When it comes to “motivational speaking”, I’m bit of a skeptic. So, imagine my surprise when I discovered that regularly watching motivational videos had a significant impact on my life.
There’s nothing scientific about this experiment. It’s the definition of anecdotal. It’s my own singular experience, placed within the context of an extremely busy lifestyle. I can’t guarantee that the impact of the videos that I describe to you below will have the same effect on your life. I can only testify to how my own life has changed after adopting this one daily habit.
Watching 3 Motivational Videos a Day
Here’s how the “experiment” was planned.
Every morning, on my drive into work, I would launch random motivational video #1 and listen to it during my forty-minute drive. The motivational videos were typically 5 to 7 minutes each.Next, during lunchtime, I would slip on some headphones and listen to another random 5-minute motivational video #2.
Finally, on my drive back home at the end of the day, I would randomly select 5-minute motivational video #3.
At the beginning, I found the schedule difficult to keep. I’m normally a very busy and driven person as it is, so remembering to listen or watch another video wasn’t always easy. However, within just the first few days, I started noticing some very interesting, almost unnerving, changes in myself.
How Motivational Videos Changed Me
The thing that I never would have expected about this experience was not the fact that the motivational videos seemed to give me more energy and more drive each day — that’s predictable. What wasn’t predictable was that doing this experiment would change the entire focus of my life.
As I paid attention to each of the speakers in these videos, I started looking around at my life a little more — at the things I took for granted; at the habits I’d formed for comfort rather than my dreams; and at the choices I had made for all the wrong reasons.
It was during a long hike one day (with a motivational video playing in my headset) when the realization finally hit me.
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