FINDING MOTIVATION FOR YOUR DREAMS

It's 2019. How did this happen so quickly?

It sounds so cliche when you write,

"Wow 2018 went away in the blink of an eye."

But I'm not even kidding, I feel like it was just a few months ago that I was back in Hakuba in the mountains, sitting on the rotting dormitory floor with a beer in one hand and a waxing iron in the other.

Yet this time next month I will be back there again. How did this happen?

The year has slipped past in a blur of deadlines. I can't help but feel regretful that I didn't take more photographs or make that YouTube video that I promised myself over two years ago.

As a student you are constantly putting your school work above what you really want to be doing.

Yet when that spare moment finally arrives you feel exhausted.Rather than go into the city with that tripod you brought on Amazon finally, you end up drinking Milo submerged under the living room kotatsu.

Then you feel frustrated.

Yet somehow the frustration isn't enough motivation.

I guess it is because us humans really do like to keep doing what we have always been doing.

So if the habit is to crash on a day off, we'll crash. As do creatures of habit.So the only way we can change is by making new habits.

Waking up at 6AM to edit video footage.

Practicing the Korean alphabet while having morning coffee.

All we can do is try make a new program and rewire our hardwired brains over time.

I have long ago realised waiting for motivation is the best way to let life slip through your fingers.

Only the act of doing can generate motivation.

But how can we make new habits?

I have a way I think now.

Scare the shit out of yourself.

If you don't do this - this will happen. That sort of deal.

If you don't go and take video footage, you'll have to do your shitty cleaner job for life. Do you want to do that? That is an example.

Just look at students at the brink of failing a class at finals time. If they fail they will have to endure another semester listening to the same professor drone on.

Those students study to they pass out on their books!

Cause who the hell would want to put themselves through all that again?

So if you don't take steps towards your dreams - aren't you going to suffer?

Or, lets ask, HOW will you suffer?

It's worth thinking about.

Any motivation yet? Or better, fear?

Scare the shit out of yourself. It has to be worth it in the long run.

Image of me attempting to film myself for a vlog. Vlogs happening this year when Premier Pro stops crashing!