50 11111 00 W00 W00 W00 W00 Ways tays tays tays tays to Motivo Motivo Motivo Motivo Motivate Yate Yate Yate Yate Yourourourourourselfselfselfselfselfthe world all day with no time to reflect, you will guaran-
tee yourself an eventual overwhelming sense of confusion.
The cure is simple and painless. The process is un-
complicated.
“You do not need to leave your room,” said Franz
Kafka. “Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not
even listen. Simply wait. Do not even wait. Be quite still
and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to
be unmasked. It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at
your feet.”
In other words, don’t just do something...sit there.
19. Use your brain chemicals
There are drugs that you can use to motivate your-
self with, and I’m not talking about amphetamine or
crack (a deadly form of child’s play).
Instead, you can get into those energizing chemicals
in your system that get activated when you laugh...or
sing...or dance...or run...or hug someone. When you’re
having fun, your body chemistry changes and you get
new biochemical surges of motivation and energy.
And there isn’t anything you do that can’t be trans-
formed into something interesting and uplifting. Victor
Frankl has written startling accounts of his life in the
Nazi concentration camps, and how some prisoners cre-
ated new universes unto themselves inside their own
minds. It might sound absurd, but truly imaginative
people can access their inner chemical creativity in the
loneliness of a prison cell.
Don’t keep trying to go outside yourself searching
for something that’s fun. It’s not out there anywhere.
It’s inside. The opportunity for fun is in your own en-
ergy system—your synergy of heart and mind. That’s
where you’ll find it.