MOTIVATION vs HABIT

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

~ Jim Ryun

Hopefully, you have a fun lesson of travelling back into the past to extract whatever dreams that you have to make yourself more aware.

Now after the motivation is found, let's talk about how to sustain it.

This is the most tricky and difficult part.

According to the quote above, after motivation is found, there must be steps to follow through so that the goal is realised.

Habits which are a series of repeated routines in our daily lives, keeps the motivation alive as the rationale of motivation is refreshed over and over again through the routine. 

With the courtesy of Mis Parton, we continue to use her as a role model.


A summary on the last activity done, she favours the media industry so now she has to try out which job in the media industry is her forte so that she can develop it.
In order to do that she has to find time in her daily hectic schedule so that a series of routine can be developed.
How to branch out from the media industry?
She has singled activities like photography, video editing, scriptwriting and directing.
Now she has to plan a schedule so that each day she did one activity or project focusing on it and brush up on her skills. That activity must be measurable so that it becomes a yardstick for gauge her interests.

For instance, she can try to use her camera to take photographs at least 100 photographs in a week with techniques learnt from the books or courses.

She can also try her skills at making videos for each and every upcoming video competition or set a theme for her project.

She can also write a  script based on an area of interest for 1 month, doing the research, setting the scene and down to the format of the script that are used in the industry.

She can try to observe facial expressions, watch more plays, try out the expressions so that she can direct and write down the notes that how to invoke that kind of feelings in order to get the expression. This will guide her future actors along.

All these activities must have a checklist of subgoals to fulfill so that the success of the motivation can be gauge so a routine is absolutely neccessary to achieve it as success comes from a series of hard work.

Why not try to make a list of activities with measurable goals and start to work on them now.