Dose of Motivation: Recent Episodes
Skyler Chauff
How Victor transformed the burning of his town and house into a positive situation is more than inspiring. Worth the listen.
We all want a Karate Kid or Rocky Moment where the moment we’re struggling we get a huge burst of energy and win. That’s not always how it is. It may take 10, 20, or 100 in my case congratuhorribles before one congratulations.
Ari describes his rock bottom and how other students flipped his perspective into giving effort and trying during highschool. A must watch.
Patrick discusses how he struggled throughout highschool. He went from having a scholarship to college only his sophomore year to wrongly losing it, but he came back. He came back and he learned lessons worth more than the scholarship he once had.
Michael McNee discusses how to take charge of the roller coaster that he calls life - pushing through the drops and crafting the uphills. He describes his mountain as having to make a decision and taking action, throughout.
Antoine, a student from Mexico, talks about how he went from fighting with people in school, a 1.2 GPA, and to. 3.0 GPA in 2 months. He now inspires other students to find the same spark he did.
All too often I used to focus on other people’s problems and misbehaviors. I couldn’t really ever be anything until I focused on what the heck was wrong with me! So I started fixing myself and being able to fully understanding other people’s struggles.
Listen to this when you’re tired, bored, or seemingly low on motivation. You’ll find that this isn’t about you. Making it about me is what made me lose energy and burnout. When your mission, your goals, whatever is about someone else, there is no such thing as burnout. You’ll be operating on a different level.
We often will forget what we really have to be thankful for. When you see a blind man without arms and legs in a street asking for money, you remember really quickly what you’re thankful for.
Many of us confront something that we really don’t like or that we really don’t want to do and we freak out. That’s exactly what I did in 10th-grade cross country. After quitting and coming back to running, I found that it’s all in the attitude. If you have a positive, you against you mindset, you’ll find a second, third, and fourth wind in yourself.
Sometimes we get caught up in what other people think about us and how we’re not achieving something we set out to do. Sometimes it doesn’t matter - we need to be content with giving everything we’ve got and still not succeeding. That very act of putting in the most effort day in and day out, even if we don’t win some award, competition, or shiny medal, will truly make you the very best in all things.