Motivation

[Zorbasan]

i dont know what gets me motivated. i think training gets me motivated.

ie, if i dont train for a while i dont worry about it. then the day i go back im all alright, lets get in to it. then if for some reason i have to miss a lesson or 2, im empathetic until my next class

weird.

[Bluetulipx]

I ran out of motivation earlier this year (and added a couple of posts about yellow belts and green belts on the forum). I was also completely exhausted from my moving from America to England and then having 13 contract jobs and 10 moves.

For the first six months of this year, the motivation had disappeared for all 3 of my martial arts ...

... then one day, I told myself that I had run out of excuses not to take my blue tag in TKD and focused on it ... I then got it (yippee!) and then interestingly enough I started getting a bit of motivation back for TKD ... and I actually felt pretty good about it ...

... after I had that belt, then something happened in Kickboxing that gave me new incentive there ... I got hit in the face by a beginner ... Now I won't say that this is the best way to get motivation but it has certainly worked for me, because suddenly I was able to see that my guard was not as good as it should be and my defence needed to be reviewed. I now have a book that I'm going to research and see what it offers on defence for the face ...

... and ... suddenly my Aikido ... I got motivation there too ... for the first two years, I was struggling with backward rolls on 1 side and breakfalls on 1 side and in fact the techniques on 1 side also. It was as though half of me could not seem to function quite right and we laughing call it my 'white belt arm that wants to be a yellow belt'. Now for some reason, my motivation has returned and all of a sudden I have started been able to perform the techniques on both sides and can do a backward roll on both sides and just need to spend a bit of time doing the breakfall on one side ...

For about 6 months, I had all but given up trying to motivate myself and then when I got a job that I enjoyed and had rested for a couple of months, suddenly my interest and motivation are now coming back.

I hope yours do to.