Feeling Unmotivated? Overwhelmed?

Here are some thoughts to carry you through.

Welcome to the very first Motivational Monday!

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by a project or just unmotivated to work, I made this video with some thoughts just for you.

Edited transcript of the video:

Okay, so you've got a plan.

Maybe you've even started working on the plan and today is the day you're going to do more work. Today is the day you're going to do it. Maybe you missed yesterday. Maybe you did it yesterday, but you’ve got to get even more done today.

It's the big push. It's going to happen. Except ….

… you are not doing it. Why?

The reason why I call this publication The ART of Strategic Motivation is because motivation is an art. It is an art. The way you live your life, the way you motivate yourself to move forward is artistic, it is creative, it is a process.

But art is also an acronym. A is for assess. R is for Realign and T is for team up with the right people and the right tools.

I want to talk to you today about the assessment. To assess means asking yourself what you know to be true about you, asking yourself what thoughts you had about yourself that are false.

And most relevantly to this post is assessing who you are in this exact moment and your environment.

When we think of doing our best and when we imagine what it's going to be like to write that novel or do that thing right, we imagine ourselves in ideal circumstances.

And those ideal circumstances aren't always presenting themselves to us. At any given moment of any day, you could have had a really bad week. You might not have gotten enough sleep. You may have had something emotional happen to you. This week I have not had the week I wanted to have.

And I wanted this video to be amazing and to be inspiring and to be fantastic and real and true and all of these things. And I had all these expectations. And then I literally started to crumble under the weight of those expectations.

And what I’m hoping to show you in this post, and it’s the intention for all my posts, is to remind you to assess where you are so you can meet yourself where you're at.

One of the most humbling and most valuable things I've ever learned is that sometimes my best doesn't look all that best-y. And it's okay.

You don't have to be perfect to have something valuable to share. Your message doesn't have to be delivered perfectly in order for it to be of value.

What's most important is that you allow yourself to share what is true to you and what is in your heart and you push yourself forward in a gentle and kind way.

If you're having a hard day, and there are things you need to do, I ask you to be kind. I ask you to assess what can you really do? Think of how you can finish with the least amount of effort.

And I know that sounds lazy and terrible, and we're told to leave it all on the carpet, and the only way is the best way. But here's what I want to say.

On the ugly days, scratch out an ugly win. Forget, “Give it your all.” Give it your SMALL.

Because sometimes what your all is is very small, and I want to tell you it is enough.

You are enough.

What you have is enough.

Whatever you have to meet this moment is enough.