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This next series felt necessary because motivation is easy to talk about and a lot harder to understand when life gets real. We touched on it briefly in an earlier article when I wrote about how it comes from within, and that idea stayed with me. It felt worth revisiting, this time with more honesty and more depth, which is why I decided to build The Motivation Series.
In this series, we will dig into four to six things that usually motivate people, and I will also share how those same things motivate me personally. I want to look at the kinds of motivation people rely on, the ones that hold up over time, and the ones that start strong but lose their grip when life gets heavier.
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I love writing series like this because they give me room to stay with an idea long enough to actually say something meaningful. Instead of rushing through the surface of it, I get to explore it piece by piece and bring you into that process with me.
So for the rest of this month, that is exactly where we are going.
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I am excited to get into The Motivation Series with you all, and by the end of it, I hope it leaves you looking at your own drive with a little more clarity and a little more honesty.
If you have any suggestions on what I should write about in the future, be sure to reply to one of my emails or DM me on π.