Lots of people post about motivation here...and I've been trying to think of a way to express my thoughts...and I came up with cat puke.
Seriously.
If you have a pet you know that they have accidents. Cats puke up hairballs. So, why do you clean them up? Why not just say "screw it" and leave it there. After all, you can probably learn where the cat puke is and avoid that chunk of floor. You'd eventually get used to it. Cleaning it up is icky, needs time and energy, paper towels and cleaning solution. Cleaning it costs you time, energy and money. Leaving it alone doesn't.
The reasons are numerous and obvious.
- It's icky
- You want to use the whole floor
- It gets harder to remove the longer you leave it
- You don't want the judgement of anyone who enters your home.
All of these boil down to one simple truth.
In a world of two separate realities, you prefer the one with a clean floor. So, you do the work and you clean it.
I'm hoping the parallel to weight loss is jumping out at you.
You have two possible states of being. One is the status quo. The other requires work/time/effort.
The key to motivation is pretty simple. You have to want a clean floor more than you want to have a floor with cat puke on it.
I moved into my appt 12 years ago, there are lots of things that probably should be fixed or taken care of but I got used to them. Fridge door handle broke off like year 2, I started opening the door from the side because calling the super and blah blah blah was more work than just changing how I opened the fridge. Fridge finally died and was replaced and I still open it as if it doesn't have a handle lol.
You have to decide what you can live with and what you can't.
Which state of being do you want? A or B?
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