Huhuhu hi guys I'm finally like back from a longgg period of not blogging and updating!! Right now I'm feeling super excited to be back in writing! (It's okay, you don't have to be excited for me, the fact that you're taking some time to read this already makes me glad hehe) Firstly I would like to apologise if I keep taking frequent long breaks of not blogging and then suddenly blogging, but I'm still a student and mind you, a Sec 4 student HAHA so please bear in mind that I'm not a full time professional blogger or anything yeah!! hehe so I hope you guys understand, sometimes I get really busy in getting the ball rolling and continue rolling and rolling so that I don't get lost along the way :-)
I decided to write about a huge and diverse topic called motivation. Recently, my school has organised and arranged a 3-day motivational and acceleration workshop for our whole batch of Secondary 4s to kind of like "set our gear steering and enlighten us about striving for our goals" and stuff so of course all of us had to attend the workshop and mind you, one single session of motivational workshop lasts for around 10 HOURS, not even kidding. That will total up to 30 HOURS of the same thing. That's like spending more than half of my time in school listening to people talk to us about motivation and self-discovery etc etc etc.
Honestly, at first I didn't really like this whole workshop thing because I felt that it was not necessary as I feel that one can only find motivation within oneself and not listen to some motivational talk and then BAM you have motivation in life, am I right? However, as the workshop progress and I attended hours and hours of the sessions, I soon realised what our coaches are trying to tell us throughout this whole thing.
As for me, one of the useful things that I learnt from the workshop is that we have to stretch ourselves as far as we can in order to unleash our fullest potential and achieve what we want. I mean, don't you guys agree with me? How can you achieve your goals if you continue being stagnant forever and not do anything about your life? For us students, it's more of like not doing anything to the fact that more and more assignments are piling up, more things to do in our To-Do list, more commitments, more topics to learn and revise etc.
If we don't bother to stretch ourselves and believe that we can do the things that we once thought were impossible, how are we going to get better? If that's the case, we'll just continue being in square 1 forever until we do something abt it. I'm sure we all want to improve ourselves day by day and feel good about ourselves for accomplishing things, perhaps even simple things like completing our homework and submitting them on time :-)
However, it is easier said than done, sadly. Honestly, I may be the one writing all this motivation crap and seem as if I'm such a great self-motivator or something but I do have my bad days too. Truth is, considering that I have quite frequent mood swings here and there as well I'm a generally quite moody princess (yes, princess without a prince), I myself have difficulty finding motivation in life to do all the things that I have to do aka more work, work and work. BUT I BELIEVE, with the following steps, you will be one step closer to finding motivation in life; slowly but SURELY:
1) Decide to GET STARTED - getting started it the first decision to make to get ahead and far
2) Have faith in yourself - follow your dreams and believe yourself a little more each day
3) Do what you're supposed to do one at a time, with a sincere heart and an intention to learn in mind - do everything with so much love in your heart that you wouldn't want to do it any other way
4) Reward yourself with simple pleasures for every accomplishment e.g. treat yourself to your favourite food/dessert (as for mine, they're CHOCOLATESSS OMG CHOCOLATES ARE BAE)
5) Just keep going and never stop
6) Know that it is perfectly okay to fall again and again, even if it takes you a hundred times to achieve what you want, for you must have faith in yourself and believe you will get there one day
7) Know that everything happens for a reason and Allah knows what is best for you
Hope you guys will benefit a little from today's post hehe insyaallah :') This post also serves as a reminder and motivation for me too, so we can all learn together and find motivation in life. Even if on some days we feel like we're losing faith in ourrselves or motivation, always know that Allah believes in us and there's always a reason to keep going!
Oh, and shoutout to all my friends who I know are still struggling and facing their own battle/problems, know that I'm always here for you and you have my back, always.
On a last note, may God ease in whatever things we do. Amin.
*now trying to settle myself down and start doing my March holidays homework that's piling up*
Continue fighting on and staying positive,
xoxo,
Diana.
