Why

[Andre]

Why take Massive action? and why do it now?

[99th_monkey]

Better question is why not?

[Omega]

Please clarify your question. Really, there are several possible (and interesting) perspectives to motivation. Be more precise.

And @99th_monkey I don't you that you can just dismiss a lack of motivation with 'why not?'. This certainly never sparked me into doing-mode or magically solved my procrastination issues - 'why not do homework?'. I can come up with good reasons (dropout xD).

[99th_monkey]

but were they "valid" reasons? go deeper son, that's the point

[Andre]

@99th_monkey My mind can come up with reasons as to why not. excuses actually, I am looking for a profound reason why. 

[Andre]

@Blaze35 I kept it more general to see the opinion of others on their reasons for taking massive action now... could you ellaborate on the several possible (and interesting) perspectives to motivation ?

[Pelin]

Throughout my life so far I took massive action when,

I knew there was an opportunity not to miss,

I hated my way of life, the city I lived, the amount of money I earned and desperately wanted to change it, 

I felt something big was meant to happen when I took action.

 

[J. M. Wigglesworth]

Speaking generally, massive action is good for a few things.

1. Grounding yourself in reality instead of being high up in your theory tower or Lala Land wishing things would sprout into existence. You'll have a lot of ideas about how things should work out but putting them in practice, will sift out the delusions. Also, Leo has mentioned time and again about the virulence of not trying to see and experience reality as it is. 

2. Actually achieving your goals (or anything really). If accomplishing your goals matter to more than just saying you have goals then work is neccessary. 

3.Flow state. This occurs when you balance the challenge of your work and your competency to where the challenge is a more difficult than what you can comfortably manage. At this point it's like child's play- not whooping, rambuctious stampeding but serious, subtle and incredibly engrossing.

 

As for your 'why now 'question, there's nothing else but now. Our future and past are as much fiction as Harry Potter.

[Saarah]

@Andre

Right now, the entire universe is inside you, its so powerful and strong, and you haven't even acknowledged it, it sits there waiting with a little beam of soft light surrounding it, waiting for a force to INFINITELY EXPAND it... and yet you want to walk around feeling like a dormant potato was sat inside you  by living the average potato life? You want to take your inspiration from a potato that you can't do anything with? When right now, you have the power to fly, you have the ability to be so magnificent, that no matter where you were, you'd feel like you were the universe's all encompassing sun beaming into the milky way, and every person and thing you saw, felt like the milky way was staring right back at you, that level of ecstasy, all the universe's energy, just beaming from within to outside and from outside right back into the heart and soul of you, like being shot in your heart with a gun, but instead of killing you, it gives you sharp, real, unapologetic LIFE!

and you want to be... a starchy, energy crashing POTATO!!?

BE THE UNIVERSE'S UNLIMITED ENERGY

You should be so motivated, you just want to run for miles just to expend the level of intense motivation you feel inside, I feel like i'm building the world's infinite internal riches right now, it's so exciting, it never ends, it breathes life into you where your whole life you'd been in a desert just desperate to quench your thirst with the water from the pool of life, subconsciously I feel this is what every life is seeking, in all the activities we do, this is path we were searching for all along, and now you have the DIRECT route, you just started walking...

Why just stop all of a sudden and backtrack?
Was your potato more comfortable and easy?

[Ajax]

@Andre cuz one day you won't be able to... 

[Omega]

19 hours ago, Andre said:

@Blaze35 I kept it more general to see the opinion of others on their reasons for taking massive action now... could you ellaborate on the several possible (and interesting) perspectives to motivation ?

Sure.

• Methods to cultivate motivation as in creating the desire to realize something
• Frameworks to understand the origin and dept of motivation

For me, this discussion boils down to 'why do anything?' Was that not bound to come on a forum like this?  Gotta ask end-of-the-road questions. This discussion took the usual, methodological, 'willpower-overcome-resistance' direction.

[99th_monkey]

23 hours ago, Andre said:

@99th_monkey My mind can come up with reasons as to why not. excuses actually, I am looking for a profound reason why. 

question your "Excuses" why, and question what the reasoning is for doing it. sometimes logic does not apply, its just the right thing to do. give your intuition more credit and your mind less. 

to even be questioning something you dont really want to do but feel a small urge to (otherwise the point is moot), means to shut up the ready made habbitual excuses that most people operate from. 

so... question why not do it. 

[Bronsoval]

To prevent regret.  Regret is a defense of the ego.  Lose ego, no regret.  "do, or don't" is a fantasy.  There is only one reality, and it can't possibly be changed.  Short answer, its not really up to you, so enjoy the ride.  It is the same to live for a year or 100 years.  We all end the same way.  To regret missed opportunities is a waste of time.

[Andre]

On 6/16/2016 at 11:00 PM, Pelin said:

Throughout my life so far I took massive action when,

I knew there was an opportunity not to miss,

I hated my way of life, the city I lived, the amount of money I earned and desperately wanted to change it, 

I felt something big was meant to happen when I took action.

 

@Pelin Thank you for your input, I noticed that you wrote your reply in the past... which is good reasons as to why to take massive action. basically your "should" and "can" reasons were turned into a "must" at that time. We need a compelling reason to continually do this in the present? From my observation, in general, Passion is a rare trait in people

[Andre]

On 6/16/2016 at 11:05 PM, J. M. Wigglesworth said:

Leo has mentioned time and again about the virulence of not trying to see and experience reality as it is.

@J. M. Wigglesworth Please share? I might need to refresh my mind on those.

 

On 6/16/2016 at 11:05 PM, J. M. Wigglesworth said:

Actually achieving your goals (or anything really). If accomplishing your goals matter to more than just saying you have goals then work is neccessary.

I have no problem working my goals. I have set out on a quest a few years back and I am on the edge of "making it" so to speak but I feel/think theres a subtle fear going on. My mind says "I'm fearless" and in general I put my whole being into what I'm doing/about to do by setting aside the thoughts that arise. anyhow on this quest its like my whole being tries to aviod it at all cost.

[Andre]

@Saarah You should become a poet/writer with that creative mind of yours

[Andre]

On 6/17/2016 at 7:13 PM, Blaze35 said:

 

@Ajax

On 6/17/2016 at 3:07 AM, Ajax said:

@Andre cuz one day you won't be able to... 

Thats exactly it. your life ends.... and then?

[Andre]

@Blaze35

On 6/17/2016 at 7:13 PM, Blaze35 said:

• Methods to cultivate motivation as in creating the desire to realize something
• Frameworks to understand the origin and dept of motivation

 

 

On 6/17/2016 at 7:13 PM, Blaze35 said:

'willpower-overcome-resistance' direction.

True, how would you go about creating the desire to realize something? 

[Ajax]

...then whatever you sewed is harvested to forward the life process.
 As you have received... so shall you give.

[Andre]

1 hour ago, Bronsoval said:

To prevent regret.  Regret is a defense of the ego.  Lose ego, no regret.  "do, or don't" is a fantasy.  There is only one reality, and it can't possibly be changed.  Short answer, its not really up to you, so enjoy the ride.  It is the same to live for a year or 100 years.  We all end the same way.  To regret missed opportunities is a waste of time.

@Bronsoval Interesting/Intrigiung reply