them.

When we do this, we bathe from moment to moment in the bliss of our work and our development.

And if we induldge in our productive bliss, then we can start to explore our living landscape in a calm and agile manner.

And starting from these courageous explorations, we can create a life that we enjoy, that makes us happy and that we permeate with a feeling of deep fulfillment.