Motivation is a process that gives rise to conscious action. Sometimes it’s a hurricane of emotions that runs over us and make us roll down the slope, which excites us to the point of climbing the mountain just to re-do it again.
At other times it is a rope that keeps us tied around a tree at the top of the mountain by which we should roll, which strangles us and prevents us from risking.
The price we pay for the choices we make only becomes irrelevant or justified when the motivation that drives us to choose is more important than the pain of not making a choice. One step leads to another step, but not taking any steps keeps us indefinitely in the same place. Therefore, it’s easier to complete a task than to start it.
© Pick Up LimesMost extraordinary is the simplicity of the process. As simple as knowing that we should move forward when the traffic light changes green.
It looks like a speech worthy of a coaching session to increase professional productivity but in fact I wanted to tell you how simple it is to create a habit that can change our lives.
© Brooke Lark
There are those who become vegan for personal health reasons, there are those who honour close family members who could have added years of life if they had made a small change in their diet, some feel the need to protect the planet by choosing less harmful living habits to the environment, there are those who feel a deep need of protection of the animals, there are those who want to improve the sport performance and understand how the change of regime helps the muscular recovery …. The reasons can be varied but everyone needs a trigger to be squeezed. Goals may be different but everyone needs the creation of a routine. The results may not be the same, but they all bring a positive reward that keeps you pushing the trigger and maintaining the routine.
© Pick Up LimesFor me, being vegan is a creative need to conjugate a palette of different colours and flavours on a plate. It is the discovery of sources of fat, calcium, vitamins, fiber, protein, healthy minerals. It is feeling as good as it tastes. It’s having your hands full … of spinach, avocado, cashew …
© Edgar Castrejon
Life is not a set of rehearsals and trainings in which we can perfect the technique, it is not a general rehearsal where we can correct mistakes so that we do not deceive ourselves when it is for real. My trigger is to open my hands, my routine is to fill them with colour and flavour, my reward is life … now!
