How To Be Interested In Something That Doesn’t Interest You

You allow yourself to not want to do it!

We get too focused on feeling good all the time.

It has become a necessity rather than a luxury.

We think we need to feel motivated, inspired, passionate or in love before we can do anything.

But that’s not what counts.

It's not about in what emotional state you’re in but what you do that matters!

You can easily do the things you don’t want to do if you allow yourself to not want to do them.

You not wanting to do something does not, in any way, block you from actually doing it!

Imagine, for example, that your parents are in the hospital.

They are both suffering from a serious illness and for some reason none of your insurances cover it.

However, you do manage to get a job that covers their expenses as well as your own exactly.

Now, what would happen if you were to suddenly get sick one day?

Knowing that if you just miss one day at work you’ll get fired, would you stay at home to get rid of your sickness or would you go to work?

In that moment, given that situation it is not even something you consider. Of course you’re going to work!

You don’t want to go, you are in no condition to even go, but it does not matter because your parents lives depend on it.

You do it anyway because you know your emotional state does not trump the action.

Right now, however, your emotional state does trump the action.

You care more for how you feel than what you do.

And that is exactly what’s blocking you from doing what needs to be done.

The point is, you won’t always feel like doing things.

You’ll get sick, be exhausted, or come up with a billion other reasons as to why you cannot do what you need to do.

The only way to fight this is by accepting that there is a reason not to do something and do it anyway.

Because, at the end of the day, what you do and what you do not do starts and ends with you.

You are the one who makes the choice at the end and you’re the one that allows the reason to prevent you from doing the work or stand above it.

Of course you don’t want to do it. The question is, will you allow that to stop you?

Originally published at http://quora.com.