Before we start, there’s a milestone we need to celebrate. I can use Google Search Console to know how many clicks in search the blog achieved, particularly, from what countries these clicks came. For a while now we’ve been having clicks from Portugal and Belgium, all from me and my girlfriend, but some days ago we got our first true click, from Spain! So this paragraph celebrates the fact that we had a new reader or someone who clicked on the blog by accident, and promptly left… either way, we don’t discriminate in this blog. Onwards with the post.

I’ve always had an “ick” about motivational gurus, they always seem to be exploiting people by branding old meshed ideas with a new name. I don’t want this blog to become about creating new productivity methods, and new ways of becoming a better person.

In retrospect, this is why I stopped journaling because I found that my entries were always about my habits, my inability to create them, and my plans or new strategies to change them. I promise to try to change that… after this post.

I was thinking about motivation, and about how we have huge bursts of motivation when we’re starting a new habit or routine, and I also got to think about how that motivation goes away after a while.

Before starting, I had huge speeches in my mind, about how this would be a great idea, about all the benefits, about how easy it is to do, about how I WILL NOT FAIL. Anyway, they are good speeches, but the goals fail anyway.

So I got to thinking “What if I could take the speech with me?”, and had the idea of recording a motivational speech and listening to it every day, or when I feel like I should.

In my head, the speech does not necessarily have to be short, it can be a full-blown motivational talk about every aspect you want to improve, why you want to do it, why you should try not to fail, and what you should do in case you do fail.

I haven’t recorded the speech yet, so I can’t post it here, even more so because I guess the recording will be in Portuguese. But since I haven’t done it, maybe I can take the chance to brainstorm some bullet points that I want to address in that speech.

• Why working on my knee is important.
• Why I should plan out my day and take care of myself.
• What mindset I should have toward myself and others.
• Why failing does not have to mean completely giving up.

I thought it would be longer, but I think it’s a good place to start, I’ll try to record it today. See you next week.