Motivation versus Commitment

[sharonsiff]

Just read this and thought it might help those on day 1, or early in their quit.

 

Motivation is a feeling based on emotion. Motivation generally happens when there is a great reward to gain or when you are suffering so bably that you want things to change. Motivation is helpful to drive us on but it is not essential to success. It is unrealistic to expect to 'feel motivated' every day, no matter what you are doing. The problem with motivation is that it works on feelings and emotions, and these can shift very quickly.

 

Commitment, on the other hand, comes from logic and truth and does not depend on feelings. Commitment means following a plan even if you don't feel like it everyday. For example, a surgeon can't say halfway through an operation, ' Do you know I just don't feel motivated to finish this, so I'll stop now!' Motivation doesn't matter, it is commitment that will finish the operation.

 

So commit yourself to NOPE , finish operation non smoker :)

[TAC]

I agree, motivation can come from multiple directions including from the nicodemon.

 

Commitment is absolute and what I have endevoured to maintain.