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Don’t Die With Your Gifts Inside You
If you’re feeling demotivated, my advice is to go sky-diving or bungee-jumping or whatever you need to do to remind yourself of your mortality, and then get back to work. I mean, what possible explanation could there be for your procrastination other than you’ve forgotten that you’re going to die?
(Actually, there is one other possibility, but it’s so preposterous that I won’t mention it yet).
Instead, let’s stick to the facts. First, if you’re searching for motivation then the thing you want to do is important, maybe even essential. Second, if it’s something important, and you want to do it, there’s a good chance that it’s something only you can do.
Don’t scoff. I know that might sound a little grandiose, but there are plenty of things that only you can do. Only you can express the ideas in your head right now for example. Only you can tell the world what your perspective is on the issues of the day. They say that everybody has a book inside of them, but only you can write the one that’s inside you. If you don’t do these things, they will literally never get done. Not for all of eternity.
But there you are thinking you have time. That you’ll do it later. You’ve been entrusted with something that nobody else in the world can do…
