Winning Isn’t the End: How to Keep Your Drive Alive…

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It’s a fascinating and common phenomenon that some people experience a dip in interest or motivation after achieving a goal. This can happen because the thrill of the chase often outweighs the satisfaction of the catch. When you’re striving for something, the journey, the challenges, and the uncertainties fuel your drive. Once you’ve attained the goal, the sense of purpose that propelled you forward can diminish.

To counteract this, it’s crucial to keep setting new challenges and goals for yourself. The habit of continuous improvement and striving for new heights can maintain your enthusiasm and engagement. Here are a few strategies to stay motivated even after winning:

  1. Set New Goals: Always have something new to aim for. This keeps your sense of purpose alive.
  2. Reflect on the Journey: Appreciate the process that led to your success, not just the outcome.
  3. Stay Curious: Keep learning and exploring new aspects of your field or hobby.
  4. Help Others: Teaching or mentoring can reignite your passion and give you a new perspective.
  5. Celebrate Progress: Recognize and celebrate small wins along the way to maintain a sense of achievement.

Winning is just a milestone in your journey. Keeping the habit and continuing to strive is what brings long-term satisfaction and growth.

You can start over…

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Whatever happens the best part in life is you can start over. Even if you make terrible mistakes knowingly or unknowingly, you can hit the reset button.

So don’t worry about mistakes and live with good ethical codes for the rest you can always start over.

Be Greedy…

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Be greedy. Do things that cater to yourself and your family. Get the riches, the bigger house, the bigger car.

Yes, you need motivation for everything you do. What’s the easiest and surest way of getting it? It is by being greedy.

Why do we avoid doing hard things?

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At its core, we all want to do easy and fun things. But why do you think that is? Why do we want to avoid hard things?

To some extent, this is a game of dopamine. You do easy and fun things like checking your social media, or watching TV because you get high dopamine without much effort.

Look at this graph:

Here are some of the inferences from this:

  1. You get high dopamine with less effort in Social Media / TV etc, hence it is the easiest to do.
  2. In sports or exercises, if you put effort you will get dopamine; hence, you are still ready to do it.
  3. Hard things like studying & working on presentations etc require intense work and you don’t get immediate dopamine. Hence it is the hardest to do.

So what are the ways to do hard things?

Dopamine detox, get rid of easy ways of getting dopamine and keep away from things like social media or TV. If you can’t completely avoid it, at least have regular intervals of detoxes so that you like doing hard things even to get a lower level of dopamine.

Now if you start getting rid of access to high dopamine, you will be bored, but that’s good because then you will look for harder dopamine and will start doing good things that matter in life.