Ang Peregrino Recommends 46: Motivate Thyself

Moti­vate Thy­self
URL: http://​moti​vatethy​self​.com/

Moti­vate Thy­self is the blog of Eric Hamm. When I first read it sev­eral weeks ago, I thought it was an “old” blog. I found out a week ago that it was just four months old and Eric had just posted his 100^th article!

For a blog that young to have the suc­cess it has already enjoyed is sim­ply phe­nom­e­nal. I do not know how he did it, but I would like to know his secret and do it myself. Hehe

But I think that the real secret of his suc­cess lies in the topic of the blog itself. Moti­vate Thy­self is about inspi­ra­tion and self moti­va­tion, about life and the jour­neys that we all have to go through, and the need for us to all make the (hard) choices that will spell the dif­fer­ence between let­ting the world over­take us, or being the dri­ver of our destiny.

As Eric would put it, “Free­dom isn’t a right, it’s a choice! It is up to us to choose to free our­selves from our lazi­ness, self-doubt and fear of the unknown.”

One of the more con­crete ways this is done is by a move­ment called M2A or Motivate2ACTION.

I don’t want this to just be a place where you dream, I want this to be a site that you come to, expect­ing real changes in your life. I want to build a com­mu­nity that is not only inter­ested in reach­ing THEIR goals, but in help­ing oth­ers do the same.

How does it work?

All you need to do is go to the cur­rent month (this can be done by click­ing the ban­ner on the right side­bar, going to M2A! Main and click­ing on the desired month, or by going to the cur­rent month in the nav­i­ga­tion bar that is a sub cat­e­gory of ‘Motivate2ACTION!’.) and click on the desired week. I’ve given each month a theme in which we will focus on through­out the month. The month is split into 4 weeks where we will go through a process to try and make pos­i­tive changes in regard to the cur­rent topic.

What am I try­ing to accom­plish?

My main goal with this idea is to help you, as well as myself, get off this roller coaster ride of progress. Let’s take a look at the whole ‘new years res­o­lu­tion’ thing for a moment. It’s basi­cally a time where peo­ple set a goal to accom­plish the things that they couldn’t accom­plish the pre­vi­ous year. And after they fail to really fol­low through, they just make it the NEXT years res­o­lu­tion and so con­tin­ues the cycle. I want us to always be look­ing for ways to improve our lives. I want Jan­u­ary 1^st to be just another day. Another day of mak­ing the most of what we have and striv­ing for a bet­ter life.

For the great arti­cles, the reminder that we are the real mas­ters of our souls and the dri­vers of our lives, and for the invi­ta­tion to con­tin­u­ally find the energy to move on, despite every­thing, Ang Pere­grino Rec­om­mends Moti­vate Thy­self this week.