Seize the Second, Seize the day

This last week while browsing my favorite forum I came across a thread started by someone looking for motivation.

See, most of the readers on this forum are self employed internet marketers who make a living from home.  Focus for this type of group can be difficult so this type of thread is not uncommon.  Among the posts, one response stuck out the most to me.

Here is what bob, graphic designer, said about motivation.

You’re looking for motivation? It’s all about that split second decision when you make up your mind whether you should get started with building something, or plant your lazy ass on the couch. That single split second when you wake up.

Your lazy brain tells you, “uuuuggggggghhh I’m sooooo lazy dude, and your lazy ass agrees with me, totally, so it’s 2 against 1, let’s play videogames for an hour and then maybeeeeee we’ll think about the other thing”. It’s no surprise that your lazy brain is arguing in such a sophisticated manner because, naturally, vegging out on the couch is the definition of lazy, which your lazy brain connects with quite well.

Lazy and lazy go well together. Actually sitting down and building something is the opposite of lazy. Your brain has been trained throughout many many videogame sessions to take up this attitude.

The thing is, once you’ve sat down and gotten started, it will only take your brain 5 minutes to overcome that laziness because deep down, all those lazy little cells of yours like being challenged. Especially if their bros in the other half of your brain get all excited over something like a conversion or two or three. If you can get three of those, maybe you can get 300? Just imagine how much excitement that will entail in your formerly lazy brain. And what about 3000? 300,000? Wow. There’s a taste of success, baby.

But here’s the thing: you, you’re not even getting to that point. You will never get to that point. You will never in your life get to the point where your whole brain and body jump up and say “YES! I DID IT!”. Why not?

Because you can’t even manage to take control over that tiny little single split second in which your lazy-ass mind makes itself up for you.

Seize the second and you seize the day.

Seize the second, seize the day.  This is SO TRUE.

I don’t know how many of you have had to deal with “getting started on projects” or had to fight procrastination.  This advice was epic.

Often times the difference between 3 hours of productivity and a wasted afternoon are in that one second that you decide “meh, I’d rather go home and do that thing that Ill forget about and end up playing video games instead.

Seize the second, seize the day.  I like it.