Don't Seek Motivation Be The Motivation By Sipho Mlambo

      DON'T SEEK MOTIVATION BE THE MOTIVATION

In this age and time we have a lot of motivational speakers, we have a lot of life coaches, a lot of authors, and a lot of musicians or artists rather. Now the question is do you go round and round seeking them or you become one of them?. I was with a friend of mine this other day, as we walking, I began to tell her that I’m a man of many talents and many abilities but there’s only one thing I can’t do, but I would love to do it with all my heart, and she said what is it, with a smile of passion I replied- Singing. She laughed and I said to her don’t laugh I’m serious, I want to learn how to sing with all my heart, the day I learn how to sing, people are going to cry trust me. And I started singing, she laughed a lot, and I asked her the question can you sing? She was like no, I can’t. And I said to her do you listen to RnB music? She said yes and I said who’s your favorite artists and she replied-Alicia Keys. And I said ok, I love her too.

I became silent for a bit and said to her, do you wish you could sing? She said no. and I said to her, people are growing up, and by growing up I mean people are getting old, they’re aging. Time flies and waits for no man.

I said all these people we look upon, all these people we look at, we listen to their music, we listen to their poems, we watch their movies, and we read their books. They are getting old and will eventually die, when they dead, who will fill their shoes? If there’s no Alicia Keys to sing, who will sing like her?

No one she said, correct I shouted! I continued to say. As young as we are now, we are the rising Bill Gates, the rising Steve Jobs, Will Smith, James Bond, Vin Diesel, Alicia Keys, Adele, Beyoncé, you can name them all.

We have to start preparing ourselves for their shoes, because if the nation decides to sit down and not do anything, and not unleash their potential or ability, if they decide not to sing, not to act, not to write, what will the next generation read?, what will the next generation listen too?

Yes, we might have role models, we might have artists but we must not fly like the wind, seeking them, listening to them all the time and not doing anything, not feeling motivated to write our own songs, poems or act our own movies. We have to spend time to create a name for ourselves. Because all these people we watching on TV, we listening to on our smartphones, they’ve invested a lot of time into getting that song ready, into shooting that movie. You find yourself watching people who are living their dream while you sitting on top of yours.

Gone are the days where we are going to seek motivation, its time for us to be the motivation. Gone are the days we look for mentors, it’s time we become our own mentors, gone are the days we look for artists, we look for authors it’s time for us to tap into greatness, it’s time for us to sing our songs, it’s time for us to write our books.

“Motivation is an Art”

Motivation is art and you are the artist, your success depends on how well you can paint your picture, your success depends on how fascinating and beautiful your art is. And to make good art, you have to invest a lot of time, a lot of energy. You have to be committed and you have to be patient.

The moment you stop seeking motivation, you start having time to yourself, you start having much time, to invest in your dreams, to invest in your goals and your talents. Most of us spend a lot of time, a lot of money, and a lot of resources so that we can just attend a motivation sermon to be motivated, so that we can do more.

But if only we realize that we already have the ability, we already have the resources, the ability, we just have to work and work.

Throughout my journey to success, I’ve discovered certain things; I’ve discovered that I don’t have to seek motivation in order to work. I don’t have to wait for someone to come to me and say Sipho, You can do it! Motivation starts in one’s mind. No one can trigger what’s in your mind, but only you.

That’s why we have a lot of people who are attending motivational sermons or rather let me say, we have a lot of people seeking motivation, they spend thousands just to listen to a motivational speaker.

But you’d find that some people seek and find motivation but they remain the same, nothing changes in their lives, they are still lazy as before, they don’t have anything else to do.

Seeking motivation I call motivation at a glance, it’s only a short time motivation, you’d find that when you are listening to a motivational speaker, you can feel like the CEO of Microsoft, you may see yourself as the world’s best author, worlds best musician, or artist but only to find out that when you get home, you are still the same.

This happens to a lot of people, and I’m not ashamed to say it also happened to me. You’d find yourself listening to the best motivational speakers, with a very powerful perspective of success, which gives you the drive; it gives you the push to work harder. But after a day or two, things get back to normal, why! Because you haven’t triggered your mind to be motivated, someone did it for you and when that person is no longer there, it becomes hard for you to remain motivated.

“Everyone is gifted, but most people they never open their packages”

We are all gifted, but it’s up to you, to open your package, no motivation speaker can do that, no musician can activate your voice. You have to do it yourself. You have to be able to do things on your own. Be the motivation you seek, be the motivation you need to work on your dreams and your goals.

Motivation is like petrol/fuel. A car needs petrol to move, it needs petrol to move. When you seek motivation is like you seeking for a petrol station. When you get to the petrol station, you’ll fill up your dreams; you’ll fill up your goals, you’ll fill up your talents. But the trick is the moment you leave the garage, the fuel starts to cease, it’s running out. You’ll end up not being able to produce anymore, not being able to fulfill your dreams because you ran out of fuel. That’s why you’d find yourself, getting motivated for a day or two, but after that you no longer feeling motivated you are back to your old self, you are back to losing faith and you stop believing in your dreams.

But the moment you become the motivation. You are becoming the petrol station yourself, every time you feel like you becoming dry, you fill yourself up. You’ll never be in need of fuel because you are the fuel you need, the motivation yourself.

Now it’s high time we stop seeking motivation, but we become the motivation ourselves.