How To Learn To Work Hard: Change The System Not The Person

It’s a relatively normal day. You get your work done or are lounging around at home, and for some reason a thought pops in your head.

It’s about time you started to work, you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, success has eluded you too long or you think to yourself that it is finally time to make a move towards a better life.

You cannot name where the thought came from, nor can you figure out how to force these thoughts back later, but every time this happens you do feel a sudden surge in motivation.

“It’s time to get things done!” you say to yourself and you actually do.

For most of us these days happen so rarely they are not worth mentioning, some of us are lucky enough to get them once a year around New Years, and very very few get them more often than that.

If you ever had a surge of motivation like this you know that, while it feels really great for about an hour or two, it does not last and does not carry into the next day, much less into life as a whole.

The reason hard work does not last like this is because we do not have the setting to make it survive.

The surges of motivation are like rainfall in a desert. While refreshing, a plant will still not be able to survive there.