How To Want It Bad
If you only kinda want it, you’re only kinda gonna get it.
You have to want it bad.
More than you did yesterday.
More than anyone.
More than anything else in your whole life.
When you want it that bad, you’ll be willing to do whatever it takes.
Anything.
Rules no longer apply.
You won’t be afraid to knock on every door in your neighbourhood to ask for donations.
Or ring up people you haven’t spoken to in 10 years to ask for help.
Or look like you’re trying really, really hard.
When you want it that bad, all excuses fall away.
So how do you get yourself to want it that bad?
You devote energy – like you might to styling your hair or cooking dinner – to kindling determination.
Not occasionally, but every single day.
Start making a conscious daily attempt to turn desire into decision, and decision into [relentless] action.
Visualise.
Meditate.
Blast Kendrick Lamar.
Run.
Read a quote.
Listen to a podcast.
Anything that compels you into action.
It doesn’t need to be at the same time each day (your pursuit of the perfect morning routine is just another way to procrastinate what really matters), but it does need to be every day.
My practice? I write.
My notes app is filled with intentional thoughts (5128 notes in my icloud, to be exact).
Most I will never return to.
Because the moment they flow from my fingers onto the page, they have already served their purpose:
To generate drive.
