After scaling your weight, you’re looking for a way on how to get fit. You’ve started watching these motivational videos on YouTube about what influencers eat in a day or what kind of workouts do they apply in order to lose weight.
In another scenario, you just ended your 9-5 shift, and saw a Microsoft store on your way home. You searched for a documentary on how Bill Gates ended up one of the richest men on earth without a degree. Then there goes high-school students who keep on procrastinating with their activities but searched for a video technique to get started.
All these motivational videos that make you feel energetic, encouraged, and active. But did it really help you to start your goal? Probably not, and that’s okay. But here’s why.
Do Motivational Videos Really Help?
Motivational videos are a great motivator depending on who watches it, and what aspect of your life needed motivation. I’ve seen a lot of comments from netizens on several online-streaming platforms. These people publicly shared the fact that they’re started to make a change in their lives, thanks to the motivational videos they’ve watched.
Afterwards, there’s no update if they really did get started. And even if they did, what are the odds that they would continuously create progress? Hold up, I’m not discouraging you nor criticizing them. But motivational videos do lift up our mood temporarily. But it doesn’t provide a permanent solution to our existing problems.
It could be because you don’t have someone to support you financially to get started. You lack an amount of time to dedicate. But whatever reasons you have, it is for a fact that motivational life is only helpful in some aspects of your life.
Most of the time, you don’t even have the time and guts to make it real, and apply various advices. What about the other half?
Who Can Really Motivate You?
Instead of relying too much on motivational videos that can improve your moods for a short span of time, focus on ‘what’, or in this case, ‘who’ can really help you get motivated. Is it your family, friends, or any motivational speakers? They could, but they couldn’t motivate you, the way you should act.
Similarly, the best motivation you can get is by ‘motivating yourself’. This in fact, is the best and most effective key on how you can get started, and meet your goals.
There’s no secret formula behind this. You know yourself, your strengths, weaknesses, and even limitations. You gotta do what you have to do. There’s no “perfect time”. It is simply “now or never”.
You don’t need unsustainable motivational videos or speakers to help you get started. And the instant gratification you can get from these can only make you feel guilty if you don’t have the same result as the people you’ve seen in these videos.
As a matter of fact, it sets out unrealistic expectations of yourself when you shouldn’ve in the first place. Everybody has their own formula of success. Not because someone on the internet tells you to “Be Yourself”, “Don’t Give Up!”, “You Can Do It”, “Start Now!”, and so on, and so forth. When you’re all-set in, that’s when change can really happen.
What Really Matters?
Don’t hate me for telling this but let’s not pretend as if we’re going to start everything just because of a single video. In all honesty, there’s nothing wrong with motivational videos. But if you still need them 5, 10, 20 years from now, then that’s where the problem lies.
Who wants to watch a video about how to be a good grandparent? Or how to choose the best coffin in the marketplace? In fact, who searches that? Motivational videos do make us feel good for a period of time, yet it doesn’t provide long-lasting results. They’re probably more categorized as entertainment video rather than motivational ones.
Moreover, isn’t it ironic how you binge-watch motivational videos yet time is continuously passing by? Why not make use of time to do something worthy. Probably, to get started?
Everything takes time, the progress of one individual is different from one another. Focus on yourself, on your goals, and see what necessary steps you need to do in order to get started, and achieve your goals.
So in the end, do you still need to watch motivational videos?
