Motivation isn’t something you can do once and take it as a given. It requires regular upkeep, like hygiene or nutrition. One easy way to boost your motivation is to set up motivational pictures around you. However, they have the problem of slowly losing their potency as you get used to them and eventually stop noticing them at all. Fortunately there’s a solution. All you have to do is find a bunch of inspirational photos online, put them in a folder on your computer, then set your wallpaper to rotate through them, going through one a day. Then every new day there will be a new motivational photo, keeping the inspiration fresh.
You can even set themes. For example, I have health, happiness, and compassion as themes. One week each day there will be a different photo relating to health, and the next it’ll be images that remind me of the suffering I am preventing. This reminds you about why you’re putting in all the effort you are, and it’s hard to get cheaper than free.
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Sydney Apted
8/22/2019 04:03:31 am
I have posted pictures of wild animals I find gorgeous or charming on my walls, but you're right, they seem to have simply become my new wallpaper- NOT my goal. My goal was to remember what I'm working toward, ie, protection of the natural world. Now I'm going to try this background strategy.
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1/26/2020 10:32:51 pm
Happiness is important, that is for sure. I mean, I understand that we all have different ways to express our happiness, but it all boils down to how much we want it. I am of the belief that happiness is a choice. If you truly wish to be happy, then you will do something about it, right? I think that we all have a our own ways to make ourselves happy, and we just need to do what can.
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