MOTIVATION USED TO BE MY FAVORITE DRUG There were days when I felt unstoppable. New idea. New plan. New energy. I would open my laptop and think: “This is it. This time it really changes.” And sometimes it did… for a few days. Then the energy faded. The doubt came back. And so did the silence. For a long time, my life moved in this exact loop: new excitement → strong start → slow fade → restart. What hit me at some point was this uncomfortable realization: 👉 Motivation wasn’t failing me. It was simply never built to carry me for long. My real breaking sentence was a brutal one: “As long as I run on feelings, my results will belong to chance — not to me.” That was the moment I stopped trying to live on motivation alone and started learning how to live on rhythm. Not: “When I feel like it.” But: “This is what I show up for today.” And I’ll be honest: 👉 Some days I still wait for motivation. 👉 Some days I still don’t want to show up. But rhythm doesn’t ask how I feel. It just asks whether I return. And that small distinction has kept me moving on days when motivation completely disappeared. --- When was the last time motivation disappeared on you and what did you do instead?