How is your Starter?

# Chapter 101

Motivation is the switch that turns your starter solenoid on which gets your engine running and then you are moving! You have to get moving or else nothing ever gets done and you accomplish nothing at all. We don’t want to live those kinds of lives now do we? No of course not. So we have motivation or we go looking for it. Looking for motivation? Craziest thing ever I know, but we all have to do it. Some of us regularly and some of us occasionally, but no one has an infinite well of motivation inside bubbling up without restraint. No one. But you need motivation and I need motivation so that we can turn the switch that gets everything moving in our lives.

I get reams of motivation every day by reading thought-leader material, leadership blogs, listening to podcasts from Growability, reading Harvard Business Review, Wharton papers, etc etc. This material still has to be curated, but it is usually very motivating. You have to research or ask around to find the best sources of your motivating or inspiring material or people or events or fountains where you can get what you need to get started every day or multiple times every day.

But once you are started, what keeps you going? The majority consensus on this question is that habits keep you going. It is what Jim Ryun and James Clear and many others have said, habits are what provide you with real sustainable progress on your endeavors. Build off that motivation and make habits! Now you are ready to change the world.